We don't get the flu shot. The one time my husband and I got a flu shot years ago, we ended up coming down with the flu. Um, come again? Wasn't/Isn't the flu shot supposed to PREVENT the flu?
Actually, no. For most people who get the flu shot, there's a very high percentage who will actually come down with the flu. Why? Because you're being injected with a live culture of the flu, and most people will be susceptible to catching the flu from that shot. And if you're around young children who get the nasalspray, then you're really at high risk of getting the flu, because the nasalmist spray allows the flu to get out into the air, first from spraying the vaccine into the kid's nostrils, then from the kid breathing and sneezing and allowing the flu particles to get into the air.
And don't forget; they guess when they put together the flu vaccine. They only use 2 strains of the flu from the year before (the two worst strains from that year)--what they think will be the big strains that will cause the flu this year. That's pure guesswork. There are 4--or more--strains that are NOT in the flu vaccine that could still catch you and make you sick. Or there could be a new strain that comes along that they didn't even know about.
Since then, I have done lots and lots and lots of fact checking and research into food, Ag corporations, the medical/military complex, pharma and the pharma houses, Big Corporations, Monsanto and the other big chemical/pesticide companies and have concluded--you're better off not putting all that toxic stuff into your body.
We prefer to get our immunity the old-fashioned way--by getting sick. My husband and I both got very sick three years ago after visiting my family for Xmas in another state. It was around the time of the H1N1-Swine flu. We were sick for 3 weeks; we figure we had and lived through the swine flu. We'll never ever have to worry about catching that one again. My daughter didn't get it; we assume she had enough exposure to whatever strain it was through school and had built up enough immunity that she didn't need to get it.
My husband brought home an influenza/flu strain (with a cold) from work right before the New Year this year; I just came down with it, although a more weakened version (my daughter and I have both been taking preventive measures). Or maybe it's the really bad cold that was on top of the influenza that I caught; I'm not anywhere near as sick as my husband was. It's too soon to tell if my daughter will or will not get it. She might get lucky--again--and not get it.
Oh, and for those of you who are going to say, if you'd gotten a flu shot, you wouldn't have gotten the flu: where my husband works, both the company and the town is a hotbed right now for this particular influenza strain he brought home. MOST of the people who are coming down with this influenza DID GET the flu shot. In my opinion, them having gotten the flu shot caused "the flu" to get out into the open air--and now everyone is getting sick. In fact, this particular influenza bug has now made it to our town/the surrounding towns, and we're about an hour away from the small town he works in.
A shot--whether vaccination or the flu--puts stuff into our body that is foreign and doesn't/shouldn't be there. If everyone detoxed and cleansed their bodies after getting one, so that they flushed out all of those toxins--maybe then it "might" be okay to get one. But most people have no idea what/how to flush out the toxins, so they remain inside the body, where they wrech havoc on the immune system and cause other issues/problems down the road.
If you take care of your body--eat organic, don't eat processed/preserved food, don't eat fast food, drink good quality water, take quality supplements/multivitamins, stay away from chemicals and pesticides (and MSG, aspartame/artificial sweeteners, dyes, artificial flavorings, preservatives), get enough sleep, don't smoke, exercise regularly--so that your body is healthy and your immune system is strong, 9 times out of 10 your body will be strong enough to fight off whatever infection/cold/flu is going around and/or you'll get a slighter version (and I am of the school that if you do catch something, it's because your body NEEDS the immunity you'll build up from catching that particular cold, flu, infection, etc.).
I don't believe in the herd mentality that if everyone gets the (flu) shot, then everyone will be covered/won't get sick. That's a programmed response that the medical community wants us to think. It makes it easier for them to keep getting us to come back in and get jabbed.
Look at the current whopping cough victims when there have been outbreaks. Almost all of the victims had received the whooping cough vaccine. In one case, EVERYONE had received the vaccine as a child. And still came down with whopping cough.
The doctors keep saying that vaccinations will help keep us safe from harm/from getting the dis-ease they're supposed to protect us from. If vaccines worked as well as they keep trying to tell us, that they help build up our immune systems and keep them healthy--then they should work from the very first jab. There should be no need for more than one jab. If whooping cough vaccine worked--then you shouldn't get whooping cough.
If the vaccine worked, then there shouldn't be any need for a revaccination/booster either.
And that goes for the flu vaccine as well. If it worked, then one jab should protect you forever. But it doesn't, for the simple reason that the flu is ever changing. You can't harness the flu, or the bugs, because they keep changing. If you keep your body healthy and strong, you'll most likely never have to worry about contacting anything. Every flu vaccine jab, though, puts toxins in your body. Year after year, those toxins build up.
How many people ever look at what is actually in the vaccine ingredients list and link their medical problems in later years with the toxins/foreign objects that were put into their bodies? Very few, I believe.