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Flu Vaccine: Do it or not?
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 (November 27, 2013 at 2:54 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: I have never had a flu immunization and I intend to never get one. I had the flu one That doesn't even make sense.
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Science is not a subject, but a method. 
I got a flu shot this year at the insistence of my wife, and so far I'm fine. Although now I do tend to think that one-world government is good and Obama should be president for life.
Chemtrails? What chemtrails?
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
 (November 27, 2013 at 3:11 pm)Chas Wrote:Which part? The part where I give my personal experience, or the(November 27, 2013 at 2:54 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: I have never had a flu immunization and I intend to never get one. I had the flu one part where I refuse to devolve my immune system via 'precautionary' measures it's already well adept at taking for itself? 
I don't think you understand vaccinations?
The flu vaccination is designed to "kick start" your immune system to get it programmed to attack the flu virus so that if you get exposed to it later, your immune system will be ready to fight it and you'll not come down with the illness.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
RE: Flu Vaccine: Do it or not?
November 27, 2013 at 7:54 pm
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2013 at 7:59 pm by freedomfromforum.)
I understand exactly how immunizations work. I alluded to the fact that my immune system already has it's defenses built up by having learned how to ward off the virus over decades of structuring. The immune system responds like a bum on welfare. If you give it what it should work for, it learns to not work for itself, and awaits next years welfare check via 'flu shot'. My body has thus-far performed per its building-up, and I see no need to communicate to my immune system that I don't trust it by introducing it to an unnecessary battle.
ETA: As a human in a world filled with viruses, I am constantly being exposed to countless 'immunizations' via exposure. My immune system remains 'kick-started' at all times. 
I get my flu jab every year.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???" 
Misconstrued science?
You cannot get the flu from the shot. That does not make sense. It is a dead virus. They also have a nasal flu shot recently that is an actual live virus but has been weakened. My daughter got it and has been fine, but that's all I can speak to on that one. You CAN get sick and have that sickness show similar signs to the flu, or you can get the shot and then get sick from the flu from somewhere else, but getting the flu FROM the shot is not something that happens. It is very unlikely that your body is completely immune to the flu all on its own. The flu is a virus which mutates (shall we say, Evolves?) which is why there is no cure and a new shot every year. Not getting the shot is socially irresponsible IMO.
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