Do you take the flu shot?

got mine last week

people who think flu shots are bad for you are idiots who buy into nonsense

FLU SHOTS DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM

 

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No. They don't. No one in this thread said that. Calm the caps lock.

 

eh, i felt it was worth exclamation. theres a boatload of people who buy into that nonsense

 

I think people are talking about other vaccines, the standard ones every kid gets. Smallpox and whatever else.

Which may or may not be true, I don't know enough about it to say either way. And I'm not a scientist.

I had a coworker (he just got fired) who won't vaccinate his kids and they are going to home school them because of that. He also won't own a smart phone because of the gov't spying. He has a little prepaid flip phone.

 

I don't really think anyone with a healthy immune system needs the flu shot. The elderly and people with compromised immune systems benefit from it. Healthy people in the prime of their life will at most spend a week in bed with the flu. They aren't going to die from it. I can understand why companies push the flu shot on their employees - taking sick days for the flu effects productivity. My company gives free flu shots but we don't have to take it.

I've only had the flu once. At that point I had never had the flu vaccine. I did get it in the three years following the flu because I worked in a healthcare setting at the time.

when I had the flu it was horrible - fever, chills, awful body aches, this dry, unproductive cough that made me feel like my lungs were on fire. But my mom made me soup and I lived.

I also think the chicken pox vaccine is completely unnecessary. Chicken pox used to be a rite of passage for a 3 year old.

 

I have only gotten it when it was free. Maybe 6 or 7 times as an adult. Cant remember the last time i had the flu.

 

I have gotten the flu shot for the last several years as I became more involved in helping care for my parents. Mom was in a nursing home the last couple years of her life and Dad has been in and out of hospital and rehab a few times over the last few years. I always thought getting the shot was the responsible thing to do in my case but I have never had the flu.

 

This. You don't really need to create a vaccination campaign for something that is just one step up from a common cold.

 

Never had one, never felt like I needed one.. You get the flu, you feel like shit for a while, you get better. Last vaccination I had was meningitis when I was too young to legally say no. After that, nothing.

Not like I think they don't work, or that they're harmful, I just don't want any. No reason needed.

 

Nobody here takes flu shots, except sometimes old people.

 

I have been I had a weak immune system once and felt in a category to get a flu shot (like Bird said, no healthy person here gets one, except elderly or other people with lowered immune systems). So I went and got the shot and got the flu in the next week. Never got one again.

 

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Cheers Glen.

 

hell yes...every year....because I am round lotsa kid relatives...don't want those little buggers to get me sick

 

I was sick and that caused me to temporarily fell in a category for people to whom it's recommended to get the flu shot. I thought well why not. I think I might have worded it wrong, my body was just more vulnerable due to that. Hmm, that's a weak immune system right? In any case it was nothing life threatening.

 

No.

 

I was very interested in reading if you posted to this thread. You've lived in different countries, right?

About the shots, I'm glad to hear it ^. I've never had a flu shot. I can't remember having it but maybe once in the last 10 years, and it wasn't as bad as some people have it.

 

I should have mentioned that I live in the Netherlands. Here it is not common for healthy people to take flu shots. I think it will even be advised against taking a flu shot if you are under 60 and healthy.

http://translate.google.nl/translat...//www.rivm.nl/Onderwerpen/G/Griepprik&act=url

 

I rarely get sick so I don't think a flu shot is necessary.

 

I don't get sick too often either. especially not with the flu. Not sure the last time I even had it. But the last three times my mom got her flu shot, she got really sick. So I choose to just stay away from it.
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