This season's flu is no joke - PSA for anyone whose kids have not had a shot yet

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just really wish people kept their sick kids home. I'm so angry at how people have their coughing kids out and about. All 3 of my kids are now sick right before Christmas.

Unfortunately, coughs can last awhile. Even after most kids are better. Plus, you are contagious with flu/colds a day or two before symptoms even start. It is tricky.

Was just about to say the same. My 11yo had the flu 10 days ago but has a lingering cough. He’s not getting your kids sick.

[Anonymous]

It just took down my whole house this week. DH brought it home from the school where he teaches and hadn’t the flu shot in October

[Anonymous]

I usually scoff at the flu shot, but just spent 3 days sick as a dog from the flu. I'm getting the shot as soon as I can.

[Anonymous]

They always say the shot is a bad match for this year's strain. Every year it's the same thing. That said I'm currently getting over this flu....the media is right....it is a bad one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:12 yo just had it and it was probably the sickest I've seen him since he was v young, and he had had the shot. I dont know what it would have been like without it. His ped does not do tamiflu but in retrospect i would have pushed for it. One night was esp troublesome.

I’m not sure how this is a PSA for the flu shot? Your kid had a terrible time on it anyway.

My kids have had the flu twice in the last couple of years. Once before they were able to get their shot and once after they got their shot. I could not tell the difference in terms of their sickness. The shot made no difference for them.

I personally haven’t gotten a flu shot since I was pregnant and don’t plan to. I haven’t had the flu in a long time despite my own kids getting sick with it. We mask in the house when they are sick.

Seriously, it does make a difference, THEY DID NOT DIE!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:12 yo just had it and it was probably the sickest I've seen him since he was v young, and he had had the shot. I dont know what it would have been like without it. His ped does not do tamiflu but in retrospect i would have pushed for it. One night was esp troublesome.

I’m not sure how this is a PSA for the flu shot? Your kid had a terrible time on it anyway.

My kids have had the flu twice in the last couple of years. Once before they were able to get their shot and once after they got their shot. I could not tell the difference in terms of their sickness. The shot made no difference for them.

I personally haven’t gotten a flu shot since I was pregnant and don’t plan to. I haven’t had the flu in a long time despite my own kids getting sick with it. We mask in the house when they are sick.

Seriously, it does make a difference, THEY DID NOT DIE!

The overwhelming majority of flu patients do not die, even without the vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:12 yo just had it and it was probably the sickest I've seen him since he was v young, and he had had the shot. I dont know what it would have been like without it. His ped does not do tamiflu but in retrospect i would have pushed for it. One night was esp troublesome.

I’m not sure how this is a PSA for the flu shot? Your kid had a terrible time on it anyway.

My kids have had the flu twice in the last couple of years. Once before they were able to get their shot and once after they got their shot. I could not tell the difference in terms of their sickness. The shot made no difference for them.

I personally haven’t gotten a flu shot since I was pregnant and don’t plan to. I haven’t had the flu in a long time despite my own kids getting sick with it. We mask in the house when they are sick.

Or the time with the shot might have been much worse. You have no idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They always say the shot is a bad match for this year's strain. Every year it's the same thing. That said I'm currently getting over this flu....the media is right....it is a bad one.

Did you have the shot?

[Anonymous]

I got a flu shot (and covid) and I'm surviving quite well what could have been a horrible lingering sickness.

Only a sore throat and deep aches and fatigue. It could have been so much worse. I'm the only public facing one in household and nobody else got sick. I'm hoping it minimized the contagious period as well.

On the mend. Get your shot!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got a flu shot (and covid) and I'm surviving quite well what could have been a horrible lingering sickness.

Only a sore throat and deep aches and fatigue. It could have been so much worse. I'm the only public facing one in household and nobody else got sick. I'm hoping it minimized the contagious period as well.

On the mend. Get your shot!

I’m all for getting the shots but you don’t know what it would have been like without it. There could be zero difference.

I get the flu shot about 50% of the time and I did get the flu shot this year. I’ve had influenza zero times in my life. Flu shot or no flu shot.

[Anonymous]

The shot is not a match for the flu strain going around this year.

I don’t get the flu shot but my husband does every year. His doctor warned him that it doesn’t provide much protection for the current strain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:12 yo just had it and it was probably the sickest I've seen him since he was v young, and he had had the shot. I dont know what it would have been like without it. His ped does not do tamiflu but in retrospect i would have pushed for it. One night was esp troublesome.

I’m not sure how this is a PSA for the flu shot? Your kid had a terrible time on it anyway.

My kids have had the flu twice in the last couple of years. Once before they were able to get their shot and once after they got their shot. I could not tell the difference in terms of their sickness. The shot made no difference for them.

I personally haven’t gotten a flu shot since I was pregnant and don’t plan to. I haven’t had the flu in a long time despite my own kids getting sick with it. We mask in the house when they are sick.

Seriously, it does make a difference, THEY DID NOT DIE!

My kids didn’t die from Hand Foot and Mouth but it doesn’t have a vaccine. How did that happen? It’s like, maybe kids don’t always die from viruses?

Let’s not pretend that the flu shot is required to live through the winter. It’s rarely a match and has questionable efficacy. It’s always been the least effective vaccine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I got a flu shot (and covid) and I'm surviving quite well what could have been a horrible lingering sickness.

Only a sore throat and deep aches and fatigue. It could have been so much worse. I'm the only public facing one in household and nobody else got sick. I'm hoping it minimized the contagious period as well.

On the mend. Get your shot!

I’m all for getting the shots but you don’t know what it would have been like without it. There could be zero difference.

I get the flu shot about 50% of the time and I did get the flu shot this year. I’ve had influenza zero times in my life. Flu shot or no flu shot.

NP. You can just end it after the bolded. Nobody knows. Get the shot. Glad you are for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They always say the shot is a bad match for this year's strain. Every year it's the same thing. That said I'm currently getting over this flu....the media is right....it is a bad one.

Did you have the shot?

Nope....used to get a shot but stopped. And some years I get the flu, and some years I don't.
I see no reason to take a shot that doesn't even match the strain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:12 yo just had it and it was probably the sickest I've seen him since he was v young, and he had had the shot. I dont know what it would have been like without it. His ped does not do tamiflu but in retrospect i would have pushed for it. One night was esp troublesome.

I’m not sure how this is a PSA for the flu shot? Your kid had a terrible time on it anyway.

My kids have had the flu twice in the last couple of years. Once before they were able to get their shot and once after they got their shot. I could not tell the difference in terms of their sickness. The shot made no difference for them.

I personally haven’t gotten a flu shot since I was pregnant and don’t plan to. I haven’t had the flu in a long time despite my own kids getting sick with it. We mask in the house when they are sick.

The flu shot's efficacy varies a lot by year, depending on whether they correctly predict the predominant strain. Just because it wasn't very useful one year doesn't mean it won't be very effective a different year.

Most people don't have the flu often. It's more than having a really severe case of the flu can do you in. In the course of my life I hae known two people, a child and an adult, who died of flu.