RE: I still think getting a flu shot is directly linked to getting the flu
March 28, 2018 at 10:47 am
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2018 at 10:48 am by Jackalope.)
(March 28, 2018 at 10:10 am)Aegon Wrote: Just get the flu shot you daft cunts.
^^^
Anecdotally, the only time I got an bone fide case of influenza (as opposed to some other URI that people mistake for the flu), I did not get the vaccine, simply because I forgot. Haven't contracted it in any year that I did get the shot, which is almost every year.
That time I did get it in December of 2013, it very nearly killed me, and that's no exaggeration at all.
My fiance works in a hospital with medically fragile kids who are immuno-compromised and cannot get the vaccine. Get the vaccine to protect people like them, those people you undoubtedly run across in your daily life. Suck it up buttercup, and get your jab, you're probably not going to die from the flu, but they might.
The science says you can't get the flu from the vaccine, though you can get it in spite of getting the vaccine, simply because of the strain prediction was wrong, like this year.
