Simply put: it is like trying hit a moving target. Especially with the flu vaccine.
See my post below.
My point: do nothing and you have a much worse situation than if there were treatment. Millions of sick contagious carriers means a much greater likelihood of mutation. Not to mention, millions of deaths. And the few who survive? Will great for them. So, nipping it in the bud is the best solution.
But you can’t ‘nip it in the bud’ when the virus you’re vaccinating against has tens, dozens or even hundreds of different strains circulating in the wild type.
It’s why Prevnar started as Prevnar 7 then Prevnar 13 and now moving towards Prevnar 30 something.
And the kids you saved by vaccinating against the first strain you used die when they contract the second strain they’re NOT immune against.
And a lot of other people besides.
How many people’s lives were in danger when penicillin stopped working. Thank God for 2nd gen antibiotics.
Only with vaccines, there ARE no 2nd generation treatments if the first gen fail. And we’d have to rely on the CDC to tell us the truth about it and then do something about it. Given their agenda seems to be concerned more with gun control and other ‘non disease’ issues I think I have a right to be concerned with this strategy.
The best that happens with that strategy is everyone gets a booster for everything every year or two. I’ll tell you right now, you just THINK our upcoming version of the NHS is expensive now. Wait for that to become commonplace. vaxing 100m out of 300m people every year (assuming a booster was good for 3 years) for mmr, dtap, hepb, and everything else on the current schedule would cost easily $500 per person. $500 X 100m == $50B. Every year. Just for that one program. And you’re still chasing moving targets with every single one of those vaxs.
And then there’s this line of research:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24238833