Don't forget to get your flu shot!

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  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    If you like your plan you can keep your plan. Did you believe that too?
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    I don't get the flu shot and won't ever. I'm not worried about catching it from other people. If I get it, I get it.

    To the person inferring people like me are hypocrites from not getting the flu shot while getting MMR shots, last I knew, the flu shot wasn't legally mandatory in order to attend U.S./Canadian schools.

    No, wasn't inferring that people like you are hypocrites, just pointing out that getting a flu shot is no less different in order to help protect your health - or would you adamantly turn down MMR/ Pertussis vaccines too given the chance?

    A good bout of swine flu - and you won't miss a flu shot again, LOL

    H1N1(Swine flu) and the influenza vaccination aren't the same thing.. Unless they've made a hybrid vaccine that combines them all I am unaware of.
    Besides, Good bout of swine flu will make sure you don't get the swine flu again- that's what our immune systems are designed to do, build antibodies against the viruses.... in essence, catching the flu will ensure you don't catch that particular strain of flu again :P

    Don't know if this has been replied to as I was catching up.... I gotta work sometimes... ;) Anyway, there are flu vaccines that are combined swine flu and typical flu vaccines... that's pretty much what they are giving out... at least around here they are.
  • wheird
    wheird Posts: 7,963 Member
    If you like your plan you can keep your plan. Did you believe that too?

    I still have my plan.
  • redheaddee
    redheaddee Posts: 2,005 Member
    No thanks, I'm not interested in autism as a lifestyle choice.
    OMG I can't believe people are still spreading this myth. IT IS A MYTH. There is NO scientific evidence of this. At all. THis has been debunked a long time ago. If you choose to remain uneducated and uninformed, fine. But DO NOT spread outdated, alarmist rumors. And even more hilarious: you think that a vaccine could 'give' you Autism.

    Shame on you for basing your opinion on scientific, peer-reviewed theories rather than books written by celebrities. :flowerforyou:
  • sullus
    sullus Posts: 2,839 Member
    If you like your plan you can keep your plan. Did you believe that too?

    Didn't believe it when he said it. Not because of anything in the ACA, but because .. the president can't speak for private corporations.
  • ajaxe432
    ajaxe432 Posts: 608 Member
    If you like your plan you can keep your plan. Did you believe that too?

    I still have my plan.
    And I still have mine.....until next year.....
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    and being in the military he was required to get it every year...


    Mandatory Diptheria, Hepatitis, Yellow Fever and Rabies shots, but other than that not even the anthrax shot was mandatory.

    Bollox to getting a flu shot as mandatory

    yes, it is mandatory at least for the us navy. basicaly if the CDC and/or WHO has ever heard of it the navy vacc's for it, and if you try to duck it your command will find you and escort you to medical for it, unless you get a waver... and the vacc better kill you for you get one of those

    My example (that was quoted) was from an Airmen's perspective... so waivers for that sort of thing are probably easier to come by since they aren't living in a floating dormatory.
  • ajaxe432
    ajaxe432 Posts: 608 Member
    I love watching where the forums go......all this from a simple "make you get your flu shots" thread!!:laugh:
  • paleojoe
    paleojoe Posts: 442 Member
    I love watching where the forums go......all this from a simple "make you get your flu shots" thread!!:laugh:

    What's even funnier is the category it's in... chit-chat, fun, and games...
  • arghbowl
    arghbowl Posts: 1,179 Member
    The derp is strong today.
  • ajaxe432
    ajaxe432 Posts: 608 Member
    :)

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  • jenifr818
    jenifr818 Posts: 805 Member
    :)

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  • Summer5555
    Summer5555 Posts: 104 Member
    I had the flu once, knocked me for six so have had the flu shot since then and never been sick like that again thankfully. I think a lot of people who say they get the flu after having the needle are seriously little princesses. Think about it really, you get the flu shot when the cold season starts kicking in and the flu shot doesn't protect you against the common cold. How many people say "I'm dying I've got the flu" when in reality it's just a common cold and you're being overly dramatic.

    I have a cold now, I don't feel great but it's just a cold.... I'm sure there a heaps of people with exactly the same thing I have but they have 'the flu'.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    My company offers the flu shot for free (and requires for a few specific jobs) - I worked, with a team, on the cost benefit versus lost days of work with the effectiveness spread data from 2000 to 2010 using Sentinelle, WHO, CDC, NHS numbers. No morbidity analysis.

    Conclusion: we pay for it, it makes sense. It does not make sense to make it obligatory as the benefit point between additional protection, missed protection, and lost days due to adverse reactions inverses at high adhesion numbers. If my organization paid for direct care of sick individuals (like the military) the numbers might be different. I don't know, my model is a little old.

    Overall it makes sense. As for myself, personally? Some years I do, some I don't.
  • ren_ascent
    ren_ascent Posts: 432 Member
    :)

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  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    Meh.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,642 Member
    Meh.

    yeah, hold me back too...it ain't worth it
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,375 Member
    I had the flu once, knocked me for six so have had the flu shot since then and never been sick like that again thankfully. I think a lot of people who say they get the flu after having the needle are seriously little princesses. Think about it really, you get the flu shot when the cold season starts kicking in and the flu shot doesn't protect you against the common cold. How many people say "I'm dying I've got the flu" when in reality it's just a common cold and you're being overly dramatic.

    I have a cold now, I don't feel great but it's just a cold.... I'm sure there a heaps of people with exactly the same thing I have but they have 'the flu'.

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  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    I don't take the flu shot

    Me either.
  • AcidWords21
    AcidWords21 Posts: 139 Member
    Never have had one & haven't had the flu since 1997.