Why Natural Treatment Work Better – The Myth Of Flu Vaccine Efficacy
A recent scientific study of flu vaccine efficacy came to the conclusion that flu vaccines do not save lives. This is contrary to the conventional wisdom propagated by our Medical Authorities and the drug companies who stand to profit mightily from the public’s fear of the next Big Plague. But it does not come as a surprise. Let us look at the evidence.
The widespread opinion is that flu shots are needed most of all by the elderly and the very young. We are told that flu vaccine efficacy is the vital thread that keeps these people alive during flu season and larger epidemics. Yet a study published in the American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine in 2008 found that flu vaccinations did not improve mortality rates. The study found that if a person was in basically good health, flu shots had no effect on their chances of survival through flu season; and if a person was already sick, flu shots likewise did not improve their chances of survival through flu season. In other words, there was no evidence of flu vaccine efficacy with respect to lowering mortality.
How can that be? Everyone “knows” that flu vaccines work. But they do not. The 2008 study looked at more variables than previous studies. The researchers took into account pre-existing conditions, other disease factors such as smoking and exercise habits, and took all of this data into account when they evaluated flu vaccine efficacy. This broader view of the whole picture led them to see that there was no significant effect of flu vaccination on mortality. Sick people did badly when they got flu; healthy people did better. Flu shots made no difference.
For natural doctors, this is hardly a shocker. We have known for a long time that people do not “catch” flu, they “earn” it. We also know that how people respond to a flu infection depends on the state of their inner environment, or their all-round level of wellness. Flu vaccines are an expensive, hazardous red herring. There is no magic in them at all. Their mystique is based on the notion that we are victims of disease and only silver bullets manufactured by drug companies can save our lives. What a tremendous marketing pitch we have been sold by these businesses – “without us, you are dead”. Really! So how do we get here?
The modern theory of disease stems from the work of Louis Pasteur who came up with the idea that microbes cause disease. Like most discoveries in the natural sciences, Pasteur’s discovery is true and immensely helpful in some circumstances, but not in others. However, it became the basis for much of modern, industrialized medicine, whose mission is to wage war on microbes and thereby ensure our health and safety. For that huge enterprise, flu vaccine efficacy is an article of faith on which its business is built.
A contemporary of Pasteur’s, Antoine Bechamp, held the view that microbes do not cause disease, but that the inner environment in our bodies is what sets the stage for wellness or illness. We are not the victims of infections that we “catch”. Rather, we create opportunities for infections to flourish and by doing so, we reap the rewards in the form of illnesses of various kinds.
Pasteur secretly agreed with Bechamp and documented the fact in his private journal, but by then, modern medicine had been born, and the political machinery was developed to suppress alternative viewpoints that threatened the business franchise of industrialized versus natural medicine. So here we are, blindly following a sometimes helpful, but often not, theory of disease that does not apply to the case in point.
The evidence shows that the way to ensure our health and longevity is by fostering our wellness, rather by than relying on the magical potions of industrialists and their promoters. Flu vaccine efficacy is a myth. We are better off using natural flu treatment.
