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In reply to the discussion: Flu Shots... [View all]Agschmid
(28,749 posts)110. Haha I try...
Sometimes ambivalence is good thing sometimes it's bad thing, I guess I am indifferent to how you took the phrasing.
(It would have been way to easy to be ridiculous with that post!)
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Big break out in NC, covered by our insurance, no charge, took 5 min..why not?
NRaleighLiberal
Jan 2013
#1
They do for me. Haven't had the flu since I started getting the vaccine. If you had the shot on
uppityperson
Jan 2013
#27
The flu is a constantly changing virus with a whole alphabet of different varieties.
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2013
#35
The CDC puts out information on this every year. If you need me to, I can look it up nt
stevenleser
Jan 2013
#58
call me a fool never got it never get sick- had a stroke - but never the flu (that i remember)
leftyohiolib
Jan 2013
#163
You actually exercise your immune system by exposing yourself to multiple people..
could it be seitan
Jan 2013
#81
I've been getting them for many years. Haven't had the flu since the early 90s. nt
onehandle
Jan 2013
#30
It's not as effective this year as others....sometimes it works better. It's also not so hot for
MADem
Jan 2013
#36
The only two times I've had the flu since 1968 was the two times I got a flu shot.
hobbit709
Jan 2013
#45
I get the flu shot every year and have never gotten the flu. This year I have delayed it longer than
stevenleser
Jan 2013
#49
First One: I'm in the middle of Chemo treatments and my Dr. insisted I get a flu shot
1-Old-Man
Jan 2013
#53
Ambivalence... the strangest place -- yet the funniest option I've seen in a poll.
LisaLynne
Jan 2013
#75
If I decided health advice based on DU threads I'd have to retroactively die, I think. (nt)
Posteritatis
Jan 2013
#102
Well, one year we decided to skip the Flu Shots for the kids due to the pseudoscience scare BS
Burma Jones
Jan 2013
#90
A friend of mine was pretty much crippled by the really bad flu strain a few years ago
Posteritatis
Jan 2013
#101
Herd health: We who get flu shots are shouldering the burden of protecting the entire herd.
kestrel91316
Jan 2013
#106
I think you are nuts not to have one. I got mine pretty late, actually, in early December.
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#108
No way? Who answers "no way"? Vaccines are fundamental to human health...
johnnyrocket
Jan 2013
#160