Renal Failure and Vaccine Mandates

Normal is Only What we Make Out to be Normal

This piece is satire, but highlights the absurdity of mandating medical interventions.

The Problem

• Over 80,000 people die from kidney failure each year. Kidney disease is America’s ninth leading cause of death.

• 1 out of 10 adults has some form of kidney damage

• In the U.S., an estimated 26 million people -- about 13 percent of the population -- now have chronic kidney disease

• The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) predicts that the number of kidney failure patients in the U.S. will double in the next ten years.

• Each year, about 60,000 people in the U.S. start treatment for kidney failure

• People with chronic kidney disease are 10 times more likely than healthy individuals to die of heart attacks and strokes

The Solution- Kidney Transplant

• Long-term survival is markedly improved among patients who receive a donor kidney compared with patients who dialyze and remain on the waiting list for a kidney

• In the New England Journal study, the mortality rates were analyzed among over 200,000 patients who underwent dialysis for end-stage renal disease. Of these, some 23,000 actually received a kidney. The projected years of life remaining were 10 for patients who remained on the waiting list and 20 for those who received a transplant (New England Journal of Medicine)

• In the United States, more than 400,000 people are on long-term dialysis and more than 200,000 have a functioning transplanted kidney

• People undergoing a kidney transplant these days have a better than nine-in-10 chance of surviving, and a better than eight-in-10 chance their body will not reject the new organ

• There are people still alive who have had their new kidneys for more than 40 years.

• One year after surgery, 97.6 percent of kidneys transplanted from living donors were still functioning well

 The Donor

• The mortality for the operation for the donor is estimated to be 0.03%, or one in 3,000 chance of dying from the surgery

• The life expectancy of living donors is the same or better as if they had not donated.  The remaining single kidney is able to meet the body’s needs very well. It actually enlarges to do the work formerly shared by both kidneys

• If the donor is a woman who wishes to have children in the future, studies have shown that kidney donation does not affect completion of a safe pregnancy

Still a Problem

• Each year, 8 percent of the patients on the national list die waiting for a kidney

• Every day over 10 people die while waiting for a vital organ transplant

• Over 65,000 patients are on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. Sadly, only 15,000 will get a new kidney this year. Each month, approximately 2,000 more names are added to the list

• One can wait three years (or more) to receive a cadaveric kidney.

• Because of the lack of available donors in this country, 3,886 kidney patients died in 2004 while waiting for life-saving transplants.

• Halachic concerns: one is not obligated to donate kidney for another person

  (oh, you mean that I don’t need to vaccinate to protect others, ok, how about for yourself…read on)

Self Donor - The Final Solution

• Blood and tissue matching tests are not needed when it is own kidney

• No problem with rejection

• No need to be on powerful immune suppressant drugs

• Would not need to go through  plasmapheresis prior to receiving kidney transplant

• Since the donation is to one’s self, one is obligated according to halacha to take  precautions to protect his own life

• Risk of surgery is 0.03% (one in 3,000 cf. chance of getting hit by lightning one in 10,000) while 13% of adults develop renal damage

Would any Rov condone this?

Didn’t think so.

Vaccines are no different.

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