Yep.
That's why I don't understand people who get pissed off at me for not having the Chicken Pox innoculation. Forget the mortality rate. And I never get tired of the ignorance on the facts of Shingles.
If I ever get Chicken Pox, yes, I will get the Shingles innoculation after that. But until then, and VZV is actually in my system, all my docs have always agreed, no need. I can never get Shingles until it's introduced.
This whole issue only affects me, not others. That's what I don't understand. I cannot get the Shingles, so I cannot spread VZV! People who have had Chicken Pox can get Shingles and can spread it!
People think the Chicken Pox innoculation helps your body build up an immunity. No, it introduces the virus -- which stays with one for life, including causing the Shingles whenever the immune system is weakened (one of the biggest, combo-complication diseases) -- which the body never defeats.
Those of us without VZV, and there's a growing argument that some immune systems are capable of preventing it from entering via communicable methods (more research is needed, just like more is needed on the VZL innoculation themselves) are not the problem at all. Again, we really don't know what the innoculation is doing, and there's a good argument it's efficacy is not good at all. That defeats the purpose with such an extremely low rate of mortality, because the statistics aren't coming down, while Shingles are going up, way up -- although there's no proof of what is causing that at this time.
Now if you do have VZV in your system, yes, get the Shingles innoculation, and on the recommended schedule. Once VZV is in your system, you need to take it seriously as you age. Insurance usually won't pay for it before 60, but it's worth the $300 or so in your 50s, even late 40s, depending on health. Because it can attack when you're weak, and what the innoculation does is artificially 'draw it out,' so your body can 're-learn' how to 'fight it.'
And that's my other problem ...
Stop the insanity with the "innoculation busses"! Why?
That's why I always go get a SDV, on a Friday, and go home, go to be early, get an extended nights sleep (12 hours), and my body totally makes 100% full use of that low impact time to knock the heck out of the bug -- especially if it's live, and not dead (body needs to fight the live, and cannot learn from its DNA dead.
- MDV vials are not 100% safe, mercury doesn't kill everything, plus ...
- Technicians are not RNs or others, and they don't know what they are doing (there's growing documentation on this), leading to ...
- Contamination, transfer, etc... from one person to another, but most of all ...
- Even if you believe the "vaccination busses" are 100% safe, don't go back into the office or public areas, instead ...
- Go home, rest, as your immune system will be weakened, and it's the best time to catch something else ... right after many, common innoculations!
I'm tired of the US media and the attitude that is poor and ineffective. But businesses love the busses, just like big pharma loves the rate of new innoculations and, even more so, medical implants that are even less regulated.
And in the US, we do. I think the US media and the "you're a stupid anti-vaxxer and cause all the issues" folk, literally miss that.
In the UK, that's not the case. The NIH started coming under fire earlier this decade for mass innoculations at a young age, well before 12 months, and plenty of stuff even US school districts don't require, and it turned around and started smearing doctors. Why? Look at the corporations involved, very scary, kinda akin to a movie I saw last decade. Since it's a single payer socialist system over there, and they even go after doctors who opt for 'independent consultation,' (since their options for practicing are limited). it's put an entire chill on the medical community. If you 'get out of line,' you'll be left writing books and nothing else.
At least the FDA and CDC don't always agree here in the US, and people are free to question things. I do get tired of people not reading the FDA and CDC reports.
Case-in-point: It's not right-wing Fox News watchers that are causing the supermajority of Measles outbreaks in the US.
Furthermore, Mexico is having the same rate as the US, even though they have a 96% vaccination rate to the US' 92%.
Define "selfish"? I don't understand your absolutist, 1-dimensional, demonizing attitude.
Over in the UK, they've kinda taken -- what I call -- the "Catholic approach." I.e., like Catholics who baptize kids so they can "go to heaven, just in case they die," the UK NIH has been pushing that attitude with younger and younger kids, where they aren't immunized at such a young age, and not with so many in so little batches, 'just in case'
And we're currently undergoing a major series of issues with Indian and Chinese medicines and vials. I don't think people realize how bad it's getting. Beyond the culture and other sustainment aspects, impurities are getting out-of-control. And the FDA really doesn't exactly have a lot of people to track things, and relies on the industry too much.
Obviously you don't fully understand 'herd immunity.'
Furthermore, in the case of VZL, you're going to see an increased amount of studies trying to find out why the rate of Shingles are up. Is it because we're less healthy into our older age, and that means our immune systems are more compromised? (they've already dismissed HIV and Hep-C, it's people without them as well) Or is it the number of VZL innoculations since the mid '90s? Especially the Chicken Pox innoculation, not so much the Shingles (since people already have VZV at that point).
Right now, it's going to be difficult. But in another 10-20 years, we'll have more data points to interpolate. I.e., far more kids are getting VZL now, than just 10 let alone 20 years ago, not just adults.
And you can be sure of one thing ... if there is evidence to go against the VZL innoculation, big pharma will fight it. Just like Merck did for years, until the FDA couldn't ignore the rate of complications with how they were culturing and packaging their HPV innoculation -- even as the CDC was still promoting it, and Merck was wining'n dining doctors and regulators. The lawsuits are not from anti-vaxxers, but thousands of children with complications (not autism) over a cocktail 'rushed to market' (especially since there were other competitors too).
Understand it's things like that which give ammunition to the anti-vaxxers, because it really did happen, and 'safe' can be easily disproven. This is where the Liberals are disagreeing with Progressives, heavily, as Big Pharma and the US media are on the same page, and there's a lot of assumptions out there that contradict science.
And don't get me started on medical implants. That's even worse.
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