Flu Hooey - How the CDC lies to overstate the benefits of flu shots
Posted by freedomforall 11 years, 4 months ago to Culture
hidden in the bowels of Table 10, the decomposition is found for the year 2010 — apparently taking three full years to count up all the carnage: a measly 500 deaths from influenza; 50,097 from pneumonia. That's ripe: 500 flu deaths, 50,097 pneumonia deaths (100 times more), and the CDC sticks 50,597 into its flu report. Is the flu vaccine lobby that powerful? And where's the pneumonia lobby? I want a pneumonia shot.
To some of us, grossly exaggerating influenza threats to expand public vaccination is a despicable approach to conducting a national influenza control and prevention program. But what's a little disease-mongering when you’re saving lives? And there is nothing like an occasional threat of an epidemic, better yet a pandemic, to win over anyone left undaunted by the flagrantly massaged mortality and morbidity statistics of mundane seasonal flu.
To some of us, grossly exaggerating influenza threats to expand public vaccination is a despicable approach to conducting a national influenza control and prevention program. But what's a little disease-mongering when you’re saving lives? And there is nothing like an occasional threat of an epidemic, better yet a pandemic, to win over anyone left undaunted by the flagrantly massaged mortality and morbidity statistics of mundane seasonal flu.
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It does take into account that no vaccination is perfect.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=penn...
the fact, you are more like to get the Flu in the 21st century than you were prior.
Is the vaccine effective? hard to say. Will it harm you?? I dunno.
If you live in rural America, I'd say you don't need it. If you have kids in public schools, or work with people with kids, I'd say you should consider it. The problem is, there are too damn people in the world and many are disgusting pigs.
I'd have less of a problem with the flu shot if I had trust in the government.
Jan
the FDA, USDA, and CDC were supposed to answer these questions for us and prevent us from buying snake oil (or Fish Oil). Now, we can't rely on them. All we have to go on is our gut feeling and preponderance of evidence from our own personal research. I don't think taking (natural) Fish Oil supplements will hurt you, the question is, does it do anything for you?
I tend to go with, eat a balanced diet and you should't need supplements.
BUT, if some sick ass sneezes on you - A flu shot might not be a bad idea, especially considering the designer BUGS we have now (or the ones the Chinese are manufacturing).
I'm 64 and have never had a flu shot. Have I gotten sick from a flu in the past? Yes. But since I haven't taken them I have built up immunities, and can't remember the last time I caught the flu, even though everyone in my household caught it (up to 5).
if you don't trust the CDC, you have a simple solution: don't f--kin take it.
Electrolytes?? Like Brawndo?
Hillary's plan?
See http://www.webmd.com/vaccines/pneumococc...
As if it was needed.
A 2012 Scientific American article addressed the paucity of evidence behind pretentious CDC vaccination claims. According to Cochrane Collaboration research referenced in the exposé, vaccines approved for children under the age of 2 “are not significantly more efficacious than placebo.” For older children, "the shot reduces the absolute risk that a child will catch the flu by about 3.6 percent, whereas the live (inhaled) vaccine reduces the absolute risk by about 17 percent."
Adults under 65 "have about a four percent chance of catching the flu if they don’t get the vaccine and about a one percent chance if they do."
For adults over 65, there is only one vaccine that has been shown to protect against infection or death, "an inhalable vaccine that contains a live, modified version of the virus [wait for it . . .] which is not approved in the U.S. for adults over age 50."
Regarding claims that vaccination slows the spread of flu virus, "there are no data showing that this is true."