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The shots are flying

This is taken verbatim from a health newsletter I subscribe to. It says better than I can something I have been trying to write out in my mind. It is time for the barrage of flu shot warnings. The short and sweet - FLU SHOTS DO NOT WORK!! THEY MAY EVEN CAUSE HARM!! THEY CAN CAUSE PEOPLE TO BE MORE LIKELY TO GET THE FLU!! Read on: Every year, you hear about people who get a flu shot but come down with the flu anyway. This is easily written off. Talking heads quickly explain that no medicine is 100 percent effective. Case closed. So you're supposed to not ask questions, roll up your sleeve and take your medicine, right? Not...so...fast. New evidence proves what we've believed for years -- that people could actually come down with the flu because of the shot. What we now know is that the shot makes them more vulnerable to the other flu strains lurking out there. For years, Big Pharma and its marketing partner, the CDC, have scoffed at the notion that the shot "gives you t