Flu vaccine

Do you get an annual flu vaccine?

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Hunter44 said:
The risks heavily outweigh the "benefits" of the shot. Seen first hand what it can cause many times in my field of study. @trailhugger, seen that disease a few times, my grandfather was one of the victims
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poison.

I'll take my chances w/ the flu


Infamous1 said:
I think its governments way of overtaking our brains.........
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that and the fluoridated water...where's my tinfoil hat?
 
drkelly said:
Healthy people do not die from the Flu
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The Spanish Flu killed 5% of the world's population. The swine flu in 2010 killed like 300,000. I guess you've never heard of a cytokine storm? I mean.... shit: My wife is in the hospital need your prayers!!

But that's not really the point -- healthy people are encouraged to get the flu shot because of the herd immunity it confers on children, the ill, and the elderly, some of whom may be too ill or too young to receive the vaccination, but for the same reasons would be most likely to die if they got the virus.
 
ecoast said:
that and the fluoridated water...where's my tinfoil hat?
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I'm very happy that no one has mentioned the (completely disproven) vaccine-autism link. It's rare to see a vaccine discussion where someone doesn't try to propagate that pseudo science bullshit that had become a pet cause for celebrities and people looking to blame someone.

Wait, I just mentioned it. Shit, I've just become the thing I despise!
 
Not all but some, maybe even a majority. Even if the vaccine isn't the same strain, it confers some immunity.

Every wonder if the vaccine strain and the prevalent strain end up being different, not because anyone made a mistake or guessed wrong, because there was enough herd immunity to the vaccine strain?
 
trailhugger said:
Not all but some, maybe even a majority. Even if the vaccine isn't the same strain, it confers some immunity.
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Yup. One of the theories as to why as many older folks didn't die from the Spanish flu is because they had been exposed to the earlier Russian Flu, which was similar.

Likewise, getting the flu shot every year (even if it turns out not to be the "right" strain that season) lends some protection against similar strains years later.
 
I don't know anything about the vaccine/autism link, but I can say with absolute certainty that there are some obscure side effects to certain vaccines that nobody seems to know about and when asked about them, everyone seems to "know nothing".

Case in point:

When I met my wife, she was a 30-something single mom/OT student. She was working on her degree and at the time had no medical insurance (pre-Obamacare). She was required to get an MMR shot due to her having to work (for free) at Kindred Hospital in Greensboro. Since she had no money, she had to go to the Health Department for this shot to be administered. Within hours of the shot, one side of her face began to droop and she was diagnosed with Bels Palsy. Worst part of this was that it happened just prior to our engagement pictures. Some of her patients actually thought she was making fun of them since the day before her face was "normal" and now was distorted.

She had never had any signs or symptoms prior or since. Fast forward a couple years to her working at a different hospital and having to get tested for the MMR titer again. They tell her that she has to get another MMR shot because it wasn't registering. Magically, even though she can provide the exact date of the MMR shot at the Health Department, there is no record of her getting the shot, the follow-up visits to determine that she had Bels Palsy nor any record of the doctor or clinician she saw either time there. Twilight Zone kinda stuff. She was finally exempted from the MMR shot after much struggle.
 
drkelly said:
Flu vaccine is $1.6 billion dollar business
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Maybe Bernie can do something about that. Nationalize big pharma? Confiscatory rates on their profits? Surely there's a way we can get that money back from them.

On the other hand, paying $15 to decrease the likelihood that you contract a virus that might kill you seems like a pretty good deal. I mean, as a country, we spend more than $1.5B on gasoline every week.
 
shawn said:
Maybe Bernie can do something about that. Nationalize big pharma? Confiscatory rates on their profits? Surely there's a way we can get that money back from them.
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I thought Killiary was going after big pharma?



I get the shot every year..
 
I had to get mine yesterday. Feel drained today. Headache that no amount of coffee will help, low energy. Just feel blah.
 
I never got the shot and never had the flu until the one year I was forced to get the shot and then I got the flu. And decided to never get the shot again, but I've gotten the flu a couple times since then.....that damn flu shot weakened my natural immunity to the flu!!!
 
No reason not to get it, if you get the flu after the shot it is less severe. Anyone that gets sick from a normal flu shot was either already sick or had random shitty luck. The shot is a inactive virus so there is no chance of getting it but it also is not effective for 2 to 3 weeks after administered.
 
Nobody could pay me any amount of $$ to get one.
 
trailhugger said:
Guillain-Barré Syndrome is an autoimmune disease triggered by bacterial or viral infections, such as the flu. I used to work with a girl who had it after a flu shot.
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My mom had that. Damn near killed her. It either starts at your feet and come up or starts at your head and goes down. You better hope it starts at your feet.

It made it to mid torso on my mom before they did a blood transfusion and stopped it. Took her several months to learn to walk again and years with a cane.
 
I'm in the "got the shot, got the flu" camp, so I don't get one.

Duane
 
I had to take the flew shot as a requirment for tearing down part of a hospital in january. I got the shot at 7am last wednesday and left work friday sick. Atleast its paid time off i guess.
 
I'm required to for work. So i did....but I didn't. Can't elaborate here but you can PM me.

I'd never, ever had the flu, until the first year I had to get the vaccine.

Ed: forgot to mention that the 2nd year I got the vaccine, my whole left arm went numb, and had tingling in my face on the same side that got,the shot. It was disturbing enough that I went to the ER, and I'd rather have a tooth pulled than sit in an ER.
 
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I've had bad luck w doctors, dentists and surgeries my whole life. With my luck the shot would prolly kill me so I'll take my chances w/o it and have never had one. I have not had the flu in well over a decade.
 
I usually get it unless I forget to. The wife is required to by her employer. Ain't skeered
 
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