In this country, there are millions of people who because of age or illness do not have strong immune systems or have other medical problems that make them frail. The majority of these have already had the flu shot and are doing everything possible to protect themselves. Unfortunately, most “healthy” people have not had the flu shot because they do not want to “start the shot thing” or because of bizarre excuses such as “I have never had the flu,” or ignorant statements like “you can get the flu from the shot” (actually impossible). Now those healthy vaccine abstainers are getting influenza and their behavior is killing anyone who is young, old or frail.
You see the flu shot only works 60-70% of the time and even less in people with impaired immunity. That means that as the epidemic spreads though the “healthy” people that refused to be vaccinated, it is transmitted to little children, the elderly and to patients with cancer, diabetes, lung disease, heart disease, kidney disease and any other ailment you name, even if they have been vaccinated. Healthy people get a few days off work, complain about the headache-vomiting-fever and then recover. Societies weakest members spend weeks recovering, end up in the hospital, and in numbers that will soon reach into the thousands, die.
It is called herd immunity. Unless most of the herd is immune, then no matter what they do, the weakest suffer the most. A mature and responsible herd tries to protect the entire group, in order shield the weak. Therefore, when large members of the herd invent reasons to avoid their responsibility, it is not they that suffer, but the child down the street.
We respect the individual’s right to opt out of certain herd responsibilities; no one would recommend a legal mandate for flu vaccines. However, since refusing to be vaccinated puts others in the herd at risk for their lives, it seems reasonable to us that if you are not going to protect the herd by getting the flu shot, then why don’t you drop out of the herd.
Now, of course, we do not mean permanently leaving public life… just until the flu season has past … say April. The most ethical and respectful behavior would be to go into your house, apartment, condo, cubby or cave, close the door or rock and hibernate the next three months. To make is easier to keep away friends and family we will provide a large glossy sign, with red letters on a black background, skull optional, which says “Warning: Flu Carrier – Quarantine,” to guarantee that no one from the herd bothers you and you cannot contaminate them.
There are wonderful benefits from living in civilized society, but there are also moral and practical responsibilities. By failing to be vaccinated, you place vulnerable neighbors at risk. The honorable thing to do is to withdraw until the crisis has past.
See you in Spring,
The babies, mothers, grandparents and patients of America
P.S. Get your flu shot, today!
As published in Sunrise Rounds.
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jcs
Right because if it is on the internet it HAS TO BE TRUE...see this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bufTna0WArc
jcs
The following is a list of different years and the number of flu associated deaths in children reported to the CDC: •1999-2000 -36 deaths •2000-2001 -30 deaths 17% decrease •2001-2002 – 25 deaths 17% decrease •2002-2003 – 29 deaths 16% increase (This is the last year that the flu vaccine was considered “unsafe” by the CDC for children under 5 – now let’s watch the increase of deaths after the CDC recommends all children age 6 months to 5 years be vaccinated for Influenza.) •2003-2004 – 153 427% increase •2004-2005 — 47 deaths 69% decrease •2005-2006 – 46 deaths 3% decrease •2006-2007 – 68 deaths 48% increase •2007-2008 – 88 deaths 29% increase •2008-2009 – 133 deaths 51% increase •2009-2010 – 282 deaths 112% increase •2010-2011 – 115 deaths 59% decrease
According to research presented at the 105th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society in San Diego, children who get the flu vaccination have a 3 times greater risk for hospitalization: They found that children who had received the flu vaccine had three times the risk of hospitalization, as compared to children who had not received the vaccine. In asthmatic children, there was a significantly higher risk of hospitalization in subjects who received the TIV (Stands for Trivalent Influenza Vaccine – a.k.a. the flu shot), as compared to those who did not. [source Sciencedaily.com] So in essence, parents who vaccinate their children against the flu are increasing the hospitalization risk for their child! [source CDC.gov] [source vaccineinformation.org]
And just because your doctor, who is getting paid off by the pharmaceutical companies to push their toxic vaccines tells you it's good for you, then it must be. There are decades of research that are being ignored (because the exposure and widespread dissemination of the truth about vaccines would bring a halt to the gravy train for Big Pharma) that show clealry that nearly all vaccines not only do not work as claimed, but cause countless harmful, and in all too many cases, fatal side effects. But you just go right on believing and let them inject you with adjuvants like mercury and aluminum.
Dr S. Can you comment or provide some context to this?
Keep shooting yourself up with these drugs and you all are going to end up looking like those things on I Am Legend. Haha
jcs
Vaccines do not provide long-term immunity; only temporary at best. In vaccines, an antigen is injected into the body to produce a reaction and the immune system responds in the form of antibodies, but antibody presence does not confer immunity. People still catch the diseases that they are vaccinated against. Vaccines actually skip the normal immune responses to activate killer cells which can trigger an overproduction of cytokines in response to the toxic vaccine adjuvants and can damage tissues and organs and even stop the heart and block air pathways. Vaccines should never be called immunizations because that is a misnomer. Immunity and vaccinations are two different subjects altogether. In fact, breast milk is so potent with immune energizing effects in the infant that researchers at the CDC recommend women withhold breastfeeding their children in order to boost the “effectiveness” of childhood vaccines. The paper claims that women should stop breastfeeding long enough for the man-made poison to work on artificial/temporary “immunity.”
jcs
http://redbank.patch.com/blog_posts/visiting-nurse-association-health-group-is-offering-free-flu-shots-on-walk-in-wednesday-in-red-bank-manasquan
I say isolate those at risk, after all, many of them probably contribute little to the herd and leave the rest of us alone.