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jimmyx
got my flu shot in early November...felt fine ever since....maybe this is natures way of thinning the herd, all those that do not believe in science, and think vaccines is the work of a demonic godless gov'mt may end up participating in a lot of funerals.
ketsuko
jimmyx
got my flu shot in early November...felt fine ever since....maybe this is natures way of thinning the herd, all those that do not believe in science, and think vaccines is the work of a demonic godless gov'mt may end up participating in a lot of funerals.
The joke may still be on you.
1.) The flu vaccine from any one year is only comprised of the two or three strains they think most likely to be a problem that year. If another strain rears its ugly head and becomes the dominant strain or even passes through your area, you have no protection from it.
2.) Even with the vaccine, you only have about 60% protection from the strains in the shot, so you still could get infected with them. This is likely part of the origin of the myth that the vaccine actually gives you the flu - people who get the shot and then get the flu anyway. It's not perfect.
I'm not anti-vaccine by any measure, but I do my research. The flu vaccine even in the best years is still a crap-shoot, so I usually don't bother. I might treat it a little differently in my senior years when the flu is much more of a threat to my life and limb. Right now, it's just a major inconvenience for the most part unless it's a novel pandemic strain, in which case my immune system could kill me with a cytokine storm.
This year there seem to be a lot of nasty bugs running around.
Right now, I have one that's made me a walking snot factory. The only way I've found to really get any relief from it is to take Mucinex and live on hot tea to sooth my throat. It cycles between being a nasty sore throat and either making my chest or my head feel like it's packed with cement (where the Mucinex helps). I've been doing this for about a week and a half now.
But, it's not the flu. I've had that before and know what it feels like. I don't have the fever, aches or fatigue to qualify this as actual flu, but it's bad enough as it is.