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Take this from someone who wound up in the Emergency Room years ago with a 104 temp and felt like I was about to explode... I had missed my flu shot that year or maybe two.
Understand this... The vaccine does NOT guarantee you won't get the flu! But what it will do, is reduce the severity of the symptoms if you do catch it! Once you understand this, you won't ever deliberately miss getting it if you've had the flu as an adult. |
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I'm legitimately curious how many of you anti-vaxxers work in the Medical or Biomedical Research fields? Forget about being a full-fledged Physician, just in any capacity? Where do you get your information from?
Flu Shots are not some conspiracy we are pushing on you. It is backed by countless scientific evidence. Every year there are thousands of strains of the Flu, many of which are new and cannot be prepared for. But what the Flu shot does is protect you from the most COMMON strains. Even if you aren't worried about getting the Flu yourself, think of the weak and immunocompromised amongst us; such as children, the elderly, Cancer patients, etc. |
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"I've never gotten the shot and have never gotten sick so I dont need it" and "All my friends got the shot and got the flu, so I'm not gonna get it." So much ignorance it's just funny at this point
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That is not how the vaccine or vaccines in general work. It's like saying when I stepped in a puddle my feet got wet, so I'm not going to walk on side walks anymore.
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09-21-2018, 07:39 AM | #52 |
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You are right, they are not "mandated" no one can mandate you to get a vaccine man. But unless you want the child or elder to get pneumonia then it's very recommended.
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Some classic flat-earthers here for sure. It sounds innocuous, but flu is one of the major killers worldwide. Vaccines (like e/t else in life) aren't 100%, but a free shot that cuts the odds that much is a good thing. Don't know if you all realize it, but your not getting vaccinated is a big factor in how quickly the viruses continue to adapt to the new vaccines. Not much smallpox about these days....
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Scary that the current era of 'believe what you want, call the rest 'fake news' is undermining the foundation of scientific knowledge - the scientific process is really is one of mankind's greatest accomplishments: a system to counteract our brains inherent ability to bullshit ourselves into believing just what we want to, instead of what is really happening. It does, occasionally, produce uncomfortable or unwanted results. But what do I know, I'm just a cog in that system. With all this industry conspiracy, the human lifespan has been shrinking over the past few centuries, right? clear proof that all this 'sciency stuff' is just a gimmick - none of it actually WORKS. |
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I don't have any plans to get the flu shot, but I know these anti-vax people for their kids & shit are complete morons. So am I still anti-vax? |
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^ He was being sarcastic! Of course human life spans have been getting longer... but that is due to the advancement of science/medicine. That's was his point which got lost in black and white text.
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That's kind of a dumb statement which I'll disregard. She get in her car and not riding the PT. I would be sick too. Have you ever been to a pharmacy? Its a cease pool of germs.
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I used to never get the flu shot, mostly because everyone I observed seemed to get flu like symptoms (though only for 2-3 days at most, so not the actual flu) from getting the shot. That was initially the case, though I noticed that this seemed to be declining year over year where less people got those symptoms.
It wasn't that I thought the shot was going to give me the flu, I just felt it was only a possibility, not a guarantee that it would prevent me from getting the flu...and to potentially deal with flu like symptoms for a few days for only a possibility that it would protect me - I just decided to take my chances and not bother with it. This was true until I had kids. Babies especially are very susceptible, so at that point, I was happy to get the shot on the off chance it would prevent me from getting the flu, because it is my kid in the mix now - it isn't just me. And I will continue to get it until the youngest is about 3 or 4 years old for that reason. And then, who knows, may go back to not getting it. |
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i never got the flu shot, and the last time i got a flu was like 5-7 years ago.
gym is way better than the shot Last edited by Audioslave686; 09-21-2018 at 07:43 PM.. |
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and I get the flu about as much as anyone who gets flu vaccines "On February 22, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court shielded drug companies from all liability for harm caused by vaccines mandated by government when companies could have made a safer vaccine. 1 From now on, drug companies selling vaccines in America will not be held accountable by a jury of our peers in a court of law if those vaccines brain damage us but could have been made less toxic. 2 If you get paralyzed by a flu shot or your child has a serious reaction to a vaccine required for school and becomes learning disabled, epileptic, autistic, asthmatic, diabetic or mentally retarded, you are on your own." |
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1. You didn't post any sources, but I know these are actually true 2. You're a guy (I assume) and I am too....a straight one. |
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