In this episode, TSC Talks had the honor and pleasure of speaking with Allison Chapman, Legislative Director~Health Choice 4 Action MA. I met Allison through a Facebook Group called, "FLU YOU BAKER CLASS ACTION", formed to "stay connected, informed & share ideas/information regarding the opposition to the MA DPH Flu Vaccine mandate". We started off hearing about Allison's personal connection to these issues, having 3 children, all of whom suffered significant side effects from vaccines, one of whom is permanently disabled.

I'm the Legislative Director for health choice for action, Massachusetts, and it's an all volunteer organization, it's not paid. I think a lot of people misinterpret that. But the reason you do it is to make sure that your children and your family members, that may be a little different than others have provided, continue to be able to access the community, and opportunities as everyone else's creation and jobs and all of these things, we want to make sure that everyone has access to when people are not being denied on the basis of their underlying medical issues, or their religious beliefs, or whatever it is, because we're in Massachusetts, we have all these wonderful laws that don't allow discrimination. And unfortunately, there's still some discrimination. So I help with other moms like myself, and I've been doing it for about 15 years. Wow, I've been injury advocate. So a lot longer than I was doing anything else. But that's what I've done for the last about 15 years. But health choice for actions just for a year, a few other organizations in Massachusetts has been for the last four years. So, you know, I've been doing it a long time, but it's with different organizations.

Allison Chapman is not an anti-vaxxer. She is, however, a firm believer in vaccine injury having watched all three of her children and her mother suffer significant effects from vaccinations. Allison is the Legislative Director for Health Choice for Action, Massachusetts and has been active with other organizations concerned with vaccine injury. Allison describes her journey and what happened to people she loved when they followed medical advice.

The first vaccine and reaction (7:36)
Why do my kids have physical reactions to shots (9:92)
Changes in her son after vaccine (11:20)
Years before doctors admitted her child had an “adverse event” (13:06)
Child number three has an adverse reaction to shot as does her mother (13:47)
Adverse reactions can happen and should be acknowledged. That doesn’t mean one has to be completely anti-vax (15:43)
Legislation and vaccine exemptions (19:01)
Religious exemptions (20:48)
Autism and vaccines (24:16)
Multiple vaccines administered together and what are the effects (21:44)
Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund (26:26)
Harvard Pilgrim study regarding vaccine injury (32:04)
HHS failure to study how to reduce the rate of reaction (35:14)
Poly-pharmacy and vaccine injury and failure to study efficacy/safety in people of color (36:55)
Shame and bullying of the vaccine injured (42:30)
Do the unvaccinated spread disease? (43:57)
Vaccines and politics (49:25)
Finding balance (50:55)
Mandatory flu vaccines (47:41)
Doctors and training and adverse events (52:23)
Differences in vaccine dosage and effectiveness on people of color (58:27)
Vaccines not studied long enough (1:00:31)

Allison's Links:

https://healthchoice.org/leader/allison-chapman/
https://www.healthchoicemassachusetts.org/about/
https://www.facebook.com/OpposeOverreach/
https://www.facebook.com/allison.chapman.184
https://www.telegram.com/article/20150603/NEWS/150609702
https://www.facebook.com/OpposeOverreach/posts/allison-chapman-legislative-chair-for-health-choice-4-action-ma-and-other-parent/366612521406100/
https://www.instagram.com/opposeoverreach.ma/