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Since 2006 when I retired getting a flu shot has not been an issue. This year is different. Thanks to the Covid pandemic I no longer have confidence and trust in the medical governmental agencies. Are the pharmaceuticals more interested in making billions instead of what is best for the population. Older medications that may have helped in the pandemic were suppressed or even made illegal.  

The CDC, Center for Disease Control, was far from being consistent. One day you would hear recommendations and a while later they would be saying the exact opposite.  My trust and confidence in this branch of government has disappeared.  

Then you hear about the NIH, National Institutes of Health, and their highest paid government employee. Anthony Fauci. Also, you hear the rumor that the Covid virus may have escaped from a lab in China and the NIH may have helped fund the lab in the past. Naturally it is denied. One will never know.  

The FDA gives an emergency approval of the covid vaccine, knowing that there may be medical side effects. My question is, how did a vaccine become available so fast. Did someone know way ahead that the virus would become a pandemic? Again, one will never know. Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin which may have helped but they are demonized and sometimes outlawed. Is it because the pharmaceuticals had a vaccine to sell to the government and make billions? Recently Pfizer lost billions because they did not have a vaccine to sell this year. 

We all go through the quarantines. Can’t go to church. Restaurants are closed. Small retail businesses are shuttered. Millions start working from home. The country is shut down except the big box stores and outlets classified as necessities remain open. What made them immune from the virus? 

The first time in my life I heard that people are getting fired from employment, the military, health care providers and others. I went through the Swine Flu epidemic in the late 1970’s and I never heard of firings for not getting the shot. Freedom of choice has been stomped on.  

It is a known fact that older people died from Covid than younger people. But suddenly it is decided all ages need to receive the vaccine. Then we are starting to hear that younger people are starting to experience myocarditis at higher rates than normal. The government agencies are saying that the vaccine has no relation to the problem. Also, blood clots are on the rise. I received the first two shots of Covid when the pandemic started. About ten months ago I had a life-threatening blood clot between my lungs. I thought was this clot because of the vaccine. Common sense tells me more than likely not because it was two years after the shots.  

Many of my friends and relatives received the Covid shot. However, after a period many contract Covid anyway even after they were inoculated. What was the purpose of the vaccine?   

With all this I am still undecided whether to get a flu shot or not. I know for a fact I will not get the combination flu and Covid booster shot.