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Have you been vaccinated for the Flu™ recently?

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KK said:
Get ready for the tards that say no one has ever got the flu from the flu shot/spray.
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The intramuscular flu shot isn't a live vaccine, it's inactivated, if you get sick you are just unlucky and are likely to have had a cold incubating. The nasal spray is a live attenuated vaccine, so you can get cold symptoms and feel lousy for a few days.
 
Brian Stirling said:
Got the flu shot 6 weeks ago and got a mild cold within days. Then, 3 weeks ago I got a really bad cold and am still recovering. Needed antibiotics to put a dent in it.

Yeah, the CDC admitted that this year's flu shot is pretty ineffective.


Brian
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The flu is a virus and antibiotics will do nothing against it, so you had something else.
 
When flu bring the family to their knees, I am the one who usually escapes with a minor sore throat, or cough. At worst, a mere nuisance I can easily work through.

So no, haven't had the shot, and I see no need to get one.
 
Wife is a teacher and we have a 5 and 3 year old, both in school. Combined they are exposed to at least 200 kids/day, so they are all walking Petri dishes of disease. I got the flu shot this year but wife did not. She got hit with the flu a few weeks ago and I thankfully escaped its wrath.

Of course now I've got a wicked stomach virus, so I guess we're even.
 
Seriously, stay the f*** away from kids. The last few major illnesses I got were from a boss's kids -- they infected him who infected me or I touched infected shit in his house.
 
Never have had a flu shot. Never plan to either, I see no reason to. I get the flu less often than some people I know of who regularly get the shot, so whatever.
 
Have not had one since I left the hospital job. When I worked there they'd go around all the offices with a cart and give it to anyone who wanted it so I'd just take it because it was convenient and given where I worked at was at higher risk of getting it and higher risk of giving it to someone else so it was the right thing to do. Now I'd have to go to the health unit or make a dr. appointment so I just don't bother. Lazy, I guess. 😛
 
Got one for the first time this year only because I have an infant in the house this winter.
 
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I've been getting a flu shot for about the past ten years; doctor's orders because of other complications making me potentially susceptible.

Also, I spend the winter months around school-aged kids.

My workplace offers them for free every year.



For those of you who aren't aware, the flu vaccination is also covertly being used by the US government to establish a national DNA database. It doesn't matter if you get the injection or the nasal spray, they're able to pull DNA off of either one.

Really.

😀
 
I would like to get flu shot, but I am allergic to raw egg yolks so I can't get one. A couple of months ago I was getting my physical and the doc asked about me getting a flu shot. I told her about my allergy and she says that I should not get the shot then.
 
Brian Stirling said:
Got the flu shot 6 weeks ago and got a mild cold within days. Then, 3 weeks ago I got a really bad cold and am still recovering. Needed antibiotics to put a dent in it.

Yeah, the CDC admitted that this year's flu shot is pretty ineffective.


Brian
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A. The flu is a virus, not a bacteria.

B. If you had to take antibiotics to clear up your cold then you had a bacterial infection.

C. If you had a bacterial infection then you did not have the flu.
 
Yes, always via the needle shot.

So far, no flu for me, just a cold here and there. Plus the insurance paid for it so no cost.
 
Once upon a time Santa Claus was actually real. Then he visited the home of every kid on planet earth and died from 785,000 strains of flu simultaneously.
 
Imp said:
Seriously, stay the f*** away from kids. The last few major illnesses I got were from a boss's kids -- they infected him who infected me or I touched infected shit in his house.
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Yep when school starts is especially the worse time. Everybody here who has kids is sick like a dog around that time and throughout the school year. I seem to be the only one that's not sick all the time. I did catch some weird coughing virus a few weeks back though but was my first time being sick in years. Also learned that antibiotics don't kill viruses... I thought that's what they were FOR. But bacteria and virus are actually two different things, who would have thought.
 
I know it doesn't make sense, but I got the flu every year I got the flu-shot and never got the flu a year I did not get the flu-shot, so I don't get the flu-shot anymore. Haven't had the flu in 10 years.
 
Svnla said:
Why there is a "tm" right at the Flu in the thread title?
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Its part of my cute and quirky nature.

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Leros said:
I know it doesn't make sense, but I got the flu every year I got the flu-shot and never got the flu a year I did not get the flu-shot, so I don't get the flu-shot anymore. Haven't had the flu in 10 years.
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Can I send you a bodily fluid sample that you promise to ingest? :sneaky:
 
Mine is mandatory. Boo.

I think its pointless. If I got the flu I'd be sick for a week, but odds are on any particular year I wouldn't get the flu since I've never had it my whole life. But I get the flu shot and I feel "under the weather" while my immune system is activated for 2-3 days.

Only way it would be worth it is if I got the flu every other year or so. And that doesn't happen. I'm too busy to feel like crud for 3 days. Fuuuuuuu dat shit.
 
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