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You say that as if the shot is risk free. The cases adjudicated by The Court of Federal Claims proves this is not the case. (PDF, skip to page 7) http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/FY16-Repor... All reports for recent years: http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/reports-statistics

To win a case in this court, you not only have to be aware the court and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html you can only make a claim if the interaction of the vaccine with your particular combination of DNA results in a limited set of symptoms within specific time frames. (PDF) https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendi...

I wash my hands. A lot. Yes, that doesn’t cover all the transmission vectors but it covers a lot. I limit my exposure. For example, I’ll go home if someone is sick at work and refuses to do so. I supplement 8,000 IU vitamin D as recent studies have found this is what is necessary to achieve nominal serum vitamin D levels for someone at my BMI. Some 40-60% of people are vitamin D deficient in the US, btw.




Nothing is risk free, but the flu vaccine comes pretty close. There’s a reason the CDC recommends it for nearly everyone: the benefits greatly outweigh the small risk. I’ll trust them over a court adjudicating a program whose main purpose is to calm people’s irrational fears of vaccines.

From some quick searching, the only serious side effect from the flu vaccine I could find was a 1-2 per million incidence of Guillain-Barré syndrome. The link is still highly uncertain, and in any case that’s still quite a bit safer than something like ibuprofen.


The flu vaccine is the least studied of all vaccines due to the rapid development cycle. There are no hard safety studies, there simply isn’t enough time in a 12 month product development cycle to perform them. If you know of any, link your citations.

As far as why the CDC recommends vaccines, it important to consider that regulatory body owns numerous patents on various vaccine components. Not saying this is their sole motive, just that a profit motive exists. https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=vaccine%...


I’d say there’s pretty good evidence for the vaccine’s safety just from the fact that tens or hundreds of millions of people get it every year, and the only seriously bad effect that’s been noticed is a possible 1-2 per million incidence of Guillain-Barré syndrome.

When I search to see how much money the CDC makes from vaccine patents, I get a vast sea of wacko anti-vaccine sites, plus a few debunkers mixed in. So I’m not convinced, to put it mildly.




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