Do you get a flu shot?

Do you get a flu shot

  • Yes I do. Thank you for asking.

    Votes: 65 53.7%

  • No. It is the government trying to poison us with Mercury

    Votes: 6 5.0%

  • No. Just wash your hands and don't touch your face.

    Votes: 22 18.2%

  • I get one but I don't believe it really works.

    Votes: 5 4.1%

  • I think it works but I don't get one.

    Votes: 6 5.0%

  • Bonanza.

    Votes: 17 14.0%
  • Total voters
    121
SixPapaCharlie

SixPapaCharlie

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I mentioned going to get a flu shot at work today and the discussion that broke out went full tin foil hat, flat earth, chemtrail.

What say the peanut gallery?
 
I take my chances every year.

<knocks on wood>
 
I understand there are medical situations were it is recommended to get a flu shot. But I think the mass hysteria to inoculate everyone is a little ridiculous, and there's obviously some ulterior motive by the drug companies as well to mass-produce this stuff

Plus, for a healthy person's immune system there's nothing wrong with getting a cold now and the; personally, as a 32 year-old, I've never had the flu or at least not that I'm aware of

funny, I feel like the people who tend to get the worst colds are the ones we get the shot, sometimes from the shot they're sick for a week
 
I feel like I pretty much get the flu every year. I was surprised to hear how many people said they have never had it.
I will say I got it last year and it is the first time I was like WTF is going on? I want to die! Maybe a bad strand or getting older. who knows.
 
Tantalum said:
Plus, for a healthy person's immune system there's nothing wrong with getting a cold now and the
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You won't mistake a cold with the flu... If you really have the flu, you'll know it... and it won't be fun!

I got mine today... OUCHIE sore arm... She wanted to give me a tetanus shot too... No Freak'n way...those things really hurt... Owie! I don't think I've had one since I was 12...
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
I want to die! Maybe a bad strand or getting older
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If you're in good health (not coming down with something already) the shot shouldn't affect you. Usually when it does, its because your immune system was already engaged in something else and was diverted to deal with the flu shot.

So basically you were already sick when you got the shot...
 
Just got the latest,two days ago.
 
Every year. With 3 parents in a retirement community, I figure I don't want to a carrier.

But I also don't remember ever having thd real flu before the shots started coming out.

We just celebrated the 100th anniversary if the end of WWI. 1918 also brought the Spanish flu:

https://www.cdc.gov/features/1918-flu-pandemic/index.html
 
FlySince9 said:
If you're in good health (not coming down with something already) the shot shouldn't affect you. Usually when it does, its because your immune system was already engaged in something else and was diverted to deal with the flu shot.

So basically you were already sick when you got the shot...
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NO I didn't get the shot. I got the flu
 
I got the flu shot every year while in the Air Force. Every year I got sick right after the shot. I know I know its not a live vaccine you didn't get sick from the flu shot. Regardless, every year I got sick after the flu shot. For the past 12 years I have never got the flu shot and I have never got the flu, heck I rarely get a cold for that matter anymore.....but now I screwed myself so there it is. Ive always heard once you get the flu you will get the shot from then on. haha


I think its overrated but that's just me. I really believe its pushed to make money, like other medications, but that's for a different thread. Just remember this, money controls everything.
 
simtech said:
I got the flu shot every year while in the Air Force. Every year I got sick right after the shot. I know I know its not a live vaccine you didn't get sick from the flu shot. Regardless, every year I got sick after the flu shot. For the past 12 years I have never got the flu shot and I have never got the flu, heck I rarely get a cold for that matter anymore.....but now I screwed myself so there it is. Ive always heard once you get the flu you will get the shot from then on. haha


I think its overrated but that's just me. I really believe its pushed to make money, like other medications, but that's for a different thread. Just remember this, money controls everything.
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Sure it wasn’t all the other tihs they pumped into you after the ol “shot-ex” email goes out?
 
simtech said:
I think its overrated but that's just me. I really believe its pushed to make money, like other medications, but that's for a different thread. Just remember this, money controls everything.
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I agree. Plus nothing is really free.. I abstain
 
Unit74 said:
Even herpes if it’s in the right packaging!
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Friend in college dated a girl for a few years with it. I could see why! He claims he got tested regularly and never got it...
 
My father makes the flu shot and profits from it. He told me not to bother as I’m in good health and young.
 
Unit74 said:
Sure it wasn’t all the other tihs they pumped into you after the ol “shot-ex” email goes out?
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Hahaha yep not sure what all I was a test subject for. I got my 6 anthrax shots...those hurt like mad. Still believe there was more in it than that.
 
The Government tracking microchip battery lasts approximately one year.

Just sayin.
 
Fine I'll go there.. it is the easiest money making thing for drug companies. Raise a ton of hysteria and make a lot of profit all under the prophylactic of the greater common "feel good" thing..

It really is social engineering at its finest, you don't want to feel left out, and heck everyone else gets the flu shot at your work and it is free, so you might as well get it too.. you have millions of perfectly healthy people risking infections and other complications just to inject stuff in their body that, for an otherwise healthy person, might not even make you sick..
 
No, I don’t, but that’s because if everybody else gets the shot they won’t get the flu and I’ll be around healthy people and won’t contract it:p
 
I do, but mainly because of exposure working with the public and serving in emergency services. Do I really think it works, doubtful. Some years I've skipped it, still managed to not get sick. I usually seem to experience minor flu like symptoms for a week or two after the vaccine, but never full blown flu.
 
Matthew is right!

And yup, the government has ulterior motives behind vaccinating everyone; but it's not what the tinfoilhat people think. The government doesn't give a flying flip about YOU - they want to help prevent you from spreading the disease to the 20 people you would, had you not been protected. (so don't be selfish, go get the #@% vaccine)

I read that the flu killed more people in the US last year than car wrecks and drug overdose. Pretty sure the flu has been the largest infectious disease killer of people in the History of the World!

Anytime you discuss the vaccine, the crazies will come out of the woodwork with stories of how horrible it is and that it doesn't work. (It's not horrible. No it's not perfect, but it's a pretty damn good system. By spreading fear and lies YOU could be killing someone this season.)

Who said their tetanus vaccine is not current? I am going to find you a video of someone dying from tetanus and scare the living crap out of you. Go. Get. Your. Damned. Tetanus. Vaccine. I have treated several tetanus cases in animals, not always successfully. I assure you that is a horrible way to die.

edit: removed the word 'combined' from para 2.
 
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Been getting it since I was about mid 20s and was sick for 3 weeks with the flu, doc said "you should probably get a flu shot", never looked back. Just got this year's shot a few hours ago. Injection site muscle will be sore for a day or two, then hopefully they got the viruses right.
 
Since I'm getting it for "free" anyway and if it's convenient I'll get one but I don't consider it a must-have. I've certainly never seen anything from a credible source that says it's going to hurt anything.
 
FlySince9 said:
Knew a guy in Korea, kept getting it... said "I don't understand, I only sleep with one girl."
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You can’t get it from sleeping with them usually..... there are other activities required. Never understood this sleeping with jumbo jumbo. It ain’t sleeping..... that only happens after marriage.
 
Ever since comjng down with the flu and losing a week (Jan '09?), I haven't missed a vaccine. Never had one before then. It is NOT mistakable for a cold--high fever, sweats, chills, runny nose, your whole freakin' body hurts. Three days in bed, shoulda been four but I was stupid and worked two half days, then laid around under a blanket all weekend, resting.

Woke up sick on Sunday morning; by Monday evening, I was afraid I was gonna die; by Tuesday evening, I was afraid I wasn't gonna die. Worked Thursday morning, shouldn't have. Went back Friday morning because I'm stubborn. By next Monday, I was back up to an honest 75%.

Don't want to go there again. Got my vaccine two weeks ago.

Does your arm get sore? Use it! Do a half dozen pushups, even doorway pushups. Use the muscle some, you'll like how the pain just goes away in a little while. Works for tetanus shots, too. Or sit there all still, and hurt--it's your arm and your choice.
 
I don't get the flu shot. I rarely get a cold, even the sniffles. I can't remember the last time I took a sick day. I'm only in my early 50's, in good health and stay in shape (5K, 10K, half-marathon, triathlons). I may shift to getting it once I'm older.

Most of the people I know that say they had the flu also say they had a fly shot. No, I don't think the shot caused it, but it sure as hell didn't help. Plus, many people complain about feeling a little icky for a day or two after the shot.

I think our work-from-home policy helps me not get sick in general. People work from home 2 or 3 days a week normally. If they don't feel good they work from home even if they would normally come into the office. I'm all in favor of them staying home and not infecting me.
 
Hank S said:
Does your arm get sore? Use it! Do a half dozen pushups, even doorway pushups. Use the muscle some, you'll like how the pain just goes away in a little while. Works for tetanus shots, too. Or sit there all still, and hurt--it's your arm and your choice.
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There's got to be another way besides..... "exercising"
 
AW JEEZ!

I was so hoping we wouldn’t go there AGAIN this year!
Haven’t read the thread - those who do will, those who are don’t won’t.
Enjoy influenza if you get it, and hope you survive ....I guess.
 
I got one for the first time ever this year. It was free at work, I had 5 minutes to spare, so why not.

I'm one of those guys who believes in science and that vaccines work, so if this one reduces my chances of getting the flu, I'm for it. Also, if you reduce the number of people who are susceptible to the flu, the spread rate will be reduced if there is an outbreak.
 
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