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Facts
The flu vaccine causes more deaths per year than chicken pox.
The direct injection of RSV immunoglobulin, commonly known as the "RSV vaccine" would prevent 16x more deaths than the flu vaccine does, but is too expensive.
There is a vaccine for the plague, and that is why it is no longer an epidemic.
Ebola is caused by vaccines.
There is a vaccine for autism, but it causes mumps.


Opinions
Vaccines do not contain thimerosal, a known toxin.
If you snuck up on your neighbor's kid and cut open his skull, you would be arrested.  But when brain surgeons do it, and charge hundreds of thousands of dollars, it considered "medicine."
99% of vaccines do not cause autism (HT JJ1000).
Every pedi has seen healthy kids become sick physically & mentally hours after a vax (HT Baryochai)
Vaccines cause cancer, infertility, astma, adhd etc (HT Baryochai)

Poll

Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?

Yes (Shot)
121 (37.6%)
Yes (Nasal Spray)
5 (1.6%)
No
196 (60.9%)

Total Members Voted: 320

Author Topic: Vaccine Discussion Master Thread  (Read 544701 times)

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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #140 on: January 14, 2013, 08:59:55 PM »
That's exactly why I get the spray.
:-[   Do all doctors carry the spray? Why didn't my doctor recommend the spray?
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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #141 on: January 14, 2013, 10:32:54 PM »
:-[   Do all doctors carry the spray? Why didn't my doctor recommend the spray?
I think so. No idea, was he lubavitch?
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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #142 on: January 14, 2013, 10:41:20 PM »
Sounds like a quack to me.  Why would it be approved without the proper research?
And find out more about Shingles.

There have been FDA approved vaccines that caused deaths,
so they were later recalled. It takes more years and patients than their studies can provide.

One example (not from a quack site, it's a reg. Gov't site).
Vaccine suspended in 2010  http://www.immunizationinfo.org/vaccines/rotavirus
It was popular to give a 5-in-1 vaccine. Also approved and later suspended: http://www.sundaytimes.lk/080629/News/timesnews0011.html

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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #143 on: January 14, 2013, 10:42:28 PM »
I think so. No idea, was he lubavitch?
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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #144 on: January 14, 2013, 11:42:50 PM »
I think so. No idea, was he lubavitch?
Lubavitch? If he'd be lubavitch he would help me out. The lubavitchers excel in Chessed.  :)
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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #145 on: January 15, 2013, 01:14:06 AM »
That's exactly why I get the spray.
Everyone can't use the spray (age).  ;)
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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #146 on: January 15, 2013, 01:16:06 AM »
Everyone can't use the spray (age).  ;)
I think most here still qualify :D
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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #147 on: January 15, 2013, 01:17:30 AM »
I think most here still qualify :D
IIRC it should not be given to very young children (under 2).
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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #148 on: January 15, 2013, 01:18:41 AM »
IIRC it should not be given to very young clidren (under 2).
My 18 month old didn't get the flu vaccine either method.
Unless it was included in a previous regimen?
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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #149 on: January 15, 2013, 02:16:24 AM »
There's a pediatrician in my neighborhood who doesn't give chickenpox vaccines, and sends patients to get infected from other kids in the neighborhood with chickenpox.

Discuss  ;D

What about the flu vaccine? Would you be able to find this pediatrician's opinion (and why) thanks!

There are 2 sides to the story.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/11/02/chicken-pox-vaccine-creates-shingles-epidemic.aspx
http://www.vaccineinformation.org/varicel/qandavax.asp

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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #150 on: January 15, 2013, 05:54:44 AM »
Michael Savage: don't trust the feds on flu shot!

FTR, Savage earned a bachelor's degree in biology, and holds two master's degrees in medical ethnobotany and medical anthropology from the University of Hawaii, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in nutritional ethnomedicine.  He has written books on herbal medicine and homeopathy.

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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #151 on: January 15, 2013, 05:59:45 AM »
Michael Savage: don't trust the feds on flu shot!

FTR, Savage earned a bachelor's degree in biology, and holds two master's degrees in medical ethnobotany and medical anthropology from the University of Hawaii, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in nutritional ethnomedicine.  He has written books on herbal medicine and homeopathy.
No need to read any further.  :)
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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #152 on: January 15, 2013, 08:52:11 AM »
Savage is a nut. Does anyone disagree?

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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #153 on: January 15, 2013, 08:56:37 AM »
Seeing that people are getting all worked up over what people with PhDs are saying it probably needs to be clarified: The fact that someone has a PhD doesn't automatically qualify him to give an opinion on ANYTHING he wants, a PhD in nutritional ethnomedicine has to do with vaccines about as much as Shimush for Maros helps you give an opinion on Kashrus. You need someone with knowledge and experience in THE FIELD we're talking about.

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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #154 on: January 15, 2013, 09:23:31 AM »
Savage is a nut. Does anyone disagree?
Nope!
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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #155 on: January 15, 2013, 11:56:20 AM »
Michael Savage: don't trust the feds on flu shot!

FTR, Savage earned a bachelor's degree in biology, and holds two master's degrees in medical ethnobotany and medical anthropology from the University of Hawaii, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in nutritional ethnomedicine.  He has written books on herbal medicine and homeopathy.

I find him to be extremely entertaining and quite knowledgeable in certain subjects. Part of the problem here is that he is in the entertainment industy... a lot of incentive to say controversial (read: accuracy not required) statements.

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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #156 on: January 15, 2013, 11:28:53 PM »
Michael Savage is really not knowledgeable at all. If he is your source of information, you are doing it wrong.

From the article linked above, italics are mine.

Asking listeners to put aside his political orientation for a moment, talk-radio host Michael Savage questioned the federal government’s recommendation that citizens get a flu shot.
 “Did Harry Reid take a flu shot? Did Barack Obama take a flu shot? Did Barack Obama’s lovely family take a flu shot? Did Joe Biden take a flu shot?” Savage asked.
Good question Savage. Journalism at its best. Before we take the flu shot we must know if all the top Democrats in the country took or not. Because if they did then we should stay far away the shot, because anything the Dems do must be wrong. Or maybe if they didn't take it that would prove it’s all one big left wing conspiracy. Good thing Savage hedged his bets on this and didn't take a position so that when we find out whether they took it or not, he can say “aha! Told you so!”. Now no matter what Biden, Obama, and Reid have done, the shot has become a Democratic weapon against us. Wait what’s that you say? Savage started the article by saying let's put aside all political orientation? So what is he saying now? You mean going from one sentence to the next he contradicts himself? Okay....

“Which of the mandarins took the flu shot?”
I Have no idea what Savage is saying here. Is he trying making fun of Democrats? Chinese Americans? Both? And what does this have to do with his case against the flu shot? Was he drunk when he wrote this?

He explained that he was talking specifically about vaccines and was not advocating the avoidance of all pharmaceuticals.
Known for his many books on herbal medicines, Savage acknowledged he has benefited from “an awful lot of life-saving regular medicines.”
How nice. So this is not about all drugs, just vaccines in general since Savage has “ benefited from life saving medicine”. Meaning the scientific method according to Savage means, “if I experience benefit from it, then it must work and be good. If I never had any experience with this, then it must be bad and not work.” This is just a very absurd statement.

The article is terrible and only gets worse. If I have time I'll dissect this garbage later.

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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #157 on: January 15, 2013, 11:31:06 PM »
Michael Savage: don't trust the feds on flu shot!

FTR, Savage earned a bachelor's degree in biology, and holds two master's degrees in medical ethnobotany and medical anthropology from the University of Hawaii, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in nutritional ethnomedicine.  He has written books on herbal medicine and homeopathy.

He also intensely dislikes meztitza b'peh. I don't think he would be your Rov on that either.

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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #158 on: January 15, 2013, 11:34:20 PM »
I don't get why people would get a shot over the spray.
It's not considered as effective.
Anyway, I prefer a needle in my arm (with soreness) to shpritz up my nose. But that's me, and I'm weird that way.

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Re: Did You Get The Flu Vaccine This Winter?
« Reply #159 on: January 15, 2013, 11:34:55 PM »
It's not considered as effective.
Source?
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