MissMurderpants
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I don't get it for me, but herd immunity makes it a straight forward decision. I don't want to infect old people, babies or folks who are allergic.
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I don't get it for me, but herd immunity makes it a straight forward decision. I don't want to infect old people, babies or folks who are allergic.
I have always had vaccinations: childhood ones of course and then for polio, but i will not get flu shot. I am an older woman and recall in the 70's when some people who got the flu shot wound up with Guillian (sp) Barre Syndrome--- a serious neurological illness, and/or the swine flu, and decided i would not get a flu shot--- fortunately i have not had the flu and hope i don't get it. Some people get pretty sick from flu shot itself, though they don't get the flu per se. Additionally, the flu shot does not cover all forms of the flu--the viruses change from year to year.
Then you might want to keep away from new immigrants of all sorts, who have probably not gotten their flu shots. Just a thought.
Just because for example tuberculosis has been almost eradicated in some of the European countries, it doesn't mean it's gone far away, there's 15 European countries, most of them on the Balkan peninsula and in the former U.S.S.R., where it's still present (as well as almost all countries outside Europe, only a handful of non-European countries are not on the Swedish list of countries at risk of TB). In Sweden the compulsory vaccination against TB ended in the 1970ies, thankfully to get infected with TB one needs to be in close and long-time contact with a person infected with TB (i.e. a family member, room-mate or similar), so it's not as virulent and easy to catch as the flu, the measles and other infectious diseases.Sensible advice, here in Europe we see diseases return that we thouht we had eradicated like Tuberculosis and similar.
Not about the flu vaccine, but about a vaccination many considers unnecessary, the chickenpox which is said to be a harmless childhood illness. It's not as harmless when a baby suffers a stroke as a complication, as there were recently at the hospital where I work, chickenpox seems to be the cause of a third of all strokes in young children. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/01.str.32.6.1257 , so why do parents want to take that risk as the consequences can be dire by not vaccinate their children?
I am in UK and had flu jab about 12 years ago and was quite poorly. I had my latest in Dec 2019 and was given the jab for the over 65's and it seems to have worked.
I stop getting them years ago needle fear
Idk the flu shots always work for me.
To me there are two things to look at when it comes to the flu shot. For me personally, it is not effective. I rarely get sick because I am a carrier. The people around me I think should get them because I will bring all kinds of germs around me. Sure, I wash my hands a lot and am careful because I know I am a carrier.