People that don't get vaccinated...

[BUTCH1]

I don't get sick. Im a picture of good health. I'll leave the flu immunizations for the sickly and weak.

It is IRRELEVANT what your current state of health is in regards to contracting a flu virus, it probably won't affect you for as long or as bad as someone with underlying health issues but you CAN get the flu.

 

[mcveigh]

maybe I'm afraid of getting narcolepsy.

http://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/c..._assessing/narcolepsy_statement/en/index.html

it wasn't the H1N1 flu in the vaccine it was one of the other additives they think caused it.

 

[PowerYoga]

I live in Denmark and our healthcare system is different from yours, but I can't even be bothered to go see if I can get it elsewhere. I've never had a flu shot and I haven't had the flu for the better part of a decade, I'm a healthy, fit adult in his 20's, the flu is just above "dying of old age" on the list of medical emergencies.

When you're too sick to get out of the bed to pour yourself some water, the flu will jump to the top of your "shit I never want to get" list. Though I understand the inconvenience of not wanting to go to the doctor to get a measly flu shot... here in the states you just walk to a local pharmacy like CVS or walgreens and in 10 minutes you're done.

 

[RedRooster]

I want to get the flu. Unlimited paid days off work until I'm feeling better? Sign me up!

 

[MovingTarget]

I voted no because of the lazy and the ignorant anti-vaxxers. Fuck you guys for reducing our herd immunity.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I haven't had flu since I can remember. Why should I get vaccine?

If you have a baby, won't you get them vaccines?
At the very least, vaccines for, Polio, MMR, DTP, and Hepatitis B???

As far as why you should get a flu shot, that's not nearly as critical as the other vaccines I mentioned, but, there's two reasons to consider it.
1.) you seem to like not being sick, flu shot will help to prevent you from getting the flu and
2.) to prevent a flu epidemic by slowwing or stopping it's spread by having more people not infected with influenza.

 

[Jeff7]

Hate hate hate needles, and the severe plummet in blood pressure that follows. Immunization, blood samples, whatever. Needle goes in, blood pressure falls, and I'd better lie down so I don't throw up and/or pass out. Sucks.

I will get immunizations for things that are easily crippling or fatal, or diseases that are effectively or nearly dead in the wild, and should stay that way.
I haven't had flu shots though. I don't think I've ever had flu, or if I have, it's been indistinguishable from a regular cold.

 

[jumpncrash]

I rather not have mind control drugs injected into my arms, thankyouverymuch

 

[Paratus]

I rather not have mind control drugs injected into my arms, thankyouverymuch

Judging from this post it's too late already.

 

[airdata]

For me it's more about choosing not to have random shit injected in my body.

If I'm already unlikely to contract flu strain x00003134211, I don't need to have them inject me w\ flu strain x00999993223 to provide no protection to the disease currently circulating.

 

[airdata]

http://midtown.fox2now.com/news/news/81271-cancer-drug-kids-dangerously-short-supply

A drug used to treat children with leukemia is in short supply, so short that some hospitals fear they may run out of it.

The critical shortage of the drug methotrexate means that chemotherapy sessions for some children with leukemia at local hospitals have been changed or cut back.

The nationwide shortage is because a factory in Ohio making the drug has been shut down because of quality control concerns.

It's also because methotrexate doesn't produce a big profit margin for drug companies, so other companies have simply stopped making it.

Right now children who need the drug are being scheduled for treatment on the same day. Others are not given the full doses they used to get. And nationwide supplies might start running out in some places within days.

Also because big pharma is a bunch of cunts who are just out to make a buck and could care less about people's health.

 

[lozina]

My immune system works fine.

Feeble body people need flu shots.

 

[ichy]

I want to get the flu. Unlimited paid days off work until I'm feeling better? Sign me up!

Fuck that, I'd rather be at work than have the flu.

 

[ichy]

Also because big pharma is a bunch of cunts who are just out to make a buck and could care less about people's health.

If they didn't care about making a profit they would go out of business and nobody would be making drugs.

 

[ichy]

My immune system works fine.

Feeble body people need flu shots.

Lol. The sick and elderly are safer with a flu shot. If you're healthy the flu won't kill you but fuck sitting around being miserable for days. A flu shot costs me nothing, takes five minutes of my time and has never resulted in any side effects. I intend to keep getting them. I'd survive the flu just fine if I got it but I'm not going to increase my chances of feeling like complete and utter shit for several days.

 

[zinfamous]

People that don't get vaccinated...

...should be culled from the general population and their precious essence harvested for the betterment of society.

 

[lxskllr]

...should be culled from the general population and their precious essence harvested for the betterment of society.

 

[vi edit]

Lol. The sick and elderly are safer with a flu shot. If you're healthy the flu won't kill you but fuck sitting around being miserable for days. A flu shot costs me nothing, takes five minutes of my time and has never resulted in any side effects. I intend to keep getting them. I'd survive the flu just fine if I got it but I'm not going to increase my chances of feeling like complete and utter shit for several days.

People think about individual effects. There's a much bigger factor at play called herd immunity. The more people that are vaccinated, the more resistant we are as a population as a whole...and that even includes non-vaccinated people. So for those that aren't vaccinated, you can thank those that are for helping you not get sick passively.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I get vaccinated for really serious things, but a flu shot, please I can't be bothered to go see the doctor for a little bit of flu.

We get them at work for free. I just walk downstairs, sign a form and roll up my sleeve. It couldn't possibly be any less of a hassle.

Could you be bothered to miss a week of work while vomiting your guts out and shivering the whole time?

Needles don't bother me at all. I watch the nurse give me the shot my arm.

 

[raildogg]

Humankind is getting weaker. Instead of recommending that people get stronger and healthier, I guess we should inject some sort of miracle hormone to keep the flu away.

I guess after our bodies become used to these flu shots we must take them each year since we have become dependent upon it.

I wonder how people a hundred years ago or people today living on farms and villages live. Hey, they don't have those magical flu shots.

 

[Broheim]

When you're too sick to get out of the bed to pour yourself some water, the flu will jump to the top of your "shit I never want to get" list. Though I understand the inconvenience of not wanting to go to the doctor to get a measly flu shot... here in the states you just walk to a local pharmacy like CVS or walgreens and in 10 minutes you're done.

I've had the flu before, it sucks but it's not that bad. I rarely get sick outside of colds and when I do it never feels all that bad, I had appendicitis in the army, I couldn't sleep because of the pain and a bit of fever but decided to wait it out until the morning and then went to the infirmary, the doc yelled at me a bit for not calling an ambulance but when I got to the hospital it went into remission and cleared itself right up (not that I'm complaining, no surgery and a full day of sleep in a comfy hospital bed).

I've never had an illness that I couldn't just power through and at least just enjoy the free time it got me.

We get them at work for free. I just walk downstairs, sign a form and roll up my sleeve. It couldn't possibly be any less of a hassle.

Could you be bothered to miss a week of work while vomiting your guts out and shivering the whole time?

Needles don't bother me at all. I watch the nurse give me the shot my arm.

if I didn't have to go out of my way to get one I would, but I simply don't care enough about the flu to bother.
also, getting sick once in a while is good for you, in '77 old people found themselves immune to Russian flu because they had lived through a similar outbreak in the '40s and '50s, this was a strain of h1n1 (swineflu) and old people again showed they were immunologically better prepared for the recent outbreak. I mean, don't go out of your way to get sick but if you do with viruses it's often the case of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

and no needles don't bother me either, I must have had at least 10 shots when I was in the army which sucked because I always get extremely sore after a shot and I was an LMG gunner, that badboy was heavy...

 

[ichy]

I wonder how people a hundred years ago or people today living on farms and villages live. Hey, they don't have those magical flu shots.

Are you honestly that fucking stupid? People a hundred years ago died or were crippled by shit that we can now prevent or easily treat. Romanticizing how things were back in the day is idiotic.

 

[EliteRetard]

FACT:

I'm immune to everything.

 

[raildogg]

Are you honestly that fucking stupid? People a hundred years ago died or were crippled by shit that we can now prevent or easily treat. Romanticizing how things were back in the day is idiotic.

People lived and faced conditions and therefore built themselves up. If we artificially protect ourselves from the elements, humanity in the long run will suffer if the drugs ever run out. All I'm saying is we are too dependent on drugs.

 

[TheSlamma]

Me not having the flu in over 20 years is 1 reason, second is that I don't even get common colds all that often, last time was 6 or 7 years ago.

as far as fear of needles.. lol, I have to get a phlebotomy 6-8 times a year cause of a disease I have and that needle makes that little flu shot you get look like a mosquito bite.