Flu Shots
Feb/28/08 03:35 AM
I realize that the following is only the recommendation of an advisory panel, but these panels hold a lot of power in minds of overzealous legislators who want to make every recommendation a legal mandate for U.S. citizens.
A panel from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has furthered its push for universal immunization for the flu. It now recommends that all children up to the age of eighteen receive the yearly flu shot, as this group is claimed to be most susceptible to the flu. Though the panel admits that this age group exhibits the least severe symptoms of the flu, it still recommends universal protection.
I wonder at what point the American people will finally get fed up with panel such as this dictating the lives of our children. American kids are becoming laboratories for questionable vaccines such as this and the HPV vaccine, the effectiveness and side effects of which are widely unknown. How many shots must a child receive these days to go to school? We still haven't had time to adequately study the potential risks of such over-immunized children.
The flu is the flu. You get a fever, headache, and throw up a bit. Big deal. You'll get over it eventually. How many reports have there been this year stating that this year's dose of vaccines was the least effective in history because so many new strains formed (this is what happens when you over-medicate anyways. Think Penicillin)? The study even admits that only 25-50 children nationwide die of the flu every year. Obviously one death is too many, but how far should we go shooting up every kid with a questionable substance to prevent the deaths 25 children when countless children die each year from other causes like abuse and even more serious and specific diseases?
Uncle Sam should stop butting his nose into every family's business and stop using today's youngest generation as lab rats.
CDC Recommendations
A panel from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has furthered its push for universal immunization for the flu. It now recommends that all children up to the age of eighteen receive the yearly flu shot, as this group is claimed to be most susceptible to the flu. Though the panel admits that this age group exhibits the least severe symptoms of the flu, it still recommends universal protection.
I wonder at what point the American people will finally get fed up with panel such as this dictating the lives of our children. American kids are becoming laboratories for questionable vaccines such as this and the HPV vaccine, the effectiveness and side effects of which are widely unknown. How many shots must a child receive these days to go to school? We still haven't had time to adequately study the potential risks of such over-immunized children.
The flu is the flu. You get a fever, headache, and throw up a bit. Big deal. You'll get over it eventually. How many reports have there been this year stating that this year's dose of vaccines was the least effective in history because so many new strains formed (this is what happens when you over-medicate anyways. Think Penicillin)? The study even admits that only 25-50 children nationwide die of the flu every year. Obviously one death is too many, but how far should we go shooting up every kid with a questionable substance to prevent the deaths 25 children when countless children die each year from other causes like abuse and even more serious and specific diseases?
Uncle Sam should stop butting his nose into every family's business and stop using today's youngest generation as lab rats.
CDC Recommendations
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