Got vaccinated again today...

[Michie]

For the flu!!! phhht!

I couldn’t resist.

 

[BrAndreyu]

Flu vaccines usually end up giving me a moderate cold for five days and a low-grade fever, so I don't bother getting them anymore. It would be great if they could invent a flu vaccine that didn't do that to me.

When I got the Pfzier Covid19 vaccine, I slept for like two days straight after each dose so I am not looking forward to getting the booster and don't think that I'm going to.

 

[Michie]

Flu vaccines usually end up giving me a moderate cold for five days and a low-grade fever, so I don't bother getting them anymore. It would be great if they could invent a flu vaccine that didn't do that to me.

When I got the Pfzier Covid19 vaccine, I slept for like two days straight after each dose so I am not looking forward to getting the booster and don't think that I'm going to.

My stepdad is getting ready to undergo chemo so I need to get these things done. I don’t think anyone will need boosters for Covid unless they are up in age or have existing health issues.

 

[BrAndreyu]

I'm not against vaccines at all. I'd get the flu shot if it wouldn't make me feel like garbage for five days. I think I might be allergic to something in it actually or at least the one that they give at CVS since that's usually where I would go to get it. But after the third or fourth time of this happening, I decided to just roll the dice with the flu and make sure that I'm taking my vitamins, getting enough sun and exercise, eating decent food, and washing my hands.

 

[d taylor]

One of the ladies who sits with my mom, said she had a nephew who died a few weeks ago, right after he got his flu shot.

 

[Gnarwhal]

For the flu!!! phhht!

I couldn’t resist.

 

[ripple the car]

I don’t do flu shots. Maybe someday I will, when I get older, but right now, it’s more of a headache than a help.

 

[LizaMarie]

I got mine yesterday. I used to not get them but I got awfully sick with influenza A in 2006 which became walking pneumonia, missed work went on antibiotics but I got better.
Not doing that again! Plus I work in retail around a lot of people so I guess I should get it.

 

[BrAndreyu]

I should probably get one because I work in a restaurant, I just don't want to wind up sick for a week.

 

[bekkilyn]

I've never had the flu in my life and so never felt the need for a flu shot. I never even really paid attention to them until someone had a hissy fit about it and was going on about me screwing up their "herd mentality" so I just never bring up the subject and go about my business as usual.

(Oops meant "herd immunity" LOL)

I did end up going ahead with the COVID vaccine though. The risk of severe complications from the new variants got to the point of outweighing my allergy risk. Fortunately, I didn't have an allergic reaction, but I did end up extremely nauseous and dizzy for a couple of days.

 

[ripple the car]

I've never had the flu in my life and so never felt the need for a flu shot. I never even really paid attention to them until someone had a hissy fit about it and was going on about me screwing up their "herd mentality" so I just never bring up the subject and go about my business as usual.

I did end up going ahead with the COVID vaccine though. The risk of severe complications from the new variants got to the point of outweighing my allergy risk. Fortunately, I didn't have an allergic reaction, but I did end up extremely nauseous and dizzy for a couple of days.

My mother-in-law had the same reaction. Glad your reaction wasn’t terribly, terribly bad! That’s good. How are you doing now?

 

[bekkilyn]

My mother-in-law had the same reaction. Glad your reaction wasn’t terribly, terribly bad! That’s good. How are you doing now?

Other than that strange feeling that comes over me during full moons and I wake up naked in the middle of a field with feathers in my mouth?

Er....*ahem*

All seems back to normal now!

 

[Lady Bug]

That was good clickbait lol. But anyway I did get a flu shot twice within the past couple years. The last time didn't affect me at all, but the time before made me very weak for 3 days. I didn't like that at all.

 

[Susie~Q]

I have never gotten a flu shot and have never had a bad case of the flu. I don't plan on ever getting a flu shot either or the Covid vaccine.

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

Haven't had the flu since I was a young kid. *knock on wood* But I work for a hospital so flu shot is mandatory. I should be getting it soon.

 

[Wolseley]

I think the last flu shot that I got was better than 35 years ago when I was still on active duty in the Air Force. Haven't gotten one since.

I should dig up my old shot records and review all the crap I was inoculated against, LOL. Typhus, typhoid, malaria, yellow fever, influenza, the list was endless. You walked down a hallway with your shirt off and your t-shirt sleeves rolled up. Every three feet was another corpsman, on both sides, with inoculation guns....shots in both arms. Bam, bam, bam, bam. It was a real trip!

 

[Halbhh]

I'm not against vaccines at all. I'd get the flu shot if it wouldn't make me feel like garbage for five days. I think I might be allergic to something in it actually or at least the one that they give at CVS since that's usually where I would go to get it. But after the third or fourth time of this happening, I decided to just roll the dice with the flu and make sure that I'm taking my vitamins, getting enough sun and exercise, eating decent food, and washing my hands.

When people did the mask wearing and distancing in 2020, it knocked the flu down close to zero.

So, if you notice on the flu prevalence website below later this fall/winter that the flu is running high (widespread) in your local area at some point in time, you could again temporarily wear one of the (cheap) surgical masks people are recommended to wear a little longer for now against Covid, as the cheap surgical masks will help block the flu also! (like if flu hits your city or county hard or such)
(national map, but there are state maps too I think)
Weekly US Map: Influenza Summary Update

 

[Halbhh]

I got the flu shot last year before I realized the masks would block flu and there would be almost none anywhere....

I got unlucky in that last flu shot (the first I'd had in many years) because it made my arm feel weak for a month or 2, which is a long time. I think the needle hit or was next to a nerve, by chance. So if I ever get another, I will insist that the injection site it be very positioned into the best possible location, to avoid that again. I'm began doing the thing (on these Covid shots) where I hold up my shirt with my hand so that it's not even possible for the nurse to inject too high up on the shoulder, since she has to go below my hand.

 

[BrAndreyu]

When people did the mask wearing and distancing in 2020, it knocked the flu down close to zero.

I have absolutely no problem with people choosing to wear a mask. I wear one every day for work and the Asians have been wearing them for years to combat the flu and other diseases (although I am not very confident that masks actually work to stop viruses considering that viral particles are comparatively like grains of sand against a chain link fence with the weave of your average cloth mask).

I also have no problem with people choosing to get the vaccine, because I chose to go out and get it as soon as it was available for my age group because at that time, it was thought that the vaccine would actually prevent you from contracting, spreading, and dying from Covid19.

My problem is when the government mandates these things and tells people and businesses that they will not be allowed to operate or will be fined (democrat party has to pay for Build Back Better transsexual education programs in Pakistan somehow) if their employees do not wear masks or get vaccinated.

The other problem I have, is when my insurance company is willing to pay people $100 to get the vaccine-- provided they get it after September 1st. That's unfairly precluding people like me who did what we believed was the right thing and went out and got it in May. I wrote them an email today essentially stating my case as to why I should be given the $100.

 

[Halbhh]

(although I am not very confident that masks actually work to stop viruses considering that viral particles are comparatively like grains of sand against a chain link fence with the weave of your average cloth mask).

Right. It's by blocking droplets (which are vastly larger than virus) that the (edit-) *surgical* masks work. The droplets are full of virus when a person is shedding virus.

My problem is when the government mandates these things and tells people and businesses that they will not be allowed to operate or will be fined (democrat party has to pay for Build Back Better transsexual education programs in Pakistan somehow) if their employees do not wear masks or get vaccinated.

Yes, a lot of people seem to have that objection to mandatory stuff.

One related thing I read, almost a different topic, but very related: Insurance companies said a month or so back they would stop covering at zero cost some related pieces of treating Covid, so that it's going to become more expensive to have hospitalization for Covid even for insured people. So, even if not mandatory, it could be expensive to be unvaccinated, for some. That's a 'free market' outcome, without any coercion....

Yeah, I think they should pay all of us that got vaccinated if they are going to pay some.