This is probably not something you thought you’d need to factor into your decision-making.

Maybe you’re like me. I used to think that vaccine bottles contained some form of antigen and saline, and not much else.

And then I learned about mercury. And aluminum.

I thought these things were probably bad to have injected into our bodies. Alas, I did not know vaccines contained these and other materials when I was making most of my vaccine decisions.

I started to question the process after I became a nurse. In nursing school, I was taught that nurses need a physician’s order to administer a drug. After I graduated and was out in the ‘real world’, I learned about flu shots being given out in the community at senior centers and such. I asked how nurses could be giving these shots to people without a doctor’s order. I asked about the process of informed consent, which I was taught was required before any medical intervention. Keep reading