Flu shots can't give you the flu. Flu shots can prevent the flu 60 to 90 % effectiveness. Are people who refuse to get the shot are just afraid of the needle?
I will admit I dislike needles, however, every time I got a flu shot (compulsory for my 17 years in the Marines) I was bedridden sick for 3 days after. Not the flu, so they say, but same symptoms & down so hard I couldn't walk.
I've seen people get extremely ill after that shot. I've I also seen someone get the flu and it lasted for a about two weeks. He came back looking terrible. I've had one and that's only because I was caring for someone with cancer.
Even the nurse giving them at our college said they can make you feel yucky for a day or two - so what's the difference whether you have "the flu" or they just make you feel like you do?
Feeling yucky for a day or two isn't anything like actually having the flu, which can last for a couple of weeks and make you feel horrendous. And then there are possible complications like pneumonia especially in more vulnerable populations.
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