Lifestyle Flu shots (yay or nay?)

[Yossarian]

I don't cme up witH excuses. I readily admit being scared of little needles. And big ones.

And the effectiveness of flushots....really, who knows?

Do they know what strain is going to hit? It's all based on guess work? The effectiveness of the flushot can be as low as zero. Absolutely no guarantee. According to CDC one of the side-effects of the vaccine is death.

Pharmacy and Associate Editor of BMJ (British Medical Journal)—wrote an article exposing how the CDC spins its death by “pneumonia and influenza” statistics. According to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), “influenza and pneumonia” took 62,034 lives in 2001—61,777 of which were attributed to pneumonia and 257 to flu. In only 18 cases was flu virus positively identified.

It's not as big of a deal as they make it out to be. Of course, if you are a risk group, take it, if you are healthy, drink some tea, be happy. Don't let them bully you into something trivial as a flu shot.

 

[Yossarian]

Flu shot needles are tiny. You've probably gotten pile of old people, and young kids sick because your immune system can fight off what theirs can't. For shame.

If they are a risk group, then they should take it. If they still don't, shame on them and happy cough-cough.

 

[Yossarian]

I get them for free and I'm around strangers from all over the place all the time, and fuckers want to shake my hand, so yes, I get them.

That would be a good reason. I exercise my immune system throughout the year by going to Chinese buffets. I'll wait till all those kids touched everything, the schrimp, the pork, everything. Then...I go in.

To give you a visual analogy here...

 

[Shinkicker]

The big one is "I got sick after getting the flu shot" No, you didn't. It takes about 2 weeks for the flu shot to take effect, and you typically get the flu shot during the most contagious time of year. If you got sick within days of getting the flu shot, you were already sick. Ultimately it's grown adults afraid of a tiny needle. So they come up with BS excuses why they can't get them.

So millions of people just lie about getting sick after a flu shot? Lol

Some side effects of the flu vaccine are headaches, body aches, sore throats and cough. And they start within a day or two. Some people experience this more than others.

I agree that you don't get the "flu" from the vaccination but it damn sure can make you feel like you have it.

 

[Hauler]

...just make sure the person giving it vigorously rubs the injection area before the shot.

Where do they give this shot? I might have to rethink this.

 

[kaladin stormblessed]

Where do they give this shot? I might have to rethink this.

On what body part are you hoping to get this rub and shot? :-/

 

[Robbie Hart]

I'm not an anti vaxer or a pro vaxer. Ive never looked into the debate

But I have trypanophobia. So I avoid needles unless I break a bone or something like that. Wisdom teeth. STD tests.

Is it danaerys to not get flu shots? (Bc I don't plan on doing it, and I just saw a wall greens commercial with nice red flu shot bandaids...)

Stop using the term "vaxer" immediately

 

[Yossarian]

Some side effects of the flu vaccine are headaches, body aches, sore throats and cough

And death.

 

[SongExotic2]

Fuck flu shots. Fuckers give me the flu.

 

[Yossarian]

Fuck flu shots. Fuckers give me the flu.

I bet you get your flushots through a gloryhole

 

[Splinty]

No way!

Flu shots are just to get people sick so I stay in business!

 

[Splinty]

I bet you get your flushots through a gloryhole

An injection of peter-cillin

 

[Filthy]

Such as?

I don't get them because I am pretty absent minded and literally never think about it. Had that going for me for 20 years now lol.

I don't have anything against them, I just don't get them and everything has been good. If it ain't broke...

Such as being generally absent-minded and forgetting to get the vaccination.

 

[delightone]

Have been getting them the last 10 years because of asthma.
Skipped it last year it was a bitch of a year got the flu twice and a bunch of colds couldn't fucking breath because of the asthma, so my ass is getting one again this year.

 

[Hauler]

Have been getting them the last 10 years because of asthma.
Skipped it last year it was a bitch of a year got the flu twice and a bunch of colds couldn't fucking breath because of the asthma, so my ass is getting one again this year.

Hopefully it isn't worse for you.
Because I think it will be worse for you.
But I hope it isn't.

 

[TalkingLeaf]

Where do they give this shot? I might have to rethink this.

Sorry to squash your dreams but it has to be a big muscle. Looks like your getting the flu this year.

 

[Splinty]

Sorry to squash your dreams but it has to be a big muscle. Looks like your getting the flu this year.

View: https://imgur.com/a/LOHn7

 

[Mix6APlix]

Got one 3 years ago and still got sick as I have ever been.

 

[BeardOfKnowledge]

I don't ever get sick so fuck it.

That doesn't mean you don't get everyone around you sick.

 

[BeardOfKnowledge]

So millions of people just lie about getting sick after a flu shot?

Some side effects of the flu vaccine are headaches, body aches, sore throats and cough. And they start within a day or two. Some people experience this more than others.

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.

Misconceptions about Seasonal Flu and Flu Vaccines | Seasonal Influenza (Flu) | CDC

 

[BeardOfKnowledge]

If they are a risk group, then they should take it.

Many people in high risk groups are those physically unable to receive them.

 

[BeardOfKnowledge]

Good.

The world is overpopulated as it is.

Unfortunately the flu doesn't specifically target people in over populated areas.

 

[Grateful Dude]

Such as being generally absent-minded and forgetting to get the vaccination.

I was asking for examples or clarification on this:

"The reasons people give for not getting the flu shot, always have exactly 0 to do with the flu shot"

Which @ConorMcGregorsBeard already answered (people being scared of needles, thinking it makes you sick, etc.).

My response was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I wasn't trying to make excuses or explain any reasoning behind it. The fact of the matter is that I haven't had one since the mid 90's and it isn't something I ever think about. That's it.

As I said before, I have no issues with flu shots. If people want to get them, go for it. If people don't want to get them, that is their choice to make.

 

[Hauler]

That doesn't mean you don't get everyone around you sick.

Then they should have gotten the flu shot.

 

[BeardOfKnowledge]

Then they should have gotten the flu shot.

Not everyone can. Babies, people who are wicked old, people who have shit immune systems, people who are allergic to components of the shot, etc.