about flu shots

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This is from Chet Day's website:

http://chetday.com/noflushots.htm

The best way to read would be to go to the website, so you can click through to

the referenced articles.

Why I Never Get Flu Shots or Snorts

By Chet Day

 

Revised October, 2005

 

 

I don't diagnose or prescribe, and what you do with your body remains entirely

up to you and your doctor (if you still turn the responsibility for your health

over to some man or woman in a white smock), but I'll gladly tell you what I do

regarding flu shots and flu snorts...

 

I avoid them like the plague.

 

In fact, at age 57, I've never had a flu shot, and it would take a Marine nurse

and at least four burly wrestlers the size of Jesse Ventura to hold me down for

such an injection.

 

And you'd have to add Mike Tyson to the above list to get a snort of FluMistT in

me since I think you'd have to be out of your mind to purposely accept delivery

of a live virus that close to your brain.

 

Perhaps you already sense I have negative feelings about flu shots and flu

snorts?

 

You're right, I do.

 

And these feelings stem from personal opinion, reading, and a little common

sense.

 

First off, I don't think toxic chemicals and virus strains grown on living

tissue and/or genetically modified in sterile laboratories belong in the human

body, even when they're packaged in glass vials or nasal inhaler mechanisms and

" delivered " into your body by a medical doctor, registered nurse, or licensed

pharmacist.

 

First, Why I'll Never Snort FluMistT

In the fall of 2003, MedImmune's FluMistT was supposed to be the next big thing,

but, thank God, it flopped like a cow paddy on a dry pasture, and the company

ended up giving away millions of doses.

 

According to a 2003 Washington Times story, " The Gaithersburg-based company has

cut the price in half for the vaccine, hoping to eliminate a major barrier to

sales from last year, and plans to produce about 1 million doses this year. "

 

Well, it's now the fall of 2005 as I write these words, and MedImmune is still

trying to figure out how to get the public to accept FluMistT.

 

In a move that to me smacks of desperation, I read stories in Google News

(search with keyword flumist) in October of 2005 that MedImmune was going to

give away enough doses to immunize 53,000 students in the Knox County public

schools in Tennessee and more than 100,000 doses to students in Palm Beach

County in Florida.

 

I guess if you can't find a marketing plan that will sell a potentially

dangerous vaccine, it's better to give it away than to throw it away, but I sure

hate to think about 153,000 or more children serving as guinea pigs for a

pharmaceutical company.

 

Parents do have to sign an informed consent letter before the school systems can

spray this reformulated vaccine with a live virus up the nostrils of children,

so let's hope enough parents have enough sense to just say no to FluMistT and

that this new marketing approach in 2005 of MedImmune's will fail too.

 

Here's the bottomline for me concerning FluMistT...

 

If a medically-sanctioned drug or vaccine appears to be dangerous for just

about everyone except those with the constitution of Genghis Khan, it seems

obvious to me to not let a " health care professional " shoot the stuff up my

nose.

 

Okay, okay, so what often seems obvious to me isn't so obvious to others.

 

If you're one of those people who think I'm exaggerating, you'll find

interesting the official answer to the question Who should not get vaccinated

with FluMistT (you'll have to click on the Patient Information link at the

bottom of the page to read the PDF file listing all the potential problems).

 

According to the official FluMistT Patient Information PDF, you should not

receive FluMistT if you:

 

a.. are less than 5 years of age. In one study, an increase in asthmatic

events was seen in children under 5.

 

 

b.. are 50 years of age or older.

 

 

c.. have an allergy or history of allergic reaction to chicken eggs or egg

products or any component of the vaccine (see Additional Information). Symptoms

of a severe allergic reaction may include shortness of breath, wheezing, or

difficulty breathing; swelling of the face, lips, tongue, or other parts of the

body; skin rash, itching, or hives.

 

 

d.. are a child or adolescent who regularly takes aspirin, or products

containing aspirin.

 

 

e.. have a history of Guillain-Barré syndrome.

 

 

f.. have a known or suspected immune deficiency disease or condition such as

combined immunodeficiency, agammaglobulinemia, HIV infection, thymic

abnormalities, malignancy, leukemia, or lymphoma.

 

 

g.. are immunosuppressed or have altered or compromised immune status due to

treatment with systemic corticosteroids, alkylating drugs, antimetabolites,

radiation or other immunosuppressive therapies

 

 

h.. have a history of asthma or reactive airways disease

 

 

i.. have underlying medical conditions such as but not limited to chronic

disorders of the lungs and heart; or have had regularly scheduled follow-up

visits or have been hospitalized in the past year because of chronic metabolic

diseases (including diabetes), kidney dysfunction, or a hemoglobinopathy such as

sickle cell disease.

 

 

j.. are pregnant.

 

And if the above doesn't give you pause, we're then told by the manufacturers of

FluMistT:

 

Due to the possible transmission of vaccine virus, FluMist recipients should

avoid being in close (for example, within the same household) contact with

immunocompromised individuals for 3 weeks following vaccination.

 

Three weeks? Twenty-one days? Three quarters of a month? I don't know about you,

but I don't want to be within five miles of any " live virus " vaccine that can be

transmitted for three weeks.

 

For the cynics reading this who think I'm a wack case about FluMistT, do

yourself a favor and click here to read the FluMist Patient Information PDF file

in its entirety.

 

If, after reading the official FluMistT Patient Information PDF file you're

still thinking about having a " health care professional " deliver FluMistT up

your nose, click here to read an article by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, who makes what

I've written above seem mild.

 

Anyway, I don't mean to just pick on poor old FluMistT because personally I

don't want any kind of flu remedy cranked out in a sterile lab in my body.

 

Second, Why I Avoid Flu Shots Too

Do you want any of the following typical vaccine constituents injected into YOUR

bloodstream?

 

a.. Ethylene glycol (antifreeze)

b.. Phenol, also known as carbolic acid (this is used as a disinfectant, dye)

c.. Formaldehyde, a known cancer-causing agent

d.. Aluminum, which is associated with Alzheimer's disease and seizures and

also cancer producing in laboratory mice (it is used as an additive to promote

antibody response)

e.. Thimerosal (used as a mercury disinfectant/preservative) can result in

brain injury and autoimmune disease

f.. Neomycin and Streptomycin (used as antibiotics) have caused allergic

reaction in some people.

Some vaccines are also grown and strained through animal or human tissue like

monkey kidney tissue, chicken embryo, embryonic guinea pig cells, calf serum,

and human diploid cells (the dissected organs of aborted human fetuses as in the

case of rubella, hepatitis A, and chickenpox vaccines).

 

Flu vaccine is prepared from the fluids of chick embryos inoculated with a

specific type(s) of influenza virus. The strains of flu virus in the vaccine are

inactivated with formaldehyde and often preserved with Thimerosal, which is a

mercury derivative.

 

Well, I refuse to put any or all of the above in my body, and I hope when your

doctor starts telling you it's time for your annual flu shot or flu snort that

you'll require him to defend the annual injection or nasal delivery. You or your

insurance company is probably paying at least eighty bucks for an office visit,

so get your money's worth.

 

Have your doctor read you the insert that comes with the vaccine.

 

Then have him/her explain why it makes sense to inject toxic chemicals into the

human body and how such substances can aid the delicate immune system.

 

Chances are he/she will fall back on questionable statistical and demographic

explanations that the medical establishment has used for decades to justify

immunization.

 

Try to engage your doctor in a non-confrontational discussion because this is an

opportunity for him/her to actually give some serious thought to what he/she is

injecting or nasally delivering into the bodies of patients day after day after

day.

 

Many traditional doctors who haven't studied diet and life style aren't going to

change unless we help to educate them to what drugs and vaccines may really be

doing long-term to people.

 

Okay, I'm a realist so if I were still thinking traditionally, part of me would

almost buy into the typical rationale for flu vaccines:

 

a.. that so many people are spared the annual flu and

b.. only a few die or

c.. have their lives ruined after being injected.

I'd buy into that if I were convinced that injecting or nasally delivering a

toxic and/or genetically modified live virus into the body actually made sense.

 

When one digs into the vaccine history (check out the Swine Flu vaccine and

smallpox vaccines if you want two real horror stories) and scientific research

(especially in Europe), it quickly becomes apparent that nobody really knows

what these toxic stews of chemicals and microorganisms do in the human body.

 

To look at another disturbing possibility, click here to read an account written

by a CFIDS sufferer, a narrative that shows the cause and effect connection

between flu vaccines and terrible immune disorders.

 

Well, readers and a few medical professionals have called me a simple-minded

dolt on more than one occasion, but since 1993 I've approached the yearly flu

shot hype with the understanding that if I eat and live properly, I won't have

to worry much about catching the flu.

 

The flu vaccine I use -- eating and living as healthfully as I can -- actually

works.

 

Not only that, but it doesn't cost a dime, and nobody's going to have his/her

life ruined because of a " bad batch " of vaccine that triggers some mysterious

autoimmune disease that lays a person out of commission for years.

 

But let's say you eat and live conventionally.

 

Okay, I can understand that, but my next question would be " Which is better?

Some rest time with the flu or having toxic chemicals injected into your

bloodstream or nasally delivered? "

 

I mean, seriously, before I got healthy I almost looked forward to a yearly bout

with influenza because it meant I could go to bed and get some rest instead of

working practically every waking moment of my life.

 

I might add that I haven't missed more than two consecutive days of work from an

illness for over eight years as I write this update in October of 2005, so a

non-vaccine approach does work for me.

 

This non-drug approach has resulted in a level of health that continually amazes

me, especially when I see other men and women my age who are miserable and

without energy. Men and women who spend all too much of their time drifting from

doctor to doctor in endless pursuit of solutions that don't get to the cause of

their problems -- diet and life style.

 

Still thinking about taking a flu shot or a flu snort?

 

Do yourself a favor and think twice, and before taking that jab in the arm or

nasal delivery, review some natural approaches to building health by clicking

here.

 

And learn a LOT more about vaccines by clicking here.

 

Oh yeah, lest anyone accuse me of being one-sided, for the status quo rationale

for why the flu shot or snort must be taken every year, courtesy of the Center

for Disease Control,

 

Finally, the decision regarding a flu shot or snort is yours to make, but I urge

you to make that decision from a position of strength and knowledge.

 

So do your homework.