"In 2004, British officials unexpectedly closed a flu vaccine plant because of contamination, cutting in half that season's supply of vaccines for the U.S. market. Long lines formed outside clinics as people clamored to get flu vaccines.
Experts agreed the obvious answer was to get more companies to make flu vaccines. But companies wanted a guaranteed market, as millions of doses of flu vaccines get thrown away, unused, every year. So the CDC has gradually widened its recommendations for who should get the vaccine."
So the CDC has gradually widened its recommendations for who should get the vaccine.
Did y'all get that?
"So the CDC has gradually widened its recommendations for who should get the vaccines."
No problem folks, we'll just do some tweaking. We'll make a God damned,market. Yes-sir-ee!
Nothing here about whether the vaccine really works, and nothing about thimerisol, the mercury preservative that is still in most flu shots.
Excuse me. I have to go fill my mind with happy thoughts.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071109/us_nm/influenza_usa_dc
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That quote is word for word?
I thought you doctored it up for the post.
As I keep passing by lines of people waiting for flu shots, I've been hoping you'd do your "thing" and remind us all of the FULL story! Thank you!
Gotta keep the pharmaceutical companies and GWB happy....
And no one even mentions --What about the contaminated vaccines? Many were never recovered, meaning contaminated vaccines (contaminated with WHAT?) were injected into people!
Yet pity the poor, poor manufacturers.
This is so sick, so corrupt. It's all about business, all about the GD dollar and not about anyone's well-being.
You forgot the part where the vaccine manufacturers are also legally insulated from any harmful effects on consumers in this manufactured market, thereby removing them from any responsibility either to make a product that works and has real value OR a product that's reasonably safe.
I thought of you today. Go see my newest post. ;)
SO MUCH LOVE.
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That decides it then - no flu shots in our house!
BTW - love your blog, been reading it for a while.
Yup. The docs are the last in the sales chain for pharma. Drug pushers. Use that inventory! Get that fancy trip! Whoo hoo! Then treat all the people who get sick from the vaccine. Sa-weeeeet!
And I have to prove to my school district why I don't want shots? Where is the justice in that? Ugh!
Love that you can just pop in to your local supermarket and get them right alongside your organic produce. Guess we'd just better all head down there 'cuz the CDC says we need one...
I swear, in the past week, every retail store I've been in has had signs up about the flu vaccines they're offering. I check to make sure they're not doing them that day, in case some people with a glorious, fresh nasal flu spray are milling about, spreading their germs. Oh wait, you don't get the flu from the vaccine. Right. Move along, now.
Even saw Jennifer Garner pushing flu shots on TV. She is the spokeswoman for the American Lung Association. The person interviewing her did not even mention the flu shot controversy. I shudder to think of how many people will listen to her one sided persuasion just because she is a celeb.
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