If health care workers reject flu shots, that’s a good sign the shots are useless

Every year, right on schedule, we see some version of this.

This year it’s Colorado.

Hospital employees in that state are now required to get a flu shot before the end of the year. Administrators must fire any employee who doesn’t comply.

You can bet this same clash is going on in many health care facilities throughout the country.

But there’s an inescapable logic here.

If the flu shot were truly effective, and the side effects were truly minimal, health care workers wouldn’t hesitate. They would roll up their sleeves and get the shot.

Instead, thousands of workers opt out, even though many are exposed to the flu daily. Even though it would be easy to get the shot at work. Even though it would cost them nothing.

Still, they say no.

So if all these workers in the health care trenches believe the shot isn’t useful, why should anyone else believe it is?

Sources:
“Flu Shot Being Forced on Health Workers” Alliance for Natural Health, 10/9/12, anh-usa.org