flu scam

Discussion in 'Paranoid?' started by wheeziee, Oct 2, 2009.

  1. wheeziee

    wheeziee Member

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    i have decided that swine flu is just a scam by the pharmecutical industry because they developed a "vaccine" for it....its nothing more than the regular flu or a cold. they called it something new so they could market this new vaccination and make money....i bet half of everyone who supposedly got sick, it was all in their heads and they made thereselves sick thinking that they had it........
     
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  3. wheeziee

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    just my thoughts on it.......
     
  4. CPL Clegg

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    Well I partially agree with you, actually.
     
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    i agree, i got sick but thats because it snowed and being myself ignored it didn't wear a coat and got what i deserved, which was not the swine flu but pneumonia, and it sucks.
     
  6. wheeziee

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    hope you are feeling better
     
  7. shiva_master

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    I agree with it. Since pretty much all vaccines are produced by one company. Which one is that damnit!
    A friend of mine said there was 30 cases of it on campus. And that it was not much worse than the regular flu. It sure would be a scam of some sort.
     
  8. TheMadcapSyd

    TheMadcapSyd Titanic's captain, yo!

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    This is just bad knowledge of how the flu works. One, people get flu vaccines because in a normal year around 1/2 a million people a year die from a common case of the flu. As for the swine flu, people panicked because we're due for an pandemic of the flu in terms of how often they break out, the human immune system generally has no immunity to this new strain which is a mix of avian, human and swine flu, which made people freak because we have an extremely fast traveling strain of the flu that we don't know how deadly it is. Well now we know that swine flu is at best only slightly more deadly then the normal flu that goes around. Though what still worries people is the fact generally most people who die from the flu are they very old and very young but most victims of this strain of swine flu have been generally healthy young adults.

    The only real reason to get a flu shot if you don't have underlying health concerns right now is because having the flu sucks, many people see forking over the $25 as a good investment to possibly avoid a week or more of awesome sickness. Or if you're really into society, it helps keep a pandemic from happening since the flu is so easily spread
     
  9. Freedom_Man

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    yeah, a flu normally really isn't gonna kill someone, yeah possibly in certain cases as you said, but hell mainly you just feel like shit for a few days... and its no fun, so i agree only reason to get a flu shot is cause the flu sucks, not cause you gotta be afraid to die from it, what the fuck are immune systems for in the first place?

    anyway. i disagree, i mean yeah flu vaccines and shit are a good way for companies to make money, but i was checked and there actually pretty hesitant about giving out the medicine for swine flu, cause its so expensive, and it takes so long to detect, probably by the time they found out if you had it or not, you'd be feeling better, really kinda reserving it for people showing more stronger symptoms that are attributed to it, but its not like giving out candy.
     
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    the aids vaccine will be the next thing that they make mandatory..
     
  11. Freedom_Man

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    if its mandatory, i could see a conspiracy there.

    if someone dosen't believe in the aids vaccine or flu vaccine whatever, cool, they shouldn't have to take it, waste their money and time. if they wanna take a risk if there even is one, well thats them to, let em do what they wanna do.
     
  12. bluflame

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    fuck flu shots! they kill your immunity so you do get sick and spend money going to the damn doctor that gave it to you.
     
  13. Can't trust anybody these days, there's been too many lies.

    Safest bet is to be as little involved as possible IMO.
     
  14. odon

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    Vaccines remain a small piece of the overall drug market, with sales of only $9 billion - less than 3% of the global pharmaceutical industry.

    During the past 50 years, the number of pharmaceutical companies making vaccines has decreased dramatically, and those that still make them have reduced resources to produce new ones.
    The number of firms producing vaccines has dropped from 28 in 1967 to just five.


    Pharmaceutical companies are gradually abandoning vaccines because the research, development, testing and manufacture of them are expensive, as well as the fact that the market for them is much smaller than that for other drug products.

    For example, the vaccine against pneumococcal disease in children has annual US gross sales of about $1 billion, the highest revenue generated by a vaccine. In contrast, markets for cholesterol-lowering agents, hair loss products, potency drugs, or drugs for heart disease or obesity are often $7 billion or more per drug.


    Among the four large pharmaceutical companies still making vaccines, vaccines bring in 6 percent or less of their total revenue. "All four companies could stop making vaccines tomorrow without much impact on their bottom lines," .


    Meanwhile, on the manufacturing side, vaccines are often more costly to produce than drugs because they are made from live viruses, instead of chemicals. This means that making a vaccine can require hundreds of steps, each subject to stringent sterility guidelines.

    But liability is also a significant factor in the business of vaccine production. From 1950 to 1979, the price of the diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) vaccine and the diphtheria-tetanus (DT) vaccine was virtually the same, about $2.60 for a 15-dose vial. Then, in the 1970s and the 1980s, vaccine makers faced more than 800 lawsuits surrounding the pertussis component of the vaccine. As a result, the DPT vaccine now costs $160 for a 15-dose vial, while the DT vaccine costs just $6.65.

    The Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund was created in 1986 to protect the vaccine industry from specious litigation by paying the claims of child plaintiffs that alleged that vaccines had made them sick.

    http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/VIC_Trust_Fund.htm

    (Various sources)
     
  15. TheMadcapSyd

    TheMadcapSyd Titanic's captain, yo!

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    Actually that's not how vaccines work, they work by infecting you so your immune system is already prepared and ready for said virus so if your body comes into contact with it it's destroyed before you can get sick.
     
  16. shiva_master

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    There has been talk of if your Not vaccinated. The gov. will put microchips in ya stating that you have not been vaccinated. Therefore not be able to leave country. It is still in motion though. Not passed yet. Will provide a link when im on here next.

    It would be a crime against people with certain religious beliefs as well. If not countless other possibilities,>>>>>>>>>>>>>HAPPY NEW WORLD ORDER...LMAO


    Also, people die every year due to the mercury and lead derivatives in them.It takes a 250-275lb man to safely absorb the chems that are put in them. It costs a bit of money to get the ones without harmful subst in them. I only accept the lead/mercury free for my daughter. A pain in the ass but these vaccines do carry risk of autism in children. Exactly why i do not allow my lil girl to have to worry about that.

    I know of a few people getting violently ill about taking the hpv vaccine and flu vaccines.
     
  17. Not happening...they can kill me or I'll scavenge on the streets.
     
  18. 420weed420

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    i would never take the swine flu shot its the fastest vaccine ever amde prolly flawed-.-.....
     
  19. odon

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    Did you find a link yet?

    Where did you read that?
     
  20. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    I’ll take the flu shot but not until after everyone else has "guinea pigged up" so to speak; and deemed it safe [​IMG]


    Hotwater
     

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