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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (178225)	11/2/2009 12:44:04 PM
From: Proud Deplorable	Respond to of 312466

hahahaha....you are showing the good sense of humor side of you....goodonyamate. I just found this on a diabetes support group and think it is worth sharing " Flu Musings Posted 4 days ago at 10:58 AM by Journey Updated 4 days ago at 06:03 PM by Journey Warning: Personal opinions based on personal research are stated. I've become fascinated with the H1N1 debate that is going on all around us. I can't turn on my computer without seeing the one sided media stories here in Canada. I can't visit with friends without it coming up. I can't even go outside without overhearing a conversation about it. Last night my husband and I were on a date. When our waitress at the restaurant brought us our food she stood there at our table, overcome with worry, and said she was going to scream if she heard another thing about H1N1. She is pregnant and has a little child about a year old and she was beside herself and just needed to talk. We don't know this person at all. It was our first time seeing her, but I guess she felt that she had to confide in someone and the restaurant was empty except for us. She expressed her fears over the vaccine but also her fears over catching the illness and her children being vulnerable. She said that she had all but made up her mind to not get vaccinated when her friends began telling her how bad she'll feel "when" her family gets it and her children die. Nice friends, I thought. With friends like those who needs enemies. She spoke to her doctor here in town and her doctor said there is no way on God's green earth that he will be vaccinating his own children OR himself. He advised her against it, even though her little one year old has a really weakened immune system and has been down with several different viral infections as well as a bacterial infection in just the last week. She was worried and said, "but we HAVE to do something. I need to know that I'm doing SOMETHING for my family even though its not going to be the vaccine." She left our table then. My husband and I thought about how we would feel if we didn't have a plan of action in place for our family. Well...actually my husband is really laid back so he wouldn't worry either way, but he knows how I would feel if we weren't doing something to protect our health. So we decided to ask the lady if she was interested in hearing how we are fighting the flu this season. Not only was she interested, she got us to write it down on our bill so she could do some research on it all when she got home. I've been doing months of research on the flu since H1N1 became such a big deal. At first our family was going to get vaccinated, we weren't even questioning it, but the research changed my mind. I began to see all these one sided stories in the media. I watched how they tried to calm everyone's fears after the initial outbreak by telling every one that it really wasn't something to worry about, to go about our business as usual and remember that each year the flu takes up to 8,000 lives in Canada alone and we don't worry about it then, so why worry now over something that hasn't even claimed that many lives worldwide. Then I saw the at first subtle switch as we began to head into the second wave of H1N1. The media changed in response to the development of the vaccine and instead of supressing the "scary headlines" as they had been doing all summer, they rolled these headlines out full force. Now was the time to worry, they said. Protect your family or you'll most likely die, they said. What a different story then they'd been telling just a month before hand. And it was all aimed at hyping up the world to accept this new, barely tested, vaccine. If people are scared they will do just about anything. I know. I spent my life ruled by fear. But not anymore. I'll be darned if I let the media control me with fear, I thought. So I actively began searching out what the media was NOT saying....and I was surprised by the wealth of information on the internet. I did my best to stick with well researched articles with actual facts and I stayed away from personal opinions and articles that were written entirely to sway someone to one persons point of view. I wanted the facts alone laid out before me so that I could make a sound decision in regards to my own health and that of my children. Once I had it all in front of me, the decision was so clear. Absolutely NO to the H1N1 vaccine and no to the seasonal flu vaccine for our entire family. I wish everyone would do the research rather then look to public opinion as to what they should do. I wish everyone would exercise their own brains instead of being swayed by fear tactics and half truths. I wish everyone would simply think for themselves. This doesn't mean that I wish everyone would avoid these vaccines. I simply wish everyone would make up their minds based on their own solid research of BOTH sides of the story. At least then they'd go into it with eyes wide open. I wish there was some way that every woman of childbearing years could know that the H1N1 vaccine has within it an ingredient that causes infertility. It's written right on the packaging that the vaccine comes in, the packaging us "patients" never get to see unless we do the research and find it online. I wish every person could know about the mish mash of known carcinogens in the vaccine. I wish every person could know that the oil and water adjuvant used in the Canadian vaccine is well known to cause auto-immune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and gullaine-barre syndrome. And I dearly wish the media didn't have a gag order in place that prevents them from writing about the deaths that have occured from the H1N1 vaccine. Other countries are not like this. I had to dig deep enough to find an article in the Budapest Times that is accurately reporting on the deaths in their country that are occuring FROM THE VACCINE. They were able to print a statement from GlaxoSmithKline, the same maker of the vaccine in Canada, saying that GlaxoSmithKline reported an adverse reaction (defined as more then the normal short lived flu like symptoms and pain at injection site) to the vaccine in one of every 10 persons who received it. An adverse reaction in 10% of people who take it could result in millions being affected. That is not an acceptable risk to me. At least I can find the facts somewhere even if it isn't in my own country. Also not acceptable is the possibility of developing an auto-immune disorder or cancer down the road from something that was purported to be "perfectly safe". I don't understand the thinking behind creating a substance that "might" protect you from the flu only to "possibly" cause your death down the road. It's crazy-making and I think a certain amount of critical thinking is in order. So how are my family and I working pro-actively to protect ourselves? More research. I've read so much the past couple of months and I am pleased with what I've found. For starters we are all taking garlic every day. It is cheap and well known for centuries as an anti-viral, anti-fungal, and natural immune booster. We trust it is working because we researched how to find out if its travelling through your whole body and making it to your lungs, creating the much needed secondary garlic response. Over time we have absolute faith that it will boost our immunity. I extensively researched the FDA approved homeopathic known as Oscillococcinum. Homeopathics aren't generally FDA backed but this one performed so amazingly well in all clinical trials that the FDA couldn't help but back it. It stops flu in its tracks in 86% of cases. All flus, including the H1N1 virus. 86%....now that's a number I can get behind. Taken immediately at the onset of symptoms (this is key), 86% experience complete recovery within 48 hours. One dose taken once a week through the entire flu season has been proven to prevent the flu from ever grabbing hold of you in the first place in most cases. It is not a cure for the flu, but rather a very strong immune booster. So this is what our family is doing. Oscillococcinum is naturally derived from a portion of the liver and heart of one very specific type of duck. There are absolutely no side effects whatsoever from taking this natural product. There are no contraindications and it is safe for everyone from babies to adults. The granules taste sweet and kids like them. It does contain a very small amount of sugar. We started three weeks ago at the beginning of flu season and purchased enough to last until the flu season is over in April next year. We are also using Echinamide, an echinacea based product, each day for its immune boosting and anti-viral properties. Will it all work? That still remains to be seen. The media here tells us that Canada will reach the peak of this second wave of H1N1 in just a couple of weeks before a steady decline begins. We all had a really mild cold/flu four weeks ago just before we started Oscillococcinum. Could that have been H1N1? Maybe...we don't know. I'd much rather be doing all of this then artificially creating a rapid and possibly dangerous immune response to the flu by accepting a vaccine filled with garbage. It's a strong opinion for me, I know. But I put the footwork in, did the research, and feel I'm entitled to the opinion that was created from looking at the facts on all sides. I've changed. I have written several posts on DD from previous years staunchly supporting flu vaccinations...but those opinions were based on nothing. I knew nothing about them. Had I known then what I know now, I never would have opted for flu shots in the past. I will not choose vaccines in the future and in all honesty I don't believe the makers of such vaccines or the medical community that stands behind them or the media have my best interests at heart. There...that's off my chest now. Hee hee." diabetesdaily.com