As most of you will already know, for some time now, there has been a lot of
paranoia floating around regarding the swine flu vaccine, which is supposed
to become available to the American public beginning sometime next month, if
they are on schedule.

One rumor which they left out of the following news article is that some
conspiracy theorists are suggesting that the vaccine might contain a biochip
implant, and that people might surreptitiously receive the Mark of the Beast
-- via the biochip implant -- without their knowledge or consent.

Personally, I reject this latter theory simply due to the fact that I
believe that accepting the Mark of the Beast will be a conscious choice by
all concerned. Stop and think for a minute. How can a person be fairly and
righteously judged and condemned by the Lord if they did not consciously
make the decision to receive the Mark of the Beast? So as I point out in my
articles, it is my personal belief that people will know that when they
choose to accept the Mark of the Beast, they are rebelling against God, and
aligning themselves with Satan. Ignorance will not be an acceptable excuse
before the Lord...at least that is what I think.  :)

Will there be some serious medical complications as a direct result of
receiving the swine flu vaccine? With some people, undoubtedly so; but I
seriously doubt that the CDC, or any other US Government agency, will ever
really provide us with the actual figures of those people who have been
negatively affected by the swine flu vaccine.

Personally, I never get annual flu shots. My view has always been: Why
intentionally expose myself, and my family, to something which we may never
get? And that is precisely what vaccines do. They expose you to a weakened
form of the virus, which may in fact sicken you. I'd rather take my chances.
I usually get pretty sick about once a year anyway. That's enough for me,
without intentionally making myself sick via some vaccine.


Don't Blame Shots for All Ills, Swine Flu Officials Say

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. - NYT

September 27, 2009


As soon as swine flu vaccinations start next month, some people getting them
will drop dead of heart attacks or strokes, some children will have seizures
and some pregnant women will miscarry.

But those events will not necessarily have anything to do with the vaccine.
That poses a public relations challenge for federal officials, who remember
how sensational reports of deaths and illnesses derailed the large-scale flu
vaccine drive of 1976.

This time they are making plans to respond rapidly to such events and to try
to reassure a nervous public -- and headline-hunting journalists -- that the
vaccine is not responsible.

Every year, there are 1.1 million heart attacks in the United States,
795,000 strokes and 876,000 miscarriages, and 200,000 Americans have their
first seizure. Inevitably, officials say, some of these will happen within
hours or days of a flu shot.

The government "is right to expect coincident deaths, since people are dying
every day, with or without flu shots," said Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg,
president of the Institute of Medicine and co-author of "The Epidemic That
Never Was," a history of the 1976 swine flu vaccination campaign.

Officials are particularly worried about spontaneous miscarriages, because
they are urging pregnant women to be among the first to be vaccinated.
Pregnant women are usually advised to get flu shots, because they and their
fetuses are at high risk of flu complications, but this year the pressure is
greater. Expectant mothers are normally advised to avoid drugs, alcohol and
anything else that might affect a fetus.

"There are about 2,400 miscarriages a day in the U.S.," said Dr. Jay C.
Butler, chief of the swine flu vaccine task force at the federal Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. "You'll see things that would have happened
anyway. But the vaccine doesn't cause miscarriages. It also doesn't cause
auto accidents, but they happen."

In the opening days of the 1976 vaccination campaign, which eventually
vaccinated 45 million Americans, three elderly Pittsburgh residents died
soon after receiving their shots at the same clinic. Though scientists
believe it was just a freakish coincidence, some news reports suggested the
vaccine had killed them.

"Press frenzy was so intense it drew a televised rebuke from Walter Cronkite
for sensationalizing coincidental happenings," Dr. David J. Sencer, who was
then the director of the C.D.C., wrote in 2006 reflections on the
vaccination campaign.

Two months later, reports emerged of vaccine recipients suffering from
Guillain-Barre syndrome, in which the body's immune system attacks the
nerves, leading to temporary or permanent paralysis and, in a few cases,
death. That effectively ended the campaign, as officials suspended it to
investigate. Experts still disagree over whether the vaccine caused cases to
increase that year, and the C.D.C. will be on high alert for reports of it
this year.

Guillain-Barre's cause is unknown, though different studies have suggested
it more often affects people who have had a flu shot, the flu itself, some
bacterial infections -- or even, according to Dr. Sencer's paper, people who
have been struck by lightning.

In any case, after the suspension, there was no reason to restart because
the predicted swine flu epidemic never emerged.

That, experts emphasize, is the great difference between 1976 and 2009. The
earlier virus apparently burned out the previous winter inside Fort Dix,
N.J., before any vaccine was even made, while this pandemic H1N1 virus has
already infected millions and, unchecked, will probably reach over two
billion, according to the World Health Organization.

In 1976, getting flu shots into 45 million Americans was unprecedented. Now
about 100 million get annual shots, and the government has ordered twice
that many doses of swine flu vaccine.

Other changes since 1976 worry officials. The 24-hour cycle of news on
television and the Internet did not then exist; public health officials now
must be ready to respond to rumors instantly. In 1976, the C.D.C. did not
hold news conferences, and it took it five days to respond to the Pittsburgh
deaths, Dr. Fineberg said.

"Back then, it was a neat thing to have a fax machine and get out four pages
a minute," said Joe Quimby, a press officer for the disease centers. "Now,
communications have to be multimodal. Turning on the three broadcast news
outlets is not going to reach everybody any more."

The agency now has a "war room" in its Atlanta headquarters and, since the
pandemic began in April, has held news conferences, sometimes even daily, at
which reporters from around the world ask questions by phone. They can be
seen live on the agency's Web site, and it has another Web site, flu.gov,
devoted to the pandemic, as well as a constantly updated Facebook page and
Twitter feed.

Complicating the challenge for officials, some experts argue, is that health
news coverage has suffered since 1976.

"I've seen the rise and fall of experienced medical reporters," said Dr.
Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research
and Policy at the University of Minnesota. "I can't tell you how many
reporters have come to me since last spring who don't really know what flu
is."

Also, antivaccine activists are far more powerful now. Thirty-three years
ago, vaccines were enthusiastically welcomed; many parents or grandparents
still remembered children dead of smallpox, measles or polio. The minority
opposing them were often followers of natural healing or traditional
chiropractic beliefs.

In 1976, autism was not on the public's mind, and the problem was still
attributed to indifferent mothering. Vietnam veterans with chronic illnesses
usually blamed Agent Orange, a defoliant.

Today, many parents blame vaccines for their children's autism and some ill
Gulf War veterans blame their anthrax shots.

Some antivaccine groups are raising fears of thimerosal, a preservative used
in some brands of flu vaccine. Others issue dire warnings about squalene, an
immune booster used in military vaccines and in some European flu vaccines
but not in any American ones.

And, in the rancor over health insurance reform, unfounded rumors are
spreading that the Obama administration will make swine flu shots mandatory.
Administration officials have emphatically denied that. But a recent
decision by New York State to make them mandatory for all hospital employees
has reinvigorated those rumors on the Internet.

To defend itself, Dr. Butler said, the C.D.C, has compiled data on how many
problems like heart attacks, strokes, miscarriages, seizures and sudden
infant deaths normally occur. And it has broken those figures down for
various high-priority vaccine groups, like pregnant women or children with
asthma. When vaccinations begin, it plans to gather reports from vaccine
providers, hospitals and doctors, looking for signs of adverse events, so it
can detect problems before rumors grow.

"Then we'll try to verify the signal, see if it's real," Dr. Butler said.
"Then we'll try to see if it's associated with the vaccine. If it is, we'll
say so. The process will be as transparent as we can make it."



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