By Silbax1 - 27/10/2014 15:40 - United States - Cincinnati

Today, I overheard my co-workers talking about how they don't need flu shots because everyone else gets them. These people are in the medical industry. FML
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tony1891 22

thats Cause the flu shot is an actual virus.

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Ashd09 30

I hope these people don't give advice to patients. They need to rethink their job descisions

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MaryTheLamb 4

You have to look at the there logic from there Pocahontas. They think if everyone gets them then what's the point of getting one of you most likely won't get it if others don't have it.

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cm1995_fml 10

Oh the irony...? you and all the others saying how your coworkers are idiots, when they are right. If someone is vaccinated, and the vaccine is actually effective in what it is claimed to do, then no one can contract the flu from that person. That's the point of vaccines, to prevent one from contracting a communicable disease.

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personThingy 13

"if the vaccine is actually effective at what it is claimed to do" Well, sometimes it's not. That's the main difference between science and magic: science has a particular effect, with a given confidence level, under normal circumstances. If vaccines magically made anyone incapable of contracting a disease, with absolute certainty, and could be given to everyone instantly, then everyone who chose not to be vaccinated could get every preventable disease at once and we wouldn't care. But that's not the way it works. You could easily pass any disease onto someone who can't be vaccinated due to allergies, or who hasn't been vaccinated yet, or for whom the vaccine failed. Also that's not even irony. That's just people disagreeing with you.

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PegLegRacing 34

Flu shots are for young children and old people. If you're a healthy adult, they are useless. Usually the strain you get vaccinated against isn't the one that will hit that year. My dr even told me not to get it.

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RogueKnight 12

Technically the flu shots don't really work. They only work about 9% of the time. All they really do is suppress your immune system for a little bit making it more likely you'll catch the flu. Several medical studies have proven this.

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Nymeria_fml 25

Can you link to any of these several studies? The CDC says that recent studies show that the vaccine reduces children's risk of flu-related ICU admission by 74%, and it reduces flu-related hospitalization in adults by 77%. I don't know, but that sounds good to me, because the flu is AWFUL.

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Nymeria_fml 25

You could follow your own advice and do more research than Google to find out what studies. The CDC website has a long list of the studies they used. Here's a condescending happy face for you too: :)

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Nymeria_fml 25

You should probably work on your reading comprehension, because I said the CDC has a LIST of studies. I didn't say they have a study. Also, it's laughable how you are trashing the CDC first and then you say it's one of your sources. I don't think it matters if you were a paramedic and are a nurse now... OP's coworkers are in the medical industry and they are idiots too.

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Brayson 12

And can you link to any of those studies 55?

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Nymeria_fml 25

You can go to the CDC website and see the long list by yourself, or I can paste it here in a long-assed comment. It's really easy to just go there, because I mentioned my source, unlike RogueKnight.

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moshpit11 8

The only time I've ever gotten a flu shot I was the sickest I have ever been by FAR I was sick for 2 months

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Ryan8878 21

It seems your co-workers are forgetting that not everyone can get flu shots due to weakened immune systems and other serious problems. Your co-workers are putting the most vulnerable of us at risk. Assholes.

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siggy_mcsigx 22

Never got the flu shot, never got the flu. *shrugs*

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rc89 9

I understand the flu jab for the elderly and children and understand how awful flu is but I rufese to have it and my child wont be having it as it only protects you from a few strains so you are still able to get sick and why put something foreign in your body when it doesn't offer complete protection

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personThingy 13

"Why put something foreign in your body when it doesn't offer complete protection?" Because that's how humans work. We put foreign things into our bodies, and our bodies react in a hopefully positive way which allows us to live better lives. By "hopefully positive," I don't mean we just shove down whatever we feel like; we should make sure that we only consume substances with little to no risk (e.g. thoroughly-tested doctor-prescribed medicine).

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1gullible_bugger 33

That's fine.. I have never had a flu shot and to this day, knock on wood, have never had the flu. I don't agree with flu shots, so I won't be changing soon.

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demonfacee 14

They should rethink their job desicions and hope they don't give advice.

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