Out of Pod Experience

Being asthmatic, I'm supposed to get flu shots every year, or I might be in trouble (i.e. get pneumonia and die).

Problem was, I'd still get the flu (or the symptoms thereof, but I don't see the difference) and be sick for two weeks.

Once I started exercising and eating reasonably healthy, I stopped taking these flu shots, and hey presto, no flu for the third year in a row now.

* knocks on wood *

Edit: I might also add: I avoid people like the plague.

It seems like I got the flu about every 5 years when I was younger, but I have not had one in at least 20 years now. No shots either.

Really really strange.

And you'd already be immune to it if you encountered it.

The way some of these people talk you'd think vaccines are our only hope. Aside from our own immune systems becoming immune to every strain we encounter, even ones that don't manage to make us sick, we also gain the immunities our mother has through breast milk.

It's almost as if we've evolved to handle it.

What i remember most about the so-called Swine Flu epidemic is doctors professionally diagnosing everyone on the spot with 'probably swine flu'. All the other influenza virus' took that year off i guess.





Maybe i just haven't been sick in so long i've forgotten, but that seems a little long. Even chickenpox wasn't nearly that bad.

1-2 weeks. 3 at most, the 3rd being mostly your body recovering and not the actual flu. Normally it's 1 week for one of the common strains and you bounce back.

..or, the use of anti-biotics is related to them because they actually ssist viral strains in becoming stronger, and potentially more lethal. Just like people, virus and bacteria adapt to their environments, and if you make that environment hostile to them, they will become stronger for it, and eventually completely resistant to it.

Once that happens, there is very little to stop them, which is why scientists have developed even stronger anti-biotics to fight off superbugs like this. Unending cycle really, unless people just stop using them.

They aren't necessary in 90% of the cases, and often enough, are only prescribed to make the Doctor a bit more money. Certainly not because there is any great need for them. Many Doctors have actually come to realize this and warn against using them.

Personally, I last took antibiotics some 10-15 years ago, haven't taken any sort of medication in nearly as long, and if I get the flu I certainly don't notice it enough to recognize it for what it is. I've probably had pneumonia half a dozen times in that period, and I can't say as that really slowed me down either.

The issue is that many people don't naturally develop immunities these days because many Doctors recommend that parents stop breastfeeding their children, and feed them baby formula instead. There was some claim that a woman can make her child ill with breastfeeding and some other nonsense some time ago. Can't recall what exactly.

Fact is, the child is far better feeding with breast milk instead, provided the mother isn't a drug addict or alcoholic or some such, in which case it's presumably better if they don't. There are also apparently alternative means of providing immunity but I can't recall exactly what they are.

Coddling makes people weak. Trying to control every factor in our existence and prevent exposure makes people weak. Exposure and affliction make us strong, provided we survive it. Genetic adaption goes both ways; evolution can result in a species shedding that which it no longer seems to need. It can be expected that resistance to disease, tolerance for pain, ability to heal and resist injury may all become recessive genes given a lack of exposure to anything that would require them.

Even in our lifetime, we can expect to gain or lose bone density based on our exposure to injury or lack of it. Even so simple as a lessening of gravity such as the Astronauts experience is enough to cause bone density loss, and is a prime example of it.

tl;dr: Don't shelter your children and stop using drugs; who knows what they'll do to them or even you.

This summer I had some kind of flu that would have killed an infirm person or a small child. No joke. I've had malaria and dengue fever, and neither was as bad as this. They both went away after a week or so. But this was two full months of minute-by-minute misery. Every possible flu symptom comes, in waves, one after another: fever, aches, stomach crud, sinus infection, bronchitis. My doctor had no clue what it was, and it turned out to be impervious to antibiotics.

My wife got it on a flight that was going from New York to Tokyo and Manila. Sick people on a plane. Who knows whether the virus originated in New York or Asia, but that flight spread it around pretty well.

Anyway, there's some bad stuff out there. If you live in a big city and use public transportation, there's no way to avoid it.

which is why since that post, I have purchased another 7.62x39 upper by Armalite (their last one), a 5.56 bolt carrier group and ordered a second pistol in 5.56

to turn around and resell in a month or so. for profit

helping a bit here:

Expected this earlier.

I meant scientific studies, by impartial groups.

You'll notice the majority have no control or placebo group at all. That's not science, that's marketing.

From your first link:



And since i'm in a quoting mood.



In the rare cases where they do pretend they have a placebo group, that's what's really going on. Quality science, there.



Reached my quote limit.

"There has never been a single vaccine in this country that has ever been submitted to a controlled scientific study. They never took a group of 100 people who were candidates for a vaccine, gave 50 of them a vaccine and left the other 50 alone, and measured the outcome."

~Robert S. Mendelsohn MD, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Illinois, College of Medicine

And just for fun

"Whooping Cough infections are common in an immunized population."

~Journal of the American Medical Association, 1998

There's also cases where the big vaccine manufacturers are alleged to have fabricated entire studies.

I could go on for pages. Luckily there's lots of people out there who still put something called the scientific method over corporate profits. Seem to be less and less of them with every day, though.