CNN.com - Town lottery to allocate remaining flu vaccine - Oct 18, 2004
Reading this story, there is an anecdote about a 79 year old woman who died after waiting in line for four hours for a flu shot. When did the flu become such a debilitating ailment that people would literally wait in line for hours to get a shot?
I've never had a flu shot. I rarely get sick, and while I don't have any facts to support my theory, I think it's because I simply let myself get sick when need be so that my body learns to fight things off. I get sick maybe once a year, and it's always a doozy when it happens, but it rarely keeps me off my feet for more than a day.
On a different note, how exactly is this a vaccine? I'm pretty sure that anything you have to take every year doesn't qualify as a vaccine. Maybe that's part of the problem, maybe it's being peddled as something it's not ...
1 comment:
The flu mutates every year and as such requires a new vaccine every year. It's lame.
I think I got a flu shot once when I was younger, and all it does (apart from prevent the flu) is make you sick with a cold for like a week.
I do the same thing you do, just get sick and take it like a man. Medicine only makes your body more dependant.
- Obi
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