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If taking a quick and harmless shot every year gives me up to a ~40% chance of avoiding disease then I’m good with that. Definitely a better outcome than not
by discordance 5y ago
If taking a quick and harmless shot every year gives me up to a ~40% chance of avoiding disease then I’m good with that.
Definitely a better outcome than not getting a flu shot.
- dekhn 5y agowhen I get the flu shot I typically spend a week with a non-functioning arm and feeling like I'm very sick. However, I still get flu vaccination because it seems likely that this maximizes the overall health of humanity, and I'm more interested in the health of humanity than my own, in the long term.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoGood that you get the shot, but I'll just note that the symptom you describe is far worse than most people who get the flu shot. Most years I get it I have no symptoms at all besides slight arm soreness. Maybe one in five years I have a mild fever for a day.