should people trust the flu shot

I would like to start off by thanking my opponent for providing such a wonderful debate topic. I look forward to a strong and healthy debate!"People should not trust the flu shot because I once got the flu shot and then I got the flu within the next couple days."That's rare. Usually, a flu virus can linger in you for a little while before you get the symptoms. It is likely that you had the flu virus in you, and when they injected you with dead ones, your body went after the dead ones. Then the living ones gave you the flu. But that's actually your fault; you did not get the flu shot early enough. It is possible that you were infected by a different form of influenza, as the flu shot only saves you from the most common type, Influenza type A, H3N2, and Influenza type B [1]. And besides, you are only one person that has been affected by this. I'm sure millions have been saved from the flu by getting the flu shot."I do not believe in the flu shot for that reason and that the doctors may as well inject you with the flu and it is a waste of money (besides Walgreen's)."You are not being injected with the actual flu virus; just dead ones [2] that your body can fight off. Think of it like a dummy in army training. It can't hurt you, but you learn how to fight it so the real ones won't hurt you. In my community, a small town by the shore of California, I can drive ten minuets and get a vaccine for FREE. Many people can. It doesn't cost any money."Doctors should also have a limit on ages that children can get the flu shot at because it might hurt if you are just a little baby."They do have age restrictions, and severe ones at that [1]. Babies under 18 months will not get the flu vaccine. But even if they do, you are right, it world hurt. And if they don't, they die from the disease. You want a little prick in your arm, or death? Plus, babies don't remember much, if anything at that. I know I didn't." It also doesn't work if you have the flu and you don't know it then you get the flu shot and it is too late by the time it works."As I said, that is your fault because you got it far too late. The vaccine is supposed to prevent the flu. Of course it won't work when you already have it. Does training during a raging battle help you with anything? Nope. You should get it in October. If you still get the disease before the flu shot, as I said, it's wither your fault or bad luck.Note to the reader: That was literally his whole argument, and I proved each one of them wrong.I don't have enough letters to post multiple arguments, so I suppose I will just point one out, that being how many people have been vaccinated over the years.While there are no reliable statistics websites to see who got it and who didn't, I can still make an argument. So here we go. The flu shot was invented in the 1940s [3]. 36,000 people died in 1999, the peak of the flu season [4]. But now, that number has dropped to 23,000 in the U.S. And I think most of those people never got a flu shot. Before the flu shot, as many as (excluding 1918) 150 per 10,000 people died [5]. That is A LOT. I prepared a chart using the numbers app to sum up my argument. On to you :)![1] http://www.cdc.gov...[2] http://www.southernnevadahealthdistrict.org...[3] http://content.time.com...[4] http://www.flu.gov...#[5] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...