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Clicky Poll - This Season's Flu Shot

GraceInCAGraceInCA member
edited September 2014 in June 2013 Moms
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Clicky Poll - This Season's Flu Shot 81 votes

Yes, already got it!
2% 2 votes
Yes, I have it scheduled.
6% 5 votes
Yes, I will get it soon.
66% 54 votes
I am undecided.
16% 13 votes
No, I don't think it's safe.
0% 0 votes
No, I don't think it's effective.
4% 4 votes
No, I have a religious/moral objection.
2% 2 votes
Grace, when you say, "Let me poke you," what exactly are you talking about, perv?
1% 1 vote
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Re: Clicky Poll - This Season's Flu Shot

  • lioness13lioness13 member
    Nope. Never had one. Never had the flu. Not going to fix what isn't broken. And I won't be giving one to my kid either who has NEVER been sick (knock on wood!).
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  • ilovemarfailovemarfa member
    Nope. Never got one in my entire life and I'm pretty healthy- rarely get sick- maybe 1 cold a year.

    I don't get them for the boys either but maybe I will this year since ds1 is starting pre- k.
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  • riansmommieriansmommie member
    I never use to get them. Then I joined the military and it's required so I havr had them for 4 years. Will do it this year as well just because we will have a new baby in the house right in the middle off flu season, but after this year will go back to not getting them.

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  • GraceInCAGraceInCA member
    I will get it. I always get a flu shot. It has helped keep me very healthy. I never get anything worse than a mild cold. My husband and both my kids will also be getting a flu shot.  There's no way to know one year to the next how bad the flu outbreak will be.  The shot not only helps protect against the strains it was developed for, but makes other cases of the flu milder.  We have many friends in our circle with babies, and we both have elderly relatives that we visit. Protecting ourselves means protecting them also.  Flu for us is most likely just an inconvenience, but for them it can be deadly.

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    By the way, the picture I included of Elvis shows him getting the polio vaccine, not the flu shot. I just thought it was cute.

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  • GraceInCAGraceInCA member
    CL8badB said:
    Crap. I wonder if J needs the flu shot before we start the toddler classes. We start saturday. :/
    It is highly recommended by my pediatrician every year before or as soon as the school year starts.  The immunity will take a little while (2 weeks or so) to be effective.

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  • nikel13nikel13 member
    My job is having a flu shot thing here on the 25th.  I'll be getting it then.
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  • GraceInCAGraceInCA member
    I voted "scheduled", because we have a flu shot event at work next month.  They do it every year. 

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  • lioness13lioness13 member
    melOHdy said:

    Question: How come the arguement, "well I've been fine up until now" works for the flu shot but not something like seat belt safety? 

    Because you at more likely to die from not wearing a seatbelt than you are from getting the flu. Maybe. This is just a guess since I don't know all the numbers.
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