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12-28-2013, 12:30 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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Flu Shots
Less than 50% of Albertans immunized - time to get with the program if you haven't already!
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12-28-2013, 12:32 PM
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Yep, fastest way to get the flu.
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12-28-2013, 12:34 PM
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Never got a flu shot. Not gonna start this year
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12-28-2013, 12:54 PM
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X2, I've never had one not going to start now.
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12-28-2013, 06:03 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chadyaz
Never got a flu shot. Not gonna start this year
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X 1 billion.
Never had a flu shot in my life and am not going to start today.
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01-09-2014, 11:28 PM
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Location: Central AB
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Originally Posted by chadyaz
Never got a flu shot. Not gonna start this year
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x3
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12-28-2013, 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Gray Wolf
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Damn. Was hoping to make #1.
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12-28-2013, 05:39 PM
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Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but you offered a flu shot, so stab me maybe?
Just got mine a few hours ago at the shoppers pharmacy, get one every year, as your supposed to when living with someone with a immune condition.
I also stay up to date on my tetanus shots !
Such a good little boy I is
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12-28-2013, 06:02 PM
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On the news tonight, Dec 28, line-ups for the shots are getting long. Probably won't be long before we start criticising Alberta Health for the wait... I like the idea of pharmacies also giving the shots..got mine at Safeway a couple of months ago.
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12-28-2013, 06:25 PM
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I never get them and never get the flu im kind of on the fence about getting them if there is no correlation between getting the shot and getting sick i sure know of a lot of coincidences of people getting violently ill within a day or two of recieving it.
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12-29-2013, 08:23 AM
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Location: edmonton
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Never get one for my 43 years, all the time used and still using natural medicine (herbs tea, tincture) and have no issue with flue at all.
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01-12-2014, 07:51 PM
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I'm gonna wait tell it dies down a bit, say maybe Friday I'll go. Line ups are like hell!! ... people prolly have a better chance of getting it while waiting in line for 2hrs...now that's a risk I'm not gonna take. There is only two locations too get the flu shots. Alberta Health needs to distribute vaccines to pharmacys
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12-28-2013, 01:23 PM
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Location: In the shadow of the Valhalla Mountains, BC .
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 260 Rem
Less than 50% of Albertans immunized - time to get with the program if you haven't already!
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Been there / done that, last month.
For 8 years now, I've been getting a flu shot every fall. It works like a damn for me (no flus since), and I've never suffered any of the mild side-effects they warn you about.
There's lots of negative mis-information going around about the flu shots ... it's enough to make a grown man puke. They range from 'old-wives-tales' to down-right 'lies'.
Before you decide not to get a flu shot (the choice is yours), make sure you know all the real/true facts.
Mac
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12-28-2013, 01:26 PM
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Gone Hunting
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Free shots??? Yeah like I'm gonna say no.
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12-28-2013, 02:00 PM
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First year I had a Flu shot, got one when they first announced availability at my drug store. Everyone around me has been sick but it worked for me.
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12-28-2013, 02:11 PM
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I always get the flu shot and sometime or other during the winter I always get the flu. Makes me wonder how sick I would get if I never had the shot.
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12-28-2013, 02:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by artie
I always get the flu shot and sometime or other during the winter I always get the flu. Makes me wonder how sick I would get if I never had the shot.
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I think the "shot" is developed to combat only one strain --say H1N1, so it gives pretty good protection against that strain...however, if you come into contact with
H1N2....you are not protected.
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12-28-2013, 02:59 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by artie
I always get the flu shot and sometime or other during the winter I always get the flu. Makes me wonder how sick I would get if I never had the shot.
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Are you getting the Flu (link; Influenza) ... or are you getting a 'Cold' (link; Common Cold) ?
Flu shots help protect against getting the Flu, but they don't protect against getting a common cold. I haven't had the flu since I started getting a flu shot, but I still get one or two mild colds a year.
Find a cure for the common cold, and you'll be a millionaire!
Mac
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12-28-2013, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by MacLeod
Been there / done that, last month.
For 8 years now, I've been getting a flu shot every fall. It works like a damn for me (no flus since), and I've never suffered any of the mild side-effects they warn you about.
There's lots of negative mis-information going around about the flu shots ... it's enough to make a grown man puke. They range from 'old-wives-tales' to down-right 'lies'.
Before you decide not to get a flu shot (the choice is yours), make sure you know all the real/true facts.
Mac
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I've been getting the shot for the past ten years, and so far, no flu. IMO, there are some pretty compelling reasons to get with the program...but, of course, it is voluntary. Fortunately, back in the day when polio was making the rounds, "voluntary" was not part of the language. Canadians have a very unique perspective regarding vacinations/immunizations.
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01-03-2014, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by 260 Rem
I've been getting the shot for the past ten years, and so far, no flu. IMO, there are some pretty compelling reasons to get with the program...but, of course, it is voluntary. Fortunately, back in the day when polio was making the rounds, "voluntary" was not part of the language. Canadians have a very unique perspective regarding vacinations/immunizations.
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Actually, they don't. And the justifications that they use for them are bunk.
As soon as it becomes involuntary, this fails to become a democracy. You know that these programs don't exist in many 1st world countries for equally compelling reasons.
Just another way to line the pockets of the pharma-monsters that fund political parties.
You know that me not getting the shot shouldn't effect you if yours works right?
And why did the strain mutate? Stop getting in the long line because the white coat told you to.......
I've had the Doc's nearly kill me twice and my son once. I don't just follow the leader anymore.
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12-29-2013, 12:57 AM
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Location: Edmonton
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Originally Posted by 260 Rem
Less than 50% of Albertans immunized - time to get with the program if you haven't already!
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Why? I rarely get a cold or a sniffle, neither do my kids. Wife gets the shot and still gets sick. I am of the thought, the body will fight whats ailing you if all systems are good. That's what it it built to do. I took the shot once to shut up my doc. I know they say its a myth but i had more colds and sniffles following that shot then ever before or after. No flu shots here.
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12-29-2013, 01:11 AM
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Never had either, flu shot or the flu. And I dont plan on getting either this year
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12-29-2013, 01:15 AM
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Never had a shot ever. Never get the flu ever........until recently..... And it really wolloped me hard. Started with acheing muscles and joints then a fever and dizzy spells, then cold spells.furnace cranked, still cold, submerge in the hottest bath ever......still cold, then sore throat and chest, shortness of breathing, puking, ended up with strep throat out of the deal ta boot!!!!
Have not been sick in 20 years.
Thought I was gonna die.
Will be getting regular flu shots from now on.
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12-29-2013, 07:38 AM
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I don't feel I nor any of us one here have the facts or scientific knowledge to make a properly informed decision. So we rely on what we hear and especially on the experiences of people around us, and that is split in the way of results.
It is unfortunate that our pharmaceutical system involves a major aspect of profit (though necessary) which admittedly accumulates over 15 Billion dollars revenue just for the flu shots. The desire for profit tends to build a dark cloud over the industry's credibility, which by the way, apparently also funds a significant portion of the medical funding for universities which provides our doctors' education.
Oh man...it's snowing AGAIN!
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12-30-2013, 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Peterupnorth
I don't feel I nor any of us one here have the facts or scientific knowledge to make a properly informed decision. So we rely on what we hear and especially on the experiences of people around us, and that is split in the way of results.
It is unfortunate that our pharmaceutical system involves a major aspect of profit (though necessary) which admittedly accumulates over 15 Billion dollars revenue just for the flu shots. The desire for profit tends to build a dark cloud over the industry's credibility, which by the way, apparently also funds a significant portion of the medical funding for universities which provides our doctors' education.
Oh man...it's snowing AGAIN!
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Exactly. Do what seems right to you after doing your own homework. You people sure do 'should' on others alot.
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12-30-2013, 08:06 PM
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I got a "flu shot" once....and I got the flu.Though that particular sickness was nothing compared to the "asian flu" I got when I lived in North Vancouver many years ago.
I dont have kids or an SO/GF and I dont work in a close working environment with other people so I wont be getting the "flu shot" unless it is injected to me at gun-point.I am not a tinfoil hat kinda guy but I object to the "flu shot"
FTH
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12-29-2013, 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted by pickrel pat
Never had a shot ever. Never get the flu ever........until recently..... And it really wolloped me hard. Started with acheing muscles and joints then a fever and dizzy spells, then cold spells.furnace cranked, still cold, submerge in the hottest bath ever......still cold, then sore throat and chest, shortness of breathing, puking, ended up with strep throat out of the deal ta boot!!!!
Have not been sick in 20 years.
Thought I was gonna die.
Will be getting regular flu shots from now on.
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This one has been circling the globe for five years and is a bad one. (H1N1???)
I had it in 2010 and was never so sick for so long. I still had chest pains from coughing months later. It literally shut down our work that year.
Health officials figured most would be immune to it by now but apparently not.
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12-29-2013, 08:14 AM
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4000 people in Canada die from the flu every year. The flu's are getting stronger and stronger. Just because you have never had one doesn't mean you're not going to get one.
I wonder how many of those 4000 dead got the shot? Anyone know?
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12-30-2013, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by fishstix
4000 people in Canada die from the flu every year. The flu's are getting stronger and stronger. Just because you have never had one doesn't mean you're not going to get one.
I wonder how many of those 4000 dead got the shot? Anyone know?
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Probably a higher percentage of them had flu shots because the vast majority of people who die of the flu are those with already compromised immune systems, those already sick with other disease, and the elderly. These are also the folks most apt to line up to get flue shots, or are already in hospital, extended care, retirement home residents, all of which have the highest rate of flue shot immunization.
Don't know if the flues are getting stronger or not but I can see a parallel with antibiotics, the more needles we take to kill these bugs the stronger the bugs we are trying to kill get.
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