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Friday, October 09, 2009

Flu Shots? No Thank You!

I have been reading headlines and articles about Swine Flu for several months - just like everyone else in the world. To be frank - something about it all has been ringing false to me. On facebook, several people have had the flu already and have reported just how crappy and awful it's been. At the same time, it just sounds like "the flu" to me.

People die every year from the flu. People die every year from a variety of illnesses. The number of people dying from swine flu is NOT higher than other years and other strains of flu, yet it seems that almost every day we hear about how one more person has died from it. What?? People die every day from all sorts of things - pneumonia, bronchitis, blood poisoning, and a whole plethora of other diseases. Why the continual reports on Swine Flu?

What is going on?

I have never been a conspiracy person. No, as a matter of fact, I've known one or two in my life time and they have always made me laugh. I KNOW who is in control of what is happening on this earth and that is God. God is in control and absolutely nothing happens that is not his will. We die how and when God says, not before and not from something else. And we ARE going to die (unless we are raptured first), nothing you do is going to keep that from happening.

And with that - God is totally sovereign over everything that happens - I add: I honestly believe we are living in the very last of the very last days here on earth and it is going to get BAD. Worse. The seals are slit, the bowls are being poured, the trumpets are being blown, the horses are appearing.

As Believers living during these times, we need to be very wise. We need to spend time in the Word of God, His Holy Bible. We need to spend time in prayer. We need to spend time in fellowship with other Believers. We need to look for and expect His coming at any moment.

What? How is any of that different from the way it has always been?

Ha! It's NOT!! It doesn't matter which time in history we happen to live, we need to be continually doing these things. It doesn't matter which time in history we happen to live, bad things are going to happen around us and directly to us as Believers. But our God has already won the battle! These are just the death throes of our defeated enemy.

I am reminded of what happens when you kill a snake. Cut off his head and the body writhes around, twisting and flipping and flopping wildly at times. Yet the head is gone, the fangs are missing. Our Enemy is defeated, but we live during his death throes. He, Satan, hates God and he hates us, God's chosen people.

So, read the following article with wisdom. Pick out the pearls of truth, try to separate them from the "conspiracy" stuff. I will not be getting a flu shot this year. I decided that several weeks ago. I've only ever had one in the past and I wish I hadn't had it. Our son, Andrew, had a bad reaction to a flu shot and now had a permanent 'lump' on the back of his neck - soft and not obvious, but it's there. It's just what is left from everything that happened when he had the shot. I just don't trust them any more. (So, if I am one of those who actually die from Swine Flu, please know that it was NOT the lack of a shot that caused my death, my time and means of death has always been held in my Father's hand!)

Eighteen Reasons Why You Should NOT Vaccinate Your Children Against The Flu This Season (here: article)


by Bill Sardi

This year it is more important that you protect your children and loved ones from the flu vaccines than influenza itself. Here are the reasons:

1. This flu is simply another flu. It is not unusually deadly. In fact, the H1N1 swine flu in circulation is less deadly than many other influenza outbreaks. The first 1000 confirmed swine flu cases in Japan and China produced zero deaths. The Centers for Disease Control alleges 36,000 Americans succumb to the flu each year, but so far, since March through August of 2009 (6 months), the swine flu has been attributed to ~500–600 deaths in the US. The swine flu of 2009 has already swept through the Southern Hemisphere’s flu season without alarm. Only exaggerated reports have been issued by the World Health Organization regarding hospitalizations required during the flu season in South American countries. Getting exposed to influenza and developing natural antibodies confers resistance for future flu outbreaks. Artificially boosting antibodies by exposure to flu viruses in vaccines is more problematic than natural exposure. Americans have been exposed to the H1N1 swine flu throughout the summer of 2009 with far fewer deaths and hospitalizations than commonly attributed to the seasonal flu.

2. Health authorities tacitly admit prior flu vaccination programs were of worthless value. This is the first time both season and pandemic flu vaccines will be administered. Both seasonal flu and swine flu vaccines will require two inoculations. This is because single inoculations have failed to produce sufficient antibodies. Very young children and older frail adults, the high-risk groups in the population, may not produce sufficient antibodies in response to the flu vaccine. This is an admission that prior flu vaccines were virtually useless. The same people who brought you the ineffective vaccines in past years are bringing you this year’s new vaccines. Can you trust them this time?

3. In addition to failure to produce sufficient antibodies, this swine flu vaccine is brought to you by the same people who haven’t been able to adequately produce a seasonal flu vaccine that matches the flu strain in circulation. In recent years flu vaccination has been totally worthless because the strains of the flu in circulation did not match the strain of the virus in the vaccines. Authorities claim the prevalent flu strain in circulation in mid-September ’09 is the H1N1 swine flu, which appears to be milder than past seasonal influenza in circulation. If this data is correct, why receive the season flu shot this year?

4. The vaccines will be produced by no less than four different manufacturers, possibly with different additives (called adjuvants) and manufacturing methods. The two flu inoculations may be derived from a multi-dose vial and in a crisis, and in short supply, it will be diluted to provide more doses and then adjuvants must be added to trigger a stronger immune response. Adjuvants are added to vaccines to boost production of antibodies but may trigger autoimmune reactions. Some adjuvants are mercury (thimerosal), aluminum and squalene. Would you permit your children to be injected with lead? Lead is very harmful to the brain. Then why would you sign a consent form for your kids to be injected with mercury, which is even more brain-toxic than lead? Injecting mercury may fry the brains of American kids.


5. This is the first year mock vaccines have been used to gain FDA approval. Mock vaccines are made to gain approval of the manufacturing method and then the prevalent virus strain in circulation is added just days before it is actually placed into use. Don’t subject your children to experimental vaccines. Yes, these vaccines have been tested on healthy kids and adults, but they are not the same vaccines your children will be given. Those children with asthma, allergies, type I diabetes, etc. are at greater risk for side effects. Children below the age of 2 years do not have a sufficient blood–brain barrier developed and are subject to chronic brain infections that emanate into symptoms that are called autism. Toddlers should not be subjected to injected viruses.

6. Over-vaccination is a common practice now in America. American children are subjected to 29 vaccines by the age of two. This means a little bit of disease is being injected into young children continually during their most formative years! Veterinarians have backed off of repeat vaccination in dogs because of observed side effects.

7. Health officials want to vaccinate women during pregnancy, subjecting the fetal brain to an intentional biological assault. A recent study showed exposure flu viruses among women during pregnancy provoke a similar gene expression pattern in the fetus as that seen in autistic children. This is a tacit admission that vaccines, which inject a little bit of influenza into humans, causes autism.

8. Modern medicine has no explanation for autism, despite its continued rise in prevalence. Yet autism is not reported among Amish children who go unvaccinated. Beware the falsehoods of modern medicine.

9. School kids are likely to receive nasally-administered vaccines (Flu-Mist) that require no needle injection. But this form of live vaccine produces viral shedding which will surely be transmitted to family members. What a way to start an epidemic!

10. This triple reassortment virus appears to be man made. The H1N1 swine flu virus of 2009 coincidentally appeared in Mexico on the same week that President Nicolas Sarkozy of France visited Mexican president Felipe Calderon, to announce that France intends to build a multi-million dollar vaccine plant in Mexico. An article written by Ron Maloney of the Seguin, Texas Gazette-Enterprise newspaper announces a "rehearsal for a pandemic disaster" scheduled for May 2, 2009. The article says: "Guadalupe County emergency management and their counterparts around the country are preparing for just such a scenario…" This means county health authorities across the U.S. had been preparing a rehearsal for mass vaccinations prior to the announced outbreak in Mexico. Virologists admit this part swine flu/part avian flu/part human flu virus must have taken time to develop. But it somehow wasn’t detected by hundreds of flu monitoring stations across the globe. On April 24, 2009 Dr. John Carlo, Dallas County Medical Director, alludes that the H1N1 strain of the Swine flu as possibly being engineered in a laboratory. He says: "This strain of swine influenza that’s been cultured in a laboratory is something that’s not been seen anywhere actually in the United States and the world, so this is actually a new strain of influenza that’s been identified." (Globe & Mail, Canada)


11. Recall the swine flu scare of 1976. In a politically charged atmosphere where Gerald Ford was seeking election to the Presidency, the swine flu suddenly appeared at a military base. Vaccine was produced and millions of Americans were vaccinated. But the vaccine was worse than the disease, causing hundreds of cases of Guillain Barre syndrome and a few deaths. In a replay of the past, the White House is directly involved in promoting the H1N1 2009 swine flu vaccine. The federal government will use federal funds to pay off schools to administer vaccines, promote vaccination via highway billboards and TV advertisements, and conduct military-style mass inoculations in such rapid fashion that if side effects occur, it will be too late. The masses will have been vaccinated already. Over $9 billion has been allotted by the federal government to develop and deliver an unproven and experimental flu vaccine. Don’t be a guinea pig for the government.

12. Researchers are warning that over-use of the flu vaccine and anti-flu drugs like Tamiflu and Relenza can apply genetic pressure on flu viruses and then they are more likely to mutate into a more deadly strain. US health authorities want 70% of the public to be vaccinated against the flu this ’09 season, which is more than double the vaccination percentage of any prior flu season. This would certainly apply greater genetic pressure for the flu to mutate into a more virulent strain.

13. Most seasonal influenza A (H1N1) virus strains tested from the United States and other countries are now resistant to Tamiflu (oseltamivir). Tamiflu has become a nearly worthless drug against seasonal flu. According to data provided by the Centers for Disease Control, among 1148 seasonal flu samples tested, 1143 (99.6%) were resistant to Tamiflu!

14. As the flu season progresses the federal government may coerce or mandate Americans to undergo vaccination. France has already ordered enough vaccine to inoculate their entire population and has announced that vaccination will be mandatory. The US appears to be waiting to announce mandatory vaccination at a later date when it can scare the public into consenting to the vaccine. The federal government is reported to be hiring people to visit homes of unvaccinated children. This sounds like the Biblical account of Pharaoh attempting to eradicate all the young Israelite baby boys. Must we hide our babies now?

15. Public health authorities have cried wolf every flu season to get the public to line up for flu shots. Health authorities repeatedly publish the bogus 36,000 annual flu-related deaths figure to scare the public into getting flu shots. But that figure is based on the combined deaths from pneumonia in the elderly and the flu. Maybe just 5000–6000 or so flu-related deaths occur annually, mostly among individuals with compromised immune systems, the hospitalized, individuals with autoimmune disease or other health problems. As stated above, the swine flu in full force has only resulted in ~500–600 deaths in the first six months in circulation and it is far more dreaded by public health authorities than the seasonal flu. The Centers for Disease Control issues a purchase order for flu vaccines and then serves as the public relations agency to get the public to pay for the vaccines. Out of a population of 325 million Americans, only 100 million doses of flu vaccine have been administered each year and no epidemic has erupted among the unvaccinated.

16. The news media is irresponsible in stirring up unfounded fear over this coming flu season. Just exactly how ethical is it for newspapers to publish reports that a person has died of the swine flu when supposedly thousands die of the flu annually? In the past the news media hasn’t chosen to publicize each and every flu-related death, but this time it has chosen to frighten the public. Why? Examine the chart below. The chart shows that the late flu season of 2009 peaked in week 23 (early June) and has dissipated considerably.



While every childhood flu-related death should be considered tragic, and the number of flu-related pediatric deaths in 2009 is greater than prior flu seasons as a percentage, in real numbers it is not a significant increase. See chart below:



According to data provided by the Centers for Disease Control, for week 34 ending August 29, 2009, there were 236 hospitalizations and 37 deaths related to the flu. That would represent just 5 hospitalizations and less than one death per State, which is "below the epidemic threshold."

17. Public health officials are irresponsible in their omission of any ways to strengthen immunity against the flu. No options outside of problematic vaccines and anti-flu drugs are offered, despite the fact there is strong evidence that vitamins C and D activate the immune system and the trace mineral selenium prevents the worst form of the disease where the lungs fill up with fluid and literally drown a flu-infected person. The only plausible explanation as to why the flu season typically peaks in winter months is a deficiency of sunlight-produced vitamin D. Protect your family. Arm your immune system with vitamins and trace minerals.

18. Will we ever learn if the flu vaccine this year is deadly in itself? In 1993 the federal government hid a deadly flu vaccine that killed thousands of nursing home patients. It was the first year that flu shots were paid for by Medicare. The vaccine-related mortality was so large that this set back the life expectancy of Americans for the first time since the 1918 Spanish flu! Mortality reports take a year or two to tabulate and the federal government may choose not to reveal the true mortality rate and whether it was related to the flu or the vaccines. You say this couldn’t happen? It did in 1993!

September 16, 2009

Bill Sardi [send him mail] is a frequent writer on health and political topics. His health writings can be found at www.naturalhealthlibrarian.com. He is the author of You Don’t Have To Be Afraid Of Cancer Anymore.

Copyright © 2009 Bill Sardi Word of Knowledge Agency, San Dimas, California. This article has been written exclusively for www.LewRockwell.com and other parties who wish to refer to it should link rather than post at other URLs.

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3 comments:

Olya said...

with all due respect, my kids have been vaccinated for the past three years and we haven't had the flu in three years. and their brains are just fine, Jadin was reading at the age of three, they both have exellent memory. it is easy to talk about people dying from all sorts of things until it's your grandbaby that dies from the flu that could have been prevented w/a simple shot.

ColoradoColumbine said...

This is a tough one, Olya. My youngest son developed a very mild form of autism - Aspergers syndrome - AFTER he received his MMR. This is the same son who had uncontrolled shaking, 'strange feelings in his body' and several other problems PLUS a permanent lump in his neck at the base of his skull near his spinal cord AFTER receiving his only flu shot. He was told never to get one again.

No one could predict that he would have this reaction to either the MMR or to the flu shot. Either one could have killed him.

We personally knew a girl - we PERSONALLY knew her! who died directly from vacinations she received as a child. The medical community was in agreement that they were the cause of her death. It took her several years to die, she knew she was going to die and she died in her early teens.

What bothers me is all the hype, the fear mongering, the constant barage of scary news. In just todays news I learned that most of the foods I eat could kill me because they are covered in bacteria and germs (spinach, eggs, potatos to name 3).

How many people are dying of diabetes? How many children? How many die of pneumonia each year (and there is a vaccine for that, too - which my youngest son also had with no problems and never had an ear infection again). The news is not reporting each death from diabetes or pneumonia - just each one from the flu.

Do I want my grandson to have this flu shot? NO. His life is in God's hands, not a shot for the flu. Have I shared this info with my kids? You bet I have! Ultimately it is their decision whether to pump him full of disease and hope it helps prevent the same disease, or to try and prevent it naturally with vitamins, good food, sunshine and exercise. Ultimately - it does not change. His life and death are in God's hands.

But it is their decision - not the federal or state government's decision to make.

(Would I vaccinate my babies all over again? Maybe. I would give most anything for Andrew not to have the problems he has, tho. Would I get them a flu shot every year? Absolutely not.)

Olya said...

I guess we will have to agree to disagree :) the adverse reactions are so rare, though. Our lives ARE in the hand of GOd, but He works though secondary means, like vaccinations. I know shots work for my kids so they will get them every year. It bothers me, though, how many people don't vaccinate at all. I know the illnesess we haven't seen for years due to vaccinations will come back if people don't vaccinate.