# Poll about flu vaccination **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850 "2009-09-12T21:28:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/61 "2009-09-14T15:22:58Z")
\*\*Have you gotten the vaccination for the seasonal flu yet this year? \*\* not yet \*\*If the answer to (1) is no, do you plan to do so eventually? \*\* yes - we get them at work, I’ll get one then (in a week or two) \*\*If the answer to (2) is no, why not? \*\* N/A \*\* Do you plan to get the vaccination for the H1N1 flu when it is available? \*\* not sure yet, I work in a hospital (I’m not medical, though), and I believe we are also getting these for free, but I’m not sure if I’m going to \*\* If the answer to (4) is no, why not? \*\* I want to talk to my doctor first \*\*Do you generally get vaccinated for the flu? \*\* not until recently \*\*Please explain your answer to (6). \*\* we are required to get them for work (though you can get out of it for various reasons), and it’s free and very convenient. I never got vaccinated for the flu before last year, but I’ve also never had the flu, and I’m not in a high-risk group for complications, so I never went out of my way to do it. ---
**Author:** ![MissIntent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/97f17d/32.png) [@MissIntent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissIntent)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/62 "2009-09-14T15:34:17Z")
Have you gotten the vaccination for the seasonal flu yet this year? Yes, a few days ago. Do you plan to get the vaccination for the H1N1 flu when it is available? Probably not… I was talking to the doctor about it when I got the regular flu vaccination a few days ago and he felt the H1N1 vaccination was not widely enough tested over a long enough period of time to justify possible risks. He was recommending that his patients do not get it. Do you generally get vaccinated for the flu? Yes, my mom works at a clinic and gets free shots, so she guilts me into coming in every year. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/63 "2009-09-14T20:23:44Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Does anyone know if the pig flu vaccine will be available in a mist, how much it costs, and where I can get it? > > Needles use to not bother me at all but I’ve inexplicably developed a pretty serious phobia of them. I told myself to quit being a wuss and get the shot this year, and then I watched my son get vaccinated Friday and the needle was THICK, and must’a been 2 inches long :eek::eek::eek:. Cisco you are not a wuss. Phobias are not _just_ fears, and they aren’t a sign of being weak. –from another needle phobe. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/64 "2009-09-14T22:22:33Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > **Rubystreak** is reading my mind again. Ah, well, no I believe I and my family already got the current H1N1 flu (not the vaccine), back in Spring. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/65 "2009-09-14T22:40:34Z")
[quote=“Skald\_the\_Rhymer, post:1, topic:509850”] **[li]Have you gotten the vaccination for the seasonal flu yet this year?** No. [/li] **[li]If the answer to (1) is no, do you plan to do so eventually?** Yes, just haven’t gotten around to it. [/li] **[li]If the answer to (2) is no, why not?** N/A[/li] **[li]Do you plan to get the vaccination for the H1N1 flu when it is available?** Hell yes.[/li] **[li]If the answer to (4) is no, why not?** N/A[/li] **[li]Do you generally get vaccinated for the flu?** Yes. [/li] **[\*]Please explain your answer to (6).** I work in health services for government agencies and I’ve sat through too many power points on pandemic flu to think it’s someting to futz around with. Plus, I actually had real flu a few years ago – not “tummy ache” pseudo “flu” but full-blown bronchial influenza developing into pneumonia, and that was far too close to Grim Reaper land for my comfort. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Not\_Appearing\_on\_This\_Site](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Sir\_Not\_Appearing\_on\_This\_Site](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Not_Appearing_on_This_Site)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/66 "2009-09-14T22:43:36Z")
1. No 2. No 3. Short answer, I hate needles, and I haven’t gotten the shot in the last few years, and haven’t gotten the flu in the same amount of time. 4. No 5. Swine Flu is no more harmful than the seasonal kind. 6. No 7. Personal anecdotal evidence, get the shot get the flu, no shot no flu. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/67 "2009-09-14T22:56:36Z")
> [@Sir\_Not\_Appearing\_on\_This\_Site](#): > > Swine Flu is no more harmful than the seasonal kind. It may turn out that way - or the scenario of an especially lethal form of flu could come true. > [@](#): > > Personal anecdotal evidence, get the shot get the flu, no shot no flu. I think a lot of the confusion on this score stems from the fact that there is overlap between signs and symptoms caused by influenza virus, and those of diseases caused by other viruses (“influenza-like syndromes”). Flu shots offer protection against influenza, but not against adenoviruses or other organisms. You can still come down with a bad cold after getting a flu shot, but in lots of thoses cases there’s no laboratory evidence that the person ever had influenza. [Flu shots contain inactivated virus](http://www.lungusa.org/site/c.dvLUK9O0E/b.35868), so you don’t get the flu from a flu shot. ---
**Author:** ![Purgatory\_Creek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Purgatory\_Creek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purgatory_Creek)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/68 "2009-09-14T22:59:23Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Is it okay if I come to your house and take my pickings of all your stuff first? I mean, since you’re a fatalist anyway. Hell, it’s all right by me, but my husband might have an opinion about it. Besides, I have no stuff other than dogs, my 2003 computer, and a lot of books about chickens. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/69 "2009-09-14T23:29:12Z")
> [@Purgatory\_Creek](#): > > I have no stuff other than dogs, my 2003 computer, and a lot of books about chickens. I say, I say that’s _my_ kind of readin’. 'Specially if they’s got pictures of cute hens. Down, boy! /Foghorn Leghorn ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/70 "2009-09-15T00:06:34Z")
1. no. 2. no. 3. I never get flu. Whether or not I get flu shots, I get one or two colds/bronchitis a year, but no fever/body aches/GI problems and other specific flu symptoms. 4. no (at the moment). 5. While the evidence suggests a possible epidemic and a significantly greater virulence/communicability, it’s not conclusive. If that changes, I’ll reconsider and I might get one, just as a precaution. 6. no. 7. see 3. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/71 "2009-09-15T06:58:39Z")
Update: I went to the doctor’s today, or yesterday, since it’s past midnight here. I had some other issues, and while I was there, I got my regular flu shot. Dr. C beamed when I asked for it. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/72 "2009-09-15T13:13:54Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Does anyone know if the pig flu vaccine will be available in a mist, how much it costs, and where I can get it? > > Needles use to not bother me at all but I’ve inexplicably developed a pretty serious phobia of them. I told myself to quit being a wuss and get the shot this year, and then I watched my son get vaccinated Friday and the needle was THICK, and must’a been 2 inches long :eek::eek::eek:. You’re braver than me. I’m a needle-phobe, and I can’t even watch someone getting a shot on TV. I am planning to go get a flu shot today, though. I’m very nervous. The needle is going to be the size of my leg, I know it. Not that I’d be able to look at it. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/73 "2009-09-15T13:21:45Z")
[[ol] [li]No[/li][li]No[/li][li]don’t like needles[/li][li]No[/li][li]don’t like needles[/li][li]No[/li][li]don’t like needles[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/74 "2009-09-15T13:46:16Z")
I did it. It hurt, but I did it. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/75 "2009-09-15T13:54:16Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > I did it. It hurt, but I did it. Awesome, you did great! ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850/76 "2009-09-15T13:54:57Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > I did it. It hurt, but I did it. Good for you! I always take my kids for ice cream after a shot. Just sayin’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-flu-vaccination/509850.md?page=3)