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Should you get the flu shot? What to know about the 2018-19 flu season
Fox News ^ | October 18, 2018 | Madeline Farber

Posted on 10/18/2018 9:22:03 PM PDT by Reno89519

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To: FrogMom

I am almost 65. Have never had a flu shot. Rarely, if ever, have gotten flu symptoms. No thank you!


81 posted on 10/19/2018 7:07:13 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day)
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To: gathersnomoss
Even to a young person the real flu can be devastating .
82 posted on 10/19/2018 7:08:39 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: luvbach1

I have never had one. I’m 61 and haven’t missed a day of work in the last 15 years. I think it’s more related to having a good immune system, mostly genetics.


83 posted on 10/19/2018 7:29:29 AM PDT by allwrong57
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To: eastexsteve; CodeToad

Vaxxers go directly for the Ad Hominem.
They do not know how to respond.

Then they want to MANDATE you inject stuff into your veins WITHOUT knowing why, without knowing arguments and counter arguments !!!

Wow !!

They cannot hold a conversation, but they want you to trust your life to it. Drive across this bridge. It looks like it might hold you and your car, but I cannot tell you why. Woah.


84 posted on 10/19/2018 8:15:00 AM PDT by TheNext (Anonymous Source)
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To: luvbach1

“Get a flu shot every year. Can’t remember when I last had the flu.”

NEVER get a flu shot, can’t remember when I last had the flu.

Will NEVER get one.

Stay away from people. People SUCK anyway.


85 posted on 10/19/2018 8:42:21 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: eastexsteve

“I guess that explains why millions of people (including American servicemen) died of the Spanish flu during WWI. “

That’s why I refuse to be in contact with anyone from WWI. /s

Stay away from “Spanish” people and BIRDS! /s


86 posted on 10/19/2018 8:47:26 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: TheNext

Vaccines aren’t drugs.


87 posted on 10/19/2018 9:08:06 AM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: Reno89519

I have a theory. Since the world has become such a smaller place (intl. travel/commerce), humans have been exposed to all kinds of bugs, helping us to become immune or at least more tolerant of disease.

Humans of today are not as vulnerable as humans were during WWI or any time in the past.

Also being old, I have over my lifetime been exposed to many bugs and have survived. I don’t get sick. Why would I want to take a RISK on some vaccine they “tell me” is safe?

“TRUST” us, they say. Sorry Charlie! Silly rabbit! Beep Beep!


88 posted on 10/19/2018 9:08:20 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Reno89519

No shot or flu last year. In the years I got the shot, I had the flu sometimes but not severe. I don’t think there’s much correlation.


89 posted on 10/19/2018 9:11:36 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Yaelle

Don’t take vitamin F. That will give you the flu. Actually it is the flu.


90 posted on 10/19/2018 9:15:56 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Gen.Blather
Roughly 6,000 people die each day in the US. Depending on the time of the year, one in ten of those is due to the flu or flu related illness like pneumonia.

Actually about 7,000 Americans die each winter month. About 6,400 die each summer month. The difference? Flu and other respiratory ailments, heart failure as cold weather constricts blood flow, etc. Even cancer deaths are a bit higher in winter.

91 posted on 10/19/2018 9:22:01 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: cyclotic

HuffPo isn’t a reliable news source. It is a political fake news website.


92 posted on 10/19/2018 9:35:47 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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To: TheNext

Using third-grade terms like “vaxxers” says all we need to know of your level of intellect and education. I don’t take medical advice from elementary school dropouts.


93 posted on 10/19/2018 9:39:58 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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To: CodeToad

Prove them wrong then.


94 posted on 10/19/2018 10:08:30 AM PDT by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: EinNYC

That’s interesting information. I stopped getting flu shots about 20 years ago. Every year the injection site would get a worse and worse reaction. The last shot cause a huge painful and very hot lump on my arm that lasted a week. It was days where my arm was basically useless. My doctor’s response was that wasn’t supposed to happen and to put ice on it. I’ve had the flu twice since then and would rather have the flu than the shot side affects. I’m now wondering if Benadryl would have fixed it.


95 posted on 10/19/2018 10:09:25 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: who knows what evil?

The internet conspiracy folks have really poisoned your mind. Would you want someone not vaccinated bringing their nastiness to your child’s incubator?

I cannot imagine how some people think.


96 posted on 10/19/2018 10:50:13 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Dutch Boy

Vaccine reactions are not rare. My Grandson died 12-6-16 following a DTaP shot.

From Dr. Jim Meehan
October 17 at 9:09 PM
Frequently, those that take issue with my position on vaccines will use the fallacious argument of the majority. They assert that there are “countless” doctors whose opinions on vaccine safety are very different than my own, therefore, because I am (currently) in the minority, I must be wrong.

History is littered with tragedies resulting from mindless group think and mob rule. One day soon, the fraud and corruption of the vaccine industry will be fully exposed and it to will be relegated to the historical trash-heap of tragedies that persisted far too long because of those that coveted consensus above the courage to question the status quo.

Lest we forget, there were “countless” doctors prescribing Merck’s blockbuster drug, Vioxx...even as the body count grew and the evidence of harm became overwhelming. Eventually the inertia of ignorance was exceeded and Merck was found guilty of knowing their drug was deadly, had buried that evidence, attacked dissenters, published fraudulent scientific studies in fake medical journals and counted on their public deception to mislead the mob into buying and using the drug.

Merck paid $4.85 billion in damages to the families of more than 60,000 patients that died from Vioxx. “Countless” other patients were harmed. And yet, even after paying the largest damages settlement in history, they still profited over $10 billion dollars.

Consensus and “the mindless mob” is often wrong. Merck’s corruption and fraud with Vioxx killed more than 60,000 people because the consensus allowed the deaths to mount. We need more skeptics and dissenters to challenge the status quo because left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. In the name of comity, we embrace stupidity. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent. Dissent forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making.


97 posted on 10/19/2018 11:04:53 AM PDT by azkathy (We the people are FED UP-pun intended!)
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To: eastexsteve

If Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies was a group of Canadian doctors who had successfully diminished influenza and influenza-like illnesses from their practices, then your comment would make sense and I would agree with parallel you've drawn. But as it is, your comment makes no sense at all and adds nothing of value to the discussion.

At this very moment I'm surrounded by folks who have either recently had the flu or have recently had the flu vaccine. I'll bet a dollar right now the bug passes me by entirely. And I'll make that bet because my experience, and the experience of these doctors support it. Television sitcoms are in no way involved. I'll also make a bet that Vitamin D3 and K2 cause no allergic reaction, nerve damage, or any other neuropathy, something that cannot be said for the vaccine. But no one is stopping you from letting a nurse put a needle in your arm. And the probability of GBS in your future is reasonably slim. So do what makes you happy and I'll do what makes me happy.


98 posted on 10/19/2018 12:25:45 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: palmer

Vitamin F is very scary. We won’t even get to it until lesson 12.


99 posted on 10/19/2018 12:26:05 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: cyclotic

“Prove them wrong then.”

They don’t have the basic education, and it’s not my job to educate all the morons in the world.

Smart people know how to pick their battles.


100 posted on 10/19/2018 5:30:37 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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