I will take every vaccine available to me to help my immune system fight off disease. You see, I'm not worried about dumb ass conspiracy theories of Govt injecting me with what ever you with whatever you believe they are.
I don't object to the price of flu shots, but rather to the fact that up to this point they've been so ineffective, and on occasion even harmful. Now, this big headlong, "warp speed" mad dash to a vaccine in record-time is likely to be just as ineffective as all the others, based on past-performance going back YEARS. So, I'll be content to wait for the rest of the "herd" to get their shots FIRST, and then decide about whether I want a bunch of panicked bureaucrats to jab ME up with their new batch of 'stuff' so that they can feel good about the "warp speed" with which they threw their vaccine together....
Yes, and just as important, the pneumonia shot also. Those inoculations have been successful for many years, so, I trust them a LOT more than I would "flu" shots....
I skipped my flu shot one time in the past 25 years. I got the flu terribly that one year I skipped it too. Flu shots work like a charm for me.
But I'm not "older" yet. And I won't be for years. So why should someone like me, who is young and healthy, get a flu shot? I've gone without a flu shot for the past sixteen years: Never had the flu once in that time.
89 yr old friend in an assisted living home tested positive for the virus 3 weeks ago and is fine but he has no comorbidities and perfect blood pressure without medication. His only issue was a broken neck that rendered his hands usable but useless with very little strength. His surgery was canceled because of the lock down.
Between 20 and 65 I never got a flu shot. Started at 65 because even I can tell the body ain't what it used to be. Though since contracting H1N1 in 2009 I haven't been sick since. Not even a cold.
And nobody is forcing you to get a flu shot. One day you will need it though. I for one completely support vaccines. The more terrible diseases we can eradicate, the better.
Not yet. Perhaps I will. And should the need arise, I will get it. But until then, there is really no reason for me to take one. Like so many issues, vaccination has been reduced to simplistic "pro" and "anti" camps that fail to account for the nuances of the subject. In reality, vaccination is something that should be judged on a case-by-case basis. Some people can benefit from some vaccines some of the time. Some vaccines work much better than others. And vaccines are only one way of managing disease. They are not a panacea.
I will gladly take the vaccine two years from now when it might be available I'll let the Republicans have Trump's Warp speed vaccine which is probably nothing more than household bleach.
I'm suspect about that one, my other half got the pneumonia shot and was hospitalized a couple weeks later with (drum roll please...) pneumonia!
I'm really not a big fan of ANY 'vaccine... but, I'm a retired, 'senior' now and everybody tells me that getting the pneumonia vaccine is a very important thing for we soon-to-be-croakers. I know, I know... they say the same thing about 'flu shots', too. But, generally speaking, I do believe the pneumonia vaccine is much more effective than any of the 'flu shot' crap. Maybe I'm wrong, but, so far, no pneumonia.... The thing is, when you get old, there's a lot of things that can attack you -- and what a lot of these maladies have in common is that they give you pneumonia. So, I got the pneumonia shot, and the 'booster'. That was a year ago, so, no problems so far... (gulp).
I don't want anything pumped into my body that the same bunch of clowns who produce today's 'flu shots' are developing right now at "light speed".... I'll wait to see how the rest of the 'cattle' do with these 'light speed' vaccines, and then, maybe we'll see... but I ain't gonna be 'the first kid on my block' to get one.... . 'Early-adopter'...?
Ditto. I'm not going to be a guinea pig. There's a reason that vaccines usually takes years to develop and test, test, test. In the early years, they either are not safe or they are not effective, or both. I'll let other people be the first science lab rats.
Do you think that young people don’t get flu and therefore spread it around? Just because we have an immune system doesn’t mean it’s good to suffer from every contagious disease if it can be avoided. Flu Complications Most people who get flu will recover in a few days to less than two weeks, but some people will develop complications (such as pneumonia) as a result of flu, some of which can be life-threatening and result in death. Sinus and ear infections are examples of moderate complications from flu, while pneumonia is a serious flu complication that can result from either influenza virus infection alone or from co-infection of flu virus and bacteria. Other possible serious complications triggered by flu can include inflammation of the heart (myocarditis), brain (encephalitis) or muscle (myositis, rhabdomyolysis) tissues, and multi-organ failure (for example, respiratory and kidney failure). Flu virus infection of the respiratory tract can trigger an extreme inflammatory response in the body and can lead to sepsis, the body’s life-threatening response to infection. Flu also can make chronic medical problems worse. For example, people with asthma may experience asthma attacks while they have flu, and people with chronic heart disease may experience a worsening of this condition triggered by flu. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/symptoms.htm
The ones where you might be exposed to poor sanitation, polluted water, general poverty and suboptimal health care.
