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Tree Lobsters #98 Side Effects (Original Post) beam me up scottie Oct 2015 OP
LOL! Archae Oct 2015 #1
I thought with flu shot scare season right around the corner you'd appreciate it. beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #2
I usually get stabbed in November Warpy Oct 2015 #3
I get mine in time for my birthday in December. beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #5
Shit, even my intelligent wife does that Goblinmonger Oct 2015 #4
But as a nurse she's exposed to the flu constantly. beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #6
But I read in an email that they contain live viruses!!!!121 progressoid Oct 2015 #7
A friend again told us today edgineered Oct 2015 #8

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
2. I thought with flu shot scare season right around the corner you'd appreciate it.
Wed Oct 14, 2015, 08:27 PM
Oct 2015

I wonder what the most popular excuse to not get the shot this year will be...

1) Gives you the flu

2) Doesn't work

3) I get colds all the time and I'm fine so I don't need it*




*This is the actual excuse used by my s/o's sister in law who is a nurse, I kid you not - she works in a hospital and never gets the flu shot.




Warpy

(113,130 posts)
3. I usually get stabbed in November
Wed Oct 14, 2015, 09:58 PM
Oct 2015

NM usually has a pretty late flu season and I'm a hermit.

However, yeah, I can see a lot of unfortunate boobs out there I've had the displeasure of running into online thinking exactly like that.

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
5. I get mine in time for my birthday in December.
Wed Oct 14, 2015, 10:42 PM
Oct 2015

The flu knocked me on my ass for months and almost ruined a trip to Europe.

I swore that would be the last time thank you very much.

 

Goblinmonger

(22,340 posts)
4. Shit, even my intelligent wife does that
Wed Oct 14, 2015, 10:12 PM
Oct 2015

I told her I got my shot so they are out and she should get hers. She said the only year she got the shot she got the flu. I asked her when she had the flu. She meant the stomach flu. I said "you know that's not the type of flu the shot is for, right." She just shrugged and said "oh."

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
6. But as a nurse she's exposed to the flu constantly.
Wed Oct 14, 2015, 10:48 PM
Oct 2015

She could bring it home to her family or spread it to other patients, imo it's selfish to take the chance.

My s/o's mother is also a nurse and tries to convince her to get the vaccine very year.


edgineered

(2,101 posts)
8. A friend again told us today
Thu Oct 15, 2015, 11:51 AM
Oct 2015

that he thought he caught what the lady sitting next to him on the plane had. His symptoms are nothing like those the lady had, but going down that road with him is useless. Being a rwnj he thinks himself qualified for Congress too.

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