Flu Shots – This is Getting Outrageous!

I wasn’t planning on posting anything today. I have bills to do, a new software finance program to figure out, an appointment this afternoon, and a date with my honey tonight. I’ve been answering emails, sending out snail mail, and I’m still drinking my Shakeology for breakfast four hours after I got up! LOL

But I clicked on this article in Yahoo News because it caught my attention. And now I’m sitting here, speechless (that won’t last long), and shaking my head! WHAT are they thinking? Do they really think they can convince us that this is right and good!?

I suppose I should enlighten you before I begin my rampage. . .

To summarize this article, a dedicated nurse who’s worked in hospitals for 22 years is losing her job. Why? Because she refused to get the flu shot. (Hurray for her!) I can’t imagine how hard it was for her to walk away from her career because the government is so controlling we can’t even sneeze without them telling us what kind of hanky to use.

Ethel Hoover, the 61 year-old heroine in this tale, worked as a nurse at Indiana University Health Goshen Hospital. She refused the mandatory flu shot by saying, “This is my body. I have a right to refuse the flu vaccine.” Two medical exemptions, a religious exemption and two appeals were all denied her.

Why Refuse the Flu Vaccine?

So why in the world would this nurse, and thousands of others refuse the flu shot? Isn’t it supposed to prevent sickness and influenza?

I can’t tell you everyone’s reasons for refusing to be injected with toxins, but here are some that stood out for me:

1. It’s creators are less than trustworthy.

• The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) confidently states that 36,000 Americans die each year from the flu. But their own records only show that a few hundred die in an average year.
• According to the CDC’s National Vital Statistics, more people in the U.S. die from malnutrition and asthma than the flu.

2. The flu vaccine is made by guesswork alone.

• Every year, in January or February, authorities travel to Asia to find out what flu strains are circulating over there. They assume that those same flu strains will make their way to the U.S. by fall – so all summer long they concoct several flu vaccines with those same viruses in them. BUT, if they’re wrong, and the strains of the flu in the U.S. end up totally different that what they guessed, they give you the shot anyway. It’s totally worthless, but hey, it makes them feel better for having spent millions of dollars to make them.

3. They’re injecting you with known poisons

• The flu strains selected are cultivated in chick embryos and then inactivated with formaldehyde, which is a known cancer-causing agent.
• Then they’re preserved with thimerosal, which is 49% mercury by weight. Some flue vaccines contain as much as 25 mcg of mercury per dose. That’s more than 250 times the Environmental Protection Agency’s safety limit for mercury.
• The flu shot contains any number of dangerous ingredients including:

1. Polysorbate 80 - has been linked to infertility in mice, accelerated the maturation of female rats and resulted in severe ovary deformities, and an increased risk of blood clots, stroke, heart attack, heart failure, and of tumor growth or recurrence in patients with certain types of cancer. A PubMed article said that it was a causative agent of a pregnant woman going into anaphylactic shock. In addition, studies have shown that it could be especially harmful to patients with Crohn’s disease.
2. Aluminum — a neurotoxin that has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease
3. Triton X-100 — a detergent
4. Phenol (carbolic acid)
5. Ethylene glycol (antifreeze)
6. Betapropiolactone – a disinfectant
7. Nonoxynol – used to kill or stop growth of STDs
8. Octoxinol 9 – a vaginal spermicide (am I the only one who totally does not understand why they would include this!?)
9. MSG (Monosodium Glutamate) - double blind studies found that MSG exposure caused muscle tightness, fatigue, numbness or tingling, and flushing in sensitive people. It also overstimulates our nervous system, causes an inflammatory response. It destroys the retinal cells that allow vision, and destroys parts of the brain. It is a contributing factor toobesity and causes radical hormone fluctuations. MSG is especially harmful to pregnant or nursing mothers because infants and young children are four times more sensitive to MSG than adults!

(source, source, source)

4. It’s not safe in the least

• serious reactions such as life-threatening allergies, Guillian-Barr Syndrome (GBS) – a potentially fatal paralytic disease, encephalitis (brain inflammations), and thrombocytopenia (serious blood disorder) have been documented.
• according to the CDC’s National Vital Statistics, flu deaths in children under 5 skyrocketed in 2003 – AFTER they started vaccinating children in this age group.

6. It doesn’t work – a master study that researched 40 years worth of flu vaccine studies, showed that:

• there was no evidence that the flu vaccine prevented the flu in children under 2 years old
• in healthy children older than 2, the live virus vaccine was only 33% effective and the inactivated vaccine was 36% effective
• in healthy adults under 65, the vaccine did not effect hospital stay, time off from work, or death and complications from the flu
• the flu vaccine was not effective in the elderly whether they lived in the community or group homes

The Cochrane Collaboration, 2004, 2006
The Lancet, February 2005

But William Schaffner, a former president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases seems pleased to assure the public that the vaccines are safe. He notes that in October 2011, Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee (where he is the chair of preventive medicine), broke the world record for number of vaccines administered in an eight-hour period. From 6:50 a.m. to 2:50 p.m., they vaccinated 12,647 people. By that evening, more than 14,000 people had been vaccinated, and there “were no severe adverse reactions”.

No adverse reactions in less than a 24 hour period sure makes me feel better – how about you?

He states, “I cannot think of a reason for any health care professional to decline influenza immunization that’s valid.”

Really? I mean . . . REALLY?!

Do Doctors and Nurses Get the Flu Vaccine?

Schaffner added that nurses in particular tend to be the most reluctant to get vaccinated. “There seems to be a persistent myth that you can get flu from a flu vaccine among nurses. They subject themselves to more influenza by not being immunized, and they certainly do not participate in putting patient safety first.”

So now, if a nurse refuses a shot she’s apparently selfish and irresponsible to her patients because she doesn’t want to inject herself with toxins that do more harm than good. Well, then 70% of doctors and nurses and 62% of healthcare workers who do not get the annual flu vaccine (according to the General Internal Medicine, Feb. 6, 2006) must be selfish too.

Ho hum.

Happily the story that began this rant has a promising ending. Ethel Hoover has a good lawyer working on her behalf. Alan Phillips says his client had the right to refuse her flu shot under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits religious discrimination of employees. “If your personal beliefs are religious in nature, then they are a protected belief.” And he’s ready to act on that.

Amen.

So What’s the Answer?

First of all, the flu isn’t the worst thing that could possibly happen to you. But you can help prevent it by taking natural supplementation to boost your immune system such as Vitamin D, garlic, echinachea, and my personal favorite – Pepper Juice. Eating healthy will also boost your immune system. Whole foods look like a good choice.

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