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Who's getting their flu shot?
    #22415110 - 10/21/15 06:56 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Is there anyone that actually does cause they want to?


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: MsMycelium]
    #22415145 - 10/21/15 07:03 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

uuuh. no.

ive never had a flu shot.

ive also never had the flu.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Adolin]
    #22415238 - 10/21/15 07:19 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Gresh said:
uuuh. no.

ive never had a flu shot.

ive also never had the flu.




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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: MsMycelium]
    #22415247 - 10/21/15 07:21 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Got mine already.  Easy, safe and good preventative medicine.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: DieCommie]
    #22415262 - 10/21/15 07:24 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

No i havent

ive never had one

doubt ill ever get one
hacent had the flu since i was a kid

i usually get colds 1 time a year


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: SunnyD]
    #22415648 - 10/21/15 08:51 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Interesting.  I never had the flu before, not sure how bad it really is.  I didn't get flu shots as a kid but now that I sometimes work in a hospital I have to get flu shots once a year and usually when I do I get sick for a few days and it's miserable.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: MsMycelium]
    #22415667 - 10/21/15 08:55 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

save the money and buy vitamins or some oranges instead, it'll actually do something positive


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: DieCommie]
    #22415679 - 10/21/15 08:59 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Got mine already.  Easy, safe and good preventative medicine.



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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: MsMycelium] * 2
    #22415781 - 10/21/15 09:28 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

A couple years ago when I got a flu shot it gave me the flu. The full blown flu, not flu like symptoms. I was puking and in bed with fever and bad headache for a good 3 days, beat to my knees the whole time. I'll never get a flu shot again. I paid $35 to be infected with the flu and miss a week of work. Fuck that!


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: DieCommie] * 1
    #22415806 - 10/21/15 09:33 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Got mine already.  Easy, safe and good preventative medicine.





clearly you have the autisms now


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Ellis Dee] * 1
    #22415809 - 10/21/15 09:34 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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A couple years ago when I got a flu shot it gave me the flu. The full blown flu, not flu like symptoms.





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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: MsMycelium]
    #22415855 - 10/21/15 09:44 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I was forced to get mine because of school so yeah I got it. Never having the flu isn't really healthy. Kind of like never having the chicken pox isn't healthy either. If you randomly get it later on in life it could be devastating to your immune system to not have the anitbodies locked into attack mode.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: DieCommie]
    #22415883 - 10/21/15 09:49 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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DieCommie said:
Got mine already.  Easy, safe and good preventative medicine.



Yeah, only if they accurately predict which particular strain of the flu is going to be the most common. Flu shots are gross, and I will never have one.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Gorlax]
    #22415888 - 10/21/15 09:50 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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I was forced to get mine because of school so yeah I got it. Never having the flu isn't really healthy. Kind of like never having the chicken pox isn't healthy either. If you randomly get it later on in life it could be devastating to your immune system to not have the anitbodies locked into attack mode.




This is a total myth. What you are talking about is Shingles, and you can only get it if you already had chicken pox.

its the opposite of what you think.


Edited by Adolin (10/21/15 09:51 PM)


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Adolin]
    #22415922 - 10/21/15 10:03 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

First couple articles I pulled up said that if you contact chicken pox as an older adult the symptoms can be more severe but I think a lot of people blow it out of proportion.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Gorlax] * 1
    #22415933 - 10/21/15 10:06 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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I was forced to get mine because of school so yeah I got it. Never having the flu isn't really healthy. Kind of like never having the chicken pox isn't healthy either. If you randomly get it later on in life it could be devastating to your immune system to not have the anitbodies locked into attack mode.







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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Adolin]
    #22415939 - 10/21/15 10:09 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Not a myth at all bro. The reasons babies die from the flu is because their immune systems don't have the equipped antibodies. The occurrence of the shingles from chickenpox is from a weak immune system. That is also why I said "is kind of like"..


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Gorlax]
    #22415952 - 10/21/15 10:12 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Or you could just take the chicken pox vaccine and never have to worry about that or shingles...


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Gorlax]
    #22415980 - 10/21/15 10:18 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Got mine already.



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I was forced to get mine because of school so yeah I got it. Never having the flu isn't really healthy. Kind of like never having the chicken pox isn't healthy either. If you randomly get it later on in life it could be devastating to your immune system to not have the anitbodies locked into attack mode.








Also I know you're not talking literally about anti-bodies locked into attack mode, but I have an autoimmune disease which basically means my antibodies are constantly in attack mode and slowly eating away at my thyroid, and it's made me appreciate how complex an immune system is and how difficult it can be to manipulate it or treat autoimmune issues(everything that claims it 'boosts your immune system' is very much a confirmed waste of money).

The flu can fuck some people over(Very old people, very young children, people with compromised immune systems) and those people should obviously be getting it, as well as anyone working around them. Most people have a normal, non-compromised system, and that means that it's not gonna be whacked out of balance by something like a flu shot. The virus mutates every year and it's not like chickenpox, you're getting a different batch of said vaccination every year for a reason, and because it mutates you can have a healthy immune system, have no issue fighting it off relatively quick, and still get the following years mutated flu and end up dealing with the flu almost every year(or you could be one of those people who just never seem to get it period) and just not want to chance having to deal with it again - that's why I get it.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: pirate-blues]
    #22415996 - 10/21/15 10:22 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

i haven't gotten a vaccination in years

im not getting mine

if i get the flu it'll suck, but it'll be less bad if it's after Halloween weekend

i really hope i don't get it tho, but i never have, so i don't think i will


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Gorlax]
    #22416008 - 10/21/15 10:27 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Not a myth at all bro. The reasons babies die from the flu is because their immune systems don't have the equipped antibodies. The occurrence of the shingles from chickenpox is from a weak immune system. That is also why I said "is kind of like"..




you're comparing babies with no immune systems to adults that do have them.

And it is a myth. getting chickenpox DOES NOT prevent you from getting Shingles. 'shingles' is essentially a 'flare up' of chicken pox.

Ask literally anyone who has had shingles, they will invariably tell you that they had already had chickpox in the past


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Adolin]
    #22416023 - 10/21/15 10:32 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Idk if I'm wrong but it doesn't look like gorlax is saying chicken pox prevents shingles.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #22416145 - 10/21/15 11:15 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Quote:

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I was forced to get mine because of school so yeah I got it. Never having the flu isn't really healthy. Kind of like never having the chicken pox isn't healthy either. If you randomly get it later on in life it could be devastating to your immune system to not have the anitbodies locked into attack mode.










It didn't take three months for his uncles brain to disappear after getting the shot.

Too soon. :rofl:


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: deucedbi9]
    #22416194 - 10/21/15 11:35 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Yeah I never even mentioned in my original post anything about shingles. I said not having chickenpox early on wasn't healthy. Having it later on in life is not healthy that isn't an opinion.

I'm not some huge advocate for flu shots if you are healthy. Fuck I've only gotten them because I have to do clinical rotations coming up and I can't risk a persons life because I didn't want to be vaccinated. I also had to get them for all my prior college shit. That is why almost all healthcare professionals are required. I also believe if you have small children or take care of someone elderly you should get vaccinated as well. There's no point not to unless as a previous member has mentioned they have an autoimmune disease.

The flu isn't even bad. I caught paratyphoid B from that sushi tuna outbreak early this year and thought I was fucking going to DIE. Sick 4 weeks straight with basically typhoid fever.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Gorlax]
    #22416358 - 10/22/15 12:52 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Babies can get antibodies from their mothers breast milk too, and that can start them off with a healthy immune system. 

I agree that chicken pox if contracted in adulthood would be worse, I also agree that people who have had chicken pox when little who also later contracted shingles as adults is also terrible.. there are I some things I think we need to be vaccinated for when we are younger and this is one of them.

The others would include your standard measles, mumps etc.  Those would not be pleasant to have floating around our communities.

Other vaccines though like the flu, or even HPV I don't agree with simply because they aren't well tested enough yet.  Big pharma just wants to stick us with anything to make some cash, and they're in such a hurry they won't test the new shit to make sure it's safe..  But they sure push it on us pretty hard.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: MsMycelium] * 1
    #22424142 - 10/23/15 06:20 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

:nojustno:

Since when does anyone in this healthcare system give a fuck about 'preventitive medicine'?


I'll keep my immune system up with medicinal teas including Turkey Tail mushrooms and pine needles amongst other things.

They put like 3 strains out of like 20+ potential strains in the shot with all the other goodies the cdc on their own site that are in there, including but not limited to, formeldahye, mercury containing compounds and MSG.

I'll take my chances along with my earth meds.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: DieCommie]
    #22424172 - 10/23/15 06:27 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Got mine already.  Easy, safe and good preventative medicine.




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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: MichAnon.ael]
    #22424175 - 10/23/15 06:28 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

that's pure ignorance. You wouldn't be using pine needles to prevent polio. Sure the flu is a minor thing but people in the healthcare system have an obligation to not get critically sick people "more sick"...



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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Adolin] * 1
    #22424244 - 10/23/15 06:47 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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uuuh. no.

ive never had a flu shot.

ive also never had the flu.




The reason most people don't get the flu is because other people in our society got the shot. This is the main principle of herd immunity. People love to say how unnecessary the flu shot is, but this is largely in part that 46% of Americans get it every year and build up the herd immunity for those who don't get it.

Here is an interactive example: http://www.software3d.com/Home/Vax/Immunity.php



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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Adolin]
    #22424270 - 10/23/15 06:56 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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uuuh. no.

ive never had a flu shot.

ive also never had the flu.




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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: dionysiandame]
    #22424783 - 10/23/15 09:03 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Quote:

Gresh said:
uuuh. no.

ive never had a flu shot.

ive also never had the flu.








See the post above yours.  You're welcome.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: DieCommie]
    #22424798 - 10/23/15 09:06 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I don't. I'd rather take the 5 percent chance I actually have of getting sick than pump some bs in my body. And if I do get sick I'm over it in 48 hours max. I see no reason for me to get one


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Rebirtha] * 1
    #22424865 - 10/23/15 09:20 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Quote:

Gresh said:
uuuh. no.

ive never had a flu shot.

ive also never had the flu.




The reason most people don't get the flu is because other people in our society got the shot. This is the main principle of herd immunity. People love to say how unnecessary the flu shot is, but this is largely in part that 46% of Americans get it every year and build up the herd immunity for those who don't get it.

Here is an interactive example: http://www.software3d.com/Home/Vax/Immunity.php






so they(people who get flu vax) are essentially sacrificial lambs? because it seems like those who get the flu shot are more likely to get the flu


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Adolin]
    #22424887 - 10/23/15 09:27 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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so they(people who get flu vax) are essentially sacrificial lambs? because it seems like those who get the flu shot are more likely to get the flu




It seems like you are using anecdote rather than statistical data to come to a conclusion.  People who get the flu shot are NOT more likely to get the flu, no matter how often the fear mongers recite the claim.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: DieCommie]
    #22424894 - 10/23/15 09:30 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

:shrug: just my personal experience. i'm no expert, just seems unnecessary to me


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Adolin]
    #22424899 - 10/23/15 09:32 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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:shrug: just my personal experience. i'm no expert, just seems unnecessary to me





Clearly...


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: DieCommie]
    #22424904 - 10/23/15 09:35 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

maybe its because my parents let me play in the dirt :shrug:


out of curiosity DieCommie, do you think everyone should get flu shot, or only certain  susceptible people?


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Adolin]
    #22424936 - 10/23/15 09:47 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I think everyone should consult with a professional and make the decision based on data rather than fear and anecdote.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: DieCommie]
    #22424989 - 10/23/15 10:01 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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I think everyone should consult with a professional and make the decision based on data rather than fear and anecdote.



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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Adolin]
    #22425002 - 10/23/15 10:03 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Could get a flu shot.  Or I could wear a mask at work.  Or quit.  So many choices.  I think I'm going with getting a shot.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Adolin]
    #22425007 - 10/23/15 10:05 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

My employer requires me to get it as well. I've never noticed a difference, and I wouldn't get it if I wasn't forced to. Very few people in the health care industry actually support flu shots.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Gorlax]
    #22425029 - 10/23/15 10:11 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: thetechnician]
    #22425323 - 10/23/15 11:37 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

The other problem is you're actually most contagious right when you're starting to feel the onset of symptoms from being sick.  So even though you're looking all gross and sniveling wearing a mask would have been more effective if you started a week prior.


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    #22425363 - 10/23/15 11:49 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Sure the flu is a minor thing




Not for me, influenza (not a common cold) is a serious struggle every time I get it because of my heart condition, thats why i get the shot.

Don't mistake influenza and the common cold. The common cold is with flowing and plugged noses, influenza is with bone pain, considerable fever and getting in a haze. People die of the flu, usually the ealderly but when its an especially virulent strain, especially healthy young people, because then it makes your immune system attack you and the stronger the immune system, the more sick you get.

Don't visit hospitals, the elderly and the ill when you got flu, seriously, you could kill them.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: DieCommie]
    #22425796 - 10/24/15 04:17 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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so they(people who get flu vax) are essentially sacrificial lambs? because it seems like those who get the flu shot are more likely to get the flu




It seems like you are using anecdote rather than statistical data to come to a conclusion.  People who get the flu shot are NOT more likely to get the flu, no matter how often the fear mongers recite the claim.




just curious where you think the statistical data comes from and how accurate it is?  everyone i know who got the flu shot, and then got the flu

A.  Didn't go report it somewhere
B. Never got the flu shot again, aka lowering the future statistics.

A + B = Your statistical data means shit.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Gorlax]
    #22425864 - 10/24/15 05:07 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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that's pure ignorance. You wouldn't be using pine needles to prevent polio. Sure the flu is a minor thing but people in the healthcare system have an obligation to not get critically sick people "more sick"...





Would if we were talking about scurvy..

Regardless, you're right about that 'obligation'

Tho why do they give people with cancer treatments that kill/attack/degrade healthy cells amd tissue as well? I.e. chemo/radiation?


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: MichAnon.ael]
    #22425878 - 10/24/15 05:21 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Naww thats not how the immune system works, you get vaccinated, you are strenghtened.

Efficacy of the vaccine is tested every year. I doubt they'd forge those numbers.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Asante]
    #22426393 - 10/24/15 09:41 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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I doubt they'd forge those numbers.





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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: MichAnon.ael]
    #22426402 - 10/24/15 09:44 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Yes you can get serious complicatoions from any vaccination, but the amount of hype that is being whipped up against vaccines via the internet would be ridiculous if it weren't dangerous.

I hear the claim that vaccines make you more likely to get the flu. Is there any solid science based evidence for that?


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Asante]
    #22426410 - 10/24/15 09:48 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Statistically more people get the Flu from the Flu shot than if they never got one. Why? Your putting the Flu inside of you.

Pharmecutical companies want money, they will never tell you that. Its an old hat trick.


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    #22426414 - 10/24/15 09:49 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Its not live influenza.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Asante]
    #22426429 - 10/24/15 09:52 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

What is it then?


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: MajickMuffin]
    #22426439 - 10/24/15 09:59 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Its influenza virus cut to pieces, so that it can't (or at leastr shouldnt) lead to a runaway replication. The point of that is that your immune system picks up on the receptors on the virus bits and creates antibodies against those receptor combinations.

If a flu of the same strain enters your body a few weeks or months later, if meets a standing army of specidfic antibodies, as opposed to indirect opposition.


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    #22426444 - 10/24/15 10:01 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Yea its inactive flu from eggs.

I've heard stories from friends and family that they got fucking super sick right after getting the shot. The only time me and my family ever got the flu was when we got the shot all of us. All of us were terribly I'll. Never had it since, actually I got the stomach flu once because my lil sister got it and spread it through our family.
I was the only one who wasn't pukin because I ate ginger and drank Olive Leaf tea which kills viruses like a motherfucker.

Yea well what if they forget to cut 1 piece of the flu :astonishedmustache:


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: MajickMuffin]
    #22426459 - 10/24/15 10:05 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Remember that the common cold and "stomach flu" are not influenza.

Influenza is more serious.

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Common signs and symptoms of the flu include:

    Fever over 100 F (38 C)
    Aching muscles, especially in your back, arms and legs
    Chills and sweats
    Headache
    Dry, persistent cough
    Fatigue and weakness
    Nasal congestion
    Sore throat





As a rule of thumb, if you don't have a fever, you don't have the flu.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: MajickMuffin]
    #22426468 - 10/24/15 10:09 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Statistically more people get the Flu from the Flu shot than if they never got one. Why? Your putting the Flu inside of you.

Pharmecutical companies want money, they will never tell you that. Its an old hat trick.




That is a lie spread by fear mongers and idiots.


http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/vaccine/general.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/misconceptions.htm

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Can a flu shot give you the flu?

No, a flu shot cannot cause flu illness. Flu vaccines that are administered with a needle are currently made in two ways: the vaccine is made either with a) flu vaccine viruses that have been 'inactivated' and are therefore not infectious, or b) with no flu vaccine viruses at all (which is the case for recombinant influenza vaccine). The most common side effects from the influenza shot are soreness, redness, tenderness or swelling where the shot was given. Low-grade fever, headache and muscle aches also may occur.

In randomized, blinded studies, where some people get inactivated flu shots and others get salt-water shots, the only differences in symptoms was increased soreness in the arm and redness at the injection site among people who got the flu shot. There were no differences in terms of body aches, fever, cough, runny nose or sore throat.

Carolyn Bridges et al. (2000). Effectiveness and cost-benefit of influenza vaccination of healthy working adults: A randomized controlled trial.
Kristin Nichol et al. (1995). The effectiveness of vaccination against influenza in healthy working adults. New England Journal of Medicine. 333(14): 889-893.




Even the notion that you get flu like symptoms from a flu shot is not supported by data.


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: DieCommie]
    #22426481 - 10/24/15 10:10 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

:havesomescience:


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Re: Who's getting their flu shot? [Re: Asante]
    #22426509 - 10/24/15 10:17 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

The flu vaccine does not cause the flu. The viruses within have been killed. Nasal vaccines do have some live ones in it though. What it does is give the body an opportunity to build antibodies for the strains in the vaccine. Some people do get symptoms for a couple days, but that's not an actual infection. Sometimes they don't use the proper strains. Last year for example. This year they got it right.

I always get a flu shot. It's mandatory. I work in a hospital, and we take infection control seriously. Someone earlier in this thread said that every hospital they worked at forced people to come to work while sick. That's a terrible policy, and goes against the norm. We're not allowed to come to work while sick, as we shouldn't be. Infection control is extremely important. Unfortunately not all institutions take it as seriously as we do.


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