When They Become Mandatory, I Have to Wonder

Flu season has virtually come and gone this last year, but I hear more and more people concerned about looking for another job if flu shots become mandatory. I don't blame them. I've had doubts about flu shots long before I disavowed medical science in favor of faith in G-d. Flu shots have just never made sense to me. I mean, everyone has that one flu horror story from way back when, that is supposed to justify fear and panic now. I just don't buy it. There are a number of ordinary precautions we can take to reduce the risk of contracting the flu.

The influenza virus is not usually fatal to healthy people. As a matter of fact, healthy people tend to stay healthy by a healthy lifestyle and diet, rather than chemical injections. Let's consider for a moment, where one goes to get a flu shot. Whether it's a doctor's office, health department, or pharmacy, the odds of being close to someone who is carrying a virus are exponentially greater in those particular environments.

I think the fact that they are becoming mandatory and the strains predictable is what truly causes me to tighten down my tin foil hat when it comes to flu shots.  "They" say, and I think "they" and "the powers that be" may be one in the same and if not, one supports the other, yet I digress.  The formula for the flu shot vary each year and yet are quite similar.  "They" combine three potential strains in some sort of tempera medium and then amazingly, the flu shot is comprised, supposedly of the ones going around that winter.

Two things stand out to me in this and that is first, if they can predict which ones are going around, how do we know what's going around isn't "launched" from the lab?  I'm not saying the scientists in the laboratories are evil and trying to make us sick, but I am saying Big Pharma Corp doesn't make money off of healthy people.  The second thing that concerns me is the fact that most flu vaccines are grown in an egg based medium while "bird flu" continues to hold the potential to become life threatening if the human and bird strains ever mutate.  I'm no scientist, but the human flu virus in an egg medium would seem to be the perfect environment for mutation that direction.

The reasons given in this article are enough to keep me away from a flu shot, but if you'd like to read more, here are  10 Reasons.