Flu Shots?????

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How many of y'all get a flu shot every year?

Sent from somwhere in east Texas by Jake!
 
Yup I do, wife works in a senior living community and she has to so what's good for her is good for me. :rolleyes:
 
I didn't used to get them but now I work with about 200 resident students. Who knows where they go and what they do so I figure the chance of an infected student is pretty good. The health dept comes and gives them in the shops if you want one.
 
Took one once, got sick as a dog.....never again. I'm not prone to getting the flu, so I takes my chances. However, in some of the hospital work I do, when in the break rooms for the nurses, on the bulletin board, they post a choice for all nurses in contact with patients: Get a shot or wear a mask.....your choice. In some of the ICU room, isolation protocols are in place, partly to protect the visitors, but most of the time it is to protect the patient. If they are in ICU, they undoubtedly have a weakened immune system and don't need anyone bringing anything in for them. If I have work in those rooms, I have to gown up, just like everyone else. Generally it's not urgent, or I imagine I would get the same treatment as the nursing staff.....shot or mask. I mask anyway if I go in. I don't what they have, for sure!
 
Influenza aka the flu kills about 30,000 people a year in the United States. Many of those deaths are in the elderly or people with a lowered immune system but not all. Some healthy folk get a bad case of the flu and succumb to complications. I personally think a shot in the arm once a year is worth it if it lowers my chances of catching the flu.
 
Me..... Nope...Ain't gonna happen.
 
I always found it interesting that you need a new, different shot each year. The explanation I got was basically the same reason they cannot cure the common cold. They are both caused by viruses that are ever mutating and growing more resistant to the medications designed to kill them. So the virus this year is not the same exact virus from last year or the year before. Makes me wonder how long the cat and mouse game can go on.
 
Flu shots were mandatory when I was in the Air Force back in the 60's. Got in the habit I guess, so I get the shot every year. Like Tony, the very first time I came down with the flu. Back in the day the vaccine they used introduced a light virus but it is all synthetic today, so no worry of it actually causing the flu. 73 and only had the flu twice in my life, pretty good odds.
 
My wife was a personal support worker and had to get them. Now that we are retired we both get the shot and have for a number of years.

David
 
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