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A key issue is how much time you spend in public. If you work in a school, you can't take a chance on infecting anyone, so you need all the help you can get. If you're retired and spend most of your time at home, your odds of getting infected are way down, unless you have people visiting you daily who have higher odds of getting infected. Such as if you have grandchildren living with you. So you have to decide, based on your situation, and be responsible about it. A flu shot improves your odds but is no guarantee. Flu is usually not a major problem, but it's nothing to sneeze at.
I got one this year. I typically don't but my doctor talked me into it! I'm one of those types that gets everything the kids get so I guess it's a good thing. Since I don't have allergies to it I feel it wouldn't hurt.
If you read just the few comments on here you will see why the older 50+ generation (the most vulnerable age group) flu shot rates decreased the most of all age groups last year, and probably will again this year. While the CDC may believe in the Tooth Fairy and their "goal" of 90% rates in the next 4 years, far too many of us long ago stopped believing in that fairy.
I've never had a flu shot and never gotten the flu. I'm retired, no longer working among masses of co-workers, so it isn't likely that I'll start taking a flu shot.
I am in my 50s, work with a lot of people every day, and do not get the flu shot. I have gotten the flu once in the past 30+ years. I do take vitamin D supplements, eat 1 inch of raw ginger root every day, drink about 1/2 to 3/4 gallon of water every day, take oregano oil supplements, and follow a ketogenic diet. It's working for me!
I'm a 56 year old man, and I say 'no' to the flu shot.
I got one 3 years ago and got sick a couple of days after, and my doctor said it was from the shot...
I won't get one again... unless my doc suggests it.
You do not get the flu from the flu shot. It is made from killed virus.
It takes a couple of weeks for the immunity to build up. If you were exposed before you got the shot or are exposed before the immunity from the shot builds up to the proper level, you will get the flu.
So many people still believe what you posted...I can't believe your doctor actually believes it.
I can't get the flu shot, at least not the regular one because I have a reaction to the preservatives in it.
You can get an influenza shot with no preservatives in it. Just make sure you get it as a single dose, rather than from the multi-dose flu vial. I repeat, there are no preservatives or thimersol in the single dose of influenza. It has been taken out years ago.
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