Once again, another winter passes and I get sick for the second time this season. And no, against everyone without a PhD's opinion, it is not the flu. Now last season, I'll admit, I did not for the fifth year in a row did not receive a flu shot and exceeded in achievement by catching both strains A and B of influenza. This year my job offered to pay for a $25 flu shot, which I politely turned down. For the previous years of my life that I did receive a flu shot I always succeeded in catching a strain I had not been vaccinated for. Now many of you will say isn't it worth it to be protected from one strain even if its not all strains? Maybe to many Americans and other across the world, but for me, a flu shot comes with painful side effects like swelling in the injections site, a low-grade fever, aches and pains in my joints and weakness for the rest of the day I receive the injection.
Here comes an even more solid point - it was reported today , that this year's vaccine is only 40% effective against this season's strains. As the power of the dollar gets weaker and college costs go up, I'm sorry but I'm not paying $25 on something a flu shot, electronic, a book, or anything else that is only 40% effective.
So conclusively, I will continue to be let my own immune system kick the strain of the year's ass and continue to build up super human immunity, instead of relying on a vaccine that, chances are, won't work.
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That's probably because the flu is not a virus.
Um, I don't know where you're getting your information from, but the flu is a virus.
... you are totally right. I am an idiot.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/viruses/types.htm
I have pneumonia this week so I'm convinced everything is bacterial.
lol s'okay, sickness can send your senses into whack. Just this week I woke up from a nap and spoke deliriously to my mom about some girl named Sophie (I'm sick too).
Ugh, don't get me started on that asinine concept. The only people who should receive the unnocuation are young kids and the elderly to build their immune systems. I'm pretty sure the flu vaccine pandemic has a claim to all the mutations that are going around. Not only does the vaccine get you sick but you can still get the flu!
Yeah... just like all the rhinovirus mutations are cause of a vaccine we have for that. Oh... wait... we don't have a vaccine for the rhinovirus. Oops.
And the vaccine doesn't get everyone sick. I was perfectly fine after I got mine.
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I realize that the vaccine isn't the cause of the mutation. I had to type that comment out three different times on my iPod touch, lol. I guess I got too caught up in getting it out too fast. But, I remember reading about how unnocuations can actually keep you from being able to fight off the different mutations of the virus. I don't know, I still don't believe that the vaccine is helpful to anyone that isn't elderly or really young. I'll look it up again.
Please do. I'd be interested in reading about it.
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The biggest problem with flu shots is that they can't effectively treat ALL strains of the flu. The reason why this year's flu shot is only 40% effective is because the strains that scientists anticipated on being the main threats ended up not being or mutated into a strain that rendered the shot not as efficacious.
So than isn''t helpful in some way that some people don't get the flu vaccine in an attempt to prevent the strains from mutating?
The strains will mutate whether we have a vaccine for them or not. The vaccine doesn't change the rate at which they mutate.
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To me the flu shot is useless. If you are not one the average lazy people and you exercise your body, you already have a strong fighting machine to defend about anything. I keep myself in shape for years after years and I have never caught the flu or any illnesses. People just need to stop abusing their body and help it maintain it through exercise and healthy food choice. I sure anyone can agree with that.
It's not fair to say that people get sick because they're lazy. I know people who sit on their asses and eat junk food and never get sick. I, on the other hand, exercise regularly and keep processed crap to a bare minimum and yet, I catch everything the kids bring home. There are genetic and environmental factors to immunity as well.
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman