Do you get the flu shot?

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

I do. The one from 2014 fucked my shit up for weeks. "deactivated virus" my ass. I was never that sick from the ACTUAL flu. I wasn't the only one, either.

Correlation does not equal causation.
I heard a few people in the hospital say the same thing but their illnesses were not necessarily caused by the shot.

 

[clutchgnp]

I got the flu the 2nd day of my vacation in the Philippines and it sucked. I learned my lesson. I'm getting a flu shot this fall since I'm planning on going back to the Philippines around the same time next year.

 

[clutchgnp]

I haven't had one since i was a kid and I'm just now starting to feel better after having the Flu all week. Had all week off of work, vomiting, shivering, 103 fever. Still light headed and dealing with blood in my mucus. It's terrible.

Ouch that sounded bad. I had a fever for two days with shivering and a bad unproductive cough that lasted for two weeks. I don't know if the warm tropical weather helped in the Philippines, but my vacation would've been in complete ruin if I came down with something that bad.

 

[NHB7]

When it is made particularly convenient. One year they brought pros to my work place so we could get the shot if we wanted.

 

[mushishi]

Hell, no, because I ain't no bitch. Where you at, influenza? Don't be scared, homie!

 

[Clippy]

You guys are hard as fuck

 

[weich]

To be fair I do think we coddle our immune system systems too much, using hand sanitizer all the time ... getting flu shots....

We're weakening ourself as a species, our bodies need to have full access to germs so our immune system can practive and learn to protect ourselves. Just like doing push ups to build muscle, or studying for a test.

So we are coddle our immune systems by strengthening it with a vaccine? That's not great logic.

The only reason people have the luxury of choosing whether or not to get vaccines is because vaccines have been so effective in limiting massive outbreaks that people don't fully appreciate how dangerous disease is.

In the 20th century, Small Pox, which was succesfully eliminated in the 70s because of vaccines, killed an estimated 300 million people:

Caused by the variola virus, smallpox is one of the most devastating diseases known to humankind (see Box 1.1 Fact $le – smallpox). Prior to 1960, smallpox ranked with malaria and tuberculosis as the main causes of death due to infectious disease. In 1967, there were around 10–15 million cases of smallpox in the world each year, a $gure which had dropped from around 50 million cases a year in the 1950s. One group of experts has estimated the global death toll from smallpox during the 20th century to have been around 300 million. !is contrasts with, for example, a recent estimate by the New York Times that 100 million people died during the 20th century either directly or indirectly as a result of war and armed conflict.

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If that virus was still floating around, killing hundreds of millions of people, there would be no anti-vaccine conflict.

 

[John Stockton]

I have to every year, but otherwise I probably wouldn't.

 

[fluffball]

I think a lot of people in here don't know what the hell the flu is. You don't "get sick" from the flu, it can put you in the hospital and it can kill you. Or more likely you survive and it kills some baby.

 

[Clippy]

@weich Just cause less people die thanks to vaccines doesn't mean we aren't slowly weakening our genome as time goes on, humans adapt to what they need to as we evolve through-out the centuries. If we no longer need to make our immune system work to full capacity to you think the human body will keep passing to new generations? We're going to evolve right out of the ability to fix ourselves without medicine and in say the year 3000 a slight breeze could kill you. Fuck I forgot to get my anti-breeze shot.

 

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

recombinant bovine dna keeps u feeling amazing. the flu cant touch u now.

 

[Lethal_Striker]

Don't you get a little bit sick shortly after getting the shot? Which I think kind of defeats the purpose of the shot.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Not since high school.
Haven't gotten the flu once since high school. I'm early 30s.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

There's this one girl at my work who gets sick like every 3 months i don't understand .

Because she prob treats her body like garbage and takes medicine for every little thing.

The more meds you take the sicker you get and more often. I firmly believe this.

 

[PhitePhan]

When people say "I don't ever get sick I don't see any reason to get it", it's not for you. It's for all the young, elderly and those with shitty immune systems you live around. If you're not in a risk group, or around risky individuals, it's less clear what your choice should be. And with that said, no, I haven't had a flu shot in over 10 years at least because I know the flu won't kill me or anyone else I live with.

Care to show the evidence that the elderly and/or young are benefitted by the flu shot?

 

[HomeRun916]

Once a year.

 

[Iscariott]

I used to work in a pharmacy and essentially had to get them(corporate goals, I'm a whore). I stopped after watching either the 2013 or 2014 vintage fuck up about half the people I knew who got it. Legit sick for a week, not quite a full on flu but fuck that. I've never gotten the flu in my adult life, and no longer play the flu shot lotto.

Good news is when the big one hits and you all turn into zombies, I'll get to be a character on the RL Walking Dead. Bad news is I'm fat as fuck and die episode 1.

 

[lsa]

I got it a while back.. it was awful

 

[HwoarangStyle]

Fuck no, the flu gets hwoarang shots.

 

[JinKazama]

i work at a hospital too so i get it as well

virus mutates so who knows how well the flu shot actually covers the current seasons strain