Re: Meet the man fighting anti vaxxers
Originally Posted by
Fogey
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Do I have a flu jab every year or not? If not and I contract flu, then there is a real possibility I'll die.
That's the "Campaign of Fear" working it's magic. The CDC instructed it's directors to put out media campaigns saying that flu would kill vulnerable people and that the strain will be really bad. Whether you live or die, when faced with ANY virus or ailment, will come down to how well YOU looked after your immune system and what YOU do when you do get ill, whether you obstruct your bodies own mechanisms or whether you let it do its job.
Originally Posted by
Fogey
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If I do have the vaccine and contract flu, it will be a very much milder dose and easily survived.
State your source in the form of proven studies for that statement please. The independent facts I've read don't really support the idea that many people will benefit from the vaccine.
Originally Posted by
Fogey
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Hmmmmm! 'Tis such a quandary. Not!!
It IS a quandary imo and one that everyone should take extremely seriously because if you are already in a vulnerable position then you could very seriously damage yourself by having the flu shot. It will stretch your immune system for a period and in that period you will be vulnerable to all the various bugs and viruses flying around including of course the many flu viruses.
Do not forget that any vaccine you have will have at most 4 flu strains (activated or inactivated). There are 100s of strains circulating out there which is why the independent research has proven that the vaccines help about 1 in 100 people vaccinated. Why put yourself at serious risk of stretching your immune system, most particularly in the very season of the year when flu strains are prevalent?
No quandary for me. I will never have the flu vaccine. It is wholly unproven to do what it claims, it states on the very paper inside the packet that it doesn't do what it claims and equally states that it has some very serious side effects, not to mention some hugely undesirable ingredients. The most respected international research institution (Cochrane) has studied it and concluded that it helps almost no-one. It is therefore pointless to have it and in fact potentially harmful.
In the end the one thing that should sway your decision is absolute proven fact about its efficacy.
The one thing that should never drive your decision is pure irrational fear.