Did You Get The Flu Shot This Year?
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No sir. What you are referring to was the vet taking liberties while Blackcrack was under anestaesia.
I've felt fluish before after getting the flu shot and basically slept it off the evening of the day I got inoculated. Last November, I didn't feel anything. To me, if I feel sluggish on the day or have a sore arm, that's the only pain for the longer term gain.
It is hypocrisy pure and simple. However, for the flu, he feels it's worth the risk of not taking it and letting his body fight it the old-fashioned way, if he gets it. He has that right like many other people do.
After he gets real sick one year, and stays home a week puking his guts out, he might reconsider.
GP, Danmand and Red and myself are trying to turn this into a serious thread and all you do is make fun of it.
Hospitals would be unnecessarily clogged. (I know you already knew that, but for the benefit of those who have not seen the light).
Thanks for chiming in and saying (way better than I could, BTW) what I've been trying to...
Internet Geniuses like Fuji and Blackrock always take peoples words, twist them around, and use them to say something completely different in order to make an (often irrelevant) point. (Case in point: I say something negative about a flu shot, and suddenly they are talking about small pox, measels, Hepatitis etc. :crazy
As for their "data" on mortality rates due to "the flu", you are correct in saying is highly subjective... because most of those deaths are from people with predisposed health issues.
The reason vaccines against other viruses are cited is because vaccines are successful at prevention. They are making an analogy to support their argument, which I concur.
If you were scientifically literate, you would know that the words 'science' and 'certainty' rarely go together. I'd accept 'a high statistical probability'.
It's possible that the earth will be destroyed first, or that we well find a cure that eradicates all flu. Short of those sorts of things, the odds of it becoming human transferable at some point are statistically indistinguishable from 100 percent.
Whether it will happen this year, or in fifty years, can be debated, but it will eventually happen unless the process is stopped.
There is no way for you to know that there is no downside.
What if a hepC vaccine was every year, the flu every year, HIV every year, HPV every year ?
A vaccine lover then over their lifetime would have how many injections? REALLY - that is acceptable to you? Full well knowing that genetic outcomes are unknown, other medication interactions are largely unknown as well, you'd still accept it the vaccines?
When are you going to demand a better solution?
Is it possible, just possible that if you watch the movie "One flu over the Cukoos Nest" you can get bird flu?
