Flu Vaccines to be Forced on Healthcare Workers? Citing Patient HarmLisa Garber One of the first concepts anyone pursuing a career in medicine learns is primum non nocere, Latin for first, do no harm. Flegel wrote on October 30th that because healthcare workers may contract the flu and spread it to patients, particularly those in fragile states or with compromised immune systems, It is time that all people who work in a health care institution be vaccinated. By Flegels logic, everyone benefits from his idea. He claims that vaccines are effective and compulsory vaccination would mean fewer people are infected with the flu, medical institutions lose fewer man-hours from sick employees, and fewer patients in delicate conditions die. His logic, however, is flawed and littered with benefits not to frail patients but to pharmaceutical companies. Danger of Vaccines Although the chances of developing the feared deadly nerve disease Guillain-Barre syndrome from a vaccine is about 1 in 100,000, there are multiple side-effects from flu shots that were better off without. In one example, a study published in the PLOS One Open Journal found that systemic autoimmunity appears to be the inevitable consequence of over-stimulating the hosts immune system by repeated immunization with antigen, to the levels that surpass systems self-organize criticality. In other words, vaccines stimulate autoimmune diseases. Healthier Ways to Live If Flegel believes healthcare workers owe it to the history of medicine and to all medical patients, do no harm must be implementedbut not by pushing vaccines. (Theres a reason half of all healthcare personnel in Hong Kong refuse to get the jab.) Instead, healthcare professionals must be held responsible for their own health. Anyone can cut the risk of developing the flu by42 percent!with even a low dose of vitamin D. Just fifteen minutes in the summer sun without sunscreen and vitamin D supplements in the sunless winter months could save every medical institution more money than proposed by Flegel. There are myriad other methods for flu prevention. Its our Choice Its important that flu vaccination remains a choice and that no one is bullied by the likes of Flegel or Big Pharma into being jabbed against their will. Here, you can learn how to avoid supposedly mandatory vaccination. Well leave you with Flegels ominous suggestion:To justify compulsory vaccination, there must be an outbreak of serious illness. Additional Sources: This article first appeared at Natural Society, an excellent resource for health news and vaccine information. 