How many times do we have to go through the hype? Not including the yearly common flu, every few years we have a potentially new super bug that’s going to wipe us out. In recent years we’ve had Avian flu (1997), SARS (2003), bird flues, pig flues, and hamster flues (I’m not kidding). And if that’s not enough let’s give the public a jolt of West Nile or Mod Cow once in a while just as a reminder we’re only one infection shy of extinction.

Enter this year’s pet hysteria: The H1N1 Piggy (aka Swine Flu revisited). Apparently, the epidemiology gods over at the CDC, WHO, HHS, or whatever health bureaucracy you like, as well as the mainstream media feel we don’t have enough to worry about with the rising cancer epidemic and chronic disease that claim more lives than any of these idiotic flu bugs running around. We also had too much fun earlier in the year with the worst financial meltdown since 1929. But it doesn’t matter because the health and political establishments are going to save us all from a virus that will be lucky to factor in 5000 total deaths this year in the US. That’s about 0.002% (5000/304059724) of the US population in which frantic mothers with asthmatic children are camping out in front of clinic doors over. And these figures will no doubt be inflated as these health agencies just love to pad and spin the numbers to their exaggerative standards.

Just consider that in Australia, the Federal Health Minister assured their public in July that swine flu does not pose a greater danger to children than seasonal flu.  It turns out she was right. The seasonal flu has largely ended and so far there were 131 H1N1 related deaths out of a population of nearly 22 million people (a whopping 0.0006%!) . And how much do you want to bet those 131 people who died had pre-existing conditions (i.e. were already weakened in some way)? According to a recent study by the CDC here in the US, 67% of the 36 children who apparently died from H1N1 (through August 2009) were considered “high risk” with 42% having co-occurring bacterial infections and 92% having neurodevelopmental disorders.

Over hyped is understating it

Year after year these flu scares fall flat in even their conservative predictions of gloom. Why does the public continue to fall for it? Do the recent reports  suggesting the seasonal flu vaccine to be ineffective for children and elderly not strike a chord with anyone? Is a leading authority (Tom Jefferson, MD who’s published 10 researched reviews on flu vaccine efficacy in the Cochran Collaboration database and found them to be largely ineffective) not credible enough for anyone to take notice?

With regard to the current swine flu craze, was the 1976 debacle so long ago that nobody can remember? The exact same sets of circumstances were put forth that year as they are this year.  Tragically, more people died or were injured by the vaccine than from the virus itself.  Let’s hope history doesn’t repeat.

But what about 1918 you say? Now there was a real pandemic for which there’s no explanation. Not quite. A recent study by Dr. Karen M. Starko suggests the overuse of aspirin could have played a huge role in the number of deaths. Bill Sardi’s article further expands on this theory, all of which makes a lot more sense to me than the conclusion that millions of perfectly healthy people just simply dropped dead from an indiscriminate virus. I know you plague theorists will be all over that statement, but the fact is nearly every plague has co-factors, environment influences and explanations other than the infection itself.

Despite all this, public lemmings are gobbling up the hype brewed daily by the media and medical/govt elite.  Why? If you haven’t realized it yet, fear sells news and unnecessary medical interventions in this country. Adding to that problem is a growing political thirst for power to convince us that government is the primary solution to what ails us politically and socioeconomically.  Just look at the recent presidential election. I’ve never seen a candidate’s rhetoric so focused on what HE WILL DO for the country than anyone in my lifetime. Likewise, panic-stricken states are scrambling to get enough of this new H1N1 vaccine to jab into children and pregnant women so they can be viewed as saviors too.

Some states have even invoked legal protocols so they can force this down our throats without any liability. Even Congress passed a federal law in 2005 that allows pharmaceutical companies to be protected from litigation if anyone suffers a vaccine-related injury (part of the lovely set of freedom-revoking legislation in the post 9/11 era). So evidently everyone along the entire vaccination chain (manufacturer, promoter, distributor, and administrator) can apparently walk away from any responsibility. Am I the only one who finds this completely nuts?

Immediate dangers

If the common flu shot (which is presumably being “improved“every year) is ineffective, how good is an untested newly-synthesized H1N1 Shake-N-Bake (which is based on the common flu shot according to the CDC) going to perform? I don’t need to be Nostradamus to know it will be largely ineffective and potentially bad for your health (maybe not immediately but quite possibly later in life — especially if you subject yourself to it every year).

Not even considering the dangerous adjuvants (such as Thimerosal which has been linked to Autism; or Squalene, a known factor in Gulf War Syndrome), just take a gander at the precautions and contraindications on the FDA package inserts for the H1N1 vaccine or the ingredients in the general flu shot. Then ponder: With a yearly dose of these materials combined with the plethora of childhood injections given today (35+), is it any wonder why we are becoming sicker and sicker with each generation? A recent report shows 10 year old girls are now getting breast cancer. Something is severely wrong and the overuse of vaccines could be a huge part of it. But the fact that they are exempt from public criticism and assumed to be “miracles” of modern medicine, the masses don’t think otherwise.

If the people who take flu shots are just as likely to get the flu as those who don’t, why on earth would you inject a cocktail of virus material, heavy metals, and other chemical preservatives directly into your body? Not only does this bypass practically all known natural immunological pathways  (a million years of biological evolutionary wisdom has obviously tried to avoid with mucous membranes, skin, saliva, lymphatic system, etc.),  there’s also the potential shock bonus to your nervous system known as sensitization — the likely outcome of which is irreparable damage (anaphylactic shock and permanent scarring).  Just read about the very sad case of Desiree Jenning, a 23 year old NFL cheerleader who became injured with Dystonia.

Its reasonable to speculate  she probably had the multitude of childhood vaccines and a flu vaccine every year after that. This one finally pushed her body over the limit. It makes you wonder how close each of us is to such a time bomb going off. Oh, but she’s only one rare case you say? She’s only one case that’s been recently reported by the mainstream media. How many do you suppose go unreported? How many are just neurological spectrum disorders? How many people end up with auto-immune diseases or Fibromyalgia? Many of these people (perhaps not considered severely disabled by society) just go about their lives coping with these problems completely mystified as to where they came from. They are all unreported. And certainly our precious miracles of modern medicine have nothing to do with it (sarcasm), right?

Long-term ramifications

Another part of the problem with ascertaining flu vaccine effectiveness is that viruses are constantly mutating. Once again, common sense should prompt us to ask: How good can a static weapon be against a perpetually moving target? Even the drug Tamiflu has been found to be mostly inneffective (even against swine flu) that it is baffling a drug like this is still on the market.

Further still, vaccines fail at an even deeper fundamental level. They are 100% based on the Germ Theory of disease which basically postulates a perfectly healthy person will almost always contract a disease from another carrier. In other words, there’s no such thing as any natural resilience. The virus simply spreads irrespective of the host. Scary huh? But its is simply illogical. While it is true a virus can be passed from person to person, the important thing to remember is that it is the biological terrain (the health condition of the person) that ultimately dictates whether you’ll experience sickness or not. Antoine Béchamp was the pioneer of the Biological Terrain Theory. A great read comparing these two theories can be found at the end of this post.

Dr William Howard Hay, MD summarized it best in 1937:  “If we could by any means build up a natural resistance to disease through these artificial means, I would applaud it to the echo, but we can’t do it. The body has its own methods of defense. These depend on the vitality of the body at the time. If it is vital enough, it will resist all infections; if it isn’t vital enough, It won’t, and you can’t change the vitality of the body for the better by introducing poison of any kind into it”

Lastly (perhaps the most compelling reason if you don’t think vaccines are detrimental to health), the over reliance and mass use of vaccines are turning out to have severe consequences. Latest research warns (much like antibiotics) that vaccines and anti-flu drugs like Tamiflu and Relenza can apply genetic pressure on flu viruses, thus making them more likely to mutate into deadlier strains. Translation? We are not only making ourselves  sicker, we’re potentially creating new and more menacing viral monsters at the same time for which not only will the healthy part of the population have to acquire resilience against, but the medical-government complex will want to invent new vaccines for. A vicious cycle anyone? Sadly this futile effort will probably continue until the public realizes vaccines are in fact making us less safe.

I’ve pretty much come to the opinion that most vaccinations are one of the biggest medical shams ever promulgated on the masses. And I’m not alone in this skepticism. Thankfully, there’s a growing swell of medical professionals, scientists, health journalists, and parents who are starting to ask the right questions and speak out in greater numbers. Moreover, there are viable alternatives to keep yourself and immune system functionally well naturally (a future post). Let us hope sanity and truth continues to assert itself in the future, for the sake of our health and freedom.

Further Reading

Does the Vaccine Matter? (by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer)
The Swine Flu isn’t a Major Threat (interview with Tom Jefferson, MD)
Influenza vaccination: policy versus evidence (by Tom Jefferson, MD)
Dr Tennpeny’s Swine Flu Hype Center (by Dr Sherri Tenpenny, DO)
Louis Pasteur Vs Antoine Béchamp and The Germ Theory of Disease Causation (author unknown)
Swine Flu Cases Overestimated? (a CBS News Special Report)
Health Workers Protest Flu Vaccine Mandate (CBS News Report)
Vaccines: Health Professionals Speak Out (National Vaccine Information Center Video)

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