People complain of unsafe behaviors during COVID times:
- going to a bar
- large gatherings, such as for sports, music concerts or religious services
- eating at a restaurant buffet
- working out at a gym
- not wearing a mask
There is one more behavior, which has been studied and proven to increase the risk of infection with a Coronavirus. Yet, this behavior is encouraged in medical circles.
Public health authorities express their alarm, predicting that without it, many will have severe illness and die this winter season.
To prevent this, health authorities encourage injection with an influenza vaccination.
Yet, a 2017 – 18 Pentagon study looked at something called virus interference. This is when receiving an influenza vaccination may increase the risk of other respiratory virus infections.
The found the vaccination that year interfered, and increased susceptability to
- coronaviruses
- human metapneumovirus
To be fair, they found that vaccination gave “protection” against:
- influenza viruses
- parainfluenza
- RSV (Respiratory Syncitial Virus)
- non-influenza viruses
But what is going around this year is a Coronavirus!!!
Yet, does the flu shot really do what it says it does?
Numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies have shown that the flu vaccine is not effective either at reducing the flu or reducing flu-related deaths.
Healthcare workers are often forced to take flu shots. A recent study published in PLOS One found that, after further analysis, the outcomes of the four trials which were previously used to justify forcing flu shots on healthcare workers were:
- “exaggerated”
- “implausibly large reductions in patient risk”
- “serious doubts on their validity”
- concluding that the research used is flawed.
Flu deaths increased as vaccination rates increased
National Institutes of Health compared flu vaccine rates with influenza-related illness from 1980 to 1999.
“In conclusion, the increase in elderly influenza vaccination coverage in the U.S. after 1980 was not accompanied by a decline in influenza-related mortality,” the researchers concluded.
Natural Immunity credited
From the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine: crediting the flu vaccine with contributing to decreased deaths from the flu, and “substantially overestimate vaccination benefit,” these researchers concluded.
Vaccine status made no difference in getting the flu
A study published in the American Journal of Perinatology: vaccine status made no difference to whether or not pregnant women or their offspring got the flu. Across five flu seasons, women who received flu vaccines during pregnancy had the same risk for influenza-like illness as unvaccinated women, and infants born to women who received flu vaccines also had the same risks for influenza or pneumonia as infants born to unvaccinated women.
Not effective in children under two
A study published in Pediatrics International of Japanese children ages 6 months to 2 years who were vaccinated against the flu found that the influenza vaccine did not reduce the rate of influenza A infections in children under two.
Exhaustive reviews, the gold standard in unbiased scientific research
The Cochrane Collaboration is a non-profit independent network of researchers, professionals, patients and people interested in health, based in the United Kingdom. In 2010, when the Cochrane Collaboration reviewed the published literature on the efficacy of influenza vaccination in preventing the flu in healthy adults, “reliable evidence on influenza vaccine is thin but there is evidence of widespread manipulation of conclusions.”
In light of this evidence, I ask you:
What high risk behavior are you going to avoid?
Please comment below.
