CDC’s frightening flu-shot hype leaves out scariest facts of all
Halloween decorations are popping up everywhere, but the scariest thing I’ve seen so far is coming straight from the CDC.
It’s a video from the agency’s head honcho Dr. Tom Frieden, making a fright-night appeal for every man, woman and child in the U.S. to get a flu shot.
And he’s pulled some of the oldest scare tactics out of the CDC’s closet of horrors — such as warning that in an average year up to 49,000 Americans could die from influenza and hundreds of thousands land in the hospital.
But he’s also added a few new tricks to the mix, such as telling about a “young, healthy woman” on his staff who became deathly ill from the flu and thought she was going to die.
The moral of this tale is: “there’s no excuse” not to get your flu shot.
Well, I could give you plenty!
But there’s something else that makes it even more urgent than ever that you keep your sleeves rolled all the way down.
This year the CDC is pulling out all the stops in trying to scare us into running into Walgreen’s or Walmart for that flu shot.
There are, however, some very important little details Dr. Frieden left out of his spooky video pitch I just told you about. And there’s one that could be the most shocking of all.
But first, you’re going to hear that old hackneyed CDC propaganda over and over that people, especially seniors, are dropping like flies every year from the flu. And that’s just a wild guess. Nothing more.
If you go to the agency’s website it will tell you that it “does not know” how many deaths are due to influenza — and you’ll get a long list of the reasons why. It all boils down to the fact that the CDC has no idea whatsoever not only about how many die from the flu, but even about how many actual cases there are.
But here’s something we do know: The flu vaccine appears to be the most dangerous shot there is.
Every year there are more settlements made by the federal government “vaccine court” for death and injuries from flu shots than any other vaccine out there. And most of those payments are for a paralyzing condition called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) where your body attacks your own nerves.
But on top of risking GBS and other flu shot side effects, there are two things you’ll never, ever hear from the CDC.
#1: The shot doesn’t work very well, and
#2: The influenza shot is, according to the law, an experimental vaccine, one that doesn’t follow the rules for how vaccines are supposed to be tested.
Dr. Mark Geier, a vaccine expert who worked for a decade at the NIH and was a professor at Johns Hopkins, says that the flu shot is only effective around nine percent of the time in a good year.
But that’s not even the worst of it.
You see, every year a new flu shot comes out. And even though the law requires long-term safety testing on vaccines, all that’s tossed aside where these shots are concerned.
“They want to give 300 million doses…with no safety testing and no efficacy testing,” says Dr. Geier.
And when a shot hasn’t been tested for safety, then “you have to tell people it’s an experimental vaccine,” he said.
Despite all that, Dr. Geier says, they’re just going to continue “experimenting on our lives and our children.”
Because, while it might not be good for you, “it’s good for them” and “it makes them a lot of money.”
Sources:
“CDC: No excuse not to get flu vaccination” AP, September 29, 2016, ScienceDaily, sciencedaily.com
