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No Worries wrote:Flu shot is a vaccine not immunity, you can still get the flu just not as bad. In which case you would have a high temperature and current circumstances be stood down and get Covid tested
No flu shot, you can get the flu. In which case you would have a high temperature and current circumstances be stood down and get Covid tested
Flu shot is not a vaccine for Covid and
Other than a placebo for the mindset of the masses, and towing the governments rhetoric in order to get them on board it does nothing.
From the government's own website
"While the vaccine won't protect you against COVID-19, it will reduce your risk of influenza — which kills hundreds of people every year and leads to thousands more hospitalisation"
"Australians are being urged to get their flu vaccination as soon as possible — to reduce the risk of a dangerous double-up of seasonal influenza and coronavirus (COVID-19)."
It's about the load on hospitals nothing else.
Every year players get flu shots and every year players refuse.
**Rant over**
Every year the flu shot is based on estimations/forecasts of what strains of influenza they think will be most prevalent over the next 12 months.
Sometimes its more accurate than others. It is never going to be perfect.
The reason why THIS YEAR IS IMPORTANT for the flu shot is that with COVID, we are seeing far more people in hospitals and on ventilators than we normally would.
ANYTHING we can do to reduce the number of people in need of those facilities, we should be doing. This includes getting a flu shot so there's less chance of you, yourself getting influenza and also passing it on to anyone who is immuno-compromised.
