Flu Shot Efficacy

[soulcougher73]

I eat flu for breakfast and shit it out at night. Pfft Flu.

 

[shortylickens]

you have to get the flu shot every year or it's useless, I thought this was common knowledge.
Flu evolves at blazing speed, that's why every year they get all kinds of flu they can from Australia (or whatever is the first place where it arrives) and then sell the shots in Europe before it arrives.
If you don't do every year, it will work 100% just for the year you've done it.

I used to stay ill 1 week with flu and vomiting and diarrhea every year.
I started taking the flu shot every October and I've never been ill ever since, just a cold occasionally (max 1-2 times per winter).

If you rarely get the flu then don't bother ofc, unless flu puts you at risk of complications (elderly etc.).

It does but therein lay the problem.
Each year they only give you immunity to the 2 or 3 strains they feel you are likely to get. With thousands of strains running around it doesnt give you much protection.

you still need to practice safe habits like cleaning hands and not getting touchy feely with strangers.

 

[Apple Of Sodom]

How so?
Only "controversial" to nutty anit-vaccine people.

I'm not anti-vaccine. I have been vaccinated against many things. My children receive vaccines. I am anti-flu vaccine though. It is not effective and fairly new. I know many, many physicians who refuse to get it. Not necessarily because they think it will cause harm, but because it doesn't really do any good and why inject stuff into your body when there is no rationale?

It is sad you lump all people against one vaccine into anti-vaccine nuts. I simply believe in the minimum necessary and that in 20 years we will look back on this time and say "REALLY!? We were injecting that?" in the same way we look back on practices that were normal 20 years ago from today and say "I can't believe we actually did that..." OTOH, I may look back and say "I should have gotten it..." Doubtful, though.

It is controversial. The fact that you can't even acknowledge that it is controversial just shows how narrow minded you are. The fact that there are lawsuits over the vaccine and hundreds of articles siding one way or the other proves it is controversial.

 

[edro]

I don't think I have ever had the flu.
I have had numerous upper respiratory infections (hacking, coughing, stuffy nose) though, most of which are viral.
I started investigating the flu shot more, to see if they could prevent my infections.

Nope... they can't.

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