PSA: Get your flu shots

My 6 year old son woke up at 5 thus AM throwing up. Went to Urgent care this morning and he has the double whammy of strep and influenza at the same time. So his Christmas break started today. Yes, he got his flu shot in the fall. He is extremely sensitive all the time but when he is sick, whoa boy. His younger sister on the other hand is a total trooper. Got strep last week and we had to force her to rest and relax. 

great anecdotal stories guys!

Is this worse than the true college playoff post? possibly.

The last time I had the legit flu was in 2011.  

It hurt really bad.

Flu shots are a waste of time and if anything make you more prone to aids

Bunch of football blog douchebags arguing about medicine.

Uhm..no

Colostrum is 3x more effective in preventing flu than getting vaccinated.

It’s got some healing benefits as well, but the research for flu prevention is solid.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17456621

I and my family always get it.  If once out of 10 years it ends up keeping someone in my family from getting flu, it is worth it.  Because having the flu sucks and it is so easy and usually free to get a flu shot at the nearest Walgreens or whatever.

What a lot of folks don't know is that flu sometimes can be quite deadly.  The 1918 flu pandemic infected 500 million people, 50 million of whom died of it.

I work in biotech and am very familiar with flu vaccines.

I've been getting flue shots since I was about 6.  My father was a Dentist so he could get the vaccine and he'd give the whole family a shot.  That's where I learned shots didnt hurt at all if the person administrating them injected you very slowly.

By the way the anti-vaxxers are just nutjobs.  Every group has them and MGoBlog is no exception.

Good Lord. Even this place is infested by these anti vaxx idiots.  Thanks for displaying some fundamental misunderstanding of science. "I got the flu after the shot" "fOrMaLdEhYdE and mErCuRy".  

Protip:  Check the CDC website when you're doing your vacation planning.

Back when swine flu was hitting Mexico hard 10-11 years ago their tourism industry crashed.  I booked us an all-inclusive at a super high-end resort like six months out, figuring the flu would be gone by then.  It was and we got to spend a week at a half-empty resort I wouldn't have been able to afford otherwise.  It was like 70% cheaper than their usual rates.

If you're an anti-vaxxer, please do society a favor and leave. 

Oh lord. All the anti-vaccine people are negging this thread. Up vote for the OP.

As with nearly all of these discussions, outraged anti-anti-vaxxers outnumber actual anti-vaxxers by about 25 to 1.

Congratulations fellas, for being on the side of obvious science, and really working out your insecurities on an easy target.  It may occur to you at some point that if you weren't such a prick they might listen to your factual arguments and links.  Yes, it means you have to listen to their arguments and have a back-and-forth, and be persuasive.  Too good for that?  Yes, yes then saying they're too dumb to understand and not worth it is the way to make a positive difference in the world.