pig sickness vaccine
well it's just a matter of time before we all get mugged by our "healthcare professionals" to get vaccinated against the awful, terrible, super-scary swine flu/h1n1/pig sickness virus.
Not that I was planning on getting poisoned-- I mean vaccined with this novel vaccine.. but I enjoy reading about it and reminding myself why I'd rather get the swine flu than the swine flu vaccine.
I happened upon this article tonight which I found very interesting because one of the adjuvants in the new vaccine (squalene) was used to vaccinate Gulf War soldiers who subsequently developed Gulf War Syndrome:
Back when I worked at the VA I had the opportunity to listen to a young veteran talk about his numerous (and I mean numerous) health problems. Shortly after going into the Army, the story goes, he began to develop health problems. The Army doctors gave him steroids and all sorts of other vaccinations. I can't remember if he went to Desert Storm, but it doesn't matter. At the time soldiers were vaccinated prior to deployment so he could have gotten it. He had diabetes, arthritis, and was quite overweight. I can't help but wonder if some of his ills were caused by receiving a vaccine -- if not one with squalene, then another adjuvant.
I do not consider myself a student of history. I've never liked history and it was one of my least favorite subjects in school. But what history I do learn, I made it a point to learn from it. And the more I learn from history, the more I realize most people don't. We've been down this road before with the panic-driven vaccinations, the rash "throwing together" of a vaccine designed to solve an imaginary problem that -- even if it were half as bad as it could be -- hardly merits the kind of overreaction and attention it has been getting. I wonder if Obama is going to get vaccinated? (I would make a joking comment here, but I don't want any of his goons knocking on my door. Use your imagination.) Ford got vaccinated with the original swine floo vaccine and didn't seem to suffer any ill effects. But that's the funny thing about vaccine-caused autoimmune diseases like Guillan-Barre.. it can be so slow and mild that you may never notice, or it can be deadly in a matter of hours. It's essentially Russian roulette with a needle and some cold liquid.
I'm not playing.