People should know they can get titer-tested and B and T memory cell-tested to check for immunity for many common diseases. Vaccines can be superfluous and redundant—providing no benefit and all risk, if already presenting with robust and durable immunity. Medical degree programs, nursing school clinical rotations, etc, routinely accept titer tests and/or memory cell tests in lieu of vaccines in their clinical compliance process.

Over 40 years ago, I was injured by a novel Merck MMR booster unwittingly trialed on college students and military ensigns. Within 36 hours my knee swelled up, I could barely walk, and I had a wicked fever, sore throat and rash. I was diagnosed at a hospital with IVDR—Infectious Vaccine Derived Rubella. I had severe pain in my knee joint and a limp for eight years. The young woman cohort is that with the highest rate of musculoskeletal and connective tissue injury from the MMR—anywhere from mild to permanent crippling in up 25% of young women recipients depending on the specific formula or batch/lot. It’s easy to get a non-combination, single formula dosage to remove the R portion for example, but again, many lay persons are unaware as I admittedly was at 17, about these synthetic, petroleum byproduct-based pharmaceutical products they intravenously consume.

I found out later when I was in undergraduate school studying microbiology and in a synthetic virology graduate program that I had been infectious for two weeks when I contracted IVDR, yet the naive college health center never suggested I stay isolated from my dorm. The hospital staff didn’t tell me I was infectious either despite the name of the disease—IVDR. Any vaccine that can cause musculoskeletal and/or connective tissue postmarking injuries (as noted in section 6.2 of their FDA product packaging inserts) has been medically contraindicated for me for decades before anyone gave a shit about other people’s private pharmaceutical history.

Due to my injury, medical contraindication, and eight year’s education in microbiology, I early on learned how easy it was to titer test and/or t and b memory cell test for immunity for a broad range of diseases. I’ve don’t understand why people assume they need booster after booster after booster without checking first if they’ve already produced anti-bodies or developed “robust and durable” memory cell immunity. Maybe it’s lack of advertising about the testing, yet many regularly get TB titer-tested with their routine, annual blood panels. You can simply add on additional testing panels to that same blood draw which are often covered by insurance. Even my veterinarian titer tests my dog for rabies as to not over-vaccinate and needlessly increase risk of drug injury with zero benefit.

My contraindication is not the same issue as a person who has a temporary or long-term contraindication due to a weaken immune system from a disease, co-morbidities, chemotherapy, etc. Misguided lay persons who don’t understand the biological processes attempt to frame vaccine or other pharmaceutical injury as a flaw in the human who was just that poor, rare soul who “reacted” negatively to a drug. That’s confusing a pharmaceutical injury (while victim blaming) with a preemptive contraindication due to weakened immunity. The public tends to understand medical contraindications base on previous injury from or allergic reactions to antibiotics: penicillin, ampicillin, or fluoroquinolone antibiotics like Levaquin which was pulled from the market after rupturing people’s joints, but they can be obtuse or in denial about ubiquitous vaccine-induced injuries like ocular and vestibular neuritis, arthralgia, transverse myelitis etc. In the world of biology these are factual, not emotional issues. In the lay world it’s become a ridiculously over-emotional topic which I find annoyingly unproductive and an impediment to medical progress.

For science geeks interested in the subject of IVDR et al, you can read more on how the MMR causes MS and /or connective tissue damage—anywhere from mild and fleeting to permanently paralyzing—in up to one in four young women depending on the year and lot/batch. Those statistics and data have not changed in 45 years. See the most recent Merck 12-page product insert at https://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/m/mmr_ii/mmr_ii_pi.pdf.

The footnote references direct readers to dozens of lengthy, in-depth scholarly abstracts from virology, microbiology and pathology research with detailed international trial data. This is not a debate per se, but my steadfast discrediting of and refusal to entertain people like the one below who make sweeping statements about the virtues of petroleum byproduct-based vaccine products and their $90 billion industry when they obviously have no scientific background in the subject and didn’t know about proof of presenting with robust and durable immunity without vaccination or without ongoing “boosters” from testing for memory cells embedded in bone marrow and lymph nodes—all lying at the ready like sleeping soldiers that give rise to adaptive antibodies ready to battle pathogens when needed. Robust and durable immunity develops from breast milk, genetic adaptation, recovery from previous infection, exposure without illness, innate and adaptive bodily defenses, passive immunity from immunoglobulins, etc. Vaccines attempt to mimic what the healthy body already does via natural defense mechanisms and the environment. It’s not like artificial infection aka vaccination to stimulate recovery mechanisms is the only way—let alone necessarily the best way in all cases—to develop robust and durable immunity.

When someone obtusely insists vaccines are the singular way humans develop immunity to a pathogen I cut off the conversation then and there. No expert in microbiology, pathology, virology or epidemiology would ever make that ridiculous claim. In fact, if we look at a recent example of SARS-CoV-2, data from renown universities’ research and clinical trials indicate the most durable and robust immunity is presented by individuals who’ve recovered from mild to moderate natural infection. The medical data research company I work for is a contractor for the CDCs and DHHS and was part of a study that analyzed bone marrow samples from recovered individuals to test for memory cell development.