sashh People aren't dying from flu because we are all walking about with our inadequate immune systems relying only on vaccines to keep us alive!!
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Yes if someone is at high risk of dying from virus and flu then by all means, the vaccines could be of great benefit to them.
I notice you to ignore the fact i've lost my cousin to vaccine damage and only mention deaths from flu.
Who was the last family member you lost to flu? Do deaths from vaccines deserve only a shrug?
I don't know about anyone else but I can't remember the last time I lay in bed worrying about what virus's my children might catch or if chicken pox will kill them. Bring out a vaccine and we are all trampling each other to get them in case our child dies.
Leave them to the children at risk and leave otherwise healthy children to build a healthy immune system.
sunnysummer If this was QI with Stephen Fry then a buzzer would have sounded the minute you hailed the smallpox vaccine as successful!
It was Edward Jenner who first came up with vaccine. After it was tested on a relatively small number of people it became compulsory in the mid 1800's for all children or the parents were heavily fined. Uptake was good!
They quickly discovered that Jenner was wrong and it did not give life long protection and in fact around 8 vaccinations were needed.
Even after that there was outbreaks in different parts of the country and the biggest percentage of victims had been vaccinated.
The vaccines then were dirty and it was vaccine which first spread syphilis across Europe.
Born were the first anti-vaccine nuts like me
! There was a large protest and eventually a new law made vaccines by choice (hallelujah).
Uptake with vaccine dropped dramatically but so did cases of small pox strangely, as did cases of measles and scarlet fever which there was no vaccine for at this point.
There then came a point where there was more deaths from vaccine than small pox.
It was the late 19th century that saw very few cases of small pox but very low uptake of the vaccine!
In the 60's there was around 30 deaths from small pox vaccine and one death from actual small pox.
The government then banned small pox vaccine in the 70's due to it being of greater threat than small pox.
Hey, just a thought, maybe people stopped dying like flies to all of these diseases when we stopped throwing our poo down the street and we could afford to eat healthier? Just saying.....
Deaths from Measles and whooping cough declined dramatically in the 19th century before the vaccine became available.
Diseases come and go and the severity of them changes from mild to severe then back again. Polio was once very mild. It depends on how we live, what we eat, hygiene etc and also the natural immune system.
If you went into the jungle and met a tribe who had never came across western civilisation with the common cold it would immediately kill them.
We are playing with fire with these flu vaccines and they have been making the same mistakes over and over again.
Vaccines could be wonderful things if they didn't insist on making money forcing en mass and used them carefully.
My final point. How come when ever there is an outbreak they are not mentioning the fact that most of the people effected have been vaccinated?