Anyone NOT had flu jab?

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I was just wondering if anyone on here has NOT had the flu jab, and if so, why?

I didnt think it was a big deal to get it done as I'm offered it every year as I have asthma and never accept it because I had it once several years ago and felt terrible afterwards.

But after seeing another thread and people saying how important it is it's making me think again as I just automatically dismissed it.

I looked at the statistics and 45% of pregnant women have the flu jab, so I wondered where the people were who havent had it.

The biggest thing swaying me is that it protects the baby for a few months after they're born, and as I'm due in september that seems like a good idea leading up to flu season. I never knew that.

I wasnt particularly happy about myself and DD nearly being taken out of the gene pool by some prick who thought her pox ridden child was the perfect companion for a heavily pregnant woman sitting on a bench in the school playground, either. Just a childhood disease, better for it to be spread around? Young, healthy, no problem. Great. Unless you're young, healthy and pregnant and therefore have fuck all immune system due to pregnancy, when you end up on oxygen trying not to die overnight. Like the measles DD then caught from another unvaccinated brat just before her MMR was due. Or the shingles infested kid sent in to sit next to the child just finished chemo at one workplace because they didn't feel too bad, just a few pustules leaking fluid through the day.

Like I said, I feel sorry for the poor fuckers that end up catching the things due to some idiot who believes that vaccination is somehow a bit icky compared to dying horribly of the actual diseases.