Bill Maher Quotes

The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it.

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

Those people who get the flu shot not only protect themselves from getting the flu or reducing their likelihood of developing the flu, but those around them.

Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a foreign substance in their body. What do they think they do at dinner every night?

Vaccination is the single most important step people can take to protect themselves from influenza.

We continue to recommend flu vaccine as the single best way to protect yourself against the flu. The vaccine will protect against strains covered in the vaccine, and it may have some effectiveness in the drifted strains.

I personally never get vaccinated for the flu, because no.

I am a huge believer in the flu vaccine. I have had it every year and have never had the flu.

A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

People want to hear the gossip. They don't want to hear about the shots.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

We're all in denial from time to time. We all see things that are too painful to really deal with. But this has consequences, and the consequences of not vaccinating your children are not only just that those children are exposed to illnesses; it's that everyone else they go to school with and they hang around with are, too.

We can’t make our own flu shots? We have chem labs everywhere. In the late 60’s we made LSD…and we can’t make flu shots?

If smallpox were a threat just to individuals, then it could be left up to individuals to decide whether or not they want to protect themselves.

The Dangerous and Sinful Practice of Inoculation

Talk to your doctor if you or your kids haven't been vaccinated, and follow their recommendations - please.

What we know is that when girls don't go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. And they're more likely to contract HIV, less likely to immunize their children.

I partnered with AstraZeneca to help launch the 'Mom Nose Best' campaign, where I provide tips for flu season.

Health is really important to me and my family. It's something that we value and that I strive for on a daily basis. MedImmune, the makers of Flumist Quadrivalent, knew about that and knew how important health is for me, so it was a no brainer for me to collaborate with them.

Why do our kids need to be protected from flu? Isn't that something only for the cold western countries who have long, cold, below-zero winters? That's what I thought until I learnt that India's tropical weather facilitates circulation of viruses around the year, unlike the West, which sees a peak only during winter.

The cost of the vaccine is truly minuscule when you think about the benefits you're getting from an opportunity-cost standpoint. If you're going to miss several days of work - and you will - with high fevers, body aches, nausea, and vomiting... you're going to be losing out on a lot more money and productivity if you don't get the flu shot.

Well, I hate to tell youbut if you have a flu shot for more than five years in a row, there's ten times the likelihood that you'll get Alzheimer's disease.

The only shots you can be sure of are those you've had already.

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.