What other Americans got the flu vaccine?
I did, just because I got asthma. :)
There coming by Plane, Train, And Automobile to Canada cause we have a abundance of it!
New Auburnland
26-10-2004, 05:30
the post commander is making everyone here get ours next monday.
Snowboarding Maniacs
26-10-2004, 05:31
I've never had a flu shot in my life. I don't plan on getting one anytime soon. :)
La Terra di Liberta
26-10-2004, 05:34
Ya eh, in a little town just over the boarder in Sask, Americans were lined up for blocks just to get the shot.
The Force Majeure
26-10-2004, 05:46
I've never had a flu shot in my life. I don't plan on getting one anytime soon. :)
Yeah, people need to suck it up and deal with it...
Togarmah
26-10-2004, 05:51
Personally, I enjoy the 'flu. A few days in bed watching TV and lots of theraflu. Not that bad at all.
Sukafitz
26-10-2004, 05:52
I think flu shots are part of a government conspiracy.
Todays story was how they came buy boat to Victoria and Vancouver, cost them 120 dollars for the round trip!(with shot)
The Force Majeure
26-10-2004, 05:56
Well, it doesn't look like Canada will be too much of a help....
Canada's largest vaccine producer, ID Biomedical, had contacted the Food and Drug Administration to say that it could spare 1.2 million doses. But with the U.S. shortfall estimated at 40 million doses, it was a little more than a gesture.
From The Washington Post
Yeah, people need to suck it up and deal with it...
feh, I don't particulary enjoy the nuiscance of a flu, especially in such a stressful point in my life...
Battery Charger
26-10-2004, 06:16
I was forced to get the flu vaccine while in the Army, but I never have and never will get it voluntarily.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/keller/keller20.html
BackwoodsSquatches
26-10-2004, 07:36
feh, I don't particulary enjoy the nuiscance of a flu, especially in such a stressful point in my life...
Getting a flu shot, does not mean you wont get the flu this year.
My mom worked in the local Health Department for twenty years, so my info is correct.
A flu shot will only keep you from getting (usually) a particular strain of Influenza, wich can sometimes even be lethal, particularly in the old, and very young.
Most people dont need Flu shots.
Chicken soup and some nyquil will set you just fine.
Even with a Flu shot, you can still catcha different strain of Flu.
Enodscopia
26-10-2004, 07:51
I didn't and I don't plan on getting one in the near future either. I think half of the flu vaccine hype is the drug companies and doctors just saying the upcoming flu season is going to be bad to profit off of the fear. Probaly half of the people who die of flu would have died of some other illness because most are un-healthy people anyway. The 1918 strain of flu is an exception to that.