The U of M tries to make Guinness Book

It's that time of year... where I'm about to unplug the TV and radios not because I'm sick of hearing political ads but because I'm sick of hearing about the flu shot! Today I just heard the U of M this week is having a flu shot clinic for staff/students and hopes to set a new world record for the number of free flu shots given in one day - they are planning on 6-10 thousand. The radio announcer sounded thrilled about this wonderul gift to humanity.

The flu shot has become popular simply as wishful thinking - something to hope in. The evidence for its success is simply not there. The media and medical establishment could do a much better job educating people at how few strains of flu it actually protects against. There was a huge study just done in Europe of thousands of children that showed NO reduction in flu incidence or deaths between vaccinated and unvaccinated children. And yet every year we are encouraged to keep putting mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde into our bodies, all which are carcinogenic substances. Meanwhile the cancer charities are calling on me several times a year to donate to research for this "mysterious" disease that now kills 1 in 2 people - research which looks to find a drug cure and does not investigate some of the promising natural alternatives that are being used successfully in many parts of the world.

The connections between pharmaceutical companies and government is another whole story all together. People need to wake up to this and do their own research into what they put into their bodies instead of trusting a profit-driven elitist establishment.

I like to educate people about the flu shot because at this point is still seen as optional. I feel hopeless about convincing people that the "required" shots are just as harmful. I'm seeing a large trend of women who take more time to look into the vaccine issue, but consult only medical sources from one side of the coin and come back to the same decision. Tuesday I talked to a woman who was scheduling a hearing test for Kai. She mentioned her grandson's developmental delays were due to autism... that he was developing just fine and took a sudden turn after his 1 year shots. It pains me to hear this story time and again. The CDC actually admitted last year that there is a link between vaccines and autism, but tried to downplay it by mentioning it required a genetic predisposition, and quickly tried to shift the conversation into another direction. As if we know which of our children are more likely to be genetically inclined to this!

I'm looking forward to researching and writing a lot more on this subject... some day when I have time. :)