The Flu Shot: Useless

Here's an interesting tidbit: the flu shot this year does not actually protect against the flu.

As I explained earlier, because the flu is a virus that changes and mutates, a new vaccine must be put out each year to be effective against the current flu. Well, when the next year's flu shot is being developed, it's more or less educated guesswork. This year's flu shot was guessed wrong. It does not protect against the current strain at all. It stops a very rare form of the flu that is barely prevalent and not a concern.

If you've had the shot this year, don't panic, it's not harming you; it just isn't helping you. So the moral of the story is, wash your hands and drink your orange juice!

More general info on this vaccine: http://www.medicalconsumers.org/pages/FluVaccineisRarelyEffective.html

Superflu

Everyone is home sick lately. There have been so many people missing from my classes it's astounding. There is definitely something going around, something very flu-like. And a lot of people have mentioned in conversation how bad the flu is this year.

And in light of the flu shot, they're surprised. Well, I'm not.

The flu is a virus. Viruses change and mutate to overcome resistance. That's why you have to get the flu shot every year; because after a year, the strain has changed so much that your immune system no longer recognizes it as the flu it was vaccinated against. It's not like most other vaccines, where it's one shot, maybe a booster, and you're covered.

So when you think about it, we are really creating a superflu. To overcome the vaccination, the virus gets worse and worse, and it hits those who are not vaccinated incredibly hard.

Which raises the question; is this morally sound? Or safe? What happens when someone brings our superflu overseas to some place where they aren't vaccinated and exposes them to the virus? Scary stuff to think about.

The HPV Vaccine: What's Being Hidden From You

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008_docs/HPV_vaccine.pdf

The breakthrough GARDASIL HPV vaccine has been touted as a wide success... but what do we really know about this expensive vaccine?

It claims to prevent cervical cancer by preventing infections known to be linked. Of course, there are already moral concerns: such infectious diseases are spread through sexual activity; why are we vaccinating 11 year old girls against this, when the vaccine has no proven long-term effects?

Also, there are more than 90 known strains of HPV; can this one vaccine really combat all of them? As it turns out, it only prevents four. These other strains can also cause cervical cancer; so really, how effective can it be against cervical cancer? The testing process used only tested for immune response; not cervical cancer. They are making claims they cannot back up.

What I find most concerning is that school boards are declining to provide parents with this sort of pertinent information. The link at the top of this entry is a warning pamphlet that was not allowed to be distributed in schools without given reason. All pamphlets I personally have seen appear to be biased in favour of the vaccine; I had questions about its long-term effects and side effects that were not addressed.

Did you know that there have been 21 deaths linked to this very vaccine? And countless other reports of adverse side effects and hospitalizations?

In this case and in any other areas, I urge you to ensure that you are informed on ALL aspects of an issue. This is scary; we are not being voluntarily informed of what they want to put into our bodies. Please read the article that alterted me on this issue:

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/dec/08121208.html

The list at the bottom of the article gives a thorough overview of the main concerns.