not true.
it's not the Average American just a small (but vocal) group of fucking idiots.
Average american:
OMG HURRRRRRRRRR VACCINES IZ BAD FOR ME, I AIN'T TAKING THAT SHIZZZ
Goes to lunch:
I'll have a large coke with a double bacon cheezeburger and fries.
Lol
This philosophy came in handy since I was proscribed between 10-40mg of prednisone on a daily basis from 1997 until 2010.
whatever doesn't kill you only make u stronger
Still not getting the shot. Haven't been sick in 5 years with the flu and I take public city transit a good amount. Just wash your fcking hands like a religious freak and you'll be fine.
"HURR DURR HURRDURR DURF DURF." - you
If you're taking public transit and don't get a flu shot, you're a jerk. You probably go into work when you're sick too, don't you?
Yes, I believe everything my government tells me and I'll be first to be injected. LOL
I don't get sick, dick-for-brains. I haven't missed a day due to sickness in 5 years, can you read? I wear a scarf over my mouth when on city transit and wash my hands about 8X a day. This shit isn't rocket science, and I laugh at you morons who are too lazy to do the same and have to get flu shots out of fear. Learn.to.wash.your.hands. And no, Purell doesn't do shit for virii so stop wasting your time with hand sanitizer.
Does Flu Vaccine contain Mercury?
Do a search for flu vaccine and mercury?
According to the CDC, vaccines labeled thimerosal-free often have a little asterisk next to those words which lead you to something like: This vaccine has trace amounts of thimerosal, which the FDA says is equivalent to thimerosal-free products. If we look closer into thimerosal-free vaccines, we will actually find that there is still a toxic amount of mercury contained in them.
There are two kinds of flu shots given. One contains 25 mcg of mercury (in the form of thimerosal with is 50% mercury. There is 50mcg of thimerosal in this flu shot) and is often given as the regular flu shot to those with no special circumstances. The other kind of flu shot is labeled thimerasol-free (containing less than 3mcg of mercury) and is given to young children and pregnant women.
If we look at safe and un-safe levels of mercury, per the FDA, we find this:
2 ppb is the maximum amount of mercury that deems water safe for drinking
Anything over 200 ppb mercury is considered TOXIC [source - EPA]
After doing some math [you can check my math in the article: Vaccine Ingredients A Comprehensive Guide], we find this:
There is up to 300 ppb mercury is in the thimerosal-free flu vaccine.
There is 25,000 ppb mercury given in the flu shot containing 25 mcg of thimerosal as a preservative.
No matter how you cut it, flu vaccines contain toxic amounts of mercury. So yes, the flu vaccines still DOES contain thimerosal. The claim that there is no thimerasol in the flu vaccine is a complete fallacy.
Personally, I would rather take my chances with the flu than be exposed to chemicals, such as mercury.
It's like people are sticking their fingers in their ears (or eyes in this case).
Different forms of chemicals are toxic and others can be nearly inert. Mercury vapor is very toxic and bioaccumulates while ethylmercury (the metabolitic bioproduct from thiomerosal) has far lower toxicity and its half life in the body is fairly short.
Your ppb argument is also nonsense. ppb is concentration, not total amount. You need to look at the total amount of bioaccumulateable mercury in drinking water and in a flu shot. If your drinking water was 2 ppb mercury and you drink 1L per day, you're already consuming 2 ug of mercury(and usually in a toxic form when it is found in drinking water) per day. Are you getting the flu shot daily and does yours come in the super-mega dose size of 500 ml?
You talk of getting the vaccine as if it's a stupid thing to do. I suggest if you got the vaccine, you would not have to be so anal about everything you do about not getting the flu. And of course your claim that sanitizers don't work are blatantly false. Have you ever notice that in any hospital, sanitizers are virtualy EVERYWHERE? Why do you think that is?????
If you're going to call other people idiots, you should be careful in your own posts not to write idiotic and uninformed lies.
to be fair to him you are pretty annoying.
Uhhh, mercury isn't in flu vaccines. And, the compound with mercury in it isn't particularly toxic & passes through the body.
Getting the flu shot does NOT increase your risks of getting it. In fact, that sounds so retarded that I'm going to assume you're trolling - no one is that stupid. Further, as I pointed out either in this thread or the other vaccine thread, part of the problem with the "I got the flu shot, then got sick" is that the vaccine isn't effective within minutes. It takes a week or longer before the body's immunity builds up responding to the vaccine. If the people on that ship truly had the flu, then what likely happened is that they decided to vaccinate for the flu AFTER a couple of cases started showing up. On a ship, people are in exceptionally close proximity to each other & the rate of transmission is much higher. Also, as incorrectly pointed out earlier in this thread, and a probable contributor in that ship example, people are contagious before they start showing symptoms.
Or, to put it another way:
Observation: people living in very close proximity to one another get the flu shot. 50% end up with the flu anyway.
Your Hypothesis: the flu shot causes the flu in 50% of people.
Further evidence: how the vaccine works is fairly well understood - and it is impossible for it to cause someone to get the flue. In the general population, no one who hasn't been exposed to the flu prior to or shortly after getting the shot has gotten the flu.
ANYONE that works with the public should get the shot.
Especially my friend at Walmart that is a checkout clerk.
He has the flu.
Slept on the bathroom floor for 3 nights just because he got tired running back and forth between the bed and the bathroom.
As he told me, "its coming out of both ends".
So why didn't you get the shot, I asked?
Answer, "Oh... I heard someone got it and died afterwards".
He did recover. But now has come down with the flu AGAIN. Twice now in a month.
It's not RNA vs. DNA that makes flu change so rapidly. It's segmented vs. non-segmented and the vast animal host pool (chickens, pigs and more) available to flu. Plus a few other things.
Saw a kid at Burger King sneeze upward into the spigots on the soda dispensers without even trying to stifle it or turn his head. I already had my drink.
While I was eating, I heard constant coughing and sniffling and noticed it was the same kid.
Then my brain stopped working and I got a refill of soda D:
I hope the virus doesn't survive very long on a cold surface.
*snip*
I was reading this thread on my tablet which isn't logged in.
I saw a lot of stupid borderline retarded idiots in this thread talking about stuff like they are smart.
It's the same people that are already ignored on my account.
Makes me feel very good about my ignore list.
No I'm not trolling, and no I'm not retarded. Come on, no need for personal attacks dude.
I guess I should have just stated my opinion and left it at that since some people here can't even be civil over a fairly trivial thing such as a flu shot. Geez
I tried to be civil about it - I gave you two choices.No I'm not trolling, and no I'm not retarded. Come on, no need for personal attacks dude.
I guess I should have just stated my opinion and left it at that since some people here can't even be civil over a fairly trivial thing such as a flu shot. Geez