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      09-20-2018, 09:51 PM   #45
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Take this from someone who wound up in the Emergency Room years ago with a 104 temp and felt like I was about to explode... I had missed my flu shot that year or maybe two.
Understand this... The vaccine does NOT guarantee you won't get the flu! But what it will do, is reduce the severity of the symptoms if you do catch it! Once you understand this, you won't ever deliberately miss getting it if you've had the flu as an adult.
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      09-21-2018, 12:47 AM   #47
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The last time I got the flu I had gotten the shot. I don't recall ever getting sick when I didn't get it, so for me it isn't worth it, I feel like I'm taking my chances if I get it.
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I'm legitimately curious how many of you anti-vaxxers work in the Medical or Biomedical Research fields? Forget about being a full-fledged Physician, just in any capacity? Where do you get your information from?

Flu Shots are not some conspiracy we are pushing on you. It is backed by countless scientific evidence. Every year there are thousands of strains of the Flu, many of which are new and cannot be prepared for. But what the Flu shot does is protect you from the most COMMON strains.

Even if you aren't worried about getting the Flu yourself, think of the weak and immunocompromised amongst us; such as children, the elderly, Cancer patients, etc.
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Holy shit. I was definitely not expecting so many retarded anti-vaxxers on bimmerpost.
For real dude, I LOVE hearing people say

"I've never gotten the shot and have never gotten sick so I dont need it" and "All my friends got the shot and got the flu, so I'm not gonna get it."

So much ignorance it's just funny at this point
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The last time I got the flu I had gotten the shot. I don't recall ever getting sick when I didn't get it, so for me it isn't worth it, I feel like I'm taking my chances if I get it.
That is not how the vaccine or vaccines in general work. It's like saying when I stepped in a puddle my feet got wet, so I'm not going to walk on side walks anymore.
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Wrong. No one is mandated to get a flu shot even if you have small children or are elderly.
You are right, they are not "mandated" no one can mandate you to get a vaccine man. But unless you want the child or elder to get pneumonia then it's very recommended.
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Some classic flat-earthers here for sure. It sounds innocuous, but flu is one of the major killers worldwide. Vaccines (like e/t else in life) aren't 100%, but a free shot that cuts the odds that much is a good thing. Don't know if you all realize it, but your not getting vaccinated is a big factor in how quickly the viruses continue to adapt to the new vaccines. Not much smallpox about these days....

This one is like a textbook for magical thinking meets defensiveness:
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Shits a gimmick. Never had one nor will I ever and I rarely get sick. The wifey gives flu shots everyday at work but never got one either. She gets sick from giving so many of them.
Perhaps maybe wifey is getting the flu on her everyday travels, then spreading it to her patients? nice.

And for this, kind of a miss:
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Wrong. No one is mandated to get a flu shot even if you have small children or are elderly.
- many states mandate that certain occupations either get a shot, stop working in that job, or wear a facemask all the time (some states don't offer option #3), so they can't MAKE you take the shot, but they can protect patients (and schoolkids, nursing home residents, etc)...

Scary that the current era of 'believe what you want, call the rest 'fake news' is undermining the foundation of scientific knowledge - the scientific process is really is one of mankind's greatest accomplishments: a system to counteract our brains inherent ability to bullshit ourselves into believing just what we want to, instead of what is really happening. It does, occasionally, produce uncomfortable or unwanted results.

But what do I know, I'm just a cog in that system. With all this industry conspiracy, the human lifespan has been shrinking over the past few centuries, right? clear proof that all this 'sciency stuff' is just a gimmick - none of it actually WORKS.
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I'm legitimately curious how many of you anti-vaxxers work in the Medical or Biomedical Research fields? Forget about being a full-fledged Physician, just in any capacity? Where do you get your information from?

Flu Shots are not some conspiracy we are pushing on you. It is backed by countless scientific evidence. Every year there are thousands of strains of the Flu, many of which are new and cannot be prepared for. But what the Flu shot does is protect you from the most COMMON strains.

Even if you aren't worried about getting the Flu yourself, think of the weak and immunocompromised amongst us; such as children, the elderly, Cancer patients, etc.
So the flu shot is included in anti-vax now? I thought you had to be anti-vax for the major stuff for your kids to be an anti.

I don't have any plans to get the flu shot, but I know these anti-vax people for their kids & shit are complete morons. So am I still anti-vax?
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the human lifespan has been shrinking over the past few centuries, right? clear proof that all this 'sciency stuff' is just a gimmick - none of it actually WORKS.
What? People live longer than ever these days.
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^ He was being sarcastic! Of course human life spans have been getting longer... but that is due to the advancement of science/medicine. That's was his point which got lost in black and white text.
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      09-21-2018, 09:03 AM   #57
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Perhaps maybe wifey is getting the flu on her everyday travels, then spreading it to her patients? nice.

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That's kind of a dumb statement which I'll disregard. She get in her car and not riding the PT. I would be sick too. Have you ever been to a pharmacy? Its a cease pool of germs.
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I used to never get the flu shot, mostly because everyone I observed seemed to get flu like symptoms (though only for 2-3 days at most, so not the actual flu) from getting the shot. That was initially the case, though I noticed that this seemed to be declining year over year where less people got those symptoms.

It wasn't that I thought the shot was going to give me the flu, I just felt it was only a possibility, not a guarantee that it would prevent me from getting the flu...and to potentially deal with flu like symptoms for a few days for only a possibility that it would protect me - I just decided to take my chances and not bother with it.

This was true until I had kids. Babies especially are very susceptible, so at that point, I was happy to get the shot on the off chance it would prevent me from getting the flu, because it is my kid in the mix now - it isn't just me. And I will continue to get it until the youngest is about 3 or 4 years old for that reason. And then, who knows, may go back to not getting it.
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i never got the flu shot, and the last time i got a flu was like 5-7 years ago.
gym is way better than the shot

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i never got the flu shot, and the last time i got a flue was like 5-7 years ago.
gym is way better that the shot
They arent mutually exclusive
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i never got the flu shot, and the last time i got a flue was like 5-7 years ago.
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They arent mutually exclusive
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So how many of you are getting the flu shot this year? Last year it was like a walking dead scenario with everyone getting the shot and then getting sick. I didn't get it last year and didn't get sick. I know other people who didn't get it and didn't get sick. But the health care system was overwhelmed with sick people to the point where people were being told not to go to the hospital if possible.
I never get the flu shot
and I get the flu about as much as anyone who gets flu vaccines

"On February 22, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court shielded drug companies from all liability for harm caused by vaccines mandated by government when companies could have made a safer vaccine. 1

From now on, drug companies selling vaccines in America will not be held accountable by a jury of our peers in a court of law if those vaccines brain damage us but could have been made less toxic. 2

If you get paralyzed by a flu shot or your child has a serious reaction to a vaccine required for school and becomes learning disabled, epileptic, autistic, asthmatic, diabetic or mentally retarded, you are on your own."
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Banned me from the politics thread but cant stop me here.. freakin snowflake moderators .. kids these days..
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And Captain Obvious snatches another poor soul from the quagmire of illogical thought.

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You have every right to determine if you want to take the vaccine, however, please understand all your facts before making that decision.

1) Emergency-C has been clinically proven to be completely ineffective at reducing your chance for catching any virus of any kind. It is has been scientifically proven to be nothing more than a placebo.

2) Super greens and other immune system support items, with exception of specific medically directed drugs have never been proven to offer any type of reduction in the spread, transmission, or receipt of airborne pathogens, viruses, or other contagions.
Using facts turns me on - which is weird considering

1. You didn't post any sources, but I know these are actually true
2. You're a guy (I assume) and I am too....a straight one.
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