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They say it's really bad this year. I heard a doctor on tv say that a healthy person could go from being fine to being in the ICU within 48 hours with this flu.
Anybody got the shot? Or has anyone had it yet? And before anyone yells at me - this is Off Topic Discussions and it doesn't have to relate to scrap. Although if you get the flu it will probably bring your scrapping to screeching halt lol.
I'm trying to figure out whether to pony up the twenty bucks or not.
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I get one every year and have never had flu like symptoms. Just reg colds that last a day or two. Knock on wood or scrap in our case.
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Never have gotten a flu shot and never will, I see it as why would I want the flu virus in my system and get this years flu ten years later. The pharmacists at work say the virus is dead when they give you the shot, but i thought that a virus can not be killed.
Im not sure. Im not a doctor
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Seems that most people I know that get the vaccination tend to get the flu as well. I stay away from things that try to take the place of our natural immune system. Healthy eating and regular exercise will probably be the best thing. Although no guarantee that you wont catch the flu, the recovery will probably be faster and effects shorter. Remember that we have a medical society that would rather over-prescribe for EVERYTHING, then have you back in to fix the side effects from the original prescription. Our dependence on anti-biotics is a great example of this. I dont blame the medical profession entirely, though. They realize that most Americans will choose the easy way out of everything regardless of consequences. Its hard to fight uphill battles all the time. Not to say i've never been vaccinated for anything, I'm just cautious about what I put in my body (except for the ho-ho's and twinkies...those i just cant resist).
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I would put a bullet in anyone that attempted to come near me with a needle loaded with any type of flu or other vaccine. Guess you just have to know what they are really putting in your body. Anyone read the new article yesterday about the nurse that was fired for refusing to get the flu shot? There's a reason she would rather loose a good paying job than get the shot. Just most people have no Idea what it really is.
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Up here a lot of people are not getting the shot this year over fears of what happened with that contaminated steroid injections that have killed so many people. It made the news here last nite.
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Depends on ewhere you live. The strain that is rampant here in Florida right now is not the vaccine that has been given. So yes you can still get the flu even with a flu shot. You can NOT however get the flu FROM the flu shot.
And YES you can kill a virus.
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Originally Posted by parrothead
Well, with more than 300 different KNOWN strains of influenza, are they ever REALLY given the right vaccine?
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I don't put any shot into my body that our government tells me I need. I don't trust any of them.
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We have a stomach virus going around here. It started with me on Tuesday a got really bad on Wed., threw up for 3 days. I wouldn't wish this on anyone.
Stay away from the shots.
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don't they put mercury in flu shots? i know many other vaccines have high levels of mercury. i'll take my chances of getting sick before i allow someone to put poison in my body.
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Spreading crap does not help. Seriously? Mercury in shots? Wherever you are getting this info from they need to remove their tinfoil hats. That or yours.
I am sooooo sick of mis-information being spread. It just gets worse as the general populace relies on the internet more and more.
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quoted from the FDA website: Thimerosal in Vaccines
Thimerosal is a mercury-containing organic compound (an organomercurial). Since the 1930s, it has been widely used as a preservative in a number of biological and drug products, including many vaccines...
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I stand corrected. That was some good reading. Fortunately they are doing everything possible to phase that out and the levels used are very very small.
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Edit: Missed the FDA post earlier in this thread.... but another source anyhow.
CDC - Vaccine Ingredients - Making the Vaccine Decision - Parents - Vaccines
CDC - Thimerosal - Vaccine Safety
There's even things like formaldehyde and aluminum salts in vaccines, which have other worries all their own.
I myself don't get the vaccines, never had the flu despite working a register at a gas station, or theater for the better part of 5 years, spending 4 years in the miltary, not using hand sanitizer, and only washing my hands when I feel it's needed (after bathroom trip, particularly dirty day etc... )
Might get sick once a year... if even that much.
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20 years in the USMC and got a flu shot from the first time it was available. I haven't gotten one yet due to my recent kidney transplant but I can get it now. I will most likely get one soon but I have had medical issues for many years so to me it makes sense to get the shot. This doesn't mean I suggest you get it. Mike
PS I got what I believe was a virus in the the stomach and instestines that lasted over 2 weeks, not a good time.
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1st Northern Kentucky man dies from flu this season
I never got them until I hit the fifties. I got one the end of October, and with the amount of sick people I have been around, I am glad I did! BroJer
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I got a very nasty pneumonia in my thirties ( had meningitis and iritis with it ) - they never could tell me for sure what it was but the doc thought it was pneumococcal pneumonia that caused all of it. I got a pneumococcal vaccine years later since it is recommended for --um- older people - since I didn't know if that was what I had but I sure didn't want anything like it again!
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As far as the nurse that got fired after 22 years goes, I am guessing that they were looking for a reason to get rid of her to begin with, and this was the reason. I work in the health care industry and we are able to refuse the flu shot.
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They fired 8 total for refusing the shot, because they made it "mandatory", some places are doing that now.
Nurses Fired for Refusing Flu Shot - Yahoo! News
Got one two times total in my life, 2 days later, sickest I'd ever been both times. Whether I'm allergic to something in the shot or what I don't know, but have stayed away ever since figuring third time might be the charm.
MIL gets one every year, seems like she's sick every month from fall to summer and still ends up with the flu some years, but then she's a people person...I'm a hermit. lol
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