Are the government and media scaremongering regarding the recent flu epidemic?

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Sounds about right. I refused the jab this year and haven't suffered as much as a sneeze.

@RodneyTrotter1 I took the flu vaccine when my daughter was young, she was diagnosed with lupus and thought I was helping her. Each time I was getting paraflu and it was the vaccine triggering it. I always got it once a month in the winter. After the third time I read that it was associated with flu vaccines. I also developed rheumatoid arthritis during that time and believe it caused an autoimmune reaction and resulted in that. I have never had the paraflu after I stopped taking the flu vaccine for the past 30 years. This is was one reason that I was vehement in refusing the COVID vax. I figured it they were pushing it with propaganda so much that there was a nefarious reason for doing so.

@cherokeepatti I fell for the covid one big time, didn't venture beyond the gate for 6 weeks and left any mail on the floor for 48 hours before touching it, then i carried on as normal and only caught it in 2024, the symptoms weren't pleasant but only lasted a day or two.
I remember talking to you years ago about your arthritis, i have rheumatoid too.

@RodneyTrotter1 I remember the history lessons of Germany during WWII and my 4th-grade class had a unit on the propaganda techniques. At the end of the week our teacher asked us if this sort of thing could ever happen again. I was the only one in that class to say YES and she asked why. I told her that people forget the lessons that their ancestors learned the hard way because the human heart doesn’t change. I think that the modern mass media (so many news outlets and tv media, internet etc) pressured the public relentlessly and scared the crap out of many.

I am a person who gets my suspicion red-flag raised when anybody tries to put pressure on me to do anything. That includes walking into a store and being lit upon by aggressive sales people. I will turn on my heal immediately and tell them no thanks, I don’t see anything here that interests me. I refuse to be pressured. One reason for this is that my father was a malevolent narcissists who was always coming up with schemes for things and I learned quickly to say no. Only person in the family who would do that, everyone was intimidated by him.