This little rant is coming up due to a page "I Fucking Love Science" pushing vaccination again and again. While I agree with almost all the stuff they post, it seems like this one topic is something it will not stop pushing. The page is popular and they know they're popular. They're using this popularity to peer pressure people into something of their own belief.
Do some research yourself, while almost all medical sites will recommend you get the flu vaccine each year (which for those that don't understand it is injecting the dead flu cells into your body that was grown in chicken eggs before being injected into you). No site will say that it's a certainty that the virus is not mutating to pass over this new immunity everyone is getting.
A virus is a living thing, it wants to survive. In order to survive it must continue to hop from one host to another to keep going. We want to stop this by giving everyone immunity with vaccination and giving people who can't get vaccinated herd immunity. That'd be great if we could stop it completely. However, as a living thing and as the fastest mutating microbe in the world, in order to survive it will mutate into something we have no vaccination or medicine for. In fact, it could go from a pretty harmless cough and cold that you take a week or two off work for to avoid spreading it into something much more deadly, as we've seen happen in bacterial infections.
We over medicated all the bacterial infections out there, but some people either did not take the medicine right or it did not fully kill the bacteria like intended, that bacteria survives and then mutates to adapt to that medicine. Now you have a new strain of bacteria that you have no cure or medication for and it probably mutated with a more severe side-effect as well that could kill you.
Now let's transfer that to a virus, something that lives a short life but mutates much much faster. Rushing everyone into the hospital to get vaccinated, meanwhile a few of them out of fear of letting it spread already have the virus get the vaccination and the virus quickly adapts by mutating.
Viruses also mutate to transfer across species so for this vaccine to even work to fully wipe it out a few steps need to be followed.
1.) Everyone without the virus needs to be vaccinated.
2.) Every animal without the virus needs to be vaccinated.
We are pushing for step one, that's not going to stop the virus even if we do it successfully. Because now that virus is hopping over to each animal species to survive, mutate then come back and bite us in the ass.
There is also no scientist team even working on proving this right or wrong. They simply do not know whether these vaccines are mutating the virus further or just stopping them. It'd be nice to have 100% confidence that it is only stopping them and not making them mutate faster. But there's no work being done to prove or deny this possibility. Only recommendations and hopes that we're doing the right thing.
So this flu season, do not feel peer pressured into getting a flu shot, while yes, if you do get one and manage to not become infected or spread it further, that is good. However we do not have factual proof that we are not creating a more deadly super virus in doing so. So if you believe you will not be infected for whatever reason and don't think the vaccines are working, do not feel guilted into getting one. Anyone trying to guilt trip you could be effectively on the ignorant side of helping create a super killer virus even if they do not mean to do harm.
Yes, not getting a vaccination could be the death of you, but getting a vaccination could also be the death of you as well. We live in a fear driven world, where everyone is so afraid of dying that we over medicate and cause ourselves to die anyway. Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps you all should get the vaccination each year, but I do not see any credible scientific studies to prove these vaccinations are not doing more harm than good. It's left to your best judgement whether getting the vaccine this year and the year after and the year after that is good for you or bad.

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