Is the CDC for real?

[rootar]

ive never had a flu shot in my life and ive never had the flu, yet every one of my friends every year gets the flu some time or another and they all have their shots a month or more before hand......

last needle i had in me was when i broke my back, and before that it was my knees and then when i had blood transfusions when i was 9, i dont mind needles at all but ive always avoided taking any form of common medication and getting any seasonal shots.

[BP-Revo]

Originally Posted by rootar

ive never had a flu shot in my life and ive never had the flu, yet every one of my friends every year gets the flu some time or another and they all have their shots a month or more before hand......

last needle i had in me was when i broke my back, and before that it was my knees and then when i had blood transfusions when i was 9, i dont mind needles at all but ive always avoided taking any form of common medication and getting any seasonal shots.

Same here. I avoid taking whatever I can unless I really need it.

I never understood why people run to the doctors and get a boatload of antibiotics when they have a small cough, or take a bunch of Tylenol when they have a small headache.

I have terrible allergies (so bad that out of 365 days a year, a good 350 my nose is stuffy), and yet I only reserve taking my allergy meds for the really bad days (days where my eyes get puffy and watery and I literally sneeze every 30 seconds).

My point is you take this stuff when you don't need it, all you are doing is making it less effective when you do need it.

[lutach]

I never had or even heard about the flu when I used to live in Brasil. The moment my brother and I moved to the US and had to get a vaccine to get into the school, yes I stayed home for 2 weeks with the flu.

I know animal's immune system is way better then ours and to hear the viruses comes from them is kind of crazy. Now I know many will carry diseases, but from what I know they might be nature's own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidote
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivenom

If animals are used to get us those, then a little virus wouldn't phase them.

[mistercrash]

Up here in Ontario, Canada, the government with the help of the media are working very hard to scare people into getting this H1N1 vaccine. People are in a panic over it, line ups of 9 hours and more at make shift flu clinics to administer the vaccine. People are sheep. I had a flu shot given to me once in my life, I was sick all winter that year. I never got one again. I don't plan on getting this H1N1 vaccine and no one will inject this vaccine in my boy's blood stream. It's got Mercury in it. And I just don't like the fact that it usually takes around 9 months to develop and test a new vaccine and this one was ready in a third of that time. I don't trust it and I don't trust any info that is forced fed to the public from the governments.