The Vaccine Conspiracy

            Ok, so I'm a big lamewad and haven't posted in this in over a month, I know. But I saw something on an anti-vaccine site that annoyed the piss out of me, not like that's unusual. They made a post about how a pro vax site was posting screen shots of their page on an "anti-vax wall of shame" and how it's against Facebook rules blah blah fine whatever. I read the comments (big mistake) and it made me wanna rip my hair out. Do people not realize that swearing that the CDC and the FDA and the government are all lying to you and want to kill your children makes you sound completely nuts? What reason exactly would the CDC have to want to push vaccines that will kill you? Vaccines DO NOT make a lot of money, nobody gets rich off vaccines, they get rich off Prozac and Viagra and "lifestyle drugs" that need to be taken every day, not on the vaccine your kid gets every 2 months. I get it, anti-vaxxers have a truckload of ridiculous reasons why vaccines are so bad and you're poisoning your children, but going around spouting conspiracy theories about how everyone is out to get you and your doctor and the CDC and everybody else is lying to us cuz they want us to get sick and die is completely fucking insane. I am honestly baffled that people really believe that nonsense. I'm not saying the government never lies to us, they most certainly do, however they have no valid reason and nothing to gain by lying to us about vaccines that will kill us and make us sick. I also saw a girl post about how her mother was paralyzed by the flu shot, which does happen in VERY rare instances. And by rare I mean about one out of one million people who get the flu shot develop GBS (Guillain Barre Syndrome) because of it. Guillain Barre Syndrome occurs when the body attacks the nervous system, it can be caused by any sort of infection, and is seen a lot in respiratory illnesses. In my opinion, a one out of a million chance of developing a rare condition that you could also develop if you get bronchitis or have diarrhea is not a valid reason to say all vaccines are bad.

Here is a link that talks about the link between the flu vaccine and GBS:
GBS and the Flu Shot