If you are exposed to the influenza virus and it manages to invade your body, you will get the flu. No matter how many vitamins and supplements you stuff in your body, you will get sick. The body has no natural defense that will fight off a virus that replicates that fast. And when I mean “sick” I’m not talking about those 24-48 hour stomach bugs. That’s not what the flu shot protects you from. That’s not the serious influenza. I mean extremely high fever, ache all over, flat on your back for a week or more, dehydrating like crazy, possible severe upper respiratory problems, taking every over-the-counter medication that works just to survive, and lose 10 pounds of bodyweight in the process. This is the influenza the shot protects you against. And, if you have never had the flu, then you are extremely lucky, or live in an environment where you don’t contact the public very much.
I’m an extremely healthy individual for my age (I’m a pilot, so I have to be) and any year that I miss taking the flu shot, I almost ALWAYS get sick with it. And, even though the shot might miss covering a strain of flu because that strain mutated, it also covers other strains that are just as likely to make you sick. This years’ shot covered four different strains.
The flu shot doesn’t give you live flu. The shot contains a dead virus. It CAN make you sick if you are allergic to eggs or have certain other allergies. But, allergies aren’t the flu.
There is a defined window of 10 days to 2 weeks before the shot becomes effective. If you get the shot today and then go running around with a bunch of sick people this week, you are likely going to come down with the flu. And, you will likely be one of those people who boast that the shot didn’t work and you will never take another one. The shot can only work if you give it a chance.
Please do the rest of us a favor and get a flu shot every year if you can make the window. You will likely save many lives, and maybe your own.
I haven’t had the flu since I was a child (more that 30 years ago).
I’m not going to poison myself so people around me feel better. Instead, I take care of myself and use the things that God gave us to treat myself.
The stuff in the flu shots and other vaxes are deadly and dangerous. Do you research, like I did, and decide.
I know the difference between a stomach virus and the real flu. I’m in the public almost everyday. I used to ride public transportation. Never got sick.
Again, why would I willingly put toxins and poisons in my body. You did see that the CDC/FDA apologized for the shot not working this year, right?
I’m well educated (multiple degrees) and I research before I just put something in my body.
Please try your scare tactics somewhere else, thanks.
That is simply not true. I take D-3 supplements these last 8 or so years and have not had any virus in that time. Wife is a primary school teacher. It is the same for her. She doesn't bring that stuff home to me anymore. That goes for members of my congregation at church whom I have induced to use the Vitamin D.