• Margot Robbie
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    681 year ago

    While I’m here, everyone, please get your flu and COVID shots this winter, vaccines work, so don’t get sick, and don’t get other people sick.

    • @AngryCommieKender
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      81 year ago

      Also get your dogs rabies vaccines! We are getting dangerously close to having less than 80% of the dogs in the US vaccinated. This will cause pockets of disease in your pets.

    • Flying Squid
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      71 year ago

      I highly recommend staggering them though. I did them both together last year and felt so sick that I had to take a day off of work (still better than COVID or Flu). This year, I had a COVID booster and I’m getting a flu shot Monday. The COVID shot did nothing to me but give me a sore arm and flu shots never do anything.

        • Flying Squid
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          31 year ago

          No? My wife and daughter both got them at the same time. I think you’re thinking of just COVID boosters. You can have boosters and flu shots congruently.

    • Franzia
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      71 year ago

      I just went to sign up for my covid shot and it asked me to update my insurance information. I have no fucking answers for them so I stopped filling out the form.

        • Franzia
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          71 year ago

          Nope I’m gonna call and tell them today I think they will say its okay and the website is just dumb 😋 thanks by the way

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Flu shots are only given to the elderly and vulnerable where I live. It’s weird to see people talking about getting the flu shot like it’s a normal thing.

    • sillyplasm
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      21 year ago

      I’ll get my flu shot once my cold mostly resolves. My entire face feels like it’s about to sneeze 24/7 and it’s like a personal hell

    • WuTang
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      -211 year ago

      While I’m here, everyone, please get your flu and COVID shots this winter, vaccines work, so don’t get sick, and don’t get other people sick.

      How? as it has been demonstrated that it does not protect against transmission?

      But take your shots please.

      • @JiveTurkey
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        121 year ago

        Would’ve been better to say something like: Don’t get as sick and potentially die when you do catch one or both of these viruses. Also stay home when you’re sick.

      • @daellat
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        111 year ago

        It does reduce transmission it just doesn’t reduce it to 0%. Life is not so black and white.

      • @DillyDaily
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        51 year ago

        It does technically reduce transmission potential, though indirectly.

        If you do contract covid or the flu after having been vaccinated, you are less likely to have severe symptoms, including coughing and sneezing. If you’re not coughing up a lung all over the place, you’re not spreading as much as someone who is hocking loogeys over everyone else.

        • @[email protected]
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          01 year ago

          Except everyone I know who got the shot has gotten sick way more frequently then those who didn’t. That’s backed up by the data that shows the shots give an initial boost in immunity, but slow negative effectiveness long term

      • @TrickDacy
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        1 year ago

        Anti vaxxers need your own island. You’d… “sort yourselves out”… in about 10 years.

          • @DillyDaily
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            41 year ago

            Not everyone who wants to be vaccinated against covid can be vaccinated.

            And not everyone who is vaccinated can receive the full benefits of vaccination due to being immunocompromised.

            As someone who gets a Hep B vaccine every single year, I do what I can to protect myself, but my body is incapable of producing antibodies long term, it’s because of an autoimmune condition, not because the vaccine isn’t widely effective. I’m always going to be more susceptible to it (and I work in healthcare so I have to keep getting the vaccine). I’m lucky I only have this issue with hep b, my other vaccines seem to have “taken”, but I’m not alone, there are many people out there that have this issue with various vaccines.

            My cousin had an anaphylactic reaction to the flu vaccine a few years ago, he can’t take it again. He’s in a vulnerable position because he has a trachy, so his airways don’t have as much natural protection. He has to trust that his co-workers will stay away from him if they catch the flu, because he can’t get vaccinated even though he wants and needs to.

          • @TrickDacy
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            21 year ago

            I’m sure you’ve never ever had this explained to you before. since you’re really asking? Eat shit

          • @TrickDacy
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            11 year ago

            The point I was making is that antivaxxers rely on the vaccinated to stay healthy. If you all were isolated together, you’d have no herd immunity, disease would spread like wildfire. Most if not all of you would die or at least get a lifelong condition. It’s convenient to act all self sufficient and tough until everyone around you starts dying. You’d all want to come back or want us to send doctors real quick.