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I'm not interested in participating in vaccine guess work. Seems to me if the guessers don't feel to account for any "Spanish flu" possibilities in the guess of the year, then lots of folks get messed up anyways. It's clear that they blew it this year again as well.
I probably won't take it when I'm 70 or older either if I live that long.
I figure you're either on the boat or not already, and no amount of attempted persuasion is going to change a decided persons mind about it. Kinda like trying to persuade me to vote for Oprah.
Ain't never gonna happen. :)
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There have been multiple reported cases of young, strong individuals dying from the flu this year while showing hardly any symptoms or showing for only a period of hours. I've even read of a case of a teenaged boy that died without showing any symptoms at all. It's a bad one this year.
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Wow, have a differing opinion than Foxtrot and get all sorts of insults thrown your way. No, I'm not worried about my kids being autistic.
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Since I don't get the flu, and don't get the shot, I've got no opinion on whether the shot increases the chance of the flu or not. That said, I feel like you're being disingenuous by comparing people who think getting a flu shot causes the flu and people who think that vaccines cause autism. Those aren't even comparable. Does the flu shot not contain some element of a flu strain?
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I never get the shot. Personal preference.
I did have a coworker get a flu shot (he did have some some immune system issues).
36 hours later, he was in the hospital.
3 days after that, he died.
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Umm, still not comparable. Vaccines aren't vaccinating for autism, and don't contain deactivated autism. It's simply not the same. *As far as the flu, you can't say that it's 100% impossible to get the flu from a vaccine, just the same as you can't say it's 100% impossible to get a baby from sex with birth control. Are the chances low? Of course they are, definitely even lower than birth control babies.
All that said, we have this conversations every single year. In the spirit of most of our threads where we pretend to be experts, but **disclose in small print that we're not, I'm usually left with the impression that most people who are actively against getting a flu shot fall into the following categories that I've completely made up:
90% - Don't care if people get the shot one way or the other, they just don't get it because they rarely, if ever, contract influenza themselves.
88% - Would get ten flu shots a year if the Democratic Party suggested that they shouldn't.
9% - Don't get the shot because they are other people, or have themselves, gotten the shot and still caught some strain or another, so what's the point?
.09% - Believe that injecting a virus, the most prolific, mutable, adaptive, killer of our species, since the beginning of time, dead or alive, is just asking for trouble.
.01% - Aliens/government/ex-wife did it.
*Comparing vaccines to condoms is as dumb as this yearly conversation.
**I could be a doctor/barber/lawyer, you don't know me.
Now let's get a "The science is settled" meme and a picture of FlapJack in here and we can wrap this up!
EEEEETA: Nobody take my post too seriously. I shouldn't have to add a smiley to demonstrate that I'm giving everyone a good ole' ribbin'.
