Originally Posted by bhutocracy

The thing that makes me chuckle the most is people thinking the 1:1,000,000 chance of a bad reaction from the vaccine means it's not worth the risk COMPLETELY failing to realise that you've got a MUCH higher chance of permanent neurological side effects from the flu... and I don't mean death.

Vaccine = Something trying to help you that has freak rare side effects that happen any time you do anything to the body. I don't want to scare you.. but even just puncturing your skin with an empty sterile syringe is going to have some rare mortality rate if millions of people did it.

Flu = Something indisputedly actively trying to kill you AND has "side effects" such as neuologic complications including seizures, meningitis, encephalitis, encephalopathy, Reye syndrome, paresis, movement disorders, cranial nerve palsies, aphasia, blah blah blah.

You idiots, every time you have a cold you run the risk of only being able to walk backwards or developing some rare condition or whatever.
Most dangerous part of getting a flu shot is probably hanging around all the wheezing sick fucks in the waiting room. Maybe we've lost the ability to weigh risk mathematically.. or quantitively..or we're so caught up in stupid belief systems we prefer "fate" even if your chances are much much worse.. More likely, people like being ignorant.