Geezers May Be Dodging Swine Flu Bullet

by Sandy Sand

It’s really hard to find any advantages to being a codger or codgerette except for the freedom to say anything you want and pretty much get away with it. Everything else is a pain…literally.

One exception might be a built-in immunity to the swine flu.

According to the Los Angeles Daily News: Los Angeles County has seen at least 57 people die from H1N1 virus this year, according to county public health director Dr. Jonathan E. Fielding. Outbreaks of the swine flu have been reported in 34 schools and one nursing home throughout the county as of the week ending on Oct. 10, Fielding said.”

The article continued: It's quite severe for this time of year," Fielding said. "I think what distinguishes this (flu season) ... is that there is a small group that is getting severely infected, including some young and healthy children, pregnant women and young adults.

The breakthrough news is that the H1N1 virus has SIMILAR MARKERS to flu viruses that have been around for years, therefore seniors may have dodged the bullet on this flu by building up immunity to the current virus.

"So the older you are, the more likely you are to have been exposed to the similar marker and that builds some resistance and immunity to H1N1," said Jim Lott, executive vice president of the Hospital Association of Southern California.

Yeah! for having been around longer than a mutated virus.

So, what about all those other viruses and bacteria that have been around longer than any of us and will survive long past our own extinction?

Like small pox, for example. Not one of us escaped the torment and discomfort of a small pox vaccination, although having been vaccinated at age six-months we have no memory of it except in our subconscious, but our mothers who cared for us sure remember.

Maybe we, too, have a memory of it that’s deeply imbedded in our psyches; a memory of being rudely and roughly having our asses, upper arm or thigh stabbed numerous times with a live virus, and VOILA! almost immediately got incredibly sick with a pseudo case of the pox which lasted for days.

My kids did and I haven’t forgotten.

I’m also sure I have the memory chip implanted somewhere in my engrams of my own small pox vaccination, which is why I’m totally suspicious of getting flu shots after combining that long buried memory with the memory of getting a flu shot as an older teen and immediately coming down with a lousy case of the flu.

That was the first and last flu shot for me.

Then there’s the explosion of autistic kids, when prior to being massively over-dosed on mercury-laden multi-doses of vaccinations, making perfectly healthy, normal kids incredibly sick for the rest of their lives and giving their parents a rash of child-rearing problems that neither had to suffer through.

And yes, I’m aware of all the contraindication studies done by arse-covering big pharma, but none of their studies are to be believed unless you are of the coincidence persuasion.

But I digress. Back to the pox.

The small pox virus has been around for eons and we were all given a dose of it allowing us to build up a ton of antibodies; therefore, there’s no need to ever get a booster vaccination.

Although they say small pox has been eradicated in the United States and other Western countries, it hasn’t.

Just because we were vaccinated doesn’t mean the virus gave up, said “oh there’s no one left to attack“, that it committed viral suicide.

It probably didn’t go dormant either. It’s still floating around; we’re still breathing it in, but over time we’ve built up a super immunity to it making further vaccination unnecessary.

There! As a one who is on the geserhood waiting list, that’s what I think and I’m not afraid to say it.