So I got a flu vaccination this morning

[Orrex]

How long until I suffer complete neurological collapse?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Careful, my dear Orrex!

It may have already started!

[Orrex]

2. Powerful stuff!

The process appears to have started before they even jabbed me with the needle!

[Archae]

3. If you join the GOP, we'll know.

[Warpy]

4. According to great medical minds like Jenny McCarthy

you should start to have grand mal seizures any minute now.

[friendly_iconoclast]

5. ...or you'll become a "Crystal child":

http://web.archive.org/web/20061203045246/www.indigomoms.com/index2.html

Your host is Jenny McCarthy. Jenny has a 4-year-old son, Evan, who is a Crystal child. Being blessed with Evan led Jenny to have the inspiring vision to create this meeting place.

[Orrex]

7. I prefer the term "Lightshower"

Which sounds like a gentle rain but is in fact is "one-who-shows-light."

Indigo is so last decade. I'm enlightening the future, dammit!

[Odin2005]

10. Oh God, I'm on the spectrum and I had some New Age lunatic...

...who can "see auras" say I am a "crystal person".

[friendly_iconoclast]

11. Those dipshits are a bane upon those with other chronic situations as well

My ex has a lifelong physical disability and is regularly beset by those
who "know" just what she needs to be "healed"...

[LiberalEsto]

6. Every time I get a flu shot, I get the flu about 2 weeks later

so I haven't gotten flu shots in recent years.

[LeftishBrit]

8. You'll probably go into spontaneous combustion before then!

[Orrex]

9. Turns out I've developed a case of the sniffles

Feels just like a regular cold, though less severe than I usually get.

Predictably, the coworkers who declined the vaccine ("because I don't want to get the flu&quot have chimed in with a chorus of "I told you so."

The hand-out that came with the vaccine includes the following, but try telling it to the believers:

Serious side effects are also possible, but are very rare.
Inactivated flu vaccine does not contain live flu virus, so
getting flu from this vaccine is not possible.

(emphasis original)

[AtheistCrusader]

12. You're not getting the flu. But you might be getting an immune response.

The sniffles isn't the flu virus. It's your body mounting a defense.

I often liken the flu shot as handing a 'wanted poster' to your immune system. Your body still has to do all the heavy lifting. If your immune system has seen that strain of the flu before, not surprising you might get a mild response. You might get the sniffles. Your temp might go up. These are all things your body does to turn yourself inhospitable to the invader.

An invader the flu shot has given your body just cause to think is inside the walls.

Edit: Or, of course, it could be something totally unrelated. Like a mild cold.