The Flu Shot is... Ineffective?
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Who is this lady to talk about vaccines? A doctor? Immunologist?? Virologist??? No???
She's an OB/Gyn. So she's medically trained but not a specialist in immunology.
I had a substitute OB (not my regular one that I've seen for years but someone they just had around whenever I needed an appointment quickly) tell me that the allergy that causes me anaphylaxis and has put me in the hospital before wasn't real and that it was just a man-made thing so I would be perfectly fine to go and eat that thing. I was like..."man I'm so lucky I have an actual allergist and I'm not dumb enough to follow your instructions". I still haven't decided if I'm going to report him or not. If I follow his instructions it's literally end up in the hospital possibly fighting for my life. Like... I'm sorry, what expertise in allergies do you have? None? You're just my substitute crotch doctor? Gotcha.
She is an Obstetrician Gynecologist. Kudos to her for that. She sells all kinds of supplements, cleaning supplies, fasting mimicking diet pills and air systems. So this is a marketing video.
@@littlejourneyseverywhere This isn't even a question. Report them if possible. Someone like this is putting people in harms way, with or without their knowledge (if they don't know, uh.. where the hell are they going to school?) Report your concerns before someone too trusting winds up dead.
She uses homeopathy in her "integrative" practice. She integrates quackery with an attempt at real medicine.
The covid pandemic actually had the opposite effect with me. Before the pandemic, I think I only ever got the flu shot once since I had never got sick from the flu as an adult, and that was for shits and giggles, I never even took it seriously, but thanks to channels like this and learning so much about viruses and vaccines after the pandemic started, I took it seriously afterwards and I started getting all of my shots as soon as they were available and even got both the flu and new booster covid shot at the same time about 3 weeks ago:-)
It was the same with me. I'm 50 years old and before Covid I had maybe two flu vaccines. Since Covid I have had Covid boosters and in the meantime schduling the flu vaccine. I also plan to get vaccinated for pneumonia and shingles as soon as I'm able.
Channels like this did the opposite for me. He ignored and denied covid vaccine side effects early on. And he still hasn't addressed them.
Also I have not been vaccinated and have gotten covid less than those around me who are vaccinated. Even when I know I was exposed to it.
@@censorsstarveno asked you covid vaccine conspiracy theorist. Get out of here with your BS.
@@censorsstarve "He ignored and denied covid vaccine side effects early on. And he still hasn't addressed them."
You mean the side effects that are incredibly rare and far less severe than COVID? You're an anti-vaxxer.
@@censorsstarve that is absolutely not true, he absolutely did address side effects and even explained why people who get vaccinated might feel sick, and went over other potentials more serious side effects and explained in explicit detail why some people get them. I have been watching every last video Professor stick has dropped since probably 2019 when he was mostly focusing on debunking Flat Earth crap and other Environmental type conspiracies, and it was even thanks to him that I am familiar with all of this vaccine and virus stuff since the pandemic started. You probably missed or forgot about videos where he explained this stuff but I remember very well.
After multiple COVID shots and boosters, I am still unable to get the 5G signal I was promised. I also haven't been able to magnetize anything. Is the flu shot any more reliable at providing 5G and magnetism?
did you try turning yourself on and off?
If that doesn't work, maybe you can try taking this 'red pill' that people keep talking about
I know! My kids are so upset that their 5g hasn't activated yet.
Yeah my tracker microchip also seems to be defect.
And didn‘t they promise to us that we were gonna die after 2 or 3 years?
Amazing comment OP!
I had an MRI after my second covid booster!
Not magnetic at all!
Got my 6th Covid shot, Sr. Flu shot, RSV shot, Pneumococcal shot and Shingles 2 shots within the last 18 mos. I’m 65 with 5 auto-immune diseases….the only sickness I’ve had is one cold.
So did millions without the shots. 6 Covid shots, you really have some issues but your auto immune diseases (of course, at least 5...) are NONE of them...
I know we just had a global viral pandemic, however can we please have another one, one that clears out all the anti-vaccine people and all the flat Earth folks.
You do realize Covid today is just as "rampant" as it was 3 years ago ?
The only thing that changed is the hysteria.
Yeah, Natural Selection doing what it does best! I agree!
"vaccines are actually pretty bad... BUT MY MEDACINE IS GREAT" where oh WHERE have we heard this argument before?
It's the greatest, the best anyone has ever seen.
At least last one had the decency to fake a paper, these days they just make up numbers out of whole cloth. At least Wakefield (me he rot in hell) pretended to do real science to back up his "by my drugs" lies.
@@ard-net2999 Yeah, Wakefield just moved pathology reports around and pretended that they all said that measles was found in the gut, right after he approved of giving spinal taps to special needs children without checking in with an IRB on a change of methodology.
But he did make the motions of real science. Now we just have people using VAERS or the yellow-card system of the NHS (UK), to play statistical fishing games and naming things new "syndromes" like ASIA or the new one, PSV.
Thank you, Stick, for this moment of the voice of reason.
What did she say? "it turns out one of the staples of many of my treatments" so she's LITERALLY pulling an Andrew Wakefield without the fake paper to back up her claims. Whatever kind of "treatments" she's doing should be stopped and any license she has should be revoked.
One thing is missed from this video - she says near the end that with a 24% effectiveness you're "more likely to see no benefit than to see a benefit" so why take it? This is complete nonsense. Even with a low effectiveness, what matters is what the alternative is. If you have a 1% chance of living longer or suffering less illness, that's still better than nothing! It's like saying that we shouldn't wear seatbelts because most of the time they do nothing to keep us safe. But people live longer, on average, when they wear seatbelts compared to not wearing them. Because even though they do nothing most of the time, they do something very important occasionally that not wearing a seat belt never does.
@FireVixen164 Well said!
Yeah, if it was 24% effectiveness with high chance of major side-effects, that would be one thing. But for most people the side-effect is at most a sore arm at the injection site.
For the COVID vaccine I get a little more, feeling achy for a couple of days, but still far better than what the vaccine is helping to prevent.
@@SuprousOxide And a sore arm is a not really considered a side effect.
Me and Darwin are just sitting back, eating popcorn...
I will be respectful due to her advanced age and possible diminished mental acuity, what I heard coming out of her mouth is " quack quack quack quack "
They always claim it's about the money.
So....
Insurance companies wouldn't pay for it if it wasn't effective.
Flu shots don't work so.... buy her "treatments"?
How about no?
Hell yeah it's ineffective! Every year I get a flu shot, and every year I fail to get flu.
I used to get the flu at younger ages and it never lasted longer than 48 hours and I was back on my feet, no problem, didnt worry about the flu shot. Then abut 8 years ago I got the flu and it took me a week and a half to recover from, longer if you considered when i fully stopped coughing. SO after that I always take the flu shot, I dont wanna be layed up sick for that long ever again, yes you might be sick and it might not kill you, but who actually likes being sick that long.
You probably did not have the flu if it left after 48 hours.
@@Nick-o-time Most people get over the flu in 1 to 2 weeks. It depends on the strain and how vulnerable you are to it though, and your general health. A lot of people that claim to have the flu probably have a bad cold, as they often don't seem to have a lot of the worst flu symptoms, like feeling feverish/chills, body aches/headaches and fatigue.
The you did not have the flu, but a common cold. Most people mix that up.
@@johnscaramis2515 They do mix them up. But don't try and tell a work colleague they probably have a cold when they are complaining they have the flu, and have come to work.
I looked her up and she combines her OBGYN practice with integrative medicine. She may be going over the deep end and starting to think the integrative can replace the traditional medical care
She uses homeopathy. She's a complete quack.
I wouldn't say traditional medical care.
I would say _actual_ medical care.
@@Diviance lol. Exactly. I thought I'd be nice and say it the way Mayo Clinic expresses it on their webpage about integrative medicine. We know the sounds ducks make are where she's at.🙂
No, she find out that this kind faux medicine is more profitable for individuals because people who buys into it are people who are easy to scam since its mostly uneducated and very gullible people. All you have to hint a little conspiracy, and its like printing money since these people are also irresponsible with their money... Her background helps since it allows these kinds of people can use that she has education in mdicine field and in their minds it validates their beliefs..... It would be a gresty study on these people's mentality.
Yes - every year!
I did start looking up some things, but you've done a perfectly fine job looking up the information and putting it in the description.
I plan on getting all vaccinations as recommended by the CDC for my age (and as I get older).
Yes, this is anecdotal, but I can only speak positively about the flu shot. When I started seeing the doctor I go to -- that was 20 years ago -- I was in my early 50s. Every year they told me I needed to get a flu shot and I responded that when I got the flu shot years earlier, it gave me the flu. At any rate, when I turned 50, they doubled down and told me how important it was to be immunized against the flu as I got older. So, I broke down and got a flu shot. It used to be that I went through a bout of the flu every winter, but since I started get immunized against the flu, I have never contracted the disease. Make of this what you will, but not getting an annual flu shot is, in my mind, damned stupid.
I just didn’t think getting “the flu” (influenza), wasn’t a big deal…..until it was. I collapsed at a French restaurant in Tokyo. I thought I was going to die right then and there. I ended up in Japan for 6 weeks. I was horribly ill. I was 35 years old, in perfect health. After that fiasco, I’ve gotten the flu shot every year and I’ve not gotten influenza again. Now Covid, I’ve had 4 times and I’m vaccinated, but I’m always in high risk areas. So now I’m back in a mask when out in public. I had to wear a mask in Japan for influenza. It’s expected when you are sick to always wear a mask and they do because they aren’t selfish, self centered a$$holes. Sorry, I just had to deal with people asking why I’m wearing a mask. When I tell them I was just with a Covid patient they are all ohhhh ok. I also care for my elderly mother who’s recovering from surgery. I don’t want to get her sick.
@@trishayamada807A perfect example of "familiarity breeds contempt". We're used to hearing about the flu, so it's easy to forget just how freaking _bad_ that thing is.
I'm lazy and a coward (vaccines hurt like a bitch for me) so I haven't kept up like I should, especially after two cancers, but the last time I got sick I had a nosebleed for nine days straight. And I do mean _straight;_ it would stop only temporarily until my next cough or if I *blinked wrong.* No idea if it was a flu or covid or what, hospital couldn't be bothered to test. Vaccines would at least mitigate that. But "just a flu" meant blood everywhere.
Had my Covid booster and flu shot at the same time from my GP. I think I would rather trust advice on vaccination from them rather than a gynaecologist with something to sell.
Of course I got my flu shot. It’s mandatory for my job, but as soon as they came around offering it, I took it. I rolled up my sleeve before they could get their stuff out.
Remember people.
To make numbers more beliveable, make them not a 10er number, non divisable by five or 2, and add a decimal point.
Oh, and dont cite them and be confident.
"I'm not totally sure where they got that data from..."
Well then stop effing quoting it, Doc. Jeebus.
This chick looks like she is one of those "like-like" robots. Never thought I'd see someone real who's appearance is in the "uncanny valley."
I know this doesn't mean anything, but it is kinda creepin me out ngl.
She reminds me of Kat Kerr, the crazy evangelical preacher who believes Heaven has warehouses full of extra body parts for amputees, that she's walked with God through Heaven, that if all her followers joined together in a ritual of "hitting" a hurricane with a stick they could redirect it away from shore, and that's a full-blown, "Trump is the new messiah"-tier QAnon nut.
How does someone like this, someone who absolutely should know better, sit there and give advice that could lead to death? Just so she can sell her garbage snakeoil to them instead? Pure evil.
Was headed to the clinic for a cortisone shot for trochantic pain, walked by the vaccination clinic. Ended the day with shots in both shoulders and one hip :-) ...
I’ve just had Flu and Covid vaccination, one in each arm, felt a little rough overnight, but fine now.
Would I do it again, at 70+ with asthma, it’s a no brainer.
Even at 50 and in good health, it's still a no brainer.
@@Kualinar Even as someone younger than that, it's still smart to do. Sure, you'll probably be fine.. but probably implies you may not be.
Some people feel nothing, others might have one or a few days where they don't feel good. In the end a reaction is a good sign, it shows that the immune system has recognized the intruder and is doing its work. And in contrast to an actual virus, the vaccine does no actual harm, but simply stimulates your immune system.
And yes, for some people a vaccine might already be a problem, but then one should think of what an actual infection will cause
@@Gandhi_Physique like how cleaning products have to say 99.9% effective because there's always that pesky .1% chance that it could fail!
I've known anti-vaxxors from well before Covid19. Granted, it wasn't as prevalent
Got the two : Flue and COVID. First flue one in 2020.
Yes, the flue virus do mutate. That's exactly why we need a vaccine every year.
From where is she pulling her numbers ? Number Two !
When i got my covid booster and flu shot this year i asked if they had anything else going. I was only a bit joking.
Thanks forthe reminder. Hope I remember as I've started delivering food again.
Sick and tiredof people talking outside of their lane. She's an OB/GYN, not an epidemiologist or virologist.
"So, what can a person do? Well, it turns out that one of the staples of many of my treatments ..." she's selling her own brand of snake oil. Just another con. 9:18
I didn’t really take the flu shot because in my dad’s words “we need to save it for the people who need it”
I will be getting the flu shot next year.
I felt that way about the Covid shots when they first came out and were limited in quantity. I'm my 90 year old father's caregiver and due to the way my state prioritized people I was eligible to get the shot before he was!
Even if the flu virus mutated at a high rate in vitro (which is unlikely), each egg would have had thousands or millions of virus particles added to it, and they wouldn't all have the same mutations. The original antigens would still be present. There would also be a chance of the vaccine including novel antigens that wild strains might also develop, increasing the efficacy of the vaccine against new strains.
Only reason I haven't had my flu shot yet is because its not advised when acutely ill and I've had nonstop respirstory infections since kiddo started school
AAAAHHHH! It's a snakeoil saleswoman!
She can go away. All the snakes around here are slippery enough!
Just got my booster,flu,pneumonia and shingles vaxxxxx!!!!
just got back from getting my covid shot!
got my flu shot last week
The last time I got a flu shot was the last time I got the flu. That's been 20+ years ago.
If you guys think thaf prof. Stick is wrong or stupid. You forget what his job is a biochemist(forgot the actual one)
Molecular microbiologist iirc
Dumb ways to get sick
To be fair... 50-60% effectivness is nowhere near what Id like :/
But its not at all low.
Its above 50%, with effectivly no downsides.
Well worth flipping the coin to see if it helps.
I’ve been the sickest the one year I didn’t have the flu shot normally when I have the shot if I do get the flu never more than two days I’ve had reactions to it never more than a day
Affinity
I never got a flu shot before covid. (I also never [knowingly] had the flu). I never got the shot because I didn't want to pay for it.
Work started offering free flu shots to store staff after covid started (prior to that, they only offered the flu vaccine to support staff in the offices). Since work was paying for it, I started getting it.
You vertainly got the flu before.
The flue and common cold are like... the most common viral disease you get, and keep getting, through your life.
In Canada routine vaccinations (influenza, tetanus, diphtheria, varicella, pertussis, mumps, measles, rubella, polio, HPV, etc.) are all free and no prescription is required. You can get a flu or COVID vaccination in a drug store free of charge and usually without an appointment. For other vaccines (e.g. hepatitis, typhoid, yellow fever) there may be a nominal fee.
After every c19 booster i got to pat myself on the back for being a good citizen and protecting the ones around me. Still got covid a few times during the pandemic, and still suffering some postcovid symptoms, but i survived unlike so many people that didnt. Got the flu shot a few weeks ago and feeling prepared for this flu season!
I'm fully vaxxed and 70. When I caught COVID, someone had to tell me I'd been a close contact so I got tested. Yep, POSITIVE! So that explains the bit of phlegm I coughed up every morning for 5 days. I've had worse colds! MEH!
One amusing thing is before the pandemic, I avoided getting flu shots, mainly because I have a major fear of needles (it isn't a phobia but enough that I avoid getting near them), but when I was able to get the COVID shots I got in line. I been getting both shots every year afterwards (I would recommend you not getting them in the same arm).
I had a 3 in sewing needle in my shoulder, under the skin in my shoulder. Long story. I am a serious needle phobia. I still get my shots, the discomfort of a vaccine shot is nothing compared to a blood draw, which is nothing but a few minute thing. Where the flu or pneumonia is weeks to month of misery. heh and yeah you have a good point, never double up vaccines in the same arm. I've had to before when taking a 3 shot vaccine spread. I took 2 in one 1 in the other. Mistake I should have spaced them out. 1 in each arm another visit for other.
@@ard-net2999 The usual advice is to spread vaccinations over at least 2 weeks. Not critical if you have 2 refreshers, one in the left, one in the right arm. But flu and covid shots should be two weeks apart or more, at least that's the general advice here in Germany.
I didn't use to get my flu shot, usually, but that was laziness. I didn't want to go find someone to give me the flu shot. Then for a while, my employer offered flu shots in the office, and just had to sign up and on the day go over and get the shot. Great! I did that every year. Until they changed the program to only apply to people on the company's health plan, I was on my wife's plan at the time, so I was disqualified, so I didn't get the flu shot (seemed like bad idea on their part, the cost of the shot was less than the cost of having employees out on sick leave. On the other hand, they were so skimpy with sick leave maybe they figured anyone getting the flu would just be eating in to their vacation time instead, or just working while sick...)
The UK one Flucelvax is grown in a canine kidney cell line.
Presumably canine is closer to human than chicken..
The reason they use dog kidneys is because it has a lower rate of potential allergies.
Lots of people are allergic to eggs or poultry, pretty much zero people are allergic to proteins found in dog kidneys since we have no reason to be exposed to them(not quite zero because it's always possible to be exposed somehow to a similar protein and get a freak allergy out of it).
It turns out it's more effective to just remove a potential argument by ensuring you don't use poultry at all than to have two possibilities when it comes to convince people to just get the vaccine. Also avoids lies since if someone claims they had an allergic reaction it's easy to call out and make anyone reporting it as fact a laughing stock.
Several strains of influenza pass readily between humans, pigs, and birds, which is a reason chicken eggs are used to make flu vaccines. I'm surprised they can use canine tissue for that purpose. Dogs aren't usually susceptible to the influenza strains that infect humans.
We used to just get shots, but now we get shots and ask each other if we can access the matrix and laugh about it.
Just got my tetanus booster finally (it was 4 years overdue...)
I got my vaccine glad I did too. I just wish I didn't throw up afterwards.
That was Awful.
Yep, I have taken both my shots.
This lady seems to have no clue how vaccines works.
And yet she's putting her theories out there as if she knows vaccines inside and out.
So much bs put there. Thank you, Stick.
who is this crazy lady?
I think I will stick with keeping fit and healthy and taking my vitamin D that way I don't need any vaccines. The plus side to this is I don't have to worry about if the vaccines are safe or effective
Yeah, got my flu shot, no problems. Poor girl just doesn't get it.
Would it be less wasteful if I just ate the egg?
Yes and thankfully it didn't give me flu like symptom, they usually do give me a low fever and body achs about 24hrs after getting the shot
I think she got her data from the Cafe' De Cafeen and not the actual CDC.
Peace
Goona be honest i disagree with the initial premise. Flu shots have always been... Maybe not controversial but at least not as respected as other vaccines. It was really the first vaccine i knew people actively avoided for various reasons.
Hey guys just letting you know regardless of how the world is today, it's better than what it was centuries ago.
Hope y'all prosper.
Isn't that like saying :hey that's dog poop u r eating, but at least it's not bullshit, rejoice!
@@edisonchin2463 No. It is not.
@@STONKS_MemeMan where's the disconnect then?
@@irrelevant_noob Sorry, I don't understand
@@STONKS_MemeMan then why did you answer Edison's question if you don't understand the topic?
5:39 24% is still better than 0% so that is not a strong point.
Flu Pokemon and PoliticsImma1st
Gotta catch em all 🤣
I just got my shots yesterday. Arm is abit sore
1k like ! Whoop whoop 😅
I don’t really like take flu shots…but it’s more of a personal choice based on not liking needles, rather than some conspiracy that I’m gonna be controlled.
Why 4:3?
My immune system is weird. I don't ever get sick, but vaccines always end up making me sick (of course it helps make it better, but still stinks)
You might have a naturally strong or weak immune system. I'm leaning towards weak, since the vaccine tends to have chemicals that enhance the immune response.
You also do get sick from vaccines because it is literally the virus going into you, weaker and possibly dead. But the body MUST respond the same. So it does everything it would do normally. Runny nose, fever, tummy troubles. Because those things help to fight the virus and expell the virus. Fighting against it allows it to create antibodies and memorize the virus to fight it off next time it even touches you. Then it doesn't have to go through the major process of purging the body because it was able to kill them off before it was able to infect anything.
I would not call it weird, but the side effects post-vaccination is well documented and thats how the body actually building immunity.
That's kinda what they're supposed to do... A vaccine will always trigger an immune system response, which is why you feel sick. It's your immune system doing its thing. Honestly, the stronger your immune system response, the better.
Hmmm
Currently very healthy at 29 having only had the essential vaccines as a child.
I disagree with your characterization that the term 'morph' is an over-exaggeration. Morphology is the study of how form and structure, as you well know. Viruses do change. Morphology (morph) is not an indication that it's completely different. Ignorant people may think it means that, but that's on them.
She is talking at everyday folk, for whom the term "morph" means to change completely. That she knows the word is going to be misinterpreted, just makes her brand of bullshit even worse.
You are right that the efficacy of the flu shot varies from year to year. But the most significant factor is guesswork. There are hundreds of strains, with 2 to 5 strains that predominate in any given year. The problem is that each year almost always have different predominant strains. And predicting which strain will predominate in any given year is still largely guesswork. Each shot is developed to fight 3 specific strains. If they get 1 wrong, its efficacy will be diminished. If they get all three wrong, it's efficacy will be greatly diminished. Just by this factor alone, the shot can be as effective as 60+%, or be as dismal as in the teens.
Another, much less significant factor is whether you consistently get the flu shot. Having had a flu shot last year reduces this years shot slightly. Having had a shot in the previous 2 years reduces this one slightly more. Evidence shows that the previous 3 shots can reduce this years shot slightly. But we're taking only a few percent - 7% or less. Notable, but not significant, imho.
There are 15 to 24 reports on flu shot efficacy released around the world throughout the year. Their release dates always start in the southern hemisphere, and work it's way up to Europe and North America by the end of the flu season. I like to wait a few months and read these reports to see if they guessed right or not. That determines whether I get a shot or simply practice social isolation. Social isolation, by the way, is near 100% effective in all cases. If you catch the flu, you were simply not socially isolated.
It looks like they hit all three marks this year.
Another thing to note is that the CDC lies. Don't trust the CDC numbers. Anyone who learned basic statistics in high school or college know that you toss out the high and low outlier results and average the rest. But that's not what the CDC does. They always publish the highest efficacy rate of all published reports. They don't even bother averaging anything - they just go with the highest rate reported anywhere in the world and call it the average. But just because the CDC lies does not mean the reports are wrong. It just means you need to read the reports yourself instead of relying on the CDC to interpret them for you.
"Anyone who learned basic statistics in high school or college"
Do shut up, denialist, you don't have the skills of a real statistician, which the CDC employs lots of.
You're right about the guesswork, but there's an additional factor in there: time. They start looking for the most likely strains in spring (northern hemisphere) and have to decide end of spring / beginning of summer which strands they ultimately use in the shot. You simply can't wait until September or October, production takes time. If they are lucky, they found the correct strains or at least very similar. But it might also happen (I think two years ago) that one of the strains vanished during summer.
Prof, you ok bro? You sound like you need a hug.
Let me guess, you're an anti-vaxxer?
Please get every shot available no matter how little or no human testing. It's vital to Trust the Science and the WEF thanks you deeply.
Hello ignorant anti-vaxxer. Does the lack of an education ever stop you?
The Doctor would just give me my flu shot when I would get my diabetes checkup in the fall, and you know what? Every time I got a flu shot I caught the flu. So that is why I don't get the shot. I have my COVID shots up to date, but I'll take my chances with the flu.
Or could you have gotten a cold from the Doctors office, one of the highest risk places in the country to get one at any time...by touching door knobs, waiting room chairs, elevator buttons, ect...or even the flu as catching it the day you got vaxxed wouldn't be enough time for the vaccine to take effect yet. There are also scores of antivaxzers that cruise comment sections making comments just like that to spread misinformation disguised as a member of a group to get people's guard down..comments like that are why I tell everyone that comment sections are less reliable than the graffiti on the inside of a pottapotti..because there no way to know.
The flu vaccine doesn't cause the flu, and even in cases where it doesn't prevent infection it may still decrease the severity and duration of the illness. The cost of the vaccine in all but one developed nation is literally zero, so you lose nothing by getting it.
Trough our evolution we are supposed to get it every third year ore so and the specific strain and mutation around us so I do not do that specific vaccine. (I & kids get all other vaccines that is Important!)
I get one harder every 7th year. Barely anything the years in between. ((Unless I get the shot, that's a gamble. I get the strain in the vaccine and then the strain in my area). You do you and I do me.
If you're young and healthy then you're low risk from the flu anyway. Most people that get it are bed bound for a week or so, then feel better.
The big reason to get the vaccine though is if you interact with older people who are more vulnerable or very young children. They have a much higher rate of serious complications and getting a vaccine is not a big deal if it means you're much less likely to kill grandma or your 6 month old child without realising it.
Also if you do get the flu every 7 years or so you're health must be terrible, I've got the flu once in my 37 years alive. I guess those of us who care about our health and those around us just spend less time seriously ill. That's probably not a coincidence.
Reporting in guys: Haven’t had any shots for over 30 years, still alive. I get the sniffles and or body ache once or twice a year.
Good for you. Google survivorship bias and how it applies to you. Many tens of thousands don't fare so well every year.
@d4rk0v3 ----> This guy was so butt hurt about me not taking his fermented egg cocktails he blocked me from replying to him. Stay boosted friends!
Someone doesn't understand herd immunity and how someone can benefit from being around enough people who do get vaccines (which is what happens for people who *can't*, not won't, be vaccinated).
@@TimOsman
*GROW UP!*
And spread it to more vulnerable people.....
8:17 Hint: The numbers still have a sticky brown residue on them.
1:39 Is it necessary, though? I don't think we don't have the technologies to come up with a better way to replicate the virus/virus parts.
Or we should switch over to mRNA flu vaccines.
But pharma hates to use money to improve an already tried and true method.
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