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re: It’s the Flu vaccine now…how in the world do words lose their meaning so fast?

Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:04 am to
Posted by Giantkiller
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:04 am to
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It was never the flu vaccine, it was the annual flu shot.
Posted by lsupride87
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:04 am to
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Do you expect your children to get one of the illnesses they are vaccinated for prior to school and sports? TB…
Not all virus mutations are the same, friend.
Posted by Korkstand
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:05 am to
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I simply searched my company’s email to see what they called it pre-2020.
That was back when it was supposedly common knowledge that "flu shot" meant "flu vaccine". Covid taught us that a whole lot of people don't have a fricking clue (you are one example) so they are careful to be more clear now.
Posted by lsunurse
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:06 am to
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Do you expect your children to get one of the illnesses they are vaccinated for prior to school and sports? TB…


Children in the US don’t get the TB vaccine.
Posted by BluegrassBelle
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:06 am to
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Do you expect your children to get one of the illnesses they are vaccinated for prior to school and sports? TB…


You can still get chickenpox with the varicella vaccine. It’s just far more milder and less dangerous as a result of the vaccine. Same with polio depending on the type of polio vaccine you get.

Not all vaccines are sterilizing vaccines. This has been a thing as long as vaccines have been around.
Posted by Gaston
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:07 am to
I’m saying the nomenclature changed, I’m not saying anything else. The way they ‘sold’ the shot in the past was the ‘flu shot’…now it’s not the ‘flu shot’ anymore…that’s not a stretch in any form.
Posted by Jake88
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:08 am to
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Do you expect your children to get one of the illnesses they are vaccinated for prior to school and sports?
They can. LSU had an outbreak of mumps a few years ago.
Posted by BU Bear In BR
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:08 am to
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So now vaccine means…you’re probably still going to get the illness and you may transmit it to others…but you likely won’t die from it.


Vaccine never meant that you're 100% fully protected from a disease. Some are better at it than others. We were just lied to when the covid vax came out that it was gonna give us a special shield against covid

Some of you baws need to take immunology
This post was edited on 10/25/22 at 9:10 am
Posted by Salmon
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:08 am to
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Do you expect your children to get one of the illnesses they are vaccinated for prior to school and sports?


the flu shot always has like a 40-50% efficacy rate, so its always been a chance

the whole "you can still get the flu, but it helps reduce symptoms" has been a thing for the flu shot for years and everyone was cool with it

Posted by tigerinthebueche
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:08 am to
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So now vaccine means…you’re probably still going to get the illness and you may transmit it to others…but you likely won’t die from it.

That’s what it always meant. Were you really under a rock all that time?



Really?

Do animals get a touch of rabies when you give them the rabies vaccine?
How bout Polio? Do kids only get slightly crippled from polio with their immunizations?
Posted by lsupride87
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:10 am to
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I’m saying the nomenclature changed, I’m not saying anything else. The way they ‘sold’ the shot in the past was the ‘flu shot’…now it’s not the ‘flu shot’ anymore…that’s not a stretch in any form.
But it hasn’t

I have kids. We would always say “Does Little pride have any shots this visit?”

And those shots were the “real” vaccines like Rotovirus, polio, etc as you like to call them. We have always interchanged “shot” and “vaccine”
Posted by Gaston
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:10 am to
Which is my point.
Posted by lsupride87
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:11 am to
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How bout Polio? Do kids only get slightly crippled from polio with their immunizations?
Polio only cripples a very small percentage of people. For the most part, polio is mild. Yes, you heard that correctly. Even after the polio vaccines, people still got polio. It was just more mild

Sound familiar?
Posted by BluegrassBelle
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:12 am to
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How bout Polio? Do kids only get slightly crippled from polio with their immunizations?


The OPV vaccine (what we used to use) still had spread. Some countries still use the OPV.

The IPV vaccine does not.
Posted by tigerinthebueche
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:12 am to
Now do rabies.
Posted by Jake88
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:13 am to
Keep digging.
Posted by Salmon
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:13 am to
Not all vaccines are sterilizing vaccines. We have all known this since vaccines became a thing.

Wow. What a gotcha.
Posted by BluegrassBelle
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:14 am to
What about rabies?

Some vaccines are sterilizing. Some are not. It depends on the virus itself.
Posted by S
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:15 am to
This board is so gone

Posted by Jake88
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:15 am to
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While no vaccine is 100% effective, rabies infection is rare in vaccinated dogs. In one study, 4.9% of cases of rabid dogs had a history of prior rabies vaccination.
Just search so you don't look stupid.
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