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Confidence in natural immunity, lack of confidence in vaccine cited; Health Department says ‘good health is a shared effort’
By Guy Page
With winter nearing, Vermont health officials are urging residents five years old and older to be vaccinated against the flu, COVID-19, and RSV.
State data show that 25% of Vermonters have received the vaccine in 2024-25 season, compared to 26% in 2022-23. The highest percentage (33%) is in Chittenden County, the lowest in rural Essex County (11%).
Reasons given for not receiving the Covid-19 vaccine include confidence in natural immunity, and lack of confidence in the vaccine, according to comments on VDC’s Facebook page.
“Vaccination helps keep our communities strong,” Health Commissioner Rick Hildebrant, MD, said in an October 31 statement. “By staying up to date on recommended vaccines, we not only reduce our own risk of severe illness, but we also help protect those around us.”
State officials say this year’s flu and COVID-19 vaccines have been updated to target the most recent circulating strains. The shots are recommended for everyone 6 months and older. Immunizations for RSV are also widely available for pregnant people, infants, and older adults.
People at higher risk of severe illness — including older Vermonters, young children, pregnant people, and those with weakened immune systems — are especially encouraged to get vaccinated as respiratory viruses begin to circulate more widely, the Health Department said.
On November 1, VDC posted the health department statement on its Facebook page and asked readers this question: “Do you plan to get vaccinated for Covid? Why, or why not?”
The post has 5,000 views and 69 comments. Most but all of the comments respond in the negative. Some highlighted the virtues of natural immunity:
“Absolutely no to COVID/flu/shingles/rsv. . . natural immunity works,” said Lynn.
Others expressed low confidence in the vaccine:
“More and more confirmed studies show vaccine injuries. Please research before putting this into your body,” said Deedee.
This year, the Health Department issued updated COVID-19 vaccine recommendations to make access easier. Anyone age 5 and older can receive both flu and COVID-19 vaccines at most pharmacies. Health care providers continue to offer vaccinations as well, including for children under 5.
Officials note that most insurance plans cover immunizations, but adults under 65 who lack insurance or whose plans don’t cover vaccines can receive them at no cost through Local Health Offices.
Like other medicines, vaccines can cause side effects, typically mild and short-lived, such as soreness at the injection site or fatigue, the Health Department said.
“Good health is a shared effort,” Hildebrant said. “Getting vaccinated, washing hands often, and staying home when sick all help us care for ourselves and each other. If you have questions about vaccines, talk with your health care provider or pharmacist.”
The Health Department continues to monitor flu season, track COVID-19 year-round, and publish an annual vaccination dashboard. More information is available at HealthVermont.gov/StayHealthy.
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Never got one, never will. It’s not just a lack of trust in vaccines. It a lack of trust in the “science”, and any of the so called doctor’s. I can Google my own symptoms, just as well as an PCP. Haven’t found one yet I trust. Use your head people, not everything, nor everyone is to be trusted.
True. Especially DJT
You can google your own symptoms? Ha! Did you know Lord Google is possible because of science? But you don’t trust science so does that mean you don’t trust lord google? How are you able to drivel on this forum without science?
Same. I would recommend using an alternative search engine to google. It’s extremely biased and heavily financially incentivized by the pharmaceutical industry. God Bless!
Imagine that, 75% of the population are capable of thinking for themselves.
Trust the “science” my “you know what”.
Three out of four Vermonters finally smartened up and do not want to be lab rats. Comments from Richard Dy.
And, drum roll please: Essex County rules! 👍 We are also the last standing red county in Vt.
(Love seeing that map of the 2024 election, and our tiny red speck in New England.)
So what!
“Pregnant PEOPLE?”
Guy, with respect, this is VDC, not VPR.
This is very, revealing. This is just the opposite of what happened a few years ago.
We do still see some people wearing masks on a regular basis.
Perhaps there is hope.
Perhaps cancel culture does not have the hearts of the public.
Perhaps the VTGOP can pick up on this, those who are not uniparty, that is.
Wow. If according to Dr. Hildebrant, “Good health is [ACTUALLY] a shared effort” then he needs to also tell people the best way to avoid or give your body a fighting chance to overcome a cold/flu/covid is to eat properly (no ultra processed foods for starters by eating real whole foods), keep your VitD up, get plenty of rest, exercise and maintain a healthy body weight. Adding salt, sugar, and seed oils to food is killing us. This is not a cure to disease/death but a defense a person can do without medical intervention or expensive health care “solutions”. I do believe herd immunity is a real thing. A healthier population as a whole will pass around less diseases thereby protecting the vulnerable. Vaccinations can be an adjunct to that end but not the end all of everything. I am up to date on all my vaccinations, (except I do not get a flu shot) but where the COVID shot is concerned, I got 3 COVID shots, and I will never get another one. Why? I feel lied to about it. Apparently, I am not alone.
Disagree with you Retta on salt… the only bad salt is table salt; sea salt is full of so many minerals. I put a large pinch of salt in every glass of water I drink all day long. And speaking of water, everyone should be drinking half their weight in water in ounces every day. If you’re peeing every hour, you’re not absorbing the water into your cells (mitochondria)… so start drink that water with salt folks!!!!!!!
Sodium intake is not the issue. Salt makes food taste better and so people will over eat the food thereby adding to weight gain. It is a tool the food companies use to get people to eat more ultra processed foods.
That’s the problem, processed foods, not the salt. And if they’re overeating it’s not because of the salt… there’s a thing called self-control.
no way – no witches brew for me!
how much are these advertising outlets receiving from pharma for placing articles and inserting this “CAMOUFLAGED” advertising in their articles and conversations. I listened to a few radio personalities this past week and three of them were blasting our fantastic HHS Secretary RFK jr. with just opinion – NO fact! Another had an “interview” with a doctor about how fantastic vaccines are and the same old lies of “safe and effective” . Please watch thehighwire.com each week and get real news stories which are backed up with actual studies – NOT opinion!
Another must watch is https://www.aninconvenientstudy.com/ which won the 2025 Malibu Film fest
Thank you, Susan, for the shout out on the Highwire and letting people know about the award-winning film An Inconvenient Study, what an eye-opening film!!! We need everyone to share this film with their friends and family. I watched the premier, absolutely no denying the truth anymore!!!
Have been following Dr. Malone, a Vermonter and one of the inventors of mRNA technology of the C-19 shot, very interesting comments that got him banned from social media and threatened with arrest during the panic. The technology was never intended to be used as a general vaccine. All reports now point to this use was not safe and effective, but the opposite
@Ron,
If you are referring to Dr. Robert Malone, he was born in Santa Clara county, California.
Tim never said he was born here, has a farm here now
@Ron,
His farm is in Virginia. Not Vermont.
Go here. https://www.lusitanostud.com/new-page
Ron,
His farm is in Virgina, Not VT.
Go here: https://www.lusitanostud.com/new-page
There is at least one large problem with this push for people as young as five to get a Covid19 shot. That is their claim that it is an effective vaccine. It’s not. The proven risks of taking the “vaccine” far outweigh any benefit. Ever notice that those of your friends who have religiously taken the shots and boosters are on their 3rd, 4th, and 5th bouts with Covid19? Remember the lies peddled by Biden, Fauci, the media that Covid19 stops with vaccinated people? It didn’t. Not even close. How many times did Biden have it?
Instead of pushing for EARLY treatment with a medley of anti-inflammatory medications and using the anti-vitral, Paxlovid , Biden and Fauci pushed the untested experimental mRNA shots for ALL . They turned our society into a kind of police state where many lost their jobs for refusing to take this untested, experimental “vaccine”. Even young fit members of the military were drummed out of service for refusing the mRNA shot. So pardon me if the calls for taking this shot and foisting it upon children as young as five are skeptically ignored.
Hey Frank, how about natural anti-inflammatories as opposed to drugs (which ALL have side effects)…
I agree with you post aside from your statement about paxlovid. Bad stuff. Rebound covid.
It’s been reported by many sources,the Covid vax is not a true vax and doesn’t have the dead virus. Furthermore they have Mercury (a heavy metal poison), Why I wouldn’t get a vax of any kind including flu shots, haven’t for years. Yet Biden & Fauchi mandated it. Ron Paul verbally stormed Fauchi many times for lying and vagueness. Fauch was the highest paid bureaucrat at over $400K. Hospitals wouldn’t allow you in unless you were vaxed, stores said to leave if not wearing the mask, masks that couldn’t hold water, just a water filter, no protection. Couldn’t keep the N-95 hospital masks more than 30 mins. I knew a healthy person that took all the vaxes and boosters and died young-trusting the Gov. Too many bad cases reported. History has proven the vax crap and a lot is coming to light, and Fauchi is GONE.
You’re correct Tom, it’s NOT a vaccine, it’s a weapon to destroy us as humans. Although I disagree about the word “virus” as one has NEVER been isolated, it merely computer generated. Read the book Virus Mania, quite eye opening!!!!
Natural immunity is destroyed by vaccines.
My health or lack of it isn’t contagious.
Mass hysteria sells death or sooner dead than alive jabs.
I just starting reading the above article and had to stop when I read about “pregnant people”needing to get their vaccinations for fear that as a senior male person I might possibly be pregnant and therefore per the State of Vermont Health Dept. I needed to get all of their recommended vaccines. I did get my flu vac recently, but decided to not get the other two vaccines, as I am healthy and decided to take my chances.
However, with every “person”, defined by Google as “the men, women, and children of a particular nation, community, or ethnic group”, possibly being/getting pregnant, I am concerned that the VT Health Dept folks might be causing an overload on our state’s health care facilities being able to handle the infux of “pregnant people” rushing to get vaccinated. I am feeling good that I am doing my part in not getting all 3 shots. Thank God for being informed about “pregnant people” by our VT Health Dept. folks. Good to know that they are on the cutting edge of what us native Vermonters need and want to know. Dave Stahler, Sr.
…sorry that you got your flu shot. Not sure if they’re MRNA YET, but I’d use caution going forth.
I depend on my old immune system to protect me!!
I have a pin on my jacket that says “I didn’t get my flu shot, because I’m not a f**king dumb***”… gets a lot of laughs
For all of its positive qualities, VDC hasn’t caught up with the views of the majority on the trans-cult. There’s really no excuse for that.
Bill Oetjen, I know that they share/copy news from other sources and occasionally while editing the articles some things get missed… I think you’re wrong on your assessment.
Flu shots are not mrna yet. They have also NEVER been effective. Infact since their introduction the rate of flu deaths has never declined.
Wow how far we have come!
2 points:
1: during covid NAC was attempted to be taken off its OTC status and made a prescription (its an amino acid that’s effective in treating respiratory issues among a host of other benefits). I hoarded it but it was never taken off OTC. I Still take it 3-4X a week.
2: fyi your “unvaxed” status has its own medical code: Z28.310
More than ever, do your own research! It’s out there, just takes some digging
Z28.310
If someone chooses not to get vaccinated, it’s their business. Stop making them a statistic.
…..except that this ISN’T a vaccination.
Few, if any, people commenting did not live life pre-vaccines. I am not referencing COVID, but all tgr other comments regarding childhood vaccines.
Going back to acquired immunity by getting the disease instead of vaccinating against it is on the horizon. Then it’s a crap shoot on how you make out. Measles->meningitis, plus a hoard of other consequential disabilities, mumps->male sterility, chickenpox->encephalitis. And the list goes on.
It boggles the mind that the people who are the most vociferous antivaxxers are, in fact, fully vaccinated themselves.
It’s clear from your comment that you are germ theory believer… are you aware that on his deathbed, Pasteur admitted that Beauchamp was right that it’s terrain theory.
And yes, I was jabbed in my youth in the late 40’s and 50’s but not as an adult because I chose to lead a holistic lifestyle.
I also can’t believe that you think the pHarmaceutical industry would allow society to achieve acquired immunity…
I might suggest you read The Invisible Rainbow and Dissolving Illusions, both excellent books!
Maryann, the problem is not the vaccines. The problem is, they want MRNA technology to be the forefront for all vaccines in the future. The technology is flawed, and it killed numerous people. They did not die from Covid, they died from accelerated preexisting conditions, blown up by a safe and effective never before tested, population controlling poison. Then, the ones that might make it, were killed with remdesiver and intubated until death. We are not antivaxxers, we just dont trust the new vaccines. I dont trust that a doctor being paid to push any given medication truly cares about my well being. Covid proved that for me. Not ever going to enter my body if I have a say. My God protect us all from the evil in this world.
Covid came along, the hospitals did not have room for all of the victims, people with compromised lung health suffered terribly; Then the vaccines were hurried into production and a lot of people got them and the spread of the virus was greatly curtailed, those are facts.
Interesting… I saw empty hallways and dancing nurses. I also saw people were killed by using Remdesivir and blowing their lungs up with ventilators.
Cute Sally, never said I fully trusted Trump, never said I agreed with everything he does either. But, I am grateful for the changes he is making.
The comments on this thread are so hilarious. They identify an ignorance that is so pervasive amongst those who do not respect science. Take, for instance, the average lifespan of an american in the year 1800: 40 years. In 1900: 47 years. In 2020: 72. Why did the average lifespan grow so much over the last 100 years… science. Your welcome, say those of us who respect science. For those who prefer religion (as an aside) over science, over the past 2000 years before science gained traction, the gain in lifespan is negligible. …. also, science says ‘your welcome’ for the computer, the cellphone, propane, oil furnaces, internal combustion engines, fiberglass insulation, and of course medicine. …. This thread makes me think that some people are like plants who don’t appreciate water.
Is that why we’re the unhealthiest country in the developed world?
P.S. Your woodworking is beautiful!!!
There is a big difference between experimental science (covid injections) and proven science (polio vaccine). Eventually, the covid shot may be proven to be 100% effective, till then, people have a reason to be apprehensive as is their choice.
Yes science has done some great things. Many of the feats you mentioned were also accomplishments of Christian scientists! Might i suggest reading Turtles All The Way Down? I don’t believe what your observing is ignorance, quite the opposite really.
Even one of the inventors of the mRNA technology said and was seriously admonished, including death threats for it, that this technology was never intended to be or should not be used for a vaccine for healthy people. Was designed to remove fluid from an ill person, reengineer the genes and reinfect to cure. As far as general vaccines go, I am old enough to have seen the polio vaccine administered in schools and still have the mark from the smallpox vaccine, the school age required vaccinations for my kids when little was around 10 by graduation from HS, now understand the recommendations are for nearly 400 to be administered
The list of scientific achievements is not in question as it took more than one year to develop these wonders. I believe in science I just don’t believe that science should be exempt from all liability (like the manufacturers of the covid shot) for something that affects so many people.
Nick, my friendly waste of time. Trust Lord Fauci if you want, he killed numerous people, and beagles. If you can’t see, even as we speak, they are trying to kill us all, in any capacity possible, your an idiot. Trust the vaccines, trust the science, either way it doesn’t affect me in the least. We the true bloods, are not tainted. Hail the truthful science, for they would never make us sick to get more monies while fixing what they produced with more poison. Guess I’m not scientific enough to grasp the concept.
Then there’s shedding…..
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help”” Ronald Reagan. Like him or not, he nailed it on that one.
Free will to “trust the science” or trust one’s own gut instincts or personal experiences with bad reactions to big pharma chemical stews. The fact government officials forced and mandated medical treatments under threat and duress, without informed consent, without “normal” protocols, sign a waiver of liability, and perpetrated mass hysteria through propaganda, collusion, fraud, and corrption from the top down, globally, should be cause to pause. Yet, it did show that mass hysteria along with divide and conquer tactics remain the go to tools to gain absolute power and control over the masses. Depopulation, wealth transfer, reset – their foot is matted to the floor board and upon the necks of the People. They will not relent or recede from the agenda, as many can plainly see – while others rather remain ignornant and it suits them just fine. So be it.
The fact that a segment of Vermont society is passing on the bs is a good sign. It reflects the seared memories and stories from the Tuskeegee studies, Swine Flu, HIV, the grassy knoll, WWI “the war to end all wars”, and all other psyops perpetrated for generations are not forgotten. Stubborn as mules and smarter than the average bear – good to know the genuine authenticity remains and sustains.
I love reading your responses 🔥🔥🔥