December 18th, 2019 at 2:58 PM ^
No need for a double blind story. We have Counterstrike guy's personal experience.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:14 PM ^
Flu shot is unnecessary
December 18th, 2019 at 2:58 PM ^
I got a flu shot the last four years and I never got the flu.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:36 PM ^
It's early yet. But you'll tell us if you get it, right?
December 18th, 2019 at 3:40 PM ^
Sure will. When is the cut off period? Around OT season, we can start those threads again.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:56 PM ^
Bull shit, TheDirtyD. No one believes that nonsense.
December 18th, 2019 at 8:58 PM ^
I wasn’t aware of needing to convince strangers of my story is true. I was sharing my experience. Odd yes against Immunizations and modern medicine absolutely not. Would I advocate for people to get the flu shot yup. I’m just sharing a weird story about the flu shot. I travel a ton and I would say come in contact with different strains of the flu which is the most likely reason why I still contract it. Do I think they’re related no? But I can not take the shot for another year travel to the same parts of the world and if I don’t contract the flu While not having a flu shot I’m not sure what other conclusion to draw from.
December 18th, 2019 at 2:40 PM ^
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.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:02 PM ^
Does he actually have influenza or gastroenteritis? Even though they like to refer to that as the stomach flu, it isn't the flu. There is a rotavirus outbreak right now.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:34 PM ^
Strep can make you puke, especially kids. I've seen that in my own house more than once.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:39 PM ^
I've never had strep but I know every other person is puking right now because of that stomach virus that's going around.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:34 PM ^
Tested positive for influenza via the nose swab test.
December 18th, 2019 at 2:46 PM ^
great anecdotal stories guys!
December 18th, 2019 at 2:48 PM ^
Is this worse than the true college playoff post? possibly.
December 18th, 2019 at 2:57 PM ^
Which one?
December 18th, 2019 at 2:50 PM ^
The last time I had the legit flu was in 2011.
It hurt really bad.
December 18th, 2019 at 2:58 PM ^
Flu shots are a waste of time and if anything make you more prone to aids
December 18th, 2019 at 3:04 PM ^
I herd that flu shoots make u stupider.
December 18th, 2019 at 4:01 PM ^
Yup. My cousins get the flu shot and theyre both really big into Nascar
December 18th, 2019 at 3:00 PM ^
How about no..I haven't gotten the flu shot since 2004 and haven't gotten the flu. Got the shot in 04 and got the flu.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:58 PM ^
No one believes you got a shot and then the flu afterward.
December 18th, 2019 at 4:32 PM ^
It’s not that uncommon. The flu shot is only 50-85% effective depending on how well the scientists and their computer models guessed last year at what this years strain will look like
December 19th, 2019 at 1:56 PM ^
Over the past 10 years it's less than 50% effective on average.
The last 3 years its been 40% and less.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectiveness-studies.htm
People get the flu all the time after getting the shot because they guessed the wrong strain in the vaccine. It's common.
December 18th, 2019 at 6:37 PM ^
But that means that if you get the shot then we will win the Big Ten, do it for the team!
December 18th, 2019 at 3:07 PM ^
Bunch of football blog douchebags arguing about medicine.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:22 PM ^
"about everything"
December 18th, 2019 at 3:12 PM ^
Uhm..no
December 18th, 2019 at 3:17 PM ^
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.
December 18th, 2019 at 4:47 PM ^
Nice try Robin Arryn.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:20 PM ^
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.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:21 PM ^
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.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:29 PM ^
i'm sure CBD oil is more effective than a flu shot, it cures everything else.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:29 PM ^
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".
December 18th, 2019 at 3:38 PM ^
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.
December 18th, 2019 at 9:32 PM ^
That's actually fuckin brilliant. Thanks for the tip mate
December 18th, 2019 at 3:44 PM ^
If you're an anti-vaxxer, please do society a favor and leave.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:46 PM ^
Oh lord. All the anti-vaccine people are negging this thread. Up vote for the OP.
December 18th, 2019 at 3:51 PM ^
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.
December 18th, 2019 at 4:03 PM ^
The collective venom that people have been essentially taught to direct toward people who are apprehensive about vaccinations is actually very odd, in and of itself. Look at some of the statements above this. It is legit unabridged hate.
December 18th, 2019 at 5:45 PM ^
Odd?
We're seeing deadly diseases we had totally shitcanned coming back in force. Children are the most common victims.
So yeah, there's hate directed at those degenerates. And they deserve every drop.
December 18th, 2019 at 6:11 PM ^
I agree that the collective good achieved outweighs any individual concerns, but think it is quite childish to classify anybody concerned about unknown vaccination risks as idiots and degenerates. People need to do it, I agree. But they do not have to like it.
December 18th, 2019 at 6:34 PM ^
I'm sure you'd totally feel the same way if your 6 month old died from whooping cough.
December 18th, 2019 at 6:44 PM ^
Dude, what are you talking about?
I literally just said that it is something that people need to do.
December 18th, 2019 at 6:56 PM ^
That you don't find "idiot" and "degenerate" appropriate labels for people who threaten public health for terrible, selfish reasons is what's odd. F your concern trolling.
December 18th, 2019 at 7:03 PM ^
See, there it is. Vaccinations is an issue for insecure people. You not only want people to agree regarding vaccinations, you want to dominate them with your beliefs. You want to humiliate anybody who may have ANY other view that yours, even while conceding the central point. To call the “degenerates” and other terrible names. You don’t care about public health, you care about feeling better than other people and want somebody to be able to shit on. That’s you.
December 18th, 2019 at 8:10 PM ^
Epic amounts of projection here.
December 19th, 2019 at 1:40 PM ^
?????
Dont sail too far on your next cruise, you might fall off the edge of the world!!!
December 19th, 2019 at 11:15 AM ^
What are these scientifically unproven vaccination risks? JFC