The Great Flu Debate.

It may be the most talked about health issue year after year.  Flu Vaccine.

“Flu season is approaching and doctors say this might be the most deadly strain we have seen in years.  Pharmacies are worried about vaccine shortages.”

I’ve attended a few sales and marketing classes and was taught that you need Authority (doctors say), Social Proof (mainstream media), and Scarcity (worried about shortage).  And if you don’t have a need, just invent one…

You will die without our product!

Take a breath.  Slow and easy.  I had the flu a couple years ago with my kids, and it was a nice day.  We all threw up a couple times, but we took True Cold and Flu and watched movies all day.  I slept through some and enjoyed my snuggles.  It was a good day.

You will see published research that shows flu deaths have increased alongside increased vaccination rates.

I don’t know what is true.  I only know my experience.

My experience has been that every time you get sick, your immune system gets stronger.  Unless you take antibiotics, then it gets weaker.

The Tamiflu study was removed.

Research says that Elderberry is 400% more effective than Tamiflu, cutting flu symptoms to only a day or two.  With nothing, aka Placebo, the flu averages 7 days.  With Tamiflu, the flu lasts 6 days on average.  (1)

If you are calm, just assess with basic logic.  Is the flu vaccine safe?  If yes, then is it effective?  If no, is the effect worth the risk?

Is it safe?

When someone gives you an answer, science tells us to consider Conflicts of Interest.  Pharmaceutical companies like Glaxo-Smith Kline share a 1.6 Billion annual paycheck for flu vaccines.  If I had 1.6 Billion, I bet I could even convince you that Nature heals.  (2)

But I was kicked out of insurance for healing a medical condition, and I have to work for free now.  Care Without Expectation.  I’ve healed Scleroderma twice, which medicine says is incurable.  (3)

Someone not getting a cut of the 1.6 Billion was Dr. Hugh Fudenberg. He was a clinical immunlogist who ran the Neuro Immuno Therapeutics Research Foundation in Spartanburg, SC.  Fudenberg published over 600 research papers to the National Library of Medicine. (4) 

He was quoted as saying, “if you have a flu shot for more than five years in a row, there’s ten times the likelihood that you’ll get Alzheimer’s disease.” (5)

To disprove the Alzheimer’s/flu shots connection, Toronto physicians went to nursing homes and asked people with Alzheimer’s if they remember getting a flu shot.  More couldn’t remember getting one than could. Not surprising since Alzheimer’s patients often do not remember the name of their spouse. 

Anyway, based on this “research” they concluded the flu shots were safe but the disclaimer at the bottom of the study negated its value: “Because of the self-reported nature of the risk factor questionnaire we cannot exclude the possibility of recall bias.”  National media reported this as “proof” the flu shot was safe. They didn’t mention the disclaimer.  (6)

Fudenberg also saw a connection between MMR vaccine and autism.  Other doctors disagree, but we do know that our Federal government has paid 3.9 Billion dollars to parents of vaccine injured children since 1988, when the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was founded. (7)

That’s our tax dollars used to protect these people from being sued for the harm they cause!

What would be Dr. Fudenberg’s motive to lie and slander?  Doctors who disagree with medical guidelines tend to find their Medical license revoked.

The Respondent admitted that he has on numerous occasions obtained controlled substances and legend drugs, namely, Prosom, Ambien, Lasix, and potassium from a member of his office staff and others, and that he has unlawfully obtained these controlled substances for his own use, and has, in fact, used these medications.  (8)

The medications are for anxiety, insomnia and heart failure.

Officially, the side effects of Flu Vaccine are mild, including pain and swelling at the injection site, fever, rash and headache with rare reports of more severe immune reactions such as Guillain-Barré Syndrome. (9)

I’m sure the benefits are vast.

CDC website: “Preliminary Assessment of the Effectiveness of the 2003-04 Inactivated Influenza Vaccine: Colorado, December 2003…Adjusted vaccine effectiveness for both estimates were not statistically significantly different from zero.”  With my knowledge of statistics, I interpret that it had no benefit. (10)

“Early predictions were that flu vaccines would save the lives of about half of those vaccinated. Based on U.S. mortality rates from 1968 to 2001, the study by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases found no correlation between increasing vaccination rates and declining death rates in any age group.” The Archives of Internal Medicine  reports that influenza vaccination coverage among elderly persons (> or =65 years) in the United States increased from between 15% and 20% before 1980 to 65% in 2001. Unexpectedly, estimates of influenza-related mortality in this age group also increased during this period.” (11)

Yes, the number of flu related deaths increased as vaccination rates have increased. (12)

In 2014, a review of research reported, “The results of this review provide no evidence for the utilization of vaccination against influenza in healthy adults as a routine public health measure.  This review includes 90 studies, 24 of which (26.7%) were funded totally or partially by industry.  Out of the 48 RCTs, 17 were industry‐funded (35.4%).”  (13)

Again, just looking at data and statistics, so that emotions don’t get involved…JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) reported the results of a survey in the Feb 2002 issue. 

Doctors who set the national guidelines for medical care for flu vaccines, are on the payroll of the pharmaceutical companies.  Only 50% of the guideline authors responded to the survey, and 87% of them acknowledged that they received compensation of some sort from one or more pharmaceutical companies. 

What about the other half of guideline authors…this article suggests that the reality may be that more than 90% of the doctors who set guidelines for care in this country, actually work for the pharmaceutical industry. (14)

Industry guidelines say that flu vaccine is between 10 and 60% effective.  Effectiveness is calculated by taking hospital visits with confirmed flu virus, and comparing the percentage that had vaccination vs not having vaccination.  It’s confusing to me what and how they are calculating. (15)

I only speak for myself, but I don’t want to not get the flu.  If I make bad choices and weaken my immune system, I believe God sends the flu to help me get back on track.  I have faith in God and Nature.  Far more than Billion dollar corporations and wealthy white men.  Have you seen their historical record?  (16)

Have you watched Dances With Wolves?  White men need a spanking.  Those in power, anyway.

When I was a little boy, my mother brought me to Sunday school.  My teachers name was Faith.  She told me to watch out for and never worship false Gods.

I followed her advice, but the worship of profit still hurt my family considerably.  When an insurance doctor is kicked out of insurance, that means 70-80% of their income is gone, and a hospital would let them go.

That was my penalty for healing a medical condition. (17)  I couldn’t have made that up, because it’s beyond my imagination.