Posted on 01/05/2015 4:10:36 PM PST by blam
Erin Brodwin
Januaty 5, 2015
This CDC map shows the percentage of visits to outpatient providers that are for flu-like symptoms. States with "high" activity (up to 6%) are shown in red; states with "low" activity (2% or less) are shown in green.
Everyone around you seems to be coughing and sneezing, and all you can think is, I should have gotten a flu shot.
Good news is, it's not too late.
Simply getting vaccinated — albeit late in the game and with an imperfect vaccine — will still dramatically reduce your chances of getting sick or infecting someone around you.
Very young children and older people who can't get vaccinated are especially susceptible to the virus, which usually kills at least several thousand Americans each year, and sometimes as many as 49,000.
This year's flu is shaping up to be far worse than it has been in recent years. The virus is rampant across 43 states, and 21 children have already died from it.
Why Skipping The Shot Is A Bad Idea
If you're avoiding a flu shot simply because you're confident you can fight it off, you're doing it wrong.
The vaccine isn't just for your safety: It helps protect everyone around you from the virus, too.
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This family has NEVER taken the flu shot and never will.
I believe this shot was designed to purge old people off Social Security, just a hunch.
Now we use OILS as a deterrent for any infections.
“The flu shot missed the mark this year. The CDC guessed wrong.”
They have to guess on the strains many months ahead of time. I’m amazed they get as right as they do.
I just got my flu shot a week ago. Its all over the place here; hoping I get enough immunity from the shot to at least blunt the effects if I do get the flu.
I have had good luck with the shot in years past.
ditto.
vaccines do not guarantee immunity. never have.
you have a bad reaction you are stuck in a damaged body, nobody gives a sh1t you’re damaged. can’t be fixed.
you can also make, at home, liposomal vitamin c that is far more absorbed than regular vitamin c.
I believe this shot was designed to purge old people off Social Security, just a hunch.
I'm with you. If the flu shot was as advertised then they would have a more benign attitude toward administering it. I just don't believe they are that concerned about whether we live or die.
But as it is they are simply too enthusiastic about making sure we take the shot for me to believe they have no ulterior motive.
I could be convinced that the vaccine contains one half of a binary, but that would make me sound paranoid and crazy, right?
I love your attitude!
I have posted this before here on FR. My aunt died of Guillain-Barre Syndrome. She was required to take the SwineFlu Vax at the time as she worked in a local hospital (but as a clerical worker). She HAD to receive the shot. She took it; felt ill; rode the bus home; walked up a pretty long hill (from the bus stop). Told my uncle she was feeling poorly, went to bed and never woke up (my cousin tried to wake his mom before school the next morning).
I’ve gotten flamed for being anti-flu shot, but there was something very WRONG about the vax they were using. I’ll take my chances w/the flu.
Paranoid? I think that is a very healthy attitude when dealing with statements by the Gov't. I do not trust their motives.
We take no prescription DRUGS, never will. Case proving how bad they are, watch the commercials....it may cause this, may cause that, may kill you. Now why in the world would anyone want those odds. Yeah, send me a case of them, lol.
Check out Biblical essential Oils....Lavander Oil will ward off infections. Peppermint oil will STOP any pain, also headaches. We use Oregeno, Basil, Clove & lavender oils to keep infections away. one drop of each is all it takes. Most of the oils have been referenced to old testament scripture, just have to do a Google search on this.
No I do not sell these Oils, just passing on what GOD has patented Himself. You can purchase these at your health food store. Mine is sold out today of peppermint oil, he said this is getting to be very much in demand, because they work.
My family uses vitamin D and lots of probiotics. Vaccines, not so much.
Hah! Everyone I know who has gotten the flu shot this year has also gotten the flu — everyone. No thanks! I will take my chances.
Thank you kindly for the information. I will give them a try. :)
Within about a week I had bronchial pneumonia and when it started I felt like I had been hit by a train. My husband was out of town and I was too sick to drive myself to the doctor so I called a cab. Coughing up blood in the cab. The doctor almost put me in the hospital. Antibiotics saved me, thank God for antibiotics. If you feel it coming on, get help!
Practical steps against flu.
1) Insure that your serum (blood) level of vitamin D is high. By this, I mean a maintenance dose of 1,000 IU each day. Importantly, some people are sensitive to oral vitamin D, and others cannot absorb it at all. But most people can.
Vitamin D has a half-dozen actions both against the virus directly, opening immune system pathways, and as an ACE inhibitor so that your immune system response is moderated. (Most flu symptoms are caused by an overreaction of the immune system.)
2) Optimal transmission of flu by coughing and sneezing happens at 40F with low humidity. The higher the temperature and humidity, the harder it is to get infected this way, so flu becomes dependent on physical contamination, most of which happens via the hands.
So during an epidemic, if you are out in public, use a goodly amount of hand sanitizer about six times a day, especially after touching objects that you suspect are contaminated. Doing so will lower your chances of getting infected that way by as much as 60%.
Otherwise, keeping the air around you warm and humid, with a humidifier, helps.
3) If people in your home have the flu and associated nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, put a gallon of bleach next to the toilet, and ask them to add a cup to the water before, or if they are in a hurry, after they use it. When a toilet is flushed, a fine water spray results which can contaminate every object in the bathroom.
4) Both Cold-Eeze and Zicam contain a form of zinc that is readily uptaken by the mucous membranes, where it inhibits viral reproduction. They taste bad, but the virus dislikes them more than you do.
“Hell no! I’m not putting that crap in my body.”
That makes two of us. I’m 72 and refuse to put anything in my body that the government recommends or requires.
I go to war with illness. I felt it coming the day before and had my neighbor grab me some bananas, apples, and oranges.
Got my soy free at work months ago.
Sorry meant shot.
P.O.E.
Trust your instincts.
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