Annual Flu Shots Now Available

[MikePal]

I get one every year because I work with Elderly people and want to make sure I don't get sick and pass it on..I got on last week.


I saw these stats on the news this morning...

Only 42 per cent of Canadians got the vaccine last year, up from 38 per cent the year before, according to Statistics Canada. Many people prefer not to get vaccines that aren’t mandatory, Kulik said, and many don’t think of the flu as serious.

“Some people think the flu is a mild illness, and they’re not aware that it can cause significant illness or even death,” she said. An average of 3,500 people in Canada die from the flu every year.

I wonder when they develop Covid vaccine if they will have a similarly low participation rate....or will they make it mandatory.

[fishfood]

My in-laws are waiting for the vaccine they think it's the only way they will be safe from covid.

I doubt it will become mandatory

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[greatwhite]

I do get the flu shot, heck technically I already paid for it. I also plan to get the shingles vaccine. My father got shingles and it can do some nasty stuff to you. Dad's wasn't to bad but he did suffer some nerve damage in his hands. A woman I worked with in Russell she got shingles and she died because of other complications it caused.

I will get the covid vaccine if we even find one. Based on current information at best it will be available in late spring, but Canada has last dibs on it so it might be Summer. The first batches will be for the most at risk. I think I will wait and be the last group. Kinda let everyone else be the guinea pigs. So the earliest I will be taking it will be sometime in 2022 or later.

[410001661]

I do not get a flu shot because I have not been sick in the last 6 years. I am not at risk and have no one in my immediate family that is at risk. I am not opposed to it - if I was at risk or elderly I would get it in a heart beat. When a COVID vaccine becomes available I will definitely be lining up for a shot.

[greatwhite]

I haven't had the flu in 18 years, but I still remember what it was like. The flu shot is considered 40% effective at the best of times assuming they guess right as to which virus will be going around. But even if it is 10% maybe it will give me an edge.
I don't always get it some years I do forget, but in general I do get it.

I have read how some people think the government is using vaccines to control people but if that was the case, crap they really need to go back to the drawing board because it definitely is not controlling the population.

The shingles vaccine appears to be quite effective 90%.

Like I said I will get the covid shot if they do pass some but I will wait until last, these things do get modified as time goes on.

I do not get a flu shot because I have not been sick in the last 6 years. I am not at risk and have no one in my immediate family that is at risk. I am not opposed to it - if I was at risk or elderly I would get it in a heart beat. When a COVID vaccine becomes available I will definitely be lining up for a shot.

[smitty55]

I will get the covid vaccine if we even find one.

Are you aware that the vaccine they are trying to develop this time will for the first time ever be something that affects your genetics and will be with you and your offspring forever. Before now it wasn't even ever allowed to have that kind of vaccine. Then of course like all viruses it will mutate therefore requiring another different vaccine of the same type which will again affect your basic genetics. On top of that who knows what other things big pharma will sneak into it, I don't trust them one bit. After all it's never been about healing, it's always about making money, hence why they've never even tried to develop a vaccine for the common cold regardless of what they might say.
From what I understand the same people who hold the patent for the SARS-Cov-2 that causes Covid19 are the same people developing the vaccine. If that doesn't raise a ton of red flags I don't know what will. As the saying goes when you want to find the truth about something just follow the money.

[MikePal]

Are you aware that the vaccine they are trying to develop this time will for the first time ever be something that affects your genetics and will be with you and your offspring forever. ..

Let's try not disseminate such blatant false information;

VERDICT: False. A future COVID-19 vaccine will not genetically modify humans. DNA vaccines do not integrate the virus’ DNA into the cell nucleus of its recipient but instead inject part of the virus’ DNA/RNA into tissues to stimulate an immune response in the body.

This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts www.reuters.com/fact-check/about .

Facts..read link below

Mark Lynas, a visiting fellow at Cornell University’s Alliance for Science group, debunked the idea that a DNA vaccine could genetically modify an organism. Lynas told Reuters that no vaccine can genetically modify human DNA.

“That’s just a myth, one often spread intentionally by anti-vaccination activists to deliberately generate confusion and mistrust,” he said. “Genetic modification would involve the deliberate insertion of foreign DNA into the nucleus of a human cell, and vaccines simply don’t do that. Vaccines work by training the immune system to recognize a pathogen when it attempts to infect the body - this is mostly done by the injection of viral antigens or weakened live viruses that stimulate an immune response through the production of antibodies.”

Lynas added: “The DNA [in DNA vaccines] does not integrate into the cell nucleus so this isn’t genetic modification - if the cells divide they will only include your natural DNA. But this approach is incredibly promising for COVID because it can be scaled up very quickly, and is very versatile - it is easy to synthetically produce DNA sequences that match the required bits of viral genetic code.”

read: https://ca.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN22U2BZ

[greatwhite]

Thanks Mikepal, Brain not working this morning don't think I could look that up right now. But yes Smitty that is BS and a myth.

[GW11]

Having never vaccinated humans from a coronavirus before, it's still a global experiment. Especially so if late stage trials are skipped in order to get it rolled out.

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[greatwhite]

Actually they are not being skipped, shorten a bit and as the small trials are partway through the next trials have been started.

But as I said I will still wait until the end. Most of us will have to wait anyways as there will be a limited supply at first and Canada was pretty much the last to sign with any company. It will be late 2021 before the vaccine is available at best and 2022 before everyone gets the vaccine.

Having never vaccinated humans from a coronavirus before, it's still a global experiment. Especially so if late stage trials are skipped in order to get it rolled out.

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