AN OPEN LETTER by Dr. Paul G. King
 
Based on apparently the only double-blind placebo-controlled influenza vaccination and outcomes study conducted  (in healthy children 6 to 15 years of age), which has been published in a peer-reviewed journal, it is clear that getting a flu shot greatly increases the risk (by 4-plus-fold) that a person who receives it will contract and potentially spread one or more non-influenza respiratory viruses, some of which can be serious and morbid infections in humans (see study) 
 
In addition, the study established that the overall effect of vaccination for those who were vaccinated did not differ from the effect of giving a sterile-saline placebo when it came to protection from subsequently contracting influenza.
 
Any recommendation to vaccinate healthcare workers with an influenza vaccine not only put the healthcare worker at a higher increased risk of contracting non-influenza viral respiratory infections but also every patient with which he or she has contact.
 
 
 a. Support abandoning a mask-wearing practice that
     will be ineffective in protecting the patients and,
     given the cited paper’s findings, is clearly
     discriminatory — which, because wearing a mask
     causes the wearer discomfort, is worse than some
     “Star of David”-like identifier — without any
     scientific or medical validity, or
 b. If there is scientific proof that wearing the masks
     provided to healthcare workers absolutely stops the
     transmission of all respiratory viruses, demand that
     all healthcare workers who get a flu shot or the live
     influenza vaccine (which is known to spread the
     influenza viruses it contains for weeks) must also
     similarly wear a mask after being inoculated since,
     based on this study,
      1. Those healthcare who have received a flu dose
          are at a 4-plus-fold increased risk infecting
          others with a non-influenza respiratory viral
          infection than that infection risk from those
          healthcare workers who get no flu shot and
      2. Both groups, influenza-vaccine-inoculated  and
          the non-inoculated, apparently have a similar
          risk of subsequently contracting and spreading
          an influenza virus.
Source: Oxford Journals/Clinical Infectious Diseases Put the title (below)  in the search engine
Increased Risk of Noninfluenza Respiratory Virus Infections Associated With Receipt of Inactivated Influenza Vaccine