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CNN: Two recent polls show the partisan vaccine gap has spread to flu shots
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I've never gotten a flu shot(or the flu for that matter), though I'm considering it this year. I'm not sure why I would given how little I'm coming into physical contact with strangers + still wearing a mask in most places. If I've never gotten the flu and I get the shot, that gonna gonna knock me on my ass for a day?
I can definitely say I'm more likely to get the flu shot these days than I was 5 years ago. It's not that I was ever anti-flu vaccine or anything, I just never went out of my way to get one, and used to mentally insulate myself because the flu shot sometimes has very low effectiveness. I'd get it if I had a doctors appt around nov-jan and my doc was like, "Hey do you want a flu shot?" I'd be like, sure, let's do it. But I wouldn't think to book an appointment on my own, it;'s just not something I thought about.
I've still gotten it probably 5 out of the last 5 yrars, but particularly in 2020 and 2021 I was lining up to get one because I didn't want nay chances. Not just protecting myself from the flu, but because I didn't want to get sick (with the flu) and then think it was COVID. Same with why I was very aggressive with seasonal allergy medicine, just didn't want to fuck with any complications from anything.
I've still gotten it probably 5 out of the last 5 yrars, but particularly in 2020 and 2021 I was lining up to get one because I didn't want nay chances. Not just protecting myself from the flu, but because I didn't want to get sick (with the flu) and then think it was COVID. Same with why I was very aggressive with seasonal allergy medicine, just didn't want to fuck with any complications from anything.
This seems to be a very hard concept for people to understand.It's not just about protecting yourself. In fact, it's mostly about breaking the chain of infection and keeping people that you would have infected safe. If you don't pass it on, maybe there isn't an outbreak in a nursing home and a whole bunch of old people don't die.
It's not just about protecting yourself. In fact, it's mostly about breaking the chain of infection and keeping people that you would have infected safe. If you don't pass it on, maybe there isn't an outbreak in a nursing home and a whole bunch of old people don't die.
This.
Even if you aren't worried about it, get it to protect others.
That's been happening but the vaccine fear mongering for this vaccine is making it more prominent that people won't vaccinated children. I am already seeing it in relatives.
I get that the flu isn't usually fatal so people ask what the big deal is but for me it's less about the flu and more about pneumonia.
There's nothing that I've experienced in my life that was quite as alarming as having a 103+ degree fever, coughing up endless amounts of fluid and small amounts of blood (from constantly coughing) into a bucket, and hearing that god awful chest rattle. Took me 10 days to get over it and it was pure hell the entire time because the only thing you can do at home is alternate tylenol and ibuprofen to keep the fever down. Inhalers help a bit but I wasn't fortunate to get that or the breathing treatment at the doctor's office at that time.
That was over 15 years ago and I still hate thinking about it. Anything that I can do to prevent going through that shit again is a must.
There's nothing that I've experienced in my life that was quite as alarming as having a 103+ degree fever, coughing up endless amounts of fluid and small amounts of blood (from constantly coughing) into a bucket, and hearing that god awful chest rattle. Took me 10 days to get over it and it was pure hell the entire time because the only thing you can do at home is alternate tylenol and ibuprofen to keep the fever down. Inhalers help a bit but I wasn't fortunate to get that or the breathing treatment at the doctor's office at that time.
That was over 15 years ago and I still hate thinking about it. Anything that I can do to prevent going through that shit again is a must.
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American insurance companies already have the leverage to push more costs onto people who deliberately refuse vaccinations, same as they already push costs onto smokers. I bet we will see more of that, and that could certainly make a difference.
You've never gotten the flu? Most of the time it presents as what people would refer to as a cold. But the reason to get the shot, as other people have said, is both to lower your chance of getting sick, as well as to lower your chance of unknowingly transmitting it.
Plus, even low effectiveness shots reduce severity across the board so even if you do get influenza it's a whole lot less likely to be moderate to severe and have you go to urgent care or w/e.
Even being completely selfish, getting the flu shot will make your life much better in every way.
Republicans not only want to destroy the economy for most but now they want to destroy everyone in country.
I've never had a doctor tell me I've had the flu, and I've never had a cold resembling the severity of the flu. It's certainly possible that I got it and had a light case, but I haven't had the "flu experience", if that makes sense. I'll probably get the shot, if only to make either of my folks less likely to get it.
It makes me sad how many people skip flu shots. I am glad that at least some people have developed a renewed appreciation for vaccines these past two years. But I still have a lot of simmering resentment due to arguments I've had with people over flu shots. So much ignorance out there. It shouldn't frustrate me that now we have a vociferous collection of people arguing for annual vaccines. It's a good thing. But it was so quiet for so long that I feel really bad when I think about it. All sorts of bad feelings. Not just sadness. Frustration. Anger.
Maybe it's because of the communities I've grown up in. Medical ignorance is rampant. It crushes your spirit.
Maybe it's because of the communities I've grown up in. Medical ignorance is rampant. It crushes your spirit.
My older sister worked in schools for decads and never got the flu shot or the flu. She's never had a cold either. Only time she's been sick was with covid.
She is vaccinated for covid but I doubt she got a flu shot.
I don't get the flu shot every year. Sometimes I go years without getting it. What I need is a hayfever vaccine.
She is vaccinated for covid but I doubt she got a flu shot.
I don't get the flu shot every year. Sometimes I go years without getting it. What I need is a hayfever vaccine.
She should get it to help prevent the spread to others especially in schools.
I was one of them, honestly. Covid has made me realize how fucking dumb that was.
Yeah, speaking as someone who actually did get the shot this yearā¦ it will likely make almost no difference. With most people wearing masks around here, flu is going to have a really bad time trying to spread.
Nevertheless, I'm still going to do it every yearā¦ people are going to eventually stop wearing masks (right?).
I told her the same thing. She has long covid so I told her even a mild flu could land her in the hospital . I just don't know if she decided to get it.
Forget dying, just having the flu fucking sucks.It's not just about protecting yourself. In fact, it's mostly about breaking the chain of infection and keeping people that you would have infected safe. If you don't pass it on, maybe there isn't an outbreak in a nursing home and a whole bunch of old people don't die.
My sister has already started heading down this path. She's not completely fargone, but she's at the point where she says she supports vaccinating her kids, but wants to spread the vaccinations out because her (quack) doctor told her it's bad to follow the existing vaccine schedule and administer multiple at once.
That's already been thoroughly debunked but there's no talking sense into her. Had she not been going to a compromised doctor she might have had an authoritative figure convince her otherwise.
That's already been thoroughly debunked but there's no talking sense into her. Had she not been going to a compromised doctor she might have had an authoritative figure convince her otherwise.
That's me. Got my covid vaccine but haven't gotten a flu shot in well over a decade.
I used to not get the flu shot but then two years in a row I got the flu in friggin September. So now I get the shot with all the old people over the summer lol.
My brother and his wife are republican and do not get their kids any of the required vaccines for school, she homeschools them literally just for that reason. Getting there
Of course it did. the cycle of stupidity continues and likely to do so. Fear sells and no better buyer and seller than Conservatives.
It's definitely going to become more common among conservatives (and conservative libs to a smaller extent). The fear is real and it's dumb AF, but America is going to continue to split apart further. I wonder how far it can go without straight up secession.
People don't realize how bad it.
Being woke is bad no matter what it is. Cause to them anything they dont like is woke. Woke def. alert to injustice in society, especially racism.
Calling out people that do disgusting things is canceling them so it is bad no matter what.
Using CRT as a boogieman to get any books about race out of schools.
They hate covid vaccines so now any vaccine is bad.
Slowing chipping away and regressing us. It is really sad.
I know you're joking but that's pretty unlikely. Measles will come back in full force long before we have a Polio epidemic in America, or anywhere except for poor/war torn countries with large rural areas.
Conservatives in Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are the reason why kids are still getting infected with Polio, unfortunately. There are a lot of conspiracy theories surrounding the Polio vaccine in those countries, especially regarding it being a plot to sterilize Muslims.
Thankfully, even the Taliban recognize how important Polio vaccination is. Makes me hopeful we may actually be able to eradicate that shit disease in the coming decades.
Yeah measles prob would be More likely, but yeah we are def gonna see more and more people contracting these childhood diseases because of shit conservatives and some wonky liberals mixed in as well.
I never understand why people don't get the flu shot.
It's free widely and easily available.
"Oh but I never get the flu"
"Once when I got it I still got a cold"
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It's free widely and easily available.
"Oh but I never get the flu"
"Once when I got it I still got a cold"
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I have my COVID-19 booster shot later today and I have my flu shot scheduled for about two weeks from now. I always get the flu shot because why wouldn't I.
Honestly, I think more people were always against getting the flu shot. I've heard "never got the flu and never got the shot" from people who DID get the COVID vaccine.
