Flu Shot...

[iguana_tonante]

Only vulnerable people get it for free where I live. I think it's unusual for the rest of the population and I'm a part of the rest of the population

Don't you work at a medical laboratory? I thought that health workers got it for free. I get mine free because I work with the university.

 

[bbailey861]

My wife got hers last week at Rexall Pharmacy. I'm getting mine next week when the base hospital pharmacy starts doing them. We've been getting them for years.

 

[Trekker4747]

I got my Flu Shot yesterday, at Target. I was there to do a little shopping and pick up a prescription anyway. Its a hassle to get an appointment with my doc just to get a shot.

Anyone else get their Flu Shot? Are you not getting it? Do you avoid getting it?

I get one every year. Not out of wanting to prevent myself from getting the flu as I rarely get sick. But it counts as an "event" on my insurance plan that gets me a discount.

 

[tomalak301]

I got my flu shot last week. First time I've done it, and I hope it works. Every year around Christmas I get sick and last year I actually did get sick on Christmas. It was horrible.

 

[Shaytan]

Don't you work at a medical laboratory? I thought that health workers got it for free. I get mine free because I work with the university.

There is a list of medical professions who can get it for free, mine isn't part of it. It's only general practitioners, nurses, midwives, phamacists and physiotherapists.
I remember that I had the right to a free shot for H5N1 and I received the paper after the epidemy

Working with a university in France wouldn't help you to get the vaccin for free.

Edit : Was it H1N1 ?

 

[J.T.B.]

As far as I know, we have immune systems, and when we sustain it, the body is fully capable of fighting off minor and major illness more efficiently than the majority of stuff prescribed to us

People had immune systems in 1918, too.

Except this isn't just about you, it's about everyone.

To rip off a PBS slogan, "You are the public in 'public health!'"

My work holds a little flu shot clinic every year, this year was probably my 17th or 18th annual dose. Never had a problem beyond a sore arm. I had the mist one year, I much prefer the injection to the annoyance of feeling that stuff up my nose all afternoon.

 

[Bisz]

No flu shot for me. I'm not around anyone who is in an elevated risk group so I take the chance at a week off work. Besides, comparing my personal hygiene habits to most people I think I'm a lot less likely to spread anything that most people who do get the shot. I think society in general could use some PSAs about why washing your hands with water, and only water, after using the bathroom isn't really washing your hands, the need to properly dry your hands after washing them, and that sneezing into your palm isn't really any better than just blasting your snot into the air.

 

[1001001]

Got mine today.

I work at a medical clinic, so we can all get them easily, and for free.

 

[Mr Awe]

Okay, let me correct an erroneous impression I seem to have created here. Just because I say "we're better off without them" does not mean I expect them to stop. It means I don't intend to get them myself. Anybody else wants to do so, knock yourselves out. If they work for you, wonderful, They don't for me.

Everybody happy now?

No, you've missed the point entirely.

Mr Awe

 

[Captain Kathryn]

I have never gotten a flu shot that I recall of and I have never gotten the flu (that I know of anyway).

 

[Australis]

Being in a different hemisphere, I got mine six months ago. Work supplies them free, which is cool - you stay healthy and they keep productivity.

In the years I;'ve been getting them (3), I've had one bout of cold/flu, this year, and I think it was the nasty one going around flooring everyone it touches, but I bounced back fairly quickly.

Better living through chemistry!

 

[Captain Ice]

^Yeah, better off. Unless you're one of the the thousands of people who die from the flu every year.

I'm okay with healthy young adults who don't work with kids, the immunocompromised, or the elderly not getting vaccinated (though, ideally, everyone who could, would), but saying we're better off without them is just straight up untrue and irresponsible. People die of flu. I'm not trying to be alarmist or overstate the danger, just to point out that it's pretty easy to say "we're better off without them" when it's not your kid, spouse, or parent who died from a preventable illness.

+1

+2

Isn't "I never get sick so I don't get a flu shot" sort of the same logic as "I've never been in a car accident so I don't wear a seatbelt"?

More akin to "I've never been shot before while cleaning a gun, so let's clean the gun without checking to see if it is loaded". Just because you have never had it before is not a reason to think that you will not contract it this year. Or, as others have said, that you will not give it to someone else.

Where I work, we work with one of the high risk groups, so our company brings in someone to do the vaccinations for free and strongly encourages people to get them. They also do the same for TB testing every year and they pay for vaccination for hepatitis A and B for all new staff members.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Yeah, I got mine about two weeks ago when I visited my NP.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

At the hospital where my wife works, you have to get the Flu Shot or you are terminated. They set up vaccination stations around the hospital and after you get it, you put a special sticker on your hospital ID to prove you have had it. A nurse this year was fired for refusing to get it.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Yeah, I can totally understand requiring healthcare workers to get it.

I haven't gotten one yet this year. Admittedly, I often forget to make the time to do it.

My kids always get it though.

 

[mimic]

My reason for not getting it is admittedly pretty stupid - I moved and never got my new insurance card when those were sent out over the summer. They require proof of insurance at the flu shot clinic, and so I didn't get one.

HR is notorious for not answering emails or phone calls. I haven't found time yet to drive up to their building and see them in person. It doesn't help that their work hours overlap with my classroom hours, so I have about a half hour window after school to get up there and take care of things. I haven't been seriously ill in recent memory so this is far lower on my priority list than it should be.

 

[bbailey861]

At the hospital where my wife works, you have to get the Flu Shot or you are terminated. They set up vaccination stations around the hospital and after you get it, you put a special sticker on your hospital ID to prove you have had it. A nurse this year was fired for refusing to get it.

Job opening!!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

At the hospital where my wife works, you have to get the Flu Shot or you are terminated.

Do they send Sandmen to do it? "You're terminated, RUNNER!" <zzap!>