Re: Flu shots - just do it.
Re: Flu shots - just do it.
I'd never got one before. I probably will this year. I also need to check on pneumonia vaccine..... (Age 68)
Re: Flu shots - just do it.
I only started getting flu shots like five years ago. It just wasn't a thing in Venezuela.
Now I don't miss one. BIG difference in the times I got sick.
Get it. Insurance usually pays and Publix here in Florida actually gives you $10 gift card for getting one.
Re: Flu shots - just do it.
Mid-40s here. Never had a flu shot. Neither has my wife and kids.
We're all getting flu shots this fall though.
Re: Flu shots - just do it.
Late 50's with 20+ years of flu shots. No big deal.
Re: Flu shots - just do it.
I'm kind of strange; if I get the shot, I don't get the flu. If I don't get the shot, I get the flu. Whadd'ya mean that's how it's supposed to work?
I'm diabetic and help care for two elderly parents. You bet I get the shot.
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Been getting a flu shot since I turned 55 (I’m 67 now). No issues and no flu.
The way I figure it, take care of the thing under your control. Too many things happen out of your control.
Re: Flu shots - just do it.
Looks like everyone here is getting flu shots. No dissenters. I certainly get mine but I am a healthcare worker
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I've had one every year since the mid-90s. Never had a side effect and never had the flu.
That probably means I'm in for it now.
Re: Flu shots - just do it.
On a tangent note, this is why flu numbers cannot be accurately compared to C19. What would the flu numbers look like w/o a vaccine?
Re: Flu shots - just do it.
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Originally Posted by
Sea Ray
Looks like everyone here is getting flu shots. No dissenters. I certainly get mine but I am a healthcare worker
I'm not sure if I'm a dissenter, but just like I didn't rush out and get a statin like a nitwit, I keep an open mind.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200424...-equal-health/
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FYI I'd be careful with the link Rojo provided. It's an anti-vacc web site which is always a little strange in my opinion.
But I got a warning from my Browser asking if I wanted to set up a crypto account with this "app". When I went to the web site.
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Originally Posted by
JaxRed
FYI I'd be careful with the link Rojo provided. It's an anti-vacc web site which is always a little strange in my opinion.
But I got a warning from my Browser asking if I wanted to set up a crypto account with this "app". When I went to the web site.
It is "anti-vax", but the study is real.
"Pro" or "anti" shouldn't be how you vet information. You can believe in the science of vaccinations, as I do, and still not accept every vaccine as perfectly safe, just as you shouldn't accept every medicine as perfectly safe.
Re: Flu shots - just do it.
Last year was the first time I got a flu shot in years, because I've never been in a building with many people in a confined place. Plus my wife works at a hospital so I guess I'm being safer.
I've not been in a high risk group.