 Hi, this is Mitch Mitchell and today I'm going to talk about something that I think is in my opinion one of the biggest Scams this country tries to pull on its citizens and especially in health care Which is kind of my background although I'm in the finance area and that's the flu shot scam Now why am I calling this thing a scam? You know I took the flu shot a couple of times back in 19 Geez 1989 and 1990 and I got really sick both times And everyone said well, you know You inject a little bit of the flu serum into you that's supposed to build up the antibodies But I got really sick for at least a week both times And I had this cough that just wouldn't go away two years in a row and I never wanted to take that bad boy again I did have the flu when I was in eighth grade, but then the entire school had the flu I mean, you know to me that's an epidemic when an entire school goes down But you know what they're calling these things epidemic now and and there's this frenzy of stuff saying oh everyone's gonna You know we could all die from this thing or whatever. I'm gonna give you a statistic Can I give you a statistic? Here's a statistic in 2011 because that's the earliest that you have for yearly statistic it takes some three years to put these things together I don't really know why but in 2011 out of a population of three hundred and thirty million people just United States now 5.5 million people went to the doctor or to a hospital claiming that they had the flu Now that comes to about one point six percent of the population now. How many of those people actually got the flu? Actually truly for the entire country for the entire year of 2011 around seventy eight thousand people That comes to and I'm looking at my numbers because I did the math that comes to 1.4% of the people who went to a doctor or a hospital thinking they had flu and it Eventually comes to point zero two percent of the American population And you know how many people passed away from the flu that year about one hundred and the people who passed away were Sickly people and little children mainly older sick people which basically says that you know If you're somewhat healthy, and you got the flu you survived it Here's the thing a lot of the people who got the flu Took the shot. They didn't get it from the shot. What happens is that every year? throughout the country They have these different regions, and they try to predict what strain of flu They think is going to hit and then that's the flu that they get and it takes about four months to make up a Flu shot for the you know for these different strains and that's what they give you so here's the thing They're guessing what strain of flu they think is going to hit where so what has happened this year this year They've got a strain of flu that is mutated from pretty much any strain of flu that they thought throughout the entire country So they've just figured this out and the thing is they can't do anything about it because it's like I said It takes four months to develop something to try to combat that and by the time They actually can now develop this thing flu season will be over because there's this particular time of flu season I don't know really where they ever came up with this idea, but supposedly flu season is considered beginning of December through the end of March that's full flu season. Yes, you can get the flu shot in October and You know such but the truth flu season is considered December 1st through March 30th Yeah, 30 days has a temple April June mark 31st So now this thing here, I'm not saying that if I'm 5065 Lord have mercy I'm not saying that if I get to 65 I'm not going to take a flu shot at 65 because now you know You're in that area where maybe you need to watch out a little bit more for your health Especially if maybe you have other health issues, but I Think that overall this is one of the biggest scams now last year when I was working out of town Even though I was not working in a hospital I'm working in an office park at this hospital system, but I'm in an office park They made me because I refused to get a flu shot wear a mask From December to the end of March I had to wear a mask I mean talk about your scarlet letter now a lot of other people just took the shot Why because they didn't want anyone looking at them and thinking they're not team players I'm an independent consultant. I'm president of my own company. I'm incorporated So, you know, I do what I want to do with my body. This is just how this works I'm not even in patient care now My wife is in one of those situations right now where she's working at this hospital She travels for her job as well, but she works in the hospital and she already had a contract for you know To work through April, but now this particular hospital is saying well We want her to go see one of our doctors to see if she's allergic to this shot because we Want her to have this shot because we're having all our employees get the shot My wife went to a doctor here in town has this thing saying she cannot take the flu shot but they're saying no we want her to see one of our doctors and They say if it turns out that they agree with her own doctor that she can't take the shot They have something else that they developed that they won't said that she would have to take are you kidding me? She works independently also and I'm sitting there thinking are you nuts? She has said she would wear the mask the entire time if it comes to that But this other thing is a scam you want to know what kind of scam it is. I'm gonna tell you New York State just announced that The flu strain is prevalent in the state. It's prevalent So now anyone who hasn't gotten the flu shot who works in health care has to wear a mask now I don't know if business offices have to do it, but everyone has to wear this thing. So the thing is In Anaheim County, which is where I live which the population is around 250,000 you know how many people have the flu 11 11 people that's point zero zero four percent 11 people this is prevalent Come on really? It's ridiculous. Now. I kind of understand if you're dealing You know with patients who might have different sicknesses which they do all the time by the way and they're worried that you may catch something from them Okay, wearing a mask not a big deal, but prevalent I mean my goodness one of my friends posted earlier today on Facebook that there's over 10,000 cases of whooping cough in California in the LA area of all things whooping cough Something that a lot of people thought was gone now to me. That's a big deal 10,000 cases and that's just already in a you know city like Los Angeles, but those people are kind of packed in you know So to me that's kind of a big deal. How come no one is really talking about that except in LA You know, that's a number that quick where you can sit there and say, okay Maybe there's something to this but this flu shot thing Scam now a couple of other questions just to throw this out there if this thing is so important that how come Everyone who works in healthcare who has to get the shot or who they want to get the shot has to sign two waivers Know what the waivers are the waivers are if you get sick You won't see the hospital and if you get sick, you can't sue the people who make the flu shot The government basically passed that thing so if you get sick from the flu and you die or you're seriously injured You you're just out of luck too bad you get no disability you get nothing you can't sue anybody You're just out of luck. Your family is done. Is that covered by life insurance? I don't know But that's not the point The point is that the government gives carte blanche to these companies to make this stuff Without necessarily knowing one if it's gonna work or two if it's gonna kill somebody. They don't care It's a scam. It just is I Had some other thing I was gonna say but you know what I'm gonna stop here because I want to know What you guys think about this flu shot thing? Do you really think that it's fair that in some states in some places people are being forced to take this shot? And have to sign these waivers, you know, I mean, I don't want to get a flu shot not getting one Luckily I work for myself But if I'm working in a hospital and I am forced to take this shot or lose my job Which New York State actually tried to do three years ago and then they ran out of the stuff more rounds, but If you have to take the shot But they make you sign the waiver. Is that fair doesn't that sound a little tricky? Oh, here's the other thing I just want to add a lot of hospitals are kind of enforced this kind of thing because The federal government Medicare People so don't blame this on Obama had nothing to do with him Soon as for Medicare and Medicaid Services came out with this thing a couple years ago saying that if hospitals didn't take precautions Like this to make people either wear a mask or get the flu shot they could have their reimbursements reduced by 2% There you go, but But the rule is only for people who work with patients So if that's the case Then what's the point of someone who's working in a business office who's nowhere near patients? Having you take the shot It's just a question So let me know your thoughts on what I'm calling the flu shot scam or hoax I'm not gonna call it a hoax because I know some people are saved by this But the way they're pushing it for the numbers that they have isn't justified. I mean my goodness This is it's own little version of Ebola You know, it's just ridiculous. Anyway, this is my rant for the night. I'm Mitch Mitchell I hope to see y'all and please let me know what you think. Goodbye