Don't forget to get your Flu Shot!

wheird
wheird Posts: 7,963 Member
edited November 8 in Chit-Chat
Just wanted to remind people that flu season is approaching and you should really get your flu shot as soon as possible. Even if you are young and healthy, please remember that you should still get it so that you don't inadvertently transmit it to the segments of the population that are most at risk, babies and the elderly.

Please do your social responsibility!
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  • besaro
    besaro Posts: 1,858 Member
    oh dear. here it comes...
  • TheCrawlingChaos
    TheCrawlingChaos Posts: 462 Member
    Already got mine! And had the apparent requisite argument with a co-worker trying to convince them that the flu shot doesn't give them the flu.
  • ThePhoenixIsRising
    ThePhoenixIsRising Posts: 781 Member
    I have never thought of it as my responsibility to those more at risk. Thank you, you have given me a real reason to get it!!
  • baba_helly
    baba_helly Posts: 810 Member
    Thank you for this... tis the season to do your part in preventing illness!!!
  • BeautifulChaos27
    BeautifulChaos27 Posts: 91
    I have a terrible phobia of needles. Hyperventaliating and all. I'd rather get the flu. SOO.. no thanks. :pensive:
  • blossomingbutterfly
    blossomingbutterfly Posts: 743 Member
    I get one every year. I'm asthmatic and I work with people ages 2 months to 100 years old depending on the day and everywhere in between. Thus I definitely get one to protect myself and them.
  • Alluminati
    Alluminati Posts: 6,208 Member
    TheCrawlingChaos wrote: »
    Already got mine! And had the apparent requisite argument with a co-worker trying to convince them that the flu shot doesn't give them the flu.
    I find this the case with two co-workers too. They are convinced the flu shot makes them sick. Not the fact that they don't take care of themselves and smoke like chimneys.
  • Trignon
    Trignon Posts: 21 Member
    If anyone is eating Pteropodidae ( fruit bats ) you may want to get the Flu shot to avoid coming down with 'Mononegavirales Filoviridae Ebolavirus'.
  • Sapporo
    Sapporo Posts: 693 Member
    No government mind control serum is getting into me!
  • wheird
    wheird Posts: 7,963 Member
    BeautifulChaos27 wrote: »
    I have a terrible phobia of needles. Hyperventaliating and all. I'd rather get the flu. SOO.. no thanks. :pensive:

    smh
  • chadya07
    chadya07 Posts: 627 Member
    do you work for a drug company or what?
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  • socalkay
    socalkay Posts: 746 Member
    Thanks for the reminder to all. Already got mine in September since the flu can do me in (alas).
  • Trignon
    Trignon Posts: 21 Member
    I visit my elderly parents at a care home so it would be very irresponsible and selfish for me not to get a flu shot.
  • Oi_Sunshine
    Oi_Sunshine Posts: 819 Member
    I think I already had it. Bugger took two weeks to clear out. Blech.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    When I was teaching I ALWAYS got my vaccines. Classrooms are like petri dishes. :s The one time I forgot, I was SO sorry that year... It's everyone's personal choice, but to me it seems that if you work with the public and/or are around immune-compromised people, you are kind of a jerk if you don't get vaccinated.
  • wheird
    wheird Posts: 7,963 Member
    chadya07 wrote: »
    do you work for a drug company or what?

    What do you mean?
  • Oi_Sunshine
    Oi_Sunshine Posts: 819 Member
    jenilla1 wrote: »
    When I was teaching I ALWAYS got my vaccines. Classrooms are like petri dishes. :s The one time I forgot, I was SO sorry that year... It's everyone's personal choice, but to me it seems that if you work with the public and/or are around immune-compromised people, you are kind of a jerk if you don't get vaccinated.

    My SIL caught everything her first year teaching. She called herself Typhoid Mary. Just need that one kid who snots on everything and boom. Everyone's down for the count.
  • Oi_Sunshine
    Oi_Sunshine Posts: 819 Member
    wheird wrote: »
    chadya07 wrote: »
    do you work for a drug company or what?

    What do you mean?
    It means we should be wary of you and get our tin foil hats on.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    MaggieMuggle wrote: »
    jenilla1 wrote: »
    When I was teaching I ALWAYS got my vaccines. Classrooms are like petri dishes. :s The one time I forgot, I was SO sorry that year... It's everyone's personal choice, but to me it seems that if you work with the public and/or are around immune-compromised people, you are kind of a jerk if you don't get vaccinated.

    My SIL caught everything her first year teaching. She called herself Typhoid Mary. Just need that one kid who snots on everything and boom. Everyone's down for the count.

    (*)

  • blankiefinder
    blankiefinder Posts: 3,599 Member
    Think that's what I'm fighting right now, it's been a brutal week+ and still horrible. Unfortunately, our vaccine program starts next week :(

    I also need to get it to protect family, my daughter who is vulnerable due to severe asthma, and cannot get the vaccine.
  • lorib642
    lorib642 Posts: 1,942 Member
    I volunteer at a hospital. If we don't get the shot we have to wear a mask during flu season. I choose the shot.
  • socalkay
    socalkay Posts: 746 Member
    Many counties offer free flu shot clinics and pharmacies have them available for around $33 if you don't have health insurance. The availability of free and low cost protection against the flu should give anyone who thinks this is a pharmaceutical conspiracy reason to pause. While I don't doubt there are corporate shenanigans attached to the pharmaceutical industry, free and low-cost drugs is not where their interests lie.

    Flu vaccines are available in many of these places as nasal sprays, for those afraid of shots.

    http://20somethingfinance.com/where-to-get-cheap-or-free-flu-shots/
  • newdaydawning79
    newdaydawning79 Posts: 1,503 Member
    I didn't get one last year and ended up out for almost a week with the flu for the first time ever in my life. I'm definitely getting one this year. My fiancee also is susceptible to pneumonia so my flu vaccine can help save her from a hospital stay with that.
  • chadya07
    chadya07 Posts: 627 Member
    MaggieMuggle wrote: »
    wheird wrote: »
    chadya07 wrote: »
    do you work for a drug company or what?

    What do you mean?
    It means we should be wary of you and get our tin foil hats on.

    i was pretty much kidding but its the internet so nobody ever knows. its just the OP was worded in a way that made me think of an advertsiement.

  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    BeautifulChaos27 wrote: »
    I have a terrible phobia of needles. Hyperventaliating and all. I'd rather get the flu. SOO.. no thanks. :pensive:

    Just FYI, most influenza vaccines are a nasal spray.
  • azbound13
    azbound13 Posts: 1 Member
    Got mine today, every year I get it. I skipped one year and ended up in bed for 2 weeks, it was horrible.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,302 Member
    Trignon wrote: »
    If anyone is eating Pteropodidae ( fruit bats ) you may want to get the Flu shot to avoid coming down with 'Mononegavirales Filoviridae Ebolavirus'.

    Not sure if this is meant to be a joke :s but in case anyone took it seriously - the flu vaccine protects you from influenza, it does not offer any protection at all against Ebola.

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,302 Member
    Cait_Sidhe wrote: »
    BeautifulChaos27 wrote: »
    I have a terrible phobia of needles. Hyperventaliating and all. I'd rather get the flu. SOO.. no thanks. :pensive:

    Just FYI, most influenza vaccines are a nasal spray.

    really???

    Not in Australia they aren't - all influenza vaccines here are an injection.

    Have not heard of nasal spray flu vaccines - afaik, no vaccines for anything are yet available as nasal sprays. I certainly havent come across any in many years of working in immunisation.

    Please let us know which country you are in, where there are nasal spray vaccines.

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