The Flu Shot

[jackofthedawn]

I've had the flu. It's no picnic. I'd much rather get a quick poke once a year than experience that 2 weeks of hell (or maybe worse).

A very few people have an allergic reaction to the vaccine. If you are one of those, you'd best encourage everyone around you to get vaccinated so you can benefit from herd immunity.

 

[Lancecastor]

One of my ex-coworkers got the flu shot every year. She also got the flu every year. No, not right after getting the shot.

I never get the flu shot. I have had flu exactly twice in my whole life, and it's been a while.

Did you know the moon is made of Gorgonzola?

 

[Lord Pmann]

It's better than the AIDS shot. That thing is a motherfucker. They inject just a little bit of the virus in me. I get sick, but I can fuck all the hookers I like with no worries!!!

 

[gypsyTX]

So Uncle Sugar just emailed me and told me to go to Walgrens and get my free flu shot. ...

On a separate note, there is no such thing as free.

Did you know the moon is made of Gorgonzola?

You don't say!

 

[pointless]

personally, i've found that being a reclusive weirdo is the best kind of flue prevention available.

 

[evesdream]

So Uncle Sugar just emailed me and told me to go to Walgrens and get my free flu shot. I'm torn because I like free stuff... but I've never had the flu. And I don't know where there's a Walgrens; but I could googlize that.

What's the opinion on getting a flu shot?

I'm leaning toward no.


Over the years I've sure abused my body and had more injuries than most; but, I can't recall ever being sick. Sniffles on occasion, but nothing that kept me in bed.

Part of me thinks it may not be a good idea to be injected with something.

The only flu that worries me a bit is bird flu, for obvious reasons.

 

[trysail]

I understand the distinction, and you're absolutely right about all this, but for a "young" man like Mr. Savage the point is, does this intervention make me feel better or worse?

Of course, in the eyes of the medical community that is not the point at all. The point is we're trying to prevent an epidemic here, and we don't give a damn how it makes you feel for a couple of days.

Being right about the wisdom and scientific facts of the matter doesn't make it any less of a tough sell to young studs and nubile maidens who've never contracted the flu after walking unscathed through throngs of infected unfortunates.

We take a chance in getting our kids immunized in their early days and years, but if nobody took that chance the result would ultimately be worse for the population as a whole. Or so we're told.

And no one in their right minds questions the necessity for that with regard to Typhus, Polio, Smallpox and Tuberculosis. The flu, while critically threatening to a specific demographic, does not represent a similar dire threat to the larger body politic.

I've had the flu. It's no picnic. I'd much rather get a quick poke once a year than experience that 2 weeks of hell (or maybe worse).

A very few people have an allergic reaction to the vaccine. If you are one of those, you'd best encourage everyone around you to get vaccinated so you can benefit from herd immunity.

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[JohnnySavage]

On a separate note, there is no such thing as free.

True. In my case, it cost me about two feet of small intestine.

 

[JohnnySavage]

The only flu that worries me a bit is bird flu, for obvious reasons.

Owl flu is the worst!

 

[pointless]

The only flu that worries me a bit is bird flu, for obvious reasons.

because you're a sparrow?

 

[Aella_]

BTW:
http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2...ed-dogs-can-develop-immune-mediated-diseases/
"Schultz adds that veterinarians who have switched to the three-year, instead of annual, vaccination program have found no increase in the number of dogs with vaccine-preventable diseases."

((entirely different from humans, of course))

 

[toubab]

And no one in their right minds questions the necessity for that with regard to Typhus, Polio, Smallpox and Tuberculosis. The flu, while critically threatening to a specific demographic, does not represent a similar dire threat to the larger body politic.

I think you underestimate the potential of the flu virus, or one of its strains, to kill millions or even tens or hundreds of millions of humans at some point in the future. It only takes one mutation.

 

[Aella_]

I think you underestimate the potential of the flu virus, or one of its strains, to kill millions or even tens or hundreds of millions of humans at some point in the future. It only takes one mutation.

Could it -potentially- become less effective if used year after year? Yes.
But safety-wise? It Is safe. Studies attest to this.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I think you underestimate the potential of the flu virus, or one of its strains, to kill millions or even tens or hundreds of millions of humans at some point in the future. It only takes one mutation.

At the risk of seeming to quibble, I think the key word here is "potential." I do not mean to minimize the potential effect of the flu which you have correctly summarized. But when comparing it to Typhus, Smallpox and Polio, we aren't talking about potential. The devastation of those diseases is well proven.

And one can reasonably argue that the comparison I am making is somewhat off point. If the POINT is that the flu is potentially lethal to millions of people, then the POINT would be that most people should get the vaccine.

I would not deny that. But I also understand why Johnny might not and why I didn't back in those heady days when I thought I was bulletproof and furthermore thought I was proving it every year by NOT getting the flu.

 

[warrior queen]

I had my first ever flu shot in 2014. Approximately 10 days later, I came down with just about every illness you can name
I had the flu (the strain NOT covered by the shot), conjunctivitis, bronchitis, sinusitis - in effect, I caught every respiratory tract illness. I stayed sick for almost 4 months!
My doctor believes that my immune system was battling the shot so hard it left me vulnerable to everything else.

This year I did not get the shot. Apart from a short cold, I got no other illness.

I will not be getting the shot again.

 

[Whiskey1965]

I like to think back to the time they, the labs ran out of that years flu shot and went into over drive to get the shots made and flu season was over.
so the next year they give anyone flu shots and only after a month does the news come out the flu you got wasn't protecting you from this years flu strain and people go sick in droves as their bodies were working to build anti bodies against the old flu strain and they got hit with the new strain and their bodies reacted by getting sick.

So I wash my hands, don't touch the counter tops stay the hell away from all Starbucks and only get a flu shot every few years allowing my body to work is defense system like people do their muscles at the gym.

At the end of the day its a crap shoot and no one wants to admit there's just no cure and nature will claim those it wants and why over population ideas are so stupid.

Got the flu under control ,well lets start shipping Ebloa infected folks to America and see what happens?

I'm more worried about getting Legionnaires sickness as we all love ac!

So flu shot get or don't your choice it's not a law yet!

 

[Oh_That_Guy]

I like to think back to the time they, the labs ran out of that years flu shot and went into over drive to get the shots made and flu season was over.
so the next year they give anyone flu shots and only after a month does the news come out the flu you got wasn't protecting you from this years flu strain and people go sick in droves as their bodies were working to build anti bodies against the old flu strain and they got hit with the new strain and their bodies reacted by getting sick.

So I wash my hands, don't touch the counter tops stay the hell away from all Starbucks and only get a flu shot every few years allowing my body to work is defense system like people do their muscles at the gym.

At the end of the day its a crap shoot and no one wants to admit there's just no cure and nature will claim those it wants and why over population ideas are so stupid.

Got the flu under control ,well lets start shipping Ebloa infected folks to America and see what happens?

I'm more worried about getting Legionnaires sickness as we all love ac!

So flu shot get or don't your choice it's not a law yet!

I think you drank too much of your name.

 

[Saint Peter]

I just lick the handrail at the bus terminal.

 

[Oh_That_Guy]

I just lick the handrail at the bus terminal.

Good way to build immunity against pretty much everything.

 

[oggbashan]

I just lick the handrail at the bus terminal.

It doesn't make the buses come any sooner.

To build up immunities, or to catch anything going around, just take a cruise on a large cruise ship.

 

[lovetoread]

I got mine this morning and my arm is swollen, it hurts very much, and I have a fever.

 

[evesdream]

Owl flu is the worst!

because you're a sparrow?

Sorry, I was busy fluffing my feathers.

 

[Robum11]

Every year I get the flu shot I get the flu. The last 2 years I haven't gotten it and I have been fine. Not sure what to do this year...

 

[BoyNextDoor]

How did you make Uncle Sugar's list?

 

[Noor]

I got the flu shot a few weeks ago. My arm didn't get swollen nor did I get a fever.
I got the preservative free quad shot. It's kind of cold when it goes in.

The last time I got the real flu, I was feeling fine, was coming home from food shopping for a holiday weekend just totally hit the wall as I was trying to get in the door.

Luckily, someone realized was was happening and got the door open, me inside, my groceries away and convinced me to lock the door and go to bed. I did not get up for days, I was so weak my bed covers seems to weigh a ton. I was hot, then cold, it was a living hell.