Flu Shots, COVID, and the CDC’s Pattern of “Protecting Grandma”
I listened to Jimmy Dore’s segment, a clip of the video is above, the revelations about Flu shots are astounding. I grew up trusting the science, trusting the doctors but not anymore. The systdem is anti-human and corrupt to the core.
From the video and having this researched this further, I learnt that nearly two decades ago, a CBS segment reported a startling discovery: flu shots, despite being heavily promoted and widely adopted among seniors, were not reducing flu-related deaths. The report, presented by investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson, revealed that flu shot uptake among seniors had jumped from 15% to 65%, yet flu deaths continued to rise. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were baffled and disappointed by the results. They initially believed other factors might be obscuring the vaccine’s benefits, but no matter how they analyzed the data, the conclusion remained the same: flu shots were not lowering death rates among the elderly.
The problem wasn’t isolated to the United States. When researchers examined data from other countries, including Australia, Canada, France, and the UK, they found similarly poor outcomes. This should have prompted a serious reassessment of public health policy. Instead, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) chose a different path: they doubled down on the vaccination campaign.
Rather than admitting the failure of the flu shot to protect seniors, the CDC shifted strategies. They promoted the idea of vaccinating children to create a “protective ring” around older adults, a concept that relies on reducing transmission among children to prevent infections from reaching more vulnerable populations, like grandparents.
This approach wasn’t confined to the flu. Fast-forward to COVID-19, and we see a near-identical playbook. When it became clear that COVID vaccines didn’t stop transmission as initially promised, public health officials resorted to the same argument: vaccinate children to “protect grandma.” This narrative became a cornerstone of pandemic messaging, despite COVID posing minimal risk to children themselves.
The parallels are hard to ignore. In both cases, public health authorities faced mounting evidence that their initial strategy wasn’t working, and instead of reassessing the policy, they shifted the burden to children. This raises serious ethical and scientific questions. If the data showed vaccines weren’t reducing deaths among the intended target group (seniors), why was the solution to vaccinate a different, low-risk group instead?
Even more troubling is the legal admission that emerged after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sued the CDC. The agency was forced to acknowledge that not a single vaccine on the US childhood schedule had been tested for safety or efficacy through a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, the gold standard of medical research. This means that the vaccines we’ve long been told are “safe and effective” have never undergone the rigorous testing that would definitively prove those claims.
This revelation shatters the assumption that vaccines are inherently safe or effective simply because they’ve been promoted by health authorities. While it’s true that some vaccines in history, like the smallpox vaccine, played a role in reducing disease, the reality is far more complex, especially when modern vaccines are fast-tracked without proper testing. The idea that vaccines are universally safe and effective is not supported by the kind of scientific evidence that would normally be required for any other medical product.
As comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore pointed out, “If they were doing this 20 years ago, they managed to make the same mistake again. That’s a little bit hard to believe it’s a mistake.” It raises the uncomfortable possibility that public health agencies, under pressure to show results, prioritized the appearance of action over acknowledging inconvenient truths.
Public trust in health institutions depends on honesty and accountability. If the same flawed strategies are repeated, especially at the expense of children, it’s not unreasonable for people to question whether these decisions are driven by science or by the need to maintain public compliance and pharmaceutical profits. The fact that this pattern spans decades is, indeed, mind-blowing, and it deserves far more scrutiny than it’s been given.
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