Flu Vaccines:What is all the hype about?

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Flu vaccines

Here is something that everyone makes a huge deal about. Around this time of year, or into the coming weeks/month, everyone will start freaking out about getting a flu vaccine. There will be news reports upon news reports about shortages in the supply for a certain area, just to miraculously have some appear at the end of the season because someone had misplaced them. Or, for there to never have been a shortage at all, it was just a story for the news to report on.

But what is all the hype really about?

I have never had a flu vaccine (other than the ones that are required when you are born and for the first few years of your life). But get this-I have never had the fly in my entire life. That includes the 24 hour flu.

Prime example that you don't always need what they tell you you do. Whether or not you pay to get vaccinated, the government drug companies are still making money off of you getting the shot. It is all a gimick, made for the government drug companies to get money.

I do believe that young children need the flu vaccine (talking-toddler and under), as well as the eldery. Why? Because their immune systems are not as strong of someone between those ages.

What does everyone else think about it? Have you had a flu vaccine? Have you had the flu? Do you think it is worth the hype?

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