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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
Do you have any medical sources to back this up? Everything I've read has said the opposite, with children and elderly being at most risk (as always), and there are clearly many many time more people getting sick and/or dying from regular seasonal flu.
I'm not 100% set on this one. If I start reading from enough credible sources that I should be getting this shot, then I will; but I don't want to get it based simply on mass panic and news sensationalization.
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I've heard the same thing as Machiavelli.
This flu is apparently different in that it is more severe in younger people. The theory I heard is that in the 1950s and 60s, a similar flu hit and so many people born before then have built up an immunity.... which is partly why I don't really want to get the shot. I'd rather get the flu now and hopefully prepare my immune system for it now instead of 30 or 40 years from now when I will be old.