Who is saying there are no degrees of immune system strength? That's idiotic. I'm covered in MRSA but it stays in my nose because I have a healthy immune system. If it got on someone in the hospital it could cause a serious problem.
My head hurts.
You never use public transportation? Walk around busy streets?
I have had multiple doctors tell me "some people just have stronger immune systems" in regards to why everyone in the house might get sick minus one person. Guess they should all lose their licenses for their ignorance.
How hard is it to understand that you can carry the virus without being symptomatic?
As yes, the man is island all of his own! I'm sure you never, ever come in contact with society at large. You're just too good for that, right? How could one so awesome as you ever interact with us plebeians? It's simply absurd!
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htmCDC - "How the Flu Spreads" said:
There is not a lot of discussion to be had when people willingly choose to ignore hundreds of well-documented scientific studies that prove over, and over, and over again that their point of view is not based in reality. It's like trying to debate someone who spouts "All Lives Matter" hogwash on the intricacies of institutionalized racism. It just doesn't work.
Very much the case. I work at a high school and the infectious agents my students bring to school are the CDC's wet dream. Gimme my immunizations.
Think about how it makes those in medicine and public health feel! :lol
Yeah, LOL. Hundreds people dying. LOL. So funny. I mean, shit, I could take this relatively harmless vaccination, to prevent passing a virus to someone it could be lethal to, but I mean it's only a few hundred people after all. Who cares right?
This.
Well, that's because it's not really about you individually. It's about how even if you yourself have a strong immune system and don't show symptoms, you could still be carrying the virus and pass it on to those who aren't protected from the virus at all, such as the immuno-compromised, the young, the elderly, and those with egg allergies. The point of the vaccine is to reduce the amount of vectors the virus has to affect these groups as much as possible, and that only works when a huge proportion of the healthy (~80%) are vaccinated to make it incredibly unlikely for the virus to be able to hop from enough unprotrected people to be able to affect them. The more and more young and healthy people who get the vaccine, the harder it is for the flu to find it's way to groups such as the elderly who are most likely to suffer it's most serious symptoms, and every bit helps. That's why as many people should get it as possible.
Doesn't make sense. I mean, I can't speak for Europe, but in the United States the vaccine is dirt cheap (usually not more than a few bucks) and in many cases offered completely for free even without insurance. Like, even my trash-tier insurance completely covered it. If it's a mass money-making scheme, it doesn't seem like a very intelligently thought out one.
It depends, some places have the shot for a lot cheaper. Costco has it for $15, and there are a lot of free clinics. Unless you live outside a major, or even minor city, there will also be free clinics around flu time, so if you know about them, the cost isn't really that prohibitive.
