Edgetho
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Good grief.
Anyway, get your flu shots. They don't cause the flu, they don't cure world hunger, they are not some sort of conspiracy to implant your children with little spaceships manned by tiny shrunken scientists or to make you vote Democrat. Influenza is a terribly dangerous disease, there are many strains of it, and you should vaccinate against the ones you can, to protect those among us who are most vulnerable and who can't necessarily be vaccinated...young children.
I would say yes, get your vaccinations.
They've come a long way and have been vastly improved.
But to deny that there is an inherent risk is worse than ignorant, it is dishonest in the extreme.
There is risk in everything we do. We wake up in the morning without thinking about the risk of breaking our leg getting out of bed or slipping in the shower and breaking our necks.
But that doesn't negate the risk. The risk is there whether we think about it or not.
The question is: Does reward outweigh the risk? Today, IMO yes.
When I was raising my kids (44 and 34) not so much.
But there is still risk. Always, there is risk.
Like I said, not as much today as there used to be in the vaccines. But you still gotta use common sense. YOU are the one who will pay the price of a mistake.
Or worse, your kids.