Flu Shots are Evil

[Jack_Dawson]

Everyone I know who has received a flu shot has immediately gotten deathly ill. And yet we're still encouraged to get one, even though this year's shot doesn't match this year's strain. What's the dilly-yo?

[sidwill]

1. Hey

You aren't supposed to question vaccines, just accept them.

[pistoff democrat]

3. Is that a gulf war joke?

:spank:

[pistoff democrat]

2. I agree.

I've only had one flu shot in my life and NEVER AGAIN!

It was the only season I got ill. I practically lost my hearing in one ear.

Jeez-oh-man!!!

[Jack_Dawson]

6. Seriously?

The flu almost made you deaf? I dun get it.

[pistoff democrat]

10. Perhaps I was being melodramatic.

What it actually did was wait a few days and then my left ear started hurting off and on. Then the hearing went in and out. This lasted about 6 weeks. Then I was fine.

(so the deaf business was hyperbole...sorry)

[MissMarple]

4. I don't know anyone who has. It's a DEAD VIRUS.

But the vaccine takes 2-6 weeks to become fully effective. And because the virus is closely related to what a lot of people are getting it ameliorates the effects of the illness.

[SaveElmer]

5. I get one every year

And have never gotten sick afterwards. The flu shot cannot cause the flu. If you got sick afterwards it was a coincidence, or you have an egg allergy.

[Timefortruth]

22. I feel achy for a few days afterward,

which is an unusual reaction, but not an infectious one. Still, that beats the flu by a long shot. I have had the flu in years where I’ve had the shot, but only once or twice. I am a believer.

[denverbill]

7. I used to work in a hospital and had to get one every year.

Last time I had the flu was the last time I got the flu shot. I know it's a dead virus, but it sure didn't seem that way to me.

[pistoff democrat]

13. Yeah

and I love eggs.

[rene moon]

8. The flu shot cannot give you the flu!!!

It is a dead virus. I have gotten one for about 3 years now and haven't gotten sick.

[amazona]

9. my friend got it and he's fine...however...

...I think the dilly-yo is some kind of fund-raising B.S. for the drug companies. The reason I think this is, we went to the same clinic and saw the same doctor to get some travel shots. I was told there was no need for a flu shot, so I didn't get it. HOwever, my friend, who is very well-to-do was sold over $400 worth of shots, including the flu shot! I think they just saw a big wallet and figured they would empty it?

He had no bad reactions but I'm amazed he didn't turn into a pin cushion after having so many shots at one time.

[BurtWorm]

11. I've had my shot. I have a cold, but no flu so far.

[BiggJawn]

12. I haven't gotten one this year. I have not yet been sick.

Every year for the past 5 years I have gotten a flu shot. Every year for the past 5 years I have come down within 5 days with some kind of upper respiratory/flu-like malady that has put me in bed for 3 days the past 2 years.
Now, as a Diabetic, one of the groups cautioned to never miss getting a shot, do I get one and guarrantee myself 3 days feeling like shit? or do I play the odds that I won't catch the flu and stay out of bed this winter...
Yes, I know it's "dead" virus, and no, I have no egg allergy.

Somethings you don't need a fancy education to figure out.

[NicoleM]

14. I ADORE the flu shot.

I get deathly ill every year if I don't get the flu shot.

[Jack_Dawson]

15. Nicole are you 80?

[NicoleM]

16. 28.

I'm in excellent health. But for some reason, the flu makes me sicker than it makes most other people.

[Jack_Dawson]

17. LOL...sorry. It's just that...

in my experience "seniors" always swear by the flu shot. But all the youngsters I know either don't get them or it makes them sick as a dog.

[NicoleM]

18. A few years ago

I got the flu really bad (actually that was probably the fifth consecutive year I had a really bad flu). I had a high fever, and I fainted face-first into a piano. Almost lost a couple of teeth. Ever since then, I make sure to get the flu shot ASAP. And it makes a difference. Some years I still get sick but it's nowhere near as sick as I got before I started getting the shots.

[JitterbugPerfume]

23. Well Im a senior , kinda (63)

never had a flu shot in my life and the last time I had the flu was in about 1985 or 86

[geniph]

19. I get a flu shot every year

and I've only once gotten ill - they admitted that year they accidentally administered a faulty dose to about 2,000 Boeing employees. The absentee rate went through the roof. ;-) But most flu vaccine administered now is killed virus, which cannot cause illness.

[tom_paine]

20. Got a flu shot last year and this year...I am a-OK fine...

And, as has been pointed out below, it is a dead virus.

Perhaps the Busheviks are adding docility chemicals, but...no, we have TV so they're covered there...

[SmileyBoy]

21. I got one a week ago, and I'm just as fine as I always was.

But I did get a little reaction from the meningitis shot I recived.

[gristy]

24. I got my flu shot at the doctor on Monday and by the afternoon I felt

as strong as a horse! My arm felt better than it had in weeks! Seriously, though, I think flu shots are great!