Well, we knew it wouldn’t be long before Big Pharma would capitalize on the Swine Flu ordeal: Swine Flu Shot Could Be Ready By October.
I say ‘no thanks’. What about you?
“The government will have to review the safety and effectiveness of what’s produced, and decide if a vaccination campaign is warranted.”
That’s comforting. Gee, I wonder what they’ll decide? Sorry for the sarcasm, but this issue rubs me wrong, as you may have guessed.
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Local Nourishment 06.01.09 at 7:36 am
I was a teenager the last time around (swine flu and its disastrous vaccination program in 1976) and there is no way I will be receiving a shot for this. Reading the newspaper back then was the first education I’d ever received about government meddling in health care. I found it fascinating that the only two doctors in Congress both voted against a mandatory vaccination program, and that they were the only two dissenting votes.
Please, if you are undecided, study your history. Those who don’t are doomed to repeat it.
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Motherhen68 06.01.09 at 8:52 am
I’m certainly not going to receive the Swine Flu vaccine, nor any other flu vaccine.
I was annoyed last week when I learned my state (LA) has made a 2nd round of the Chicken Pox vaccine mandatory for school children. Hmm, why is it, doctor, that our children have to receive another round? ? Oh yes, that’s right, because the majority of the children are not becoming immune to the Chicken Pox with the 1st round. And Big Pharma Mamma needs her $$.
Thankfully, we used the philosophical exemption when we enrolled our kids to go back to school so I don’t need to provide any information to the school admin on what my kids do and do not have.
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Kelly 06.01.09 at 9:06 am
LN, good advice.
MotherHen, I’m glad I’m not the only one full of sarcasm on this issue! LOL!
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CHEESESLAVE 06.01.09 at 9:38 am
First it’s a flu shot, next it’s the gas chamber.
Hell no.
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Janet W 06.01.09 at 10:51 am
No, no, a thousand times no.
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Julie 06.01.09 at 12:44 pm
Absolutely not! I’m guessing though the pressure to do so will be strong, particularly for those working in health care (I no longer work in health care but I have good friends who do). I’m right there with you on the sarcasm (glad I’m not the only one!).
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Raine Saunders 06.01.09 at 1:04 pm
My friend and I were talking about this yesterday (I have a feeling a lot of folks talk about it regularly), and we both said we’d never get it or ANY flu shot. Now, she does vaccinate her children, and I don’t, but everyone has their own views about these subjects.
I feel that if you are injecting something into your body which is supposed to provide some type of “immunity” to your body, you are completely by-passing the immune system which is in the digestive tract. Because of this, it seems only logical that anything which would provide natural immunity to your body would be something you would consume, not inject. Injection puts the substance into the blood stream directly without the benefit of it passing through the digestion/immune channel, right? But maybe that’s just me!
Also, some people seem to forget that by the time the shot is available, the flu viruses will have mutated to such an extent that the injection they are receiving will be virtually worthless for the strains to which they might be exposed. I’m sure everyone here knows or at least is familiar with this theory, but the majority of folks are not!
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Raine Saunders 06.01.09 at 1:06 pm
I just thought of something else rather disturbing…I sure hope at some point in the future these types of injections do not become mandatory! I guess if they do, we’ll all be in a pickle, whether you do agree to take the injection or not!
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Katie 06.01.09 at 1:51 pm
We won’t be getting them. We don’t do the regular flu shots, or any vaccines. I didn’t know anything about the 1976 campaign until I read these comments. More people died from the vaccine than the flu!
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Betsy 06.01.09 at 8:07 pm
Never had a flu shot and never had the flu. I’d like to keep it that way, thank you very much.
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Tamara 06.02.09 at 10:22 am
Nope!
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April 06.02.09 at 10:22 am
Absolutely not. I would be extremely wary of anything they try to do later this year.
They use an out-of-season flu epidemic scare to make sure we are begging for a vaccine this fall… I’d be concerned about what’s in it.
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Vin | NaturalBias.com 06.02.09 at 11:48 am
Absolutely not, even if they find a way to make it mandatory. I’m confident that my healthy lifestyle will protect me.
Unfortunately, the production of flu shots means that there will obviously be incentive to sell them, and that probably means more hype to come about swine flu.
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Eileen 06.02.09 at 12:37 pm
I’m not going to get the swine flu vaccine. I work for a hospital that makes the regular flu shot “mandatory” for all employees. The first year I worked there, they sent over a dozen emails that threatened, cajoled, pressured, and played on guilt to get people to do it. You had to provide a note from your physician to get out of it or risk losing your job! The next year, there were a few emails reminding people to get the shot, but no heavy handed techniques. I’m not sure what the tactics will be this fall, with two different flu vaccines, but I will decline them both and hope there are no repercussions from management.
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Diana 06.03.09 at 10:27 am
Just casting my vote here….
ABSOLUTELY NO SWINE FLU (OR OTHER FLU) SHOT FOR ME!!!
I will take my chances that my whole, unprocessed food diet along with Cod Liver Oil, High vitamin butter oil, and vit D supplementation will see me through!
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lolaloves13 06.03.09 at 7:04 pm
No Vaccines for my family! We will be preventative with whole foods, FCLO, butter oil and other appropriate natural methods.
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