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Posted: 12/15/2018 10:11:26 PM EDT

80,000 people died last year. Are we setting ourselves up for an epidemic like in 1918?

http://www.fox5ny.com/news/over-40-percent-of-americans-say-no-to-flu-vaccinations

Have you gotten your flu shot this year?

If the answer is no - and I'm not getting one! - you're not alone. A new study finds more than 40 percent of Americans have not been vaccinated and, in fact, don't plan on it either.

This is despite the warnings, potential dangers, and last year's record-number of flu deaths. The survey was done by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.

People under the age of 45 were the least likely to report being vaccinated.

The top three reasons why they didn't want the shot were: bad side effects; thinking they'll get the flu from the shot; or thinking it doesn't work.

Some think the side effects are worse than the flu itself, but that's just a myth. Usually the only side effect is a sore arm.

It's also a myth that getting the vaccine gives you the flu. The flu vaccine is inactive and cannot cause the infection. If you do get sick after getting the vaccine, it's just a coincidence.

And while it is true that the vaccine doesn't work 100 percent of the time, the benefit is that it lessens the severity. If you do still get the flu you're 60 percent less likely to need treatment.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:13:59 PM EDT

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Half the country is retarded, so this is a result I’d expect.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:15:41 PM EDT

[#2]

Don’t most say you don’t need it unless young, old, or have a compromised immune system?

I don’t get one, probably won’t and haven’t gotten an actual flu in over 15 yrs at least.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:15:53 PM EDT

[#3]

Idiots

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:16:20 PM EDT

[#4]

Haven’t had it in decades.

I feel better now.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:16:32 PM EDT

[#5]

Meh. It was 100% free with my insurance at CVS so I got one.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:16:49 PM EDT

[#6]

I won't either. I'll take my chances with my immune system. Seems like just a waste of time to me.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:17:04 PM EDT

[#7]

I've never got one and rarely get sick.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:17:14 PM EDT

[#8]

I haven’t had a flu shot in 8 years. I haven’t had the flu for 8 years. Every time I got a flu shot before that, I would get the flu. Probably a coincidence, but I have enjoyed very good health. I am not anti vaccination, but the effectiveness of a flu shot is negligible.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:17:16 PM EDT

[#9]

I wouldn't be shocked if that's the average every year.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:17:20 PM EDT

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That’s the exact phrase my wife said when I showed her that story.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:18:33 PM EDT

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I feel like shit for 2 days if I get one or I can risk it. I risk it and for 10 years I’ve been lucky.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:18:55 PM EDT

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Don’t most say you don’t need it unless young, old, or have a compromised immune system?

I don’t get one, probably won’t and haven’t gotten an actual flu in over 15 yrs at least.

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This, do what you want, but I watch all of my co-workers get the flu, some quite bad, even though they've got the shot. I never have, and I've had the flu once in my 53 years, and it only lasted a few days.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:19:30 PM EDT

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Wife and kid got the flu shot last year. They both got the flu. I skipped it and didn't get it....I'm the guy in the house who always gets it.

Anecdotal and doesn't mean much, I just thought it strange.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:19:50 PM EDT

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Perfectly harmless, you're an anti-vaxxer if you disagree https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/-/5-2167192/?

Without being in a risk setting like dealing with vulnerable patients, considering the tenuous efficacy I'll take a hard pass as usual.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:20:10 PM EDT

[#15]

I'm shocked 60% of Americans get the flu shot.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:20:11 PM EDT

[#16]

You're an idiot if you get one.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:20:25 PM EDT

[#17]

didnt the last study show that the flu shot greatly increase the chances of it spreading?

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:20:40 PM EDT

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Don’t most say you don’t need it unless young, old, or have a compromised immune system?

I don’t get one, probably won’t and haven’t gotten an actual flu in over 15 yrs at least.

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This is why i dont get it....

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:20:40 PM EDT

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i’m 38 , never got the flu shot until this past octorber. I got the flu last year and it sucked and I got my kids sick. Ended taking them to emergency room more than once. We all tried this year and we will see. So far we have not gotten sick. If you have little ones i recommend saving your self a trip to the emergency room and get the shot.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:20:48 PM EDT

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80,000 people died last year. Are we setting ourselves up for an epidemic like in 1918?

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It's going to be worse than Y2K! 80,000 out of 326,000,000 people is only 0.025% of the population BTW.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:22:34 PM EDT

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didnt the last study show that the flu shot greatly increase the chances of it spreading?

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No

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:23:43 PM EDT

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Got flu shot 4 years straight.

Got flu four years straight.

Refused flu shot last 5 years.Got flu once

Fuck the flu shot

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:23:56 PM EDT

[#23]

I get one every year because my wife loves to stab me with the needle.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:23:56 PM EDT

[#24]

I get one

The real actual flu is a mother fucker

not rhe sniffles most idiots call flu

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:24:29 PM EDT

[#25]

They were doing them at work this year so I gave in and got one.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:25:21 PM EDT

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You mean the flu shot isn’t a magic bullet to keep me free of every infection for a year?

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:25:21 PM EDT

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Got flu shot 4 years straight.

Got flu four years straight.

Refused flu shot last 5 years.Got flu once

Fuck the flu shot

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Things that didn’t happen for $1000?

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:26:06 PM EDT

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Meh. It was 100% free with my insurance at CVS so I got one.

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My local Publix PAID me $10.00 to get one!

I got the over 65 double dose and then bought $10.00 worth of beer!

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:26:08 PM EDT

[#29]

I have never gotten one, and have only gotten the flu twice, as a kid.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:26:31 PM EDT

[#30]

My whole family (wife and 2 kids) got our shots this year. I am on day 3 of recovery from Influenza A. Wife is on day 5. We get the shot every year. Neither of us has had flu in over 15 years before this time.

The shot isn't 100% effective but I'll do anything that increases my chances of not dealing with this bullshit.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:26:48 PM EDT

[#31]

It's free so I usually get one. My local Publix Pharmacy gives you a gift card for getting one there, so it's a net win.

But we went years without any significant vaccine and didn't see a pandemic.

Vaccinations don't eliminate, just reduce the chance of infection, and only if they guess right that year.

Sure more people that vaccinate the better, but it's really only important for children, the elderly, expecting parents, and people with compromised immune systems.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:26:58 PM EDT

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Don’t most say you don’t need it unless young, old, or have a compromised immune system?

I don’t get one, probably won’t and haven’t gotten an actual flu in over 15 yrs at least.

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Oddly enough the big killer strains tend to disproportionately affect the young and healthy. People don’t think cytokine storms be like they is, but they doz

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:27:00 PM EDT

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Meh. It was 100% free with my insurance at CVS so I got one.

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Was with mine also..... I wound up getting Guillain-Barré syndrome from it .

Paralyzed from the chest down, in CCU for 5 days. I have gotten some movement back and am not pissing and shitting myself anymore.

To say I have mixed feelings about it is an understatement...

They say I should get most of the use of my limbs back and should live a semi-normal life in the next 1-3 years.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:27:39 PM EDT

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I have never gotten one, and have only gotten the flu twice, as a kid.

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You can thank the people around you that got the flu shot for keeping you safe.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:27:44 PM EDT

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Half the country is retarded, so this is a result I’d expect.

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Wtf ever

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:28:08 PM EDT

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but I'll do anything that increases my chances of not dealing with this bullshit.

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Just don't go outside and don't meet other people, should be pretty easy for most of GD anyway

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:28:08 PM EDT

[#37]

I have rarely gotten the flu.

Ironically, the worst flu I ever got was the year I got the flu shot.

Never again.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:28:15 PM EDT

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Whatever

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:28:38 PM EDT

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Can't even remember the last time I got the Flu shot.

I get sick like once a year, well, twice now thanks to my kids and the crap they catch.

Still alive somehow...

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:28:39 PM EDT

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I've never got one and rarely get sick.

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Right here...

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:29:01 PM EDT

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You're an idiot if you get one.

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this is the correct answer. it takes so long to produce the vaccine, and get it delivered, that by the time it is in the offices, it's the shot for last years strain. you cant immunize from the mutated virus from year to year, you can produce copies of the last one though, and create vaccines. why would you want to protect yourself from something that's not in circulation currently? it couldn't have anything to do with the drug companies needing to sell the vaccines, could it?

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:29:05 PM EDT

[#42]

Fuck the flu shot. My immune system is a tank.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:29:06 PM EDT

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Meh. It was 100% free with my insurance at CVS so I got one.

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same here

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:29:18 PM EDT

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You're an idiot if you get one.

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This man right here gets it.

All you lemmings.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:29:42 PM EDT

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Things that didn’t happen for $1000?

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You may be right. But I can’t remember the last time I got the flu shot, and I can’t remember the last time I got the flu.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:30:02 PM EDT

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I didn't get my shot this year for the first time in a decade. Know when I remembered? When I got the flu 2 weeks ago. Still lingering but tamiflu is the shiat

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:30:18 PM EDT

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Whatever

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Right back at ya.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:30:21 PM EDT

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Perfectly harmless, you're an anti-vaxxer if you disagree https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/-/5-2167192/?

Without being in a risk setting like dealing with vulnerable patients, considering the tenuous efficacy I'll take a hard pass as usual.

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That was what I thought of when reading this

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:30:28 PM EDT

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This, do what you want, but I watch all of my co-workers get the flu, some quite bad, even though they've got the shot. I never have, and I've had the flu once in my 53 years, and it only lasted a few days.

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Come on guys, really? You get your vaccinations so that you don't give the flu to people that it can kill, especially ones that can't get the shot like newborns and people with compromised immune systems.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:30:45 PM EDT

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I get one

The real actual flu is a mother fucker

not rhe sniffles most idiots call flu

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This.

I forgot last year, and ended up testing positive for influenza A. It laid me out for a week.

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