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Scott's avatar

That is just as effective as the Covid shot 😂

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Jade Dixon's avatar

I dunno, within my circle of friends the flu shot is more effective. I mean, no one I know who got a flu shot ever got the flu in the 12 months after getting their annual flu shot. Over half of those I know who got covid shots still got covid within 12 months and were sicker than those who had covid but didn't get the vaccine.

If they hadn't put the covid shots out there then the flu shot goose would be laying more golden eggs than it is currently.

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Bandit's avatar

I got the flu shot 2 different years when I was in grade school. In the mid 1960s. I've never had the flu. I guess those were some potent mf's, weren't they?

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Jade Dixon's avatar

They don't make them like they used to! I got my first flu shot in 8th grade. My whole household got the flu when I was I'm 6th grade and the next year everyone in the house but me got a flu shot. I got the flu again in 7th grade, months after everyone else at home had flu shots, and I was the only one who got sick. It was the first time I had gotten sick and no one else at home got sick from me (of course today's covid shots won't protect you if you are around someone who hasn't had the shot 🙄) so I was sold on flu shots for quite some time.

My good experience with flu shots was part of why I smelled a rat so quickly when the covid shots came out. I mean, I got a flu shot every year for 24 years. I never interrogated the people around me as to whether or not they got flu shots. I lived with people who did not get flu shots. I got exposed to the flu multiple times. I never had a reaction to the shots beyond injection site soreness. And I never got the flu. Then the covid shots came out and they told us that getting sick from the shots meant the shot was working, but we couldn't be around anybody who didn't get a shot and we might get covid anyway. And the covid shots were the best shots ever made. So by covidian logic my flu shots didn't work so I quit getting them.

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Colin's avatar

3 of the 3 people that got the flu shot in our house, got the flu. The other 4 that did not get the flu shot, did not get the flu. I promise this is the truth. My father in law went to the hospital for bad flu and had the flu shot. My ex is a nurse and will testify that the flu shot doesn't work and just gets it because the hospital requires it. Further more; look at the CDC stats. Each year millions more flu shots are given out and if you look at the hospitalizations and deaths, there is no significant changes. MILLIONS more that previous years and millions of shots is not enough to move the needle. That should be enough to show flu shots don't work.

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Cathleen's avatar

Flu shot business is worth around 7.5 billion a year.

On average flu shots are only 38% effective.

On average from 2015-2020 there were approximately 40 million flu per year in the US.

On average from 2015-2020 there were approximately 35,000 deaths from flu per year. A large % deaths were kids.

Do you think we can do better?

According to peer reviewed literature the use of zinc Ionophores with zinc inhibits influenza virus.

Consider using Quercetin or EGCG (over the counter zinc Ionophores) with zinc for possible prevention and/or treatment.

The pharmaceutical industry is very upset with me for telling you this.

Consult with your doctor 😉.

Vladimir Zev Zelenko MD (RIP)

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Colin's avatar

"CDC SAYS" that the efficacy drops after a few months. Prime time flu season is in March. When you take it in the fall, it is worthless during the peak of flu season. Use COVID logic and CDC stats and you will see the flu shot is worthless.

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Peter's avatar

The amount of deaths from flu as reported by the CDC is flu plus pneumonia. Most pneumonia cases are however not flu-originated. Also the number of kids dying of flu or pneumonia in the western world is very small, especially if you take the non-flu pneumonia out of the numbers and look at comorbidities. Most flu and pneumonia deaths are elderly.

That said, the first time ever you get flu it is often fairly severe indeed. There is just no evidence flu shots make any difference here. In Europe they don't vaccinate non-elderly and they got similar mortality rates. Also mortality rates did not drop when we started mass-flu vaccinations in the 80's.

If one still wants to get a flu 'shot' get the non-shot version in spray form. That is an actual but weakened form of flu and gives immunity in the throat too. In essence that is getting mild flu on your own schedule.

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Deborah Gregson's avatar

I did get the upper respiratory pneumonia shot last year. I only had one flu shot in 2018 when my doctor recommended it as my husband had a bad case of flu. We had both worked in the emergency services field for over 30 years and never had a vaccine or flu (he got it from a contractor that helped us, who got it from his toddler - daycare).

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