Flu shots...You Getting One?

• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  Every year. Almost anything is better that being sick in bed for three days.
• friendfromlowry

  Have to get one for work. Doesn't make a difference to me one way or another.
• gut

  Cat Food Flambe';1665676 wrote:Every year. Almost anything is better that being sick in bed for three days.

  /thread
  
  If you get the flu, you'll probably spend a good part of 7 days wishing you felt well enough to kick yourself for not getting the shot.
• GoChiefs

  

  gut;1665961 wrote:/thread
  
  If you get the flu, you'll probably spend a good part of 7 days wishing you felt well enough to kick yourself for not getting the shot.

  A bunch of people I know that got the shot still end up getting sick over the winter year after year. I haven't had the flu in a decade. I'll take my chances.
• Pick6

  

  Nope.
• Tiernan

  No but I'm getting my Ebola shot.
• HitsRus

  

  A bunch of people I know that got the shot still end up getting sick over the winter year after year. I haven't had the flu in a decade. I'll take my chances.

  That is anecdotal, and there is absolutely no science behind that, but it is always a common excuse for not getting one...almost an urban legend status.
  
  Flu shots protect you against the most common kind of severe flu...the kind that'll lay you up for a week plus. a lot of 24hour and 3 day virus get labelled 'flu', but they are not what you are getting immunized against.