Posted on 01/26/2018 7:49:18 AM PST by Sopater
While we’ve had over fifty Super Bowls with each accompanied by a more frenzied, fantastic wave of hype and mass marketing than the last, there is an annual event that is actually closing the gap on the NFL’s crown jewel when it comes to over-the-top hyper-marketing and product merchandising to Americans.
Enter: The Flupocalypse.
Each year it just gets bigger and bigger, with literally billions on the line as vaccine companies look to seize every opportunity to further their narrative that “vaccines are safe and effective, we should all vaccinate ourselves and our children, and anyone not getting with the State/Corporate program on vaccines is risking not only their lives and their children’s lives, but the very existence of humanity itself. So there!”
Never mind that there have been well over 3.5 billion dollars paid out to Americans who have been injured or killed by vaccines since the late 1980s or that the rate of auto-immune problems in the population has rocketed into the stratosphere side-by-side with the radical expansion of the American CDC’s vaccine schedule.
Nope, just move along…nothing to see here!
[We covered these sad realities in a bit more detail earlier this month in You Can’t Vaccinate Away Stupidity (But You Can Vaccinate Toward It).]
With Flupocalypse ’18 upon us, it’s nearly impossible to avoid being barraged by lovely little propaganda pieces like California hospitals face a ‘war zone’ of flu patients — and are setting up tents to treat them, wherein the LA Times propagandized in what has come to be typical fashion when it comes to promoting and marketing the “essential products and accessories” of Flupocalypse 2018.
Or Flupocalypse XXXVI…or whatever it’s going by this time around…
The point is this: BE TERRIFIED!!!
And RUN to your nearest doctor’s office or Walgreen’s or Ace Hardware for one of the scores of vaccines that they all seem to be stockpiling and pimping routinely these days.
Product must be sold, don’tcha know.
Dollars – billions of dollars – have to be made.
Year after year after year…
…and so what if a baby or two or 100 have to die to get us to the promised land of mass vaccination?
So what if the rate of autism has gone from 1 in 15,000 to 1 in 30-something in just decades? So what if, at the present rate of increase, one in two children will be born autistic (with 80% of males included) in the next 15-20 years or so?
That’s just the price of progress.
That’s just what it takes to get us to the happy Orwellian future charted by our good and benevolent “professional” masters.
So shut up and get with the program.
That’s the basic marketing plan.
And man, does it ever work on Americans! The speed with which the average American thoughtlessly complies and bends over without the slightest impulse to educate themselves or pursue anything remotely resembling informed consent is stunning and pathetic.
But that’s just kinda where we’re at right now in so many ways, isn’t it?
Where once we were a people of relative heartiness, confidence, and sanity, we’re now a regularly rattled, fragile, and utterly dependent herd of snowflakey little drones just waiting for the next wave of Corporate/State-sponsored “professionals” to fleece us and tell us what to do next (which invariably involves our being fleeced again).
This is the norm these days in “the land of the free” and the home of the NSA.
Where once we endured incredible hardship and took fantastic risks in order to accomplish great things, we are now sent squealing like little girls at the mere suggestion that we might catch the measles or the flu.
Is that how free people behave?
Is that what brave people look like?
Or is what we’ve become something much more like cattle – cattle that gets weaker and more incapable of thinking (much less acting) on its own with each passing generation of “help” from the “professionals” who are feeding upon us.
Something to think about…while things like thought are still allowed in the herd…
Ha ha. I could have written that! Even sounds like how I write.
Still on the fence. Fighting the latest bug now. Had the shot in Sep. and hope to ride this through without it going as severe as I’ve seen other folks that didn’t get vaccinated. What lends pause is if the latest numbers of child deaths over these past few years from the flu 80-85% were unvaccinated. If it lessens severity enough to keep you out of the hospital or morgue then is it worth getting ?
Got the flu vaccine for the first time last year. Got sick the same time as my cousin who did not get vaccinated (we got sick within 12 hours of each other after I stopped by for a visit). For me, it was like a middlin’ cold. It put him in the hospital. So yeah, it did work for me, even though I still got infected - it mitigated the impact significantly. Got vaccinated again this year, and both times I felt no ill effects. BTW, the flu this year is not being hyped, I know people who have had it and it is really nasty. And flu kills thousands every year.
Parents of course ultimately have the right to make that decision for their children with the guidance of their pediatrician. The vaccine is probably more critical for children with underlying health concerns such as Asthma...etc. Our whole family gets the vaccine every year. I am a former “flu nurse” for a state health department and my husband is a physician. He reports to me that the pediatric ICU at our hospital is full and they are now using beds in other parts of the hospital. My college freshman has Asthma and she knows at the first sign of flu to head to the clinic for Tamiflu. But, to your question is it worth it to get the vaccine to decrease severity and stay out of the hospital? For us the answer is absolutely, Yes.
So if you get a flu shot, you’re not brave, not free, not American and a squealing little girl.....
Flu shots work.... maybe that’s why they are being “pimped”.
Of course, there is a self serving piece where the media gets ad compensation, but that’s with all products....
Geez....same old anti-vaccine bull$hit being peddled as evil pharma now forcing flu poor widdle Americans to take a overpriced dangerous vaccine.....
“the rate of auto-immune problems in the population has rocketed into the stratosphere side-by-side with the radical expansion of the American CDC’s vaccine schedule”
*Facepalm* Correlation does not equal causation. I bet we could name a hundred things that have increased “side-by-side” with the vaccine schedule, like obesity, or the inability of millenials to cope with life, but that wouldn’t mean that vaccines have anything to do with causing them.
I wonder if the tripling of the population over the past 60 years combined with open the massive influx of unscreened immigrants might have anything to do with it.
Ping
Geez, I'm not too sure...
Vaccines for preventing Influenza in Healthy AdultsTom Jefferson, Carlo Di Pietrantonj ,Alessandro Rivetti ,Ghada A Bawazeer ,Lubna A Al-Ansary ,Eliana Ferroni
Published Online: 7 JUL 2010
We included 50 reports. Forty (59 sub-studies) were clinical trials of over 70,000 people. Eight were comparative non-RCTs and assessed serious harms. Two were reports of harms which could not be introduced in the data analysis. In the relatively uncommon circumstance of vaccine matching the viral circulating strain and high circulation, 4% of unvaccinated people versus 1% of vaccinated people developed influenza symptoms (risk difference (RD) 3%, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2% to 5%). The corresponding figures for poor vaccine matching were 2% and 1% (RD 1, 95% CI 0% to 3%). These differences were not likely to be due to chance. Vaccination had a modest effect on time off work and had no effect on hospital admissions or complication rates.
Inactivated vaccines caused local harms and an estimated 1.6 additional cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome per million vaccinations. The harms evidence base is limited.
Authors’ conclusions
Influenza vaccines have a modest effect in reducing influenza symptoms and working days lost. There is no evidence that they affect complications, such as pneumonia, or transmission.
WARNING:
This review includes 15 out of 36 trials funded by industry (four had no funding declaration).
An earlier systematic review of 274 influenza vaccine studies published up to 2007 found industry funded studies were published in more prestigious journals and cited more than other studies independently from methodological quality and size. Studies funded from public sources were significantly less likely to report conclusions favorable to the vaccines. The review showed that reliable evidence on influenza vaccines is thin but there is evidence of widespread manipulation of conclusions and spurious notoriety of the studies. The content and conclusions of this review should be interpreted in light of this finding.
Plain language summary
Over 200 viruses cause influenza and influenza-like illness which produce the same symptoms (fever, headache, aches and pains, cough and runny noses). Without laboratory tests, doctors cannot tell the two illnesses apart. Both last for days and rarely lead to death or serious illness. At best, vaccines might be effective against only influenza A and B, which represent about 10% of all circulating viruses. Each year, the World Health Organization recommends which viral strains should be included in vaccinations for the forthcoming season.
Authors of this review assessed all trials that compared vaccinated people with unvaccinated people. The combined results of these trials showed that under ideal conditions (vaccine completely matching circulating viral configuration) 33 healthy adults need to be vaccinated to avoid one set of influenza symptoms. In average conditions (partially matching vaccine) 100 people need to be vaccinated to avoid one set of influenza symptoms.
Vaccine use did not affect the number of people hospitalised or working days lost but caused one case of Guillian-Barré syndrome (a major neurological condition leading to paralysis) for every one million vaccinations. Fifteen of the 36 trials were funded by vaccine companies and four had no funding declaration.
Our results may be an optimistic estimate because company-sponsored influenza vaccines trials tend to produce results favorable to their products and some of the evidence comes from trials carried out in ideal viral circulation and matching conditions and because the harms evidence base is limited..
This flu season has been super bad. The hospital I worked at had patients lined up in the ER with no beds available for days.
I would also like to add, people who say they had the flu and got better in a few days, (unless you were tested to see if you actually had the flu), you may have just had a common cold.
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Nailed it!
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>> “Had the shot in Sep.” <<
Which is why you’re fighting the bug now!
Nobody ever seems to learn from experience these days!
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Still running from reality, huh!
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Read recently most of the deaths had compromised immune systems, (known and unknown), to begin with.
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Fever is a good thing!
It means that your immune system is functioning at a high level. You will recover quickly, and be stronger for the experience.
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It’s easy enough for most sane people to discern whether they had a mild flu or a cold for a day or two. Fever is more noticeable in flu, and others in the vicinity will have it.
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