[Carry_Okie]

My problem with forced vaccination is not with the vaccines themselves but with the package of adjuvants that are almost never listed as ingredients (particularly squalene). I have no choice of producers. There are also vaccines that make sense to me (such as for Herpes simplex) and others that do not (I am not at all impressed with the record of vaccinations for influenza). So to me, it’s a mixed bag, with varying degrees of risk and hazard as such things usually are.

[exDemMom]

Influenza vaccine is a really difficult one. It works quite well against the specific viruses it was designed to work against (usually 3 or 4 different viruses). However, influenza viruses change so rapidly that the specific viruses targeted by the vaccine can disappear from circulation by the time flu season hits. That is what happened this year--the H3N2 component of the vaccine became obsolete before flu season hit.

Most vaccines, however, target viruses that are not prone to rapid change. And they work very well. In the 1980s, I was vaccinated for measles and rubella. In the 1990s, I was vaccinated for hep A and B. A couple of weeks ago, I had titers measured for measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, hep A and hep B, and I am immune against all of them. (I had mumps, chickenpox, and shingles, which accounts for those immunities.)

I also receive a flu vaccine every year (mandatory employment requirement) and I have never had the flu, despite the variable effectiveness of the vaccine.