So much effort of public health programs is spent on the prevention of infectious diseases. The goal to prevent and even eradicate infectious germs, while it may sound noble and heroic, could also be fundamentally misguided. For one, there’s little attention placed on the short and long term consequences of
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Honestly, I’ve never had one. Until I had children, it wasn’t even on my radar that a healthy, young person would or should get a flu shot. I’m sure you have been told all the reasons why you *should* get an annual flu vaccine, but are you being offered any
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Not that long ago, our medical professionals would have never, ever vaccinated a woman during pregnancy. But today, injections during pregnancy are becoming routine, despite limited safety data. For many women, it may seem like it’s no big deal to get a TDaP or a Flu shot during pregnancy, but
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In his own words, Brian Lauer writes: “In the year prior to my first documented vaccine injury, I was essentially in the best shape of my life. I had been training for a physical fitness test for the Air National Guard in 2008 and I clocked a run time on
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It took nearly 80 years to figure out that the most deadly pandemic in recent human history, the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic that is estimated to have took the lives of over 100 million people, was actually so deadly because of bacterial pneumonia. Now, with all the mask orders in
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I could pretty much sum up everything about flu shots by pointing out one thing: they’re free. Nothing in life is free! There is always a cost, or a price. The cost to fast food is the bloating in your stomach, or your diabetes or high blood pressure. The price
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Back in 1976, Mark Waldvogel was a healthy, athletic high school senior in Kailua, Hawaii. He followed the advice of then-President Ford and Federal health officials and took a swine flu vaccination that had just been developed that year. There had been so many Government warnings of a deadly epidemic,
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With all the debate surrounding whether or not to mask up–what can we glean from lessons of the past? Did masks prevent the spread of the 1918 Spanish Influenza? Experts examined the evidence and concluded masks failed to control infection. Given that we know from autopsies that: “The majority of
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Ahhh history. So many stories to tell. And they’re not all good stories, but truth and objectivity are important if we want to learn and grow as a society. As humans, we may think we are the smartest, most forward moving beings this planet has ever seen. It’s completely natural
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Remember to get fresh air daily. Back in 1918 when the Spanish Flu was spreading across the globe, many doctors knew that fresh air would aid in the recovery process. In Halifax, Yorkshire, a doctor smashed a window with a rolling pin, and he watched his gasping patients immediately begin
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A four-year-old Colorado boy recently died in the hospital of influenza and parainfluenza, but instead allowing a family to mourn the loss of their sweet boy, NBC writer Brandy Zadrozny, known for previous hit pieces on other bereaved mothers, like Catie Clobes, writes a hit piece on the mother alleging
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Mothers: Before a doctor pressures you into a medical procedure your intuition might be weary about–please keep doing your own independent research. You may not be getting the whole story when it comes to prenatal vaccines, for example, no vaccines are FDA approved for use during pregnancy, AND, there are
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Shared from his mother, Krystle Cordingley. Krystle found her son Corbyn dead in his bed just 14 hours after a flu vaccination on October 18, 2013. Corbyn was just 13 month-old son’s life. Cordingley adds that in addition to the flu shot, Corbyn received 5 different vaccines, including MMR, 43
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Shared with permission from Landen’s mother. My son Landen Steffen was born in a hospital in January 2009. He was born a healthy 8 lbs. boy through normal birth (no C-section). We started allowing him to be vaccinated with the Vitamin K and Hepatitis B shots within 12 hours after
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It’s very simple: inflate the number of flu deaths to circulate fear, and sell more vaccines. Vaccinated people shed and spread virus, which causes more infections, and more deaths, which sells more vaccines. It’s a great marketing campaign, but is this ethical, and is the 80,000 number even true? The
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It’s that time of year again, you know where the entrances of grocery stores and pharmacies are decorated with “Get Your Flu Shot” signs, and promises of a $5 gift card or a $5 discount on your groceries. There’s the flu shot hashtags #fightflu and the flu shot selfies–and of
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Raise your hand if you have ever read a scientific study? Or even looked at one. Scientific studies are these megaliths of information. They can be tedious to read, difficult to understand–after all, they are their own completely unique language. To a lay person, like me, we need other people
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I don’t know if you’re a glass half full kind of person, or a glass half empty kind of person, but a vaccine that is 48% effective does not sound remarkable, especially given the side effects that can come from the flu shot. According to the CDC’s most recent Seasonal
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