How I agree
@1stSurgery! Husband was at the surgery a while ago for blood tests and the nurse was very informative and indiscreet about the usefulness-or not-of the flu vaccine. It worries me how much they push it in this country! Worst thing is the nurse coming into primary schools and giving it to the infants! My daughter in law was given the swine flu vaccine as she had a compromised immune system and it made her very ill for a possible epidemic which never happened. Famous last words I know but I have had real flu once in my life. It was dreadful. But I'd rather try and eat healthily and slurp down the vitamins.
It's rare to find someone that forthcoming from within the community
@bickypeg. Over here, we have nurses losing their jobs for refusing to take flu jabs themselves, some have the mask option but others aren't given that and take the hard choice to leave.
It's useful to know - and very few do know - that the US Department of Justice and Supreme Court issue quarterly reports on the most dangerous vaccines in US based on death and injury compensations paid to patients and survivors via their Gov't program, the NVICP (National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program) and have declared yet again this year the flu shot as the most dangerous one, per their settlement reports. (see reports from June 15, 2018 and Sept 6, 2018 by Deputy Director Report from DoJ).
The cases often take forever, one of the most recently won flu cases took over 7 yrs to settle! But they won for debilitating injury. Most people don't tend to seek out or read theses sorts of reports and media is sponsored by conflict of interest advertising, so they aren't free to report on that which might threaten a network's bottom line operating budget. The NVICP admittedly only handles a small fraction of all cases since it is such a little known entity, however they have already awarded $4 billion dollars for injury and death claims via their compensation program.
The most recent published reports of the adverse side effects that were compensated for in the court's settlements were put out Sept 2018 and include compensation for flu shot side effects of guillame barre syndrome, transverse myelitis, encephalamyeltis, etc etc ...and even death. This Sept report covers the past 3 months with approx 200 adjudicated cases of injury and death brought to the court and all but 50 cases winning compensation settlements for their injury or death. So @75% won their cases for injury. @60% of the cases in the program that won and were settled were from the flu vaccine, which is how it gets declared as the most dangerous on the list. The number of people that even know about the NVICP court is such a small % as most Americans have never even heard of it. But the flu one still ends up annually with the most reported and compensated injuries per the Dept of Justice. (To be fair though, mathematically, that could well be a factor of the huge numbers of flu jabs that are given out now, especially since the push has been on)
Here is the last report. It's impressive though, that even with an undereported upon program such as this, and very difficult procedures and lengthy cases, that they're up to $4 billion in awards paid for death and injury.
broken link removed: https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/vaccine-compensation/data/monthly-stats-sept-2018.pdf
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) and it's always miserable although usually short-lived.
