Flu Shots

[Crazy Legs]

I know that flu shot season is over but the idea of them is really nagging at me. I mean why do we get them. Sure they protect us against a couple of strains but how are we supposed to know which ones we will get. To be truthful I havn't had the flu for 4 years and I havn't got a flu shot all of that time, compare this to the fact that all of my friends and family get them and they are continuously getting the flu. I know this sounds like the "NOT ALL BUGS NEED DRUGS" comercial on TV but seriously in my opinion they're pointless.

[pherra]

I think I might agree with you! haha..because i don't think I've ever had a flu shot..and the last time i had the flu...hmm that was a while ago!! But then again, some peoples immune systems are worse then others, my friend gets sick a lot more often then I do. A LOT more often. Some people might really need the flu shots, you know? But yea..I do'nt need it, really, so they are pointless for me.

[Farson]

yeah id have to agree with you as well, i don't get sick very often, and when i do it only lasts for like a week anyways. haha and i've never seen that comerical you mentioned! i feel left out.

[DonKing]

You don't really need them. Its called the American Goverment trying to use fear to control you easier. Yes, I am saying Flu shots are a conspiricy.

[Hacky]

You don't really need them. Its called the American Goverment trying to use fear to control you easier. Yes, I am saying Flu shots are a conspiricy.
Let us see here, my close friend got the flu last week and was gone from school for 3 days, it spread through his entire family, also countless kids at school are getting the flu, and on top of it all I have no spleen, so thus a weak immune system. No, Flu shots are not useless. At least not to me, to the normal person, who still has a spleen and their immune system is, you know, working as it should, then yeah it is a load of shit and you don't need it. But there are many people, myself included, which need them. I haven't had the flu, however taking the risk just is not worth it.

[DonKing]

Then you need to go stand in the special non-spleen line.

[Hacky]

I usually get one, but I didn't this year, and with my friend getting sick and his entire family, it being a huge thing around here, I'm a bit worried that the single year I don't get a shot, I might get the flu.

[Frezarion]

I haven't had the flu since I don't know when and I haven't gotten a flu shot since I don't know when. There have been times that it went around and took out half my school, but I was fine cause I had a shot though. I don't know, I get them when I get them, I don't when I don't. I'm pretty passive about it.

[Newtype]

The last time I got a shot, it made me sick. I think it's the governments way of making money. Either that or there micromachines used to take our minds. Eh...probably not.

[Kharn]

I live in Ontario Canada where the Flu shot is Free, I only find the only people who should get the flu shot are the young (3 or below) the old (70 or older) or people who have weak immune systems. Or people who hang out with these on a regular basis.

[The muffin man]

Most drugs today are over-hyped placebos. The stress of scrambling to get a flu shot usually does more harm to your immune balance than the drug will restore. I you don't take a lot of drugs, your immune system will build up over time, making you less vulnerable to diseases. Do you think Neanderthal needed Tylenol for their headaches? flu shots for their influenza? No, their immune system built up over their lives.

[Kharn]

Do you think Neanderthal needed Tylenol for their headaches? flu shots for their influenza? No, their immune system built up over their lives.

The funny part is Neanderthals die out...but i do see your point...the majorty of people don't need flu shots...but what about the people who don't have your hype up immune system? And without some of the vaccines today most of us wouldn't be here to talk about it. So say that most of the Drugs out there are placebos is takeing a step to far. I do believe that people used drug too often, but then who are you doing to blame Drug company Marketers or the buyers?

[The muffin man]

Very true, perhaps I should of said 'some' rather than 'most'. I think a lot of people take more drugs than they need to, and the drug companies are seeing that we are easily taken advantage of. There are of course historically successful vaccines such as the Polio vaccine, Rabies vaccine, and many others. But when a drug becomes potent these days, people over use and after a few hundred bacterial/viral generations, the drug is no longer as potent, and the drug becomes reliant on the placebo effect. So if we all cut back and let our immune system work alone sometimes, we could greatly increase the effectiveness of our drugs.

[chuckado]

i think that most people do not need to get a flu shot. my friend gets 1 every year and gets sick the next week and doesnt find a coincedance. he is taking the shot from all the old people who need it

[ranger_waha]

The flu shot is just another thing the gov. throws out there to keep the people happy. Because, obviously, if a gov. can give everyone a vaccine to a disease that kills only the old, very young, and immuno-compprimised, the health care system must be going well! Wrong. Stop wasting money on shots, and find a cure for cancer. Or aids, if you cured aids, fewer people would die from the flu.

[JuCa]

the newest flu shots are the new strands of flu that pop up.

[temporary]

My dad was trying to get me to go get a flu shot.
He got one, and also got the flu 1 week later...funny stuff.

[System_Zero]

Flu shoots are basically mild versions of the current strain of flu. Unless you have a struggling immune system, you don't need a flu shot. Young Children, the elderly and people with HIV need flu shots. A teenager or a 34 year old man does not need flu shots.

[Ram!rez]

Last time i got one the damn doctor stabbed the needle in my arm. He did it like he was a psychopath killer. Overall flu shots are worth getting.

[Leafy2]

They give shots according to which flue(s) are/is the most common during the season.

As for me getting a flue shot, possibly when im older, as in 50-60 when a flue could kill me.

And all flue shots have the potential to give the flue, because they all contain traces of the flue there trying to prevent. They're designed to make the immune system recognize the threat at a minor level when it is more manageable, but as I had said earlier, older people are more susceptable to the flue than other people, in their on average poorer conditions. So its a decission of being a clean freak and reducing the chance that way, or have the shot and hope that it doesnt give you the flue.

[cobweb]

flu shots are very important even though most people dont need them. There are plenty of people walking around who have weak immune systems to who getting the flu shot can mean the difference between being healthy or getting extremely sick and maybe even dieing.

like i have never in my life gotten the flu or the flu shot, but if i ever did get the flu, id probably have to get the shot next year just because i normally get sick very easily and catch whatever is going around.. except the flu it seems?

and even though the shot may not protect against certain rarer strains, its always better for people who need it to get it rather than take a big gamble with their health

[1nf3n0]

but getting flu shots can be bad as MRSA has developd bacause of penniclilin!
WE DID have in the uk in the 1960 but as the hospitals had brass and copper door handles and plates it wasnt tranmitted easily as MRSA hates brass/copper
so if every one ddnt take penicilin for a slight head cold =no mrsa
but due to evoltion bacterial or viral infections have evolved to become resistant
and never if prescribed a medication stop half way through as the remaining resistant ones will go of and produce more causing a full resistance too the medication

[butterballs]

i got a flu shot, and i still got teh flu >=[ but i suppose they help it so the flu isn't as strong or something. when diabetics get bad flu it seriously messes with their glucose and makes them blind and shit.