Yeah, there were definitely times in years past I had to ask myself "if they have to roll that stuff out every year for people to take every year, is it actually working?"
The reason why is because the strain of flu is rarely ever the same each year. A prediction is made of which strain will be dominant and that's the one it protects against. If the prediction is wrong, it does nothing.
The difference between the flu vaccine and this one is that the flu vaccine is... a vaccine. This one, not that much, but somehow it got labelled as a vaccine.
The flu virus mutates and there is a variant that is different each year. It takes travel between countries, seasons and other things into account where they predict which strain is going to be the most common one, and then they produce the vaccine.
But, if you have egg allergies... avoid the vaccine(somehow, the wuhan virus vaccine is the only one where there is no contraindications... somehow... sus AF... Very sus!)
Same. I have my childhood vaccines like MMR but see no reason to get a shot of anything else so regularly. I rarely get the flu and if I do, oh well. I'm in my 20s and not overweight
People around me think it's weird but I never saw the need either. I've had the flu exactly once and it was a terrible experience, but if it happens again I'll live through it. I'd rather not inject mysterious chemicals into my body (whatever they mix with the dead virus) just to slightly lower the risk of that happening. I'm not really anti-vax but by today's definition I guess I am.
This, took the flu shot when I was a minor and ALWAYS got sick, specifically in Jr high and Highschool, then stopped when I was 20 and have gotten the flu once. I'm 35 now.
Yeah, there were definitely times in years past I had to ask myself "if they have to roll that stuff out every year for people to take every year, is it actually working?"
Never took one.
The reason why is because the strain of flu is rarely ever the same each year. A prediction is made of which strain will be dominant and that's the one it protects against. If the prediction is wrong, it does nothing.
Medicinal roulette. Yeah, I’ll pass.
The difference between the flu vaccine and this one is that the flu vaccine is... a vaccine. This one, not that much, but somehow it got labelled as a vaccine.
The flu virus mutates and there is a variant that is different each year. It takes travel between countries, seasons and other things into account where they predict which strain is going to be the most common one, and then they produce the vaccine.
But, if you have egg allergies... avoid the vaccine(somehow, the wuhan virus vaccine is the only one where there is no contraindications... somehow... sus AF... Very sus!)
Same. I have my childhood vaccines like MMR but see no reason to get a shot of anything else so regularly. I rarely get the flu and if I do, oh well. I'm in my 20s and not overweight
People around me think it's weird but I never saw the need either. I've had the flu exactly once and it was a terrible experience, but if it happens again I'll live through it. I'd rather not inject mysterious chemicals into my body (whatever they mix with the dead virus) just to slightly lower the risk of that happening. I'm not really anti-vax but by today's definition I guess I am.
This, took the flu shot when I was a minor and ALWAYS got sick, specifically in Jr high and Highschool, then stopped when I was 20 and have gotten the flu once. I'm 35 now.