Flu shot unable to combat virus strain

Associated Press ^ | Mon, Dec. 15, 2003 | DANIEL Q. HANEY

[ConservativeMan55]

F**** the FLU shot!

[EggsAckley]

Heheheh. That boy DOES get around don't he?

[Always Right]

I am sure Bush is to blame...

[ConservativeMan55]

LOL!

[ConservativeMan55]

F*** Sean Hannity.

[thatdewd]

I'm sick as a dog right now. I think it's SARS. Or Monkeypox. Maybe even that stuff they're talking about on 24. I bet I got it from those chemtrail thingys. I did NOT get a flu shot this year. Never have, never will. I have to go back to bed now, and ponder the wisdom of that decision.

[appalachian_dweller]

IMHO, it's best to let our bodies naturally build a resistance to these viruses.

Best way to avoid the flu, wash your hands.

[concerned about politics]

Hillarys socialized medicine plan - for the sake of the children - broke the back of pharmacudical companies. We're seeing the results of government interferance again. Failure.

Hillary's Flu Vaccine Crisis (News Max)

[Alas Babylon!]

Seriously, though, doesn't this just illustrate how precarious things can be for us? What if a flu virus mutated so severely that it cause a 25-30% death rate? Could modern medicine be able to prevent it? This story appears to answer no, at least not very quickly.

[Cicero]

It's a bit strange that no one bothered to tell people that the flu shot was the same as last year until the stuff was all gone. I don't think I would have gotten a shot if I had known that, because I had one last year, and it was still probably doing its job.

I should have thought that would have been a consideration for the committee as well. I have no expertise and don't like to second-guess their decision, but it seems peculiar to me. I wonder how much of this was pushed by the drug companies?

I wonder who appointed Nancy Cox. She's all over the internet, but I can't seem to find a biography.

[EllaMinnow]

I've got it, too.

[EllaMinnow]

I had a shot last year, and I've got the flu right now.

[appalachian_dweller]

>> It's a bit strange that no one bothered to tell people that the flu shot was the same as last year until the stuff was all gone. <<

Execellent point. Now that the drug companies have made their profit they'll come clean w/ the truth.

[Orangedog]

Kind of makes me feel glad that I didn't wait in the doctor's office waiting room filled with sick people who could have given me the same flu that the vaccine would not have prevented.

[muggs]

The shot you got last year is the same one they gave this year but you got a different type of flu.

I wish I'd known this sooner and I could have saved the twenty bucks it cost me.

[thatdewd]

I've got it, too.

My sympathies. It's horrible.

[CyberCowboy777]

I wonder how many here actually get a flu shot?

I have never in my life and I have but once got the flu (at 15).

[chicagolady]

Flu Shot Demand Rises Sharply BUT Don't Be Fooled

The deaths of at least five Colorado children in the past two weeks to the influenza virus, coupled with what experts predict will be an especially miserable flu season, have ratcheted up demand for the vaccine and stirred fear among some parents.

Over five years ago, I posted a warning on the flu vaccines. Now we have an advertising campaign for Flumist that will cost an estimated $25 million. Sounds like a lot but Wyeth, the flu vaccine maker, will be spending another $75 million to promote this vaccine to doctors, for a grand total of $100 million.

Now, $100 million may seem like a ton of money to spend on ads, but does anyone care to guess how much they anticipate making on this vaccine?

The answer is a cool $1 billion.

The "experts" will use fear to motivate people to get a flu vaccine, but this is yet another health care illusion. Let's be clear, flu can definitely be a killer disease and is not something that should be easily dismissed. But, remember that flu shots don't prevent illness -- never have, never will.

The flu vaccine can actually weaken the immune system and make you more predisposed to the illness.

Just remember, the flu vaccine is not the answer to avoiding the flu.

People are dying from the flu because they are already sick and have compromised immune systems. The majority of the cause is surely related to eating too much sugar and too many grains, getting inadequate rest.

[concerned about politics]

I should have thought that would have been a consideration for the committee as well. I have no expertise and don't like to second-guess their decision, but it seems peculiar to me. I wonder how much of this was pushed by the drug companies?

The companies are unable to make a profit because of Hillarys price caps. What they throw away they lose financially. They have a business to run, and took the chance they'd survive and it would work.
There's no reason for the two companies that are left to work for free. They have no motovation.
These are the only two businessess we have left. The other four went out of the business all together. Hillary said it was for the sake of the children.
Everything she touches she destroys.