Flu Shot, Have you Had Yours?

[amyrouse]

Sheeple. Drug testing done by the drug companies that tell you it's safe, when the same exact vaccine when combined with last years H1N1 vaccine has been pulled from other countries. Keep believing the CDC, let me know how this works.

Arrogance like yours makes me want to scream.  You call us sheep for doing what is best for ourselves and our families?  Keep listening to your conspiracy theorists and let us know how that works... that is, if you don't spread your negativity so much to disrupt the herd immunity we currently enjoy.

[peve378]

Yes, kids and hubby is this weekend too!

[mattymatt79]

Sheeple. Drug testing done by the drug companies that tell you it's safe, when the same exact vaccine when combined with last years H1N1 vaccine has been pulled from other countries. Keep believing the CDC, let me know how this works.

Arrogance like yours makes me want to scream.  You call us sheep for doing what is best for ourselves and our families?  Keep listening to your conspiracy theorists and let us know how that works... that is, if you don't spread your negativity so much to disrupt the herd immunity we currently enjoy.

I would have less sheeple comments if the drug companies weren't the ones conducting the testing. Why the hell should I beleive monsanto or some other company when they are the ones testing it. Are there some vaccines that are good, sure but when other countries have pulled THIS EXACT VACCINE from their shelves due to extreme complications, there is zero conspiracy theroy behind it.

Why in the hell would I want to trust some government dolt into putting God knows what into my body when they can't even tell us what's actually in it? Arrogance?? Not even close, it's called wanting to know what is being put into me and since no one can give me an actual answer for a "pandemic" that hasn't actually happened, why would I? Finland refuses to allow for this exact vaccine to be given due to nurological disorders that have risen since it came out. Zero conspiracy theroy there.

Sorry, I'd rather use common sense and go, oh that person is coughing and sneezing, I should stay the hell away from them instead of just putting whatever the world says is good into my body.

And what the hell makes you know what is best for "ourselves and our families", reading your post, it seems YOU'RE the one with arrogance.

Let me guess, you think Floride and Aspertame are good for the body too because someone in the government said it was OK? Yes, that is a sheeple mindest.

[briannajeanxo]

i had mine on friday the 22nd. they made me get it because i was pregnant. i got wicked sick from it and its now thursday the 28th and my arm is still sore!

[Osmara13]

I'm actually fearful that i'd get sick. But the other day on Doctors they said that this shot can help prevent from heart attacks.

[mrisha]

I haven't had a flu shot yet and don't plan to get one.  I made the mistake of getting a flu shot some years ago and it made me really ill.  Never again.

[amyrouse]

Sheeple. Drug testing done by the drug companies that tell you it's safe, when the same exact vaccine when combined with last years H1N1 vaccine has been pulled from other countries. Keep believing the CDC, let me know how this works.

Arrogance like yours makes me want to scream.  You call us sheep for doing what is best for ourselves and our families?  Keep listening to your conspiracy theorists and let us know how that works... that is, if you don't spread your negativity so much to disrupt the herd immunity we currently enjoy.

I would have less sheeple comments if the drug companies weren't the ones conducting the testing. Why the hell should I beleive monsanto or some other company when they are the ones testing it. Are there some vaccines that are good, sure but when other countries have pulled THIS EXACT VACCINE from their shelves due to extreme complications, there is zero conspiracy theroy behind it.

Why in the hell would I want to trust some government dolt into putting God knows what into my body when they can't even tell us what's actually in it? Arrogance?? Not even close, it's called wanting to know what is being put into me and since no one can give me an actual answer for a "pandemic" that hasn't actually happened, why would I? Finland refuses to allow for this exact vaccine to be given due to nurological disorders that have risen since it came out. Zero conspiracy theroy there.

Sorry, I'd rather use common sense and go, oh that person is coughing and sneezing, I should stay the hell away from them instead of just putting whatever the world says is good into my body.

And what the hell makes you know what is best for "ourselves and our families", reading your post, it seems YOU'RE the one with arrogance.

Let me guess, you think Floride and Aspertame are good for the body too because someone in the government said it was OK? Yes, that is a sheeple mindest.

You are arrogant.  Especially when you make an assumption about me like you did in your last statement.  Have you actually studied epidemiology and how these diseases are spread?  Are you a board certified doctor or pediatrician?  These people are in their line of work to study what is best for individuals, families, and communities.  I already responded to this here:

Vaccines, and why they are given to infants: http://www.scq.ubc.ca/the-anti-vaccine-disease-rant-or-reason/
Notice this reference is a scientific magazine and has references and is peer reviewed...not anecdotal evidence.

Another one in favor of vaccines, specifically addressing vaccine testing: http://www.drwile.com/lnkpages/render.asp?vac_test

Information about the sicko Wakefield, a big name in anti-vaccination lore: http://briandeer.com/wakefield-deer.htm

The National Network for Immunization website: http://www.immunizationinfo.org/



I've studied Epidemiology and how disease spreads... its some scary stuff.  When I read articles like the one I posted about pertussis, when I see people like Wakefield and how he abused poor children to prove a point, and when I see people like Jenny McCarthy spreading their outdated crap, it makes me sick.  I also feel nauseated when I hear people claim "Big Pharma" is out to make money by lining the pockets of politicians and pushing vaccines on doctors.  The American Academy of Pediatrics...the main purpose of that group is to protect the health of kids!  To think that they would develop an immunization schedule that isn't what is best for kids seems ludicrous to me.  They are constantly updating and revising their publications and recommendations on what is best for children... if there was an issue with vaccines, that would be one of the first things they would jump on.  Notice how the flu shot is not recommended for children under 6 months old?  The studies that they have done religiously have shown that the flu shot is not good for kids that age.  Well, then, if vaccines were bad for the ages they have published the schedule for, would they honestly have recommended those ages based on money alone?  They're rich enough without the bribes!  They specialize in medicine for kids!

If you take a good long look at the list of vaccine preventable diseases on the National Network for Immunization website, how many of them are currently widespread and killing people off?  Now how many of them are deadly?  How many of them have been have been the cause of an epidemic that has thinned out a population?  Take a look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics.  Guess what is repeatedly on that list... yeah, its influenza.  The flu.  It can be deadly.  Measles, Mumps, Yellow Fever, Typhus, and Polio are also on the list.  Repeatedly.  Large amounts of people have been infected and have died from the spread of those diseases.  We have vaccines to prevent them.  Seems simple to me, especially coupled with the video I posted regarding herd immunity earlier in this topic.

***EDIT***

There has been a recent pandemic... Swine Flu, H1N1, whatever you wish to call it.  It started in Mexico and spread to the US... making it a pandemic instead of an epidemic.  If you personally don't want to take the shot, no one can force you to do so.  It would be best for all involved, though, if you kept your vitriol to yourself.

[bozenabozena]

I went to the doctor to day for blood work and a check up. And then suprise they gave me a flu shoot. I don't mine shots but it sure did make my arm sore and I felt a little funny afterward. As of now I'm feeling ok. How many of FC people got your flu shoot yet? I do hope it keeps me and my husband both from getting the flu. He had his shot last week.

   i was thinking to get one but last week my father got one and today he got the flu, soo should i get one - i don't know...

[ljNana]

I finally got my notice from VA telling me when the flu shots are scheduled this year. Seems like they normally send them out earlier than November.

[jkhanson]

Yes I got the flu shot.

I got mine in September when I went to a County Fair.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

[Linda67]

I got mine yesterday...they said it could make my arm really sore and cause headaches...the nurse that gave it to me said she had both problems.  I haven't had either one...my arm didn't get sore at all..and no headache.

[lisabow44]

I've only got a flu shot one time and then I got sick that same winter.

[ElleRich]

I never get a flu shot.

[peacesweet]

No and i think if your not always sick you shouldnt get them

[gafee2001]

I got mine at work earlier this week. It was free, but it made my arm kind of sore. I also had the bad idea to wear a white collared shirt that day, so I needed to get a Band-Aid