Eight Hospital Employees Fired For Refusing Flu Vaccines

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99. Provide sources for your claims

I provided sources for the contrary. Unless you provide sources, I will not consider your assertion to have any validity.

As for your comment about big pharma and corporate deceit, there is a balancing act. I do not speak for all DUers. DU is a large cross section of people with widely varying views on all sorts of subjects

For myself, I believe that vaccinations are needed to control disease. I grew up with children who had suffered from polio - the valedictorian of my high school class was in braces because of the damage to her body from that disease. My elementary class was among the first to have mandatory vaccinations for polio - and no one was insane enough to deny their children that protection - far too many parents had worried their children would be among those killed or permanently damaged by the disease.

As a child I had illnesses that most children today should not have to worry about because of modern vaccinations - rubella, pertussis (whooping cough), measles, and chicken pox - but the anti-vaccine movement is bringing them back, along with deaths that could have been prevented. I worry about getting shingles because of my childhood bout of chicken pox - and have gotten the shingles vaccination in hopes that will keep me from going through the agony of shingles as my father did. I already have a recurrent herpes zoster infection that has plagued me for 40 years. Hopefully the shingles vaccination I got last fall will prevent future recurrences.

Vaccinations are not perfect, but the risks from vaccines are much less than the risk from the diseases they are meant to protect us from.