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[–] Donutday 7 points 33 points (+40|-7) ago 

I'm just about as pro vaccine as they come, but flu shots are ineffective. Let's not make this a vaccine issue. Refusing a flu shot is a lot different than refusing childhood vaccines.

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[–] Fentiaz 0 points 22 points (+22|-0) ago 

They aren't ineffective they just don't cover all types of flu.

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[–] Privileged 0 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago 

The dumbness in this is, in my opinion, definitely in the reasoning and not in the fact that a flu shot has been refused. But I'd wager the family and especially the comment-ham might be a bit averse to vaccines in general. Beetus got the brain.

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[–] Trishit 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Anecdata alert!!

I've been getting the flu shot every year for almost 10 years. I've been exposed to a lot of people with the flu. I haven't had the flu yet. They make a best educated guess at which strains will be most active in a given flu season. There are usually three strains the vaccine will protect against. Sometimes, though, they don't guess correctly or there may be a different strain that's more prevelant in one area.

Having said that, I don't get too up in arms about people not vaccinating for the flu. Other diseases like polio, rubella, mumps, measles, etc.? Yes, vaccinate or go to some isolated island somewhere.

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[–] sunshineandrainbows 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

Unfortunately it IS a vaccination issue, from the original article.

Because the flu shot will give you mercury poisoning... that's how this works.

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[–] ICanLiftThat ago 

I hope you're joking.