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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The CDC or US Government are no longer good sources of information for health care. I recommend Health Canada or UK's NHS.

[–] PodPerson@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 days ago

I work for a children’s hospital (US). Was recently asked by our marketing team to give them a full listing of all pages on our site that reference the CDC because it’s very likely that we will be replacing all of those with other sources.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 7 points 3 days ago

I'll throw in Australia's ATAGI. There's also an Australian CDC but it was only just legislated last year.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The recommendation was partially due to aluminum in the vaccines. Infants on formula will consume roughly 30x the amount of aluminum they'd receive from all vaccines.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

How many children will die or be permanently disabled by horrible, but completely preventable, diseases just to avoid whatever so-called risky ingredients in vaccines?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Infants on formula will consume roughly 30x the amount of aluminum they’d receive from all vaccines.

So what. Aluminum is not bioavailable and is used as a floculant in all drinking water purification worldwide. Chinese have been using alum for 1000 years in cooking. Before that, Greece and Rome. It's one of the most abundant metals on earth.

Aluminum toxicity is more bullshit science. The human body does not use aluminum for any purpose.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It doesn’t use alcohol either beyond converting it to ethanol and then uric acid. Just saying that just because the body can’t use something doesn’t necessarily mean it can’t do any harm. That being said, if aluminum was causing significant issues we’d certainly have heard about it before now, given its widespread use.

[–] ynthrepic@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Aluminium goes in one end and out the other, does it not?

[–] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most aluminium is excreted through bodily fluids yes but still a significant enough amount can end up in the brain. Once in the brain it has a rough half-life of 20% of a person's life span to potentially even longer.

https://biologyinsights.com/how-does-aluminum-get-in-brain-tissue/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10180736/

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

TY! Adding these to the archive.

excuse me my body uses it as a tricycle

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Here's some 'bullshit science' for you.

Aluminium in the Human Brain: Routes of Penetration, Toxicity, and Resulting complicationshttps://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/8/7228

Overview of the Relationship Between Aluminum Exposure and Human Health https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372226334_Overview_of_the_Relationship_Between_Aluminum_Exposure_and_Human_Health

The impact of aluminum exposure on human health https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00204-023-03581-6

Clinical Outcomes of the Deleterious Effects of Aluminum on Neuro-Cognition, Inflammation, and Health: A Review https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10180736/

Also Aluminium is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust at 8.23%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth%27s_crust#List_of_abundance_by_element

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Biomedical scientists here. Bullshit meta analysis in obscure predatory journals don't impress me.

You can detect a lot of environmental elements in brain, it doesn't mean it's pathogenic. This is why we have CSF washing out our brains every night.

Again, because no read good, aluminum sulphate is used as a clearing flocculant worldwide forever 100 years, and many diets around the world use alum, and have for over 2000 years.

It's only a problem in people with Renal failure in dialysis.

[–] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

Aluminum is definitely something we should be reducing everywhere

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not a defense. It's throwing their own dumb logic back in their faces. Aluminum exposure is very common and cutting your intake by less than 0.1% to make yourself vulnerable to a full-blown infection is moronic.

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

My apologies; I misinterpreted your comment. My mistake.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I think he isn't

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The Department of Pestilence

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They want 268,00... Ah fuck it I don't care. The people who need to know how much death is anticipated won't listen.

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

They sure will when the children around them start dropping like flies. But im sure the dumb fucks will find some scapegoat; probably blame more immigrants or something.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

Thr public hazard department.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

So what if we could make a vaccination against the ill effects of vaccinations, would that be alright?

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Call me a monster but I hope it bites the antivaxxers HARD. No treatment if unvaxxed with removing the children from these unfit homes.

These are different guidelines now, no one is getting a child removed due following them. It's now more likely that you will get in trouble for giving your kid "unnecessary" vaccinations.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Good, let themselves turn the country into a lepper colony

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

This is so goddamned infuriating. It's like they want to kill kids.

All while pretending to love ~~fetuses~~, oops, I mean, "unborn babies".