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Sure. But it always represents our current best understanding, and so far it's more often right than wrong. Humans do have the ability to figure stuff out. So unless you are a domain expert, it's a better bet to go with science than superstition or hunches or what the lady at the checkout counter said her third cousin heard from a fireman at IHOP. If making a good decision is important, that is. barfo
Work makes me take one every October and I rarely get sick. That said, it must wear off every 11 months, because EVERY August i get sick BigTime for about a week.
A pharmaceutical company sells those shots every year. They dont profit if they get rid of illness. Pharmaceutical companies profit when you get sick and come back for more drugs. Maybe if doctors and big pharma werent making money hand over fist id trust them a little. The hospital charged me $2000 to put a dab of super glue on my daughters wrist when she cut it on an oyster. Since then i carry super glue in my first aid kit. Fuck hospitals doctors and pharmaceutical companies, i dont trust any of them.
Exactly. If i get the flu i eat chicken soup and drink a fuck ton of liquids. Take tylenol for fever. Thats how "science" protectes us before this big pharma scam.
One of the benefits of having Lupus is a strong autoimmune system. I haven't had a cold or flu or a serious sniffle for the past 7 years or so. My wife has come home from work sick and she's had a miserable time, but I never got the flu from her. She got the flu this year. Never had a flu shot. Don't have any issue with people getting them. In fact, as you get older, they may save your life or make your quality of life better. This is in spite of my taking medication to lower my immune system - to the point I'm quite scared of getting sick. People with Lupus tend to have their trivial colds and flu turn into serious pneumonia.
Vitamin D is seriously lacking in most people during the winter months. We get most of our vitamin d through skin absorption of sunlight. During winter months there is less sunlight, and the little there is we don't generally absorb due to winter clothing that covers the skin. Vitamin d is a huge contibitor to immune health, hence illness being prominent during winter for the reasons listed above. Supplement your vitamin d in the winter through sources other than sunlight and you'll be given a huge advantage in the flu game. Works well for those who don't like needles.
I always hated to get a flu shot. It seemed to make me sick immediately every time. Said the same to an NP at the VA maybe 10 years ago now. So he explained to me, that was probably true a x years back, because they used live virus to make the serum. But now they make the serum from dead virus which do not make you sick. It seems to work, I don't get sick and I get the shot every year now. I did get the flu anyway, about four years back, but that is the way it goes.
I got the flu shot and I still got the flu this year. This years flu was intense but short, about 18 hours of delusional fever sweats, but after that I was just tired for 2 or 3 days then done. No chest congestion or nausea. All in all, not that bad but I could see how someone in a risk group could have problems.
