Quote Originally Posted by HoneyBadger View Post
Does it keep you from getting sick? Since joining the military, I've had to get one every year, and honestly, I have been sick much more frequently since I started getting the flu shot.

...But you could correlate that with a hundred other factors too, such as my work environment, changing familial conditions, etc.

I will add: I would never get the flu vaccine if I wasn't required to. I really just don't buy it. I am young and in good health. One of my co-workers and trusted friends was a chemist for a pharmaceutical company in Arizona for several years before changing careers and he adamantly believes that it is just a scam to make the big pharm companies rich. Whether or not it's a scam, it still makes them rich.
I will start with this: It is your choice to get the vaccine or not.

Each year, healthy man like you will get the flu, or will get bit by a mosquito carrying the west nile virus and will either die, or be seriously disabled for a long time (some for the rest of their life) because of a tiny virus. Do a little bit of search about long term sequel of the flu on healthy adults. Also, do not forget that in 1918, before the vaccines, 21 millions people died of the flu and another 60 to 80 millions kept long term sequel from the epidemic.

finally: the whole BS you were served to explain that pharmaceutical companies make money on the vaccine is a total lie. They make a shit load of money on the flu medicine they sell you OTC, but not a dime on producing a government mandated vaccine. The danger is there is a concentration of companies now making the vaccine, and a few government owned lab too, and this may create shortage and a cartel situation in the future.

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