The people who swear by the flu shot they take every year are hopeless. My mother-in-law will never not take the annual flu shot because of this one anecdote she gives about being the only one not to get sick at work one year decades ago. Who knows about all the other time she's gotten sick after the flu shot. Meanwhile, she will never attribute her recent heart issues that required surgery to the safe and effective my patience is wearing thin clot shots!
I agree with Laura that we are winning this vaccine war with more and more people questioning all shots and taking significantly less.
One of my friends is like your mother-in-law: never misses a vaccine and because of that one time. So last January she was so ill from the flu she was hospitalized for four days and even after coming home spent almost a month in a weakened condition. And guess what she did again this fall? Yep. It’s infuriating.
There are that many? I assumed there were seven: the initial two plus a booster for each fall 2021-25. So for two of these years there were two different ones released?
Ms. Ripple, who is no kid, has taken six in total I think and this year got it and the flu shot at the same time. I've given up trying to dissuade her. She's fine so far. I've also never had any effects from possible shedding.
However, in early 2024 she got her @$$ kicked by Influenza A. It affected a nerve and she couldn't walk without a cane for a week or two, and it affected her vocal chords and she could barely speak for months. She's still a bit hoarse at times. Needless to say, she got the flu shot the previous fall.
Yep. Same here. Their child used to work for NIH until a year ago and the spouse is an immunologist with the CDC. They knew/know the stuff is crap but still suggest the seniors get each and every jab. Maybe they think they will inherit some $$$ 🤷🏼♀️
“It doesn’t really work, but we still strongly recommend it.” If that isn’t the slogan of our era, I don’t know what is.
Dear, your ass really does look bigger in those jeans you're considering purchasing, but hey, they're on sale, and with the extra 20% discount coupon you downloaded, I say buy two.
I’m proud lucky potato, in the pocket guy. But, had to switch out the lucky elongated sweet potato for a slightly less lucky mini red potato. Less flu protection but, no more nasty looks.
Yeah. Before I got something on a plane at Christmas last year (took ivermectin—poof—gone) , my last flu was 1997 with maybe 1 flu shot in between. Not had a cold since 2017. I have to remind people sometimes that they have their own awesome immune system—if they take care of it.
Like you, neither of us have had so much as a sniffle or sore throat or fever in years. Take an ivermectin and it all disappears. I also give ivermectin to my dogs for lick sores.
👍🏻👍🏻. The second I feel a sniffle, I use XClear Rescue nasal spray and also begin spraying original Listerine to the back of my throat or gargle often. That always takes care of it. I take IVM as a prophylactic. I’m traveling again this Christmas and will take all precautions (except a mask, of course 🤣. I forgot last year and wasn’t taking IVM then.
what we need to see is Bill Gates sitting on a stage in an auditorium filled with people, televised, and being given every shot he has told all us useless eaters to get, mostly and including the original Pfizer covid shots and all their boosters - all at once. Administered by Dr. McCullough and verified by RFKJr that is not a saline placebo and see him shit his pants. Because you know he did not take any of them but was great with mandating everyone else take them.
Make him eat a months worth of fake meat burgers loaded with seed oils, then a month or 2 in a dark room because he wants to dim the sun, then pump some bioengineered mosquitoes in before he’s eventually tied to the wings of a chemtrail plane to be hauled around like some cautionary sky message. Not enough.
Billy from the Gates of hell has a God Complex the size of TX.
He has learned that if he wants to control a situation, even an entire alphabet entity like the WHO, all he has to do is throw a billion or two at it, and the initial ‘NO’ quickly becomes a, ‘WELLLL, ok, Billy’.
I say, if he truly wants to do some good in this world, he should spend his bazillions buying chickens, cows and tiny homes for 3rd worlders.
Stay OUT of our veins and OUT of our stomachs, Billy from the Gates of hell.
Escape from Gates: Avoid MS Windows/PC software and go with Linux, LibreOffice and other open source and not MS office suite. Brave browser and not Edge or Chrome.
I'm the matriarch / granny in this family and I'm trying to persuade all of my family that I would feel much safer if they don't get a flu shot.
Thanks for another excellent piece that had me giggling. I have a friend aged 70 who gets her flu shot every year and gets serious bronchitis every year, but remains convinced that the bronchitis would be much worse if she hadn't had her flu shot. This winter she was actually put into ICU and is still convinced the flu shot stopped her from dying. (this is South Africa so we are now in summer season)
They made up that lie after jabs came out and they didn’t work. I’m old—I had never heard that nonsense ever before. It’s stuck like sticky mucus now. 😳🤔
Thanks for my morning chuckles! Even some of my crazy “get the Covid shot” people won’t get the flu shot. They know it’s ineffective. And how does the flu know it’s flu season?😂So ridiculous!
Reminds me - gotta order more of that for my oldest. She's around short people all day and just was told she's low in Vitamin D. Have to put that somewhere she can get to it more easily so she remembers - or her own supply of it. (plus K2 to help absorption)
My husbands kidney doctor forbids him to take adequate Vit D3. I still haven’t found studies that corroborate that advice but a couple that say it’s good to take. But her word is the Bible on this.
Calcium can go to places you don’t want it to go, like heart and arteries, etc. K2 -7 helps that not happen. Plus keeps bones stronger. You can get a calcium score test of your heart. Another form, K2 -4 is helpful for metabolism. I use the 7 because I have thinner bones. Combo D and K are available. I’ve upped my D to 10 or 15,000 iu now there is no efficient sun up here in snow country until sometime in March. You can’t really get any d in the winter in the north, although being outside and getting sun in your eyes is great and engages circadian benefits. I used to use a light box of 10,000 lux for SAD that changed my life but I don’t really need it now. Those cheap ones aren’t effective. Mine was a large box with long bulbs in it. Cost $400.00 but it was awesome.
K2 (found in cheese or better in supplements) is important to take calcium out of the blood (so your arteries don't harden) and puts the calcium into your bones (where it belongs).
I always thought Vitamin K was the one that came from "green leafy wegetables" and helped with blood clotting. K2 sounded like something from Krypton, and let me just say I've had "mixed results" with products from there (one almost kills me when I chance upon it accidentally) so I was leery.
I'm not sure quite what you are saying. If you are saying that even if the terrain is healthy (aka your body is healthy and immune system working properly) that if you inject yourself with poison that you'll actually be poisoned, then yes, I completely agree. Maintaining a healthy "terrain" does NOT include injecting poisons! (or consuming them)
You understand my point entirely. Keep your terrain healthy and happy (soul and emotion) and your chance of sickness is far less. Our environment is bombarding us with toxins. If our systems are not functioning at a high level, we cannot fight the toxins.
Injecting poisons into our bodies is and entirely different biological then ingesting. TMI! 😂😳😵💫
Reducing toxins is a major challenge for humanity these days. Pesticides, Herbicides, EMF, extra fluoride in our water, processed food... then the idiots have the nerve to suggest we outright inject toxins via experimental shots!
Bypassing all the wonderful filters our creator installed to fight toxins is nuts.
Skin, eyelashes, nostril hairs, (who says God has no sense of humor!?) liver, kidneys, even stomach acid is there to prevent toxins from making much headway. So what do we do? BYPASS all those marvelous filters and inject infants — directly past the filters— the minute they’re born, with synthetic vitamin K and HepB of all things.
Old people die because their immune systems deteriorate. Why do they do this? Hmm. Lack of movement, lack of sunlight, poor diet, poor circulation, diminished zeta potential, isolation, loneliness, etc. Not some fairy tales about scary, scary viruses and all that BS. Jab them with poison bioweapons and you kill of any sliver of a chance of living a halfway decent life.
I avoided the vaccine. My son took it. We both got Covid and experienced fatigue, body ache, and low grade fever for about ten days. My reaction: "That wasn't so bad; my natural systems resisted the virus pretty well, as usual." His reaction: "I'm glad I got vaccinated. I can only imagine how bad it would have been if I hadn't."
The real, actual problem with flu shots isn’t the shot, it’s the pharma companies’ decision making on how to predict the strain mix.
Instead of simply guessing, they need to follow the wuhan protocol and ENGINEER the next strain. That way they can have the perfect shot ready to kill…er, I mean protect you for at least a few weeks until the side effects kick in and you need their “long flu” shot at any time of the year.
The people who swear by the flu shot they take every year are hopeless. My mother-in-law will never not take the annual flu shot because of this one anecdote she gives about being the only one not to get sick at work one year decades ago. Who knows about all the other time she's gotten sick after the flu shot. Meanwhile, she will never attribute her recent heart issues that required surgery to the safe and effective my patience is wearing thin clot shots!
I agree with Laura that we are winning this vaccine war with more and more people questioning all shots and taking significantly less.
One of my friends is like your mother-in-law: never misses a vaccine and because of that one time. So last January she was so ill from the flu she was hospitalized for four days and even after coming home spent almost a month in a weakened condition. And guess what she did again this fall? Yep. It’s infuriating.
It’s hard to “like” this comment, Mary Ann.
Substack should give us a range of reaction choices. For this one maybe any of the following: 🤬😱🤯😬
LOL
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I know people who have taken 9 COVID shots and get the flu shot every year.
That is insane. Literally.
I know people who still get the combo…flu AND covid🤦♀️.
same. a LOT. and also give both to their kids. like our entire neighborhood 😭😭
NINE? I can’t even….
There are that many? I assumed there were seven: the initial two plus a booster for each fall 2021-25. So for two of these years there were two different ones released?
Ms. Ripple, who is no kid, has taken six in total I think and this year got it and the flu shot at the same time. I've given up trying to dissuade her. She's fine so far. I've also never had any effects from possible shedding.
However, in early 2024 she got her @$$ kicked by Influenza A. It affected a nerve and she couldn't walk without a cane for a week or two, and it affected her vocal chords and she could barely speak for months. She's still a bit hoarse at times. Needless to say, she got the flu shot the previous fall.
Totally insane!
Yep. Same here. Their child used to work for NIH until a year ago and the spouse is an immunologist with the CDC. They knew/know the stuff is crap but still suggest the seniors get each and every jab. Maybe they think they will inherit some $$$ 🤷🏼♀️
I even requested the old fashioned rabies (required by our state) shot without thimerisol for my dog this year.
Methinks the uptake numbers will reflect the fact that we are winning this war.
We don’t want your damn shots.
How timely - this post was just texted to me:
https://mariagutschi.substack.com/p/what-the-new-nejm-study-of-the-mrna
“It doesn’t really work, but we still strongly recommend it.” If that isn’t the slogan of our era, I don’t know what is.
Dear, your ass really does look bigger in those jeans you're considering purchasing, but hey, they're on sale, and with the extra 20% discount coupon you downloaded, I say buy two.
🤣🤣🤣
Just waiting for some jab jockey in Walgreens to nab me and give me a ghoulish grin while inviting me into her lair. Shuddering.
Like the habitual gambler that talks about that big win he once had.
Thanks Jenna- another spot on post that is enjoyable to read. I promise to become a paying subscriber as soon as I am able, you are so worth it.
I was about to post a relative risque comment but it just flu out of my mind
All those "LIKEs" because we've been able to imagine what you were about to say!
Were you under the influence?
Afraid not
I’m proud lucky potato, in the pocket guy. But, had to switch out the lucky elongated sweet potato for a slightly less lucky mini red potato. Less flu protection but, no more nasty looks.
😂😂
Imagine if you had a large carrot in there! LOL
Isn't there a drug commercial for the "bent carrot syndrome?" I am not kidding.
Oh yes there is. A real groaner. Could this world get more absurd? Yes. Wait until tomorrow. Or CNN and MS(NO! ) tonight.
I just had to look up this lucky potato thing! Too funny. Etsy even has a page of lucky potato stuff. This is why we love America!
Ha! I thought Jenna made it up.
Just spitballing here, but as an alternative to the flu shot, how about taking care of your immune system instead.
Yeah. Before I got something on a plane at Christmas last year (took ivermectin—poof—gone) , my last flu was 1997 with maybe 1 flu shot in between. Not had a cold since 2017. I have to remind people sometimes that they have their own awesome immune system—if they take care of it.
Like you, neither of us have had so much as a sniffle or sore throat or fever in years. Take an ivermectin and it all disappears. I also give ivermectin to my dogs for lick sores.
👍🏻👍🏻. The second I feel a sniffle, I use XClear Rescue nasal spray and also begin spraying original Listerine to the back of my throat or gargle often. That always takes care of it. I take IVM as a prophylactic. I’m traveling again this Christmas and will take all precautions (except a mask, of course 🤣. I forgot last year and wasn’t taking IVM then.
We also use XLEAR! Every day! It’s inventor was featured on Darkhorse podcast a few months back.
After the covid hoax I'll never get another vaccination. Enough people feel this way that Bill Gates wants it engineered into food and aerosols.
Agree 💯 Say NO to anything bill gates has to offer.
what we need to see is Bill Gates sitting on a stage in an auditorium filled with people, televised, and being given every shot he has told all us useless eaters to get, mostly and including the original Pfizer covid shots and all their boosters - all at once. Administered by Dr. McCullough and verified by RFKJr that is not a saline placebo and see him shit his pants. Because you know he did not take any of them but was great with mandating everyone else take them.
Make him eat a months worth of fake meat burgers loaded with seed oils, then a month or 2 in a dark room because he wants to dim the sun, then pump some bioengineered mosquitoes in before he’s eventually tied to the wings of a chemtrail plane to be hauled around like some cautionary sky message. Not enough.
I think you and I are of the same mindset about that demon man.
I’d pay to watch Fauchi and Gates of Hell tied down and give every drug they shilled for
Include Hotez and Offit and I’ll buy front row tickets.
Me too. I would be in the front row clapping!
Billy from the Gates of hell has a God Complex the size of TX.
He has learned that if he wants to control a situation, even an entire alphabet entity like the WHO, all he has to do is throw a billion or two at it, and the initial ‘NO’ quickly becomes a, ‘WELLLL, ok, Billy’.
I say, if he truly wants to do some good in this world, he should spend his bazillions buying chickens, cows and tiny homes for 3rd worlders.
Stay OUT of our veins and OUT of our stomachs, Billy from the Gates of hell.
yep, Covid was my awakening...
Same, although I was staying away from doctors for a decade before and not vaccinating.
Watch for the word "organic" to be "engineered" to include "safe and effective vaccines."
Escape from Gates: Avoid MS Windows/PC software and go with Linux, LibreOffice and other open source and not MS office suite. Brave browser and not Edge or Chrome.
I'm the matriarch / granny in this family and I'm trying to persuade all of my family that I would feel much safer if they don't get a flu shot.
Thanks for another excellent piece that had me giggling. I have a friend aged 70 who gets her flu shot every year and gets serious bronchitis every year, but remains convinced that the bronchitis would be much worse if she hadn't had her flu shot. This winter she was actually put into ICU and is still convinced the flu shot stopped her from dying. (this is South Africa so we are now in summer season)
Well, in her defense, she fell for EXACTLY the line they fed her. Poor dear. :(
They made up that lie after jabs came out and they didn’t work. I’m old—I had never heard that nonsense ever before. It’s stuck like sticky mucus now. 😳🤔
Thanks for my morning chuckles! Even some of my crazy “get the Covid shot” people won’t get the flu shot. They know it’s ineffective. And how does the flu know it’s flu season?😂So ridiculous!
The flu knows it's flu season because a bunch of people just consumed a ton of sugar for Halloween and their immune systems are suppressed. 😇
I'm always amused by the idea that a virus is "intelligent". Terrain theory people, terrain theory!
Yeah - locked indoors, lots of sugar, lots of inactivity ... why do we get sick in the winter after Halloween and before New Years?
(questions I wish I'd asked myself many decades ago....)
Lack of Vitamin D (also partly due to more time indoors for many people)
Reminds me - gotta order more of that for my oldest. She's around short people all day and just was told she's low in Vitamin D. Have to put that somewhere she can get to it more easily so she remembers - or her own supply of it. (plus K2 to help absorption)
If she was told she is "low" then likely she is way below optimum. K2 is good to keep the calcium out of your blood vessels and into your bones.
Yup - I'm going to recommend she do 10k/day for the initial week or two and then flip down to a lower 5k/day.
My husbands kidney doctor forbids him to take adequate Vit D3. I still haven’t found studies that corroborate that advice but a couple that say it’s good to take. But her word is the Bible on this.
"What's 'K2'?"
Calcium can go to places you don’t want it to go, like heart and arteries, etc. K2 -7 helps that not happen. Plus keeps bones stronger. You can get a calcium score test of your heart. Another form, K2 -4 is helpful for metabolism. I use the 7 because I have thinner bones. Combo D and K are available. I’ve upped my D to 10 or 15,000 iu now there is no efficient sun up here in snow country until sometime in March. You can’t really get any d in the winter in the north, although being outside and getting sun in your eyes is great and engages circadian benefits. I used to use a light box of 10,000 lux for SAD that changed my life but I don’t really need it now. Those cheap ones aren’t effective. Mine was a large box with long bulbs in it. Cost $400.00 but it was awesome.
K2 (found in cheese or better in supplements) is important to take calcium out of the blood (so your arteries don't harden) and puts the calcium into your bones (where it belongs).
Vitamin K2 helps with the absorption of Vitamin D. You can get a supplement that has both.
All great, helpful replies... Thank you, gems!
I always thought Vitamin K was the one that came from "green leafy wegetables" and helped with blood clotting. K2 sounded like something from Krypton, and let me just say I've had "mixed results" with products from there (one almost kills me when I chance upon it accidentally) so I was leery.
Terrain theory! Is it a theory or is it really the environment
/terrain/microbiome/zeta potential, etc.?!
All this nonsense clown shit show talk about some scary flu virus is a crock of shite.
Go ahead and inject yourself with adjuvants powerful enough to maim/injure a mammal 10 times your size.
Ya, NO, NADA, that would be the big donut hole.
Lies, lies, and lies piling up…
I'm not sure quite what you are saying. If you are saying that even if the terrain is healthy (aka your body is healthy and immune system working properly) that if you inject yourself with poison that you'll actually be poisoned, then yes, I completely agree. Maintaining a healthy "terrain" does NOT include injecting poisons! (or consuming them)
SARS-CoV2 was never a "scary virus".
You understand my point entirely. Keep your terrain healthy and happy (soul and emotion) and your chance of sickness is far less. Our environment is bombarding us with toxins. If our systems are not functioning at a high level, we cannot fight the toxins.
Injecting poisons into our bodies is and entirely different biological then ingesting. TMI! 😂😳😵💫
Reducing toxins is a major challenge for humanity these days. Pesticides, Herbicides, EMF, extra fluoride in our water, processed food... then the idiots have the nerve to suggest we outright inject toxins via experimental shots!
Bypassing all the wonderful filters our creator installed to fight toxins is nuts.
Skin, eyelashes, nostril hairs, (who says God has no sense of humor!?) liver, kidneys, even stomach acid is there to prevent toxins from making much headway. So what do we do? BYPASS all those marvelous filters and inject infants — directly past the filters— the minute they’re born, with synthetic vitamin K and HepB of all things.
God has got to be up there shaking his head.
I was never afraid of the so called disease but I was scared of the shots and said no.
Good instincts!
Terrain theory! Is it a theory or is it really the environment
/terrain/microbiome/zeta potential, etc.?!
All this nonsense clown shit show talk about some scary flu virus is a crock of shite.
Go ahead and inject yourself with adjuvants powerful enough to maim/injure a mammal 10 times your size.
Ya, NO, NADA, that would be the big donut hole.
Lies, lies, and lies piling up…
Flu season arrives abt the time school kids get their back to school shots and Big pHARM-us starts with the 💉 advertising.
Shedding is real, folks.
Old people die because their immune systems deteriorate. Why do they do this? Hmm. Lack of movement, lack of sunlight, poor diet, poor circulation, diminished zeta potential, isolation, loneliness, etc. Not some fairy tales about scary, scary viruses and all that BS. Jab them with poison bioweapons and you kill of any sliver of a chance of living a halfway decent life.
Jenna, I just want to say that…yes, I have a lucky potato in my pocket AND I’m happy to see you. 😉
I had my last flu shot in 2012, and predictably got the flu.
Never took another vaccine, & haven't had flu/Covid since.
It's all about your immune system.
It will take care of you...
I avoided the vaccine. My son took it. We both got Covid and experienced fatigue, body ache, and low grade fever for about ten days. My reaction: "That wasn't so bad; my natural systems resisted the virus pretty well, as usual." His reaction: "I'm glad I got vaccinated. I can only imagine how bad it would have been if I hadn't."
dr. lisa barrett doesn't look too healthy. I would not take any health advice from her. 😐
The real, actual problem with flu shots isn’t the shot, it’s the pharma companies’ decision making on how to predict the strain mix.
Instead of simply guessing, they need to follow the wuhan protocol and ENGINEER the next strain. That way they can have the perfect shot ready to kill…er, I mean protect you for at least a few weeks until the side effects kick in and you need their “long flu” shot at any time of the year.
Just say No!
The lucky potato theory a peals to me