The Flu is Coming!

[BushMasterBoy]

I thought I had the flu yesterday, turned to be a rhinovirus (cold). I was getting scared as I just had a sinus surgery a few month ago. I am the proverbial canary in the coal mine. And 2017 was the most painful year of my existence.

[Irving]

Let's get a poll up to see how many people that read this thread, have already, or will contract the flu this season.

[Skip]

I'm 84.93% sure what ripped through our house was the flu.

BUT I don't want to test that belief by getting the actual flu if this wasn't it.

[dorsum]

I'm required to get a flu shot at work. Either that or wear a mask until like May each year. Have not had the flu in about 5 years.

[OtterbatHellcat]

No shot, and Flu free.

And I'm sorry for those of you that have caught it.

[OtterbatHellcat]

I'm already dead, so this poll is irrelevant.

I lol'd at this pretty good.

[hollohas]

I don't always get the shot. If I don't get it, it's usually only due to me being lazy not because of my principals.

But we have a new baby in the house this year so I made sure to get the shot as did everyone else in the house.

Wife got the shot and ended up getting VERY sick a couple months later. Our Dr diagnosed her with the flu based on her symptoms but she got a neg on the rapid test. Sent in for the lab test which ended up coming back neg too. Not sure what she had. But it sucked big time. There is some shit going around this year.

[cmailliard]

By all means, anyone find any study that backs the opinion that it is possible to get flu from a flu shot even by the tiniest probability, or that any such virus is ever capable of infection including any other related vaccine for that matter. Surely in the decades and decades and billions of vaccines we've been doing vaccines that would've come up. "one out of a million injected viruses are active!"

Based on all the science I've seen, It is absolutely 100% not possible to get flu from the flu shot., the exceptions to the rule being e.g. if the nurse has flu when they give you the shot, or they drop the flu shot in some boogers before injecting into your arm, or you have flu boogers on your arm where they inject it, or the doctors office saves money by injecting you with used syringes they cough into to boost immunity. (Hey, they've done weird stuff before like reusing colonoscopy stuff to save money...)

Are there other side effects that you can risk, potentially even fatal ones from vaccines? Yes, although rare.

IDGAF who gets it or who doesn't. I just get annoyed over invented facts.

I'll ETA: There are LOTS of people who actually believe the flu shot can give you the flu. Cite: this thread. I'm outnumbered. That said, even if they didn't believe that, they still wouldn't get it, because their risk is low, etc. or other reasons.

I have avoided posting here because as Foxtrot said, there is fact and fiction. Please remember, more people in the U.S. die from influenza every year than died on 9/11. This year I have had two friends with family members who have died from the flu. People are/were thinking it was peaking right now . . . nope, looks like a sustained plateau.

I agree with Foxtrot, IRDGAF if you get a flu shot or not, but I do agree with science on this. Many of you have taken my medical classes, you know how much I believe in the science and data of casualty care. I didn't lie to you then and I am not lying to you now. To paraphrase James Carville "It's the flu stupid". It's not going to be Anthrax, or Smallpox, or Ebola that bites us in the ass some day, it will be influenza.

[Irving]

I have avoided posting here because as Foxtrot said, there is fact and fiction.

You're doing it wrong. If you know something, and can back it up with real world experience, then you should be posting.