I generally avoid it. Have for years.
About 10 years ago was gonna get the baby vaccine without the mercury. They told me they generally give 2 doses to adults since it’s smaller amounts.
Many said the mercury thing wasn’t true. Well, I wound up not getting it most of the time (the shot). Nor this year, either.
The biggest cause of death from flu is pneumonia. I won’t get the flu shot because I generally have good resistance to the flu. However, this early spring, I made the mistake of acquiring the pneumonia shot. I got sick, and it took months to recover. I ended up in the hospital needing breathing treatments. One of my kids who works in a medical career insisted the shot had nothing to do with it, but I know how I felt before getting the shot, and how I began to feel within hours of getting the shot.
I watched my mother suffer for months after receiving the flu shot, so I begged her to please, just try it once. Don’t get the flu shot. She didn’t get the shot, and for the first time in years, she didn get sick for months on end. That convinced her. She never got another one.
In the mean time, the meds she needed during those sick months were damaging to her system, and eventually killed her.
I knew another woman who got GBS from a series of all at once shots which were required by her job. She was sick with that for a few years.
I have a nephew who was a healthy normal baby, till he got shots. He lost his ability to sit upright, and ended up with autism and other special needs.
I’ve personally seen too much, and experienced it myself, to trust immunizations.
Yes, illness can cause problems,, but most of the time we have medical treatments to overcome it such as IV’s for dehydration, cooling equipment for fevers that won’t let go, all kinds of things for difficulty breathing. Illnesses aren’t the death sentences they used to be. And often times, they come with hidden health benefits that save our lives later.
How many articles have appeared where childhood illnesses are used to cure cancer? And then of course, there is the lifetime immunity factor that is absent with shots.
There are people who have sensitivities to meds, and one doesn’t always know those sensitivities even exist until the med is consumed. Finally, sometimes those sensitivities run in families.
I’ll take my chances with the possibility of the illness than the unknown of immunizations. If I decide I want mercury poisoning, I’ll eat my share of fish.