So, you’re saying that seatbelts don’t cause cancer? :dubious:
Once you know something, you do not continue checking to confirm that it’s true. There would be no medical progress made if every already-accepted fact had to be frequently reproven ad infinitum.
Keep beating that dead autism straw man. And now you have pulled a cancer one out of your ass too. Bet that was itchy up there, huh? If only your relief could last, but I’ve a feeling you’ve got a few more stuck in there to dig out, possibly even an endless supply.
I’m scheduled for my flu shot next week. Get it free at work, so that’s nice.
Just got my flu shot. I’ll be sure to come back and let you know if I develop cancer.
Sorry, I’m probably not supposed to have told you that. Now I guess someone might quit wearing one and I will when they die, plus someone might think I’m pro-child rape.
Oops.
… bumping this just to pat myself on the back for getting my free flu shot at work today AND I got a long-overdue tetanus booster. If I get cancer thirty years from now, somebody please print out this post and thumbtack it onto my gravestone as a warning.
I’ve been getting flu shots since about 1967. No problems so far as I know. I’ve probably had more vaccinations in my life than pretty much anybody on this board. A career in the military insured that I’d be perforated on a regular basis. Then living in places like Africa insured another half dozen years of pokes. I’d much rather have had the shots than yellow fever, cholera, hepatitis A, B, or C, tetanus and whatever else they shot me up for.
Got mine at the CVS pharmacy yesterday. Not even any arm tenderness this year.
I’ve been trying to wait until we get them in an work (boss usually orders a few more than we need for our patients, so we nurses can give them to each other), but due to a combination of poor communication between our office staff and then the gov’ment shutdown, we still haven’t gotten them. I’m not waiting any longer; it just puts my patients at too much risk. I’ve talked most of them into going to a drugstore pharmacy for their shots; only have four stubborn cusses who want to wait until I can do it, no matter how long it takes. :rolleyes:
I got it on Tuesday with NO ill effects for once; no malaise, ache, or even pain from the shot.
Everyone waiting said they “never” get the 'flu, but wanted to minimize the chances of catching and spreading it.
I was kind of on your side until this post.
It is your choice whether to get a flu shot or not; spacing out vaccines may be either a good or non-deterimental approach; you did say people should be vaccinated against polio …
… and then you bring up cancer, not that you are saying vaccines DO cause cancer …
You sound like you’re just asking questions …
Cancer is an example of something most people know can develop years after exposure to something carcinogenic. It is an example that proves that there are such things.
Like when some fool says “wearing a full-face respirator and gloves when dealing with asbestos is silly–I handled asbestos just yesterday and I’m fine!,” I think “you seem fine FOR NOW, but years from now, this could be the cause of your cancer.”
Or “I don’t care if this artificial sweetener does cause cancer in lab rats, I’ve been using it for years and I don’t have it,” to which I tack on “YET.”
When people say they have suffered no ill effects from the flu shot, all they can really say is that they have suffered no ill effects YET, and THAT THEY KNOW OF. When the composition of the shot changes every year, how do people think the shot is tested and safe long term?
Like cancer, some issues do not appear until later.
I’m not saying the issue would BE cancer. Exactly how, why, and when various conditions and diseases will manifest is unknown.
I’m not anti-vaccine, I don’t think any vaccine causes autism, and I don’t think any vaccine causes cancer.
But I also don’t think vaccination is completely without risk, and I have elected not to get the flu shot because it never has the chance to develop a solid history, because herd immunity is not within reach, and because I am not in a group with a high risk of exposure or a high risk of flu complications. I do not consider the vaccination to be extremely risky and I would neither encourage not discourage others from getting the flu shot.
Good example of the JAQing off that’s hurt your credibility in this thread.
And good to know that you’re afflicted by the same type of crank magnetism that is common to so many antivaxers.
Of course, you’re not really anti-artificial sweetener. But who knows what’ll happen 50 or 100 years from now, when all the people who’ve consumed aspartame will have grown tentacles? Or have thyroids the size of watermelons from water fluoridation? But you’re not against any of these things. And people who believe in chemtrails are not crazy, they’re just cautious.
Preach on.
The composition doesn’t change very year. It’s a different antibody, sure, specific to whatever strain is likely to be making people sick for any given year. But the base of the vaccine doesn’t go through radical changes every year. Can you imagine how much work that would be for the pharmaceutical companies and how much more expensive that would male the vaccine?
Saying it’s unsafe because its “composition changes every year” is like saying you can’t trust milk because every gallon you buy is coming from totally different cows.
Yet another reason has been found to get the shot:
I am anti-artificial sweetener. It tastes like poison and has no benefit. Yuck.
And I’m not so sure milk ought to be fully trusted either. I’d rather not consume antibiotics and growth hormones in any significant quantities.
Got called away so I didn’t get to say: is anyone going to call me out on getting the DipTet or whatever the combo-booster is called? (Ah: tetanus, diptheria + pertussis). I have a sore arm but I also have to help my in-laws dismantle the shed (roaches are the least of my worries) so I have to have that shot, preferably before I stab myself on a pointy piece of metal.
I had no idea poison was so delicious! No wonder they have to use warning labels for children.
May I share my lead paint chip and a bottle of cyanide? I’ve heard lead is sweet and cyanide smells like almonds. Dessert! WOO!