How Do You Feel About The Flu Shot?

i never get a flu shot...and i never get the flu....

I think that if people are afraid or paranoid or worried about catching the flu, then stay home. Don't go to school. Don't send your kids to school. You can home school them. If you want to get the flu shot to keep your job thats your choice, but it contributes to this system of zombie optimism. Being forced to get a flu shot no matter what job you have, whether it's a kindergarten teacher, a nurse, or an in-home health care worker is wrong. It's slowly becoming status quo and a social norm. I don't want my family to have to inherit a society with brain dead ideaology. There is still absolutely no evidence that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these flu shots even work. Why should the population at large suffer systematically because a very small portion of the public, might get the flu. If your sick, be responsible and stay home. If you feel weak, as to your immune system, get healthier. Eat healthier. Live healthier. But quit trying to force on humanity the results of an irresponsible portion of society, that in which is apathetic at best. They're afflicting 97% of the population to supposedly help 3% of it's population. Your saying it's ok to force people to get a flu shot if they're in the medical profession. Wrong. It's not ok to even peer pressure these people. The reason being is next there will be another profession that should have the shot. Then another profession. Then these people should get the shot. Then those people should get the shot. Then everybody should get the shot. What should be is that people remain free like we were born to be. It's true Ron, that people are contagious before symptoms present themselves. But it's also true that a lot of people that buy into these ideas that vaccinations work as intended, live unhealthy lifestyles to begin with. This entails eating calories that are empty in nutrients, living in a way that lacks exercise, even thinking in ways that are unhealthy. Which all lead to a compromised immune system that complicates even a simple flu strain. Why should choices and decisions be forced on a groups of people that make healthy choices and choose to conduct themselves in a way that promotes a healthy immune system, in which can easily defend against simple flu strains, just because unhealthy people are setting themselves up for failure. Why should I be unrighteously afflicted because your apathetically addicted?

I'm stronger than the flu.

<---- has never had one, also has never had the flu. I think they're useless considering everyone i know who gets one always get the flu within that month.

It's the responsible thing to do.

^^^ This. I got mine a month ago and couldn't be happier. I think anyone with kids, that works in health care, law enforcement, or with the elderly should be Required to get one.

I've gotten the flu shot twice in the last 15 years, and both times, I got the flu that year. Seriously. I've never taken it again. I've been told that its new and improved, but I'm not risking it.

On that same note, the year that my daughters got the flu mist drops in their nose, they BOTH caught the flu that season. (at different times.) The only time either one of them has ever gotten it.

Both times I got the vaccine I got miserably sick afterwards...probably just a coincidence though. I will take it again next year though. I wasn't sick for a week like the years I didn't get it...just a few days of nastiness.

People keep saying that they never have and they never will, but this affliction is slowly being forced systematically on groups of people slowly becoming a socially norm.

I work in a hospital, so it wouldn't be fair for me to give the flu to the patients, my 20 month old child has a smaller left lung due to CDH and my three year old and husband have severe asthma. If you do get the flu after getting the shot, it usually makes it less severe than if you didn't have the shot. So, I mainly get it to protect those around me, especially when I end up coming to work while still sick due to shortness of staff.

I've gotten a flu shot every year since the mid-80s.

I'm all for modern medicine and vaccinations.

We have flu shots available in the health room where I work ... no one is forced to take one.

Where are these people being forced to take flu shots or loose there jobs?

It is a medical FACT that one cannot get the flu from the flu shot. You may have already had it in your system, or have some other virus that resembles the flu.

It is irresponsible to not get the flu shot. You may be strong enough to fight it off or recover well, but children, elderly and the immunologically compromised do not.

Get the flu shot every year, its the right thing to do.

I get one every year. My work offers them for free. I rarely get the flu. Maybe twice in the last 10 years.

I'm 56 and have never had the flu shot. My elderly mom gets one every year and seems to get the flu almost every year. Go figure. My son's pediatrician told me years ago (he's 24 now) that she got violently ill after having one and won't do it again. I guess you hear pro and con stories about it, either way. I certainly wouldn't want to be FORCED to have one, though. To me, that's crossing a line...

I think that if people are afraid or paranoid or worried about catching the flu, then stay home. Don't go to school. Don't send your kids to school. You can home school them. If you want to get the flu shot to keep your job thats your choice, but it contributes to this system of zombie optimism. Being forced to get a flu shot no matter what job you have, whether it's a kindergarten teacher, a nurse, or an in-home health care worker is wrong. It's slowly becoming status quo and a social norm. I don't want my family to have to inherit a society with brain dead ideaology. There is still absolutely no evidence that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these flu shots even work. Why should the population at large suffer systematically because a very small portion of the public, might get the flu. If your sick, be responsible and stay home. If you feel weak, as to your immune system, get healthier. Eat healthier. Live healthier. But quit trying to force on humanity the results of an irresponsible portion of society, that in which is apathetic at best. They're afflicting 97% of the population to supposedly help 3% of it's population. Your saying it's ok to force people to get a flu shot if they're in the medical profession. Wrong. It's not ok to even peer pressure these people. The reason being is next there will be another profession that should have the shot. Then another profession. Then these people should get the shot. Then those people should get the shot. Then everybody should get the shot. What should be is that people remain free like we were born to be. It's true Ron, that people are contagious before symptoms present themselves. But it's also true that a lot of people that buy into these ideas that vaccinations work as intended, live unhealthy lifestyles to begin with. This entails eating calories that are empty in nutrients, living in a way that lacks exercise, even thinking in ways that are unhealthy. Which all lead to a compromised immune system that complicates even a simple flu strain. Why should choices and decisions be forced on a groups of people that make healthy choices and choose to conduct themselves in a way that promotes a healthy immune system, in which can easily defend against simple flu strains, just because unhealthy people are setting themselves up for failure. Why should I be unrighteously afflicted because your apathetically addicted?

Getting the flu shot is not the right thing to do. If your job wants to fire you because of not taking the flu shot then get fired. It's a pathetic job and business to be in anyway. Being forced isn't right. And it is definitely not a fact that the flu shots even work.

Or they already had it when they got the shot, but hadn't yet presented symptoms. The incubation period is 2-5 days.

That's true! For whatever reason I didn't think of already being infected, but you're right. Also doesn't the flu shot take a couple of days to take full effect since your bodies are developing antibodies?

In theory???? It's scientific research not a law of physics.