I get one every year.

I've seen a few discussions on various forums where folks strongly agree or disagree with getting an annual flu shot.

Your thoughts...yes or no on getting a flu shot?
Darkside, what say you.....
SF

Never had one. Don't really care if people do or don't. Barely care if I get one or not

Fish on...

Todd

No way for me. I never get one and never get the flu. Last time I had a flu shot (~10 years ago) I got sicker than a dog for a week.

I get one because I don't believe in fables like "the flu shot gave me the flu" or the tried and true "vaccines cause autism".

Also, everything that makes you sick in the winter is called the flu. If you get the flu vaccine, it protects you from the flu - not norovirus or any other infectious diseases.

never... and i rarely get sick...

Katie is forced to, but she doesnt like doing it...

her mother contracted Guillain Barre after getting it and died....

it also only protects you from last years flu, it mutates every single year....

Never had the shot. Can't remember the last time I had the flu. Several friends got the shot and got sick with something. Think I acquired lifetime immunity by being the target of every sick child's cough and sneeze during 27 years of teaching. Or maybe, it was the years of standing in the icy waters of a steelhead stream with fingers so frozen I couldn't tie the simplest knot, or dig the car keys out of my jeans pocket to go home. At my age, I should probably get a flu shot in each arm.

Never have, never will. The kids on my basketball team get sick each season and once in a while I'll get feeling lousy for a day or two. But after washing down some Echinacea with some tequila, I'm fine.

I never get one. It's just a good guess anyway when they make the annual cocktail.

Get one every year, doubters & naysayers are just pussys.

They no longer use a live virus. The same thing happened to me 20 years ago.

Every year!

yep, ask a nurse if you should get a flu shot, they know much better than internet experts.

The CDC uses Australia as an annual template for our upcoming flu season and mixes US cocktails based on what they see there in the previous 6 months. On years the CDC guesses right, there is a 2.7% risk reduction score in the average US citizen chances in getting the flu. In years they guess wrong, its only a 1.3% reduction. Not getting the shot is baseline at 0%. At the individual level, the actual benefit is not all that great. On the population level, that does end up being a few million people who won't get the flu...even if they guess wrong (statistically speaking).

I don't get a flu shot because I'm scared of needles or don't see the cost / benefit. I don't get the flu shot because I am extremely lazy and that sounds like something that might require planning and effort. No dice.

I work in the medical industry. There is no live flu virus in a flu vaccine. You cannot get the flu from a flu shot.

I get one every year.

80 thousand dead from the flu last year.

It's taken pretty lightly for something that kills a lot of people.

Every year. Doesn't cost me anything as it's covered by insurance so that seems like a no-brainer to me.

I can't recall the last time I had the flu. 35 years ago. Maybe?

I believe in vaccinations, too.

I never got flu shots for years. I started getting them a few years ago, when it was pointed out to me that I'd become a senior citizen and part of the so-called high risk group. I like getting my sociable security checks and am not interested in becoming one of the 80,000 flu fatalities.

Glad you have insurance Paker. I don't. As Burt Reynolds said in Deliverance, "I don't believe in insurance....no risk".

I'll just say "You're welcome." in advance for paying the bill when you end up in Harborview or any other King County or City of Seattle medical facility.

Heck, I'd rather pay for your medical bills then the homeless issues I'm currently getting taxed for.

The best part is that Stam pays my salary. I specifically have asked that his taxes pay my salary.

PS - I want a raise, Stam! Pay up, sucka!

Every year for me...wifey gets pissed because she *always* feels sick after I tell her....so we don't talk anymore