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Medicines are given to sick people. Vaccines are the only substances we are advised to inject into our healthy bodies on the off-chance that they might protect a small percentage of us from potential future illness. Of all vaccinations, flu vaccinations offer the most temporally limited protection against a seasonally mutating target illness that would almost certainly at worst sicken us for a few days (while conferring a measure of natural resistance).
There is a tiny chance a flu shot might kill you on the spot, a small chance a flu shot might lead to immediate health complications and an unknown chance that a flu shot might cause or contribute to future long term illnesses. All this for an unknown factor of protection against a sickness that you probably won't get anyway, and that you almost certainly will recover from completely if you do get.
So in getting a flu shot you are actively accepting a small immediate and largely unknown long term health risk in exchange for an unknown measure of short duration protection against a relatively innocuous illness.
The question that remains completely unanswered as the hysteria builds and the shots are administered by the millions is whether the overall health benefits of vaccinations exceed their overall health risks. To ask for a scientific answer to this question is to be deemed radical, irresponsible and unethical in our current medical environment.
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