My company is once again offering flu shots. First they offered it to everybody, then only restricted people, now I don’t know. Just a big arrow pointing down a hallway saying “FLU SHOTS”.
I must have missed a memo someplace along the way. When did flu shots get to be a big thing? I’ve *never* had a flu shot. And I’m not dead yet, even if I haven’t had my coffee yet.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was all one big marketing shindig.
“Flu shots ain’t selling, boss.”
“Give a press conference, say we’re out of vaccines.”
“Boss..?”
“Trust me. People will demand flu shots once they think only other people can get them.”
Chasing the Wind 
Excerpt from here “An average of 8,400 normally healthy children between 6 months and 24 months are hospitalized with the flu each year. The virus and its complications are the sixth-leading killer of children age 4 and under.”
As a parent of young children, I don’t take the flu or the flu shot lightly. My job is to protect them from whatever risks and dangers I can. Never had a flu shot or even thought twice about it until I had children. So I don’t do it for me.
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My backward redneck deep woods brain tells me to throw the kids outside and let
them get every virus they can get their hands on. They are all growing into fine
adults with only minor psychological issues. (one is in the Army and going great
and the other two are on the National Honor Society)
Friend of mine are healthy the entire year till flu season. They get their flu shots
and are sick a few days. The mention that they did not get the full force of the virus
as it came around.
questions:
1) what if you never got it?
2) what if you got hit by a bus?
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I’m with Stephen on this. The more bugs (excepting some level of common sense precaution) you are exposed to as a child, the stronger you become, sort of a Nietschean thing. I would like to see those stats on “6th leading cause of death” – I can probably tell you number one – the wheel, as in car accidents. Ban the wheel, save lives. Come on, people draw a line somewhere. I don’t need to be taken care of. How has the human race survived so long anyway without ninnies taking care of us.
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I agree with letting the kids build their immunity. However, I have to question the intelligence of the parenting when it involves a small child and something completely avoidable.
So maybe we should just throw out the car seats because “hey, we didn’t have them when I was growing up and I survived”? I’m not advocating paranoia, just a decent level of precaution.
Everyone makes fun of the flu, and for healthy adults it’s nothing more than a week out of work. But for the very young and very old, it’s serious.
I take it neither of you are advocates of vaccinations?
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Oh, I’m not against flu shots. I’m just against the media fanning a mass hysteria that somehow we all need flu shot or we’re going to die.
I’ve never had a flu shot. Partly because I know it’s not really a flu shot but a brain altering mind control chemical administered by the government. The government wants to control all of our thoughts. Now you know where all those Democrats are coming from! 😛
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Ouch. It hurts.
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Yay! I win! 😈
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Just as I suspected, horns.
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Me? Against vaccines? No, I believe in eating dirt. Big Southern boy tradition…. Vaccine = Good
As long as you can identify the pathogen (smallpox, chicken pox, measles, etc..) and ascertain its relative level of danger, then allow people to make informed decisions to purchase privately created vaccines…. Now the problem with the flue is it’s mutations that vary from year to year. Any vaccine available is merely an educated guess based on what the CDC thinks will be the next wave…. Fate does play a role, of course and we have not had a pandemic for about 90 years, and it’s probably time. Pray hard and wash your hands…
But, I’m just an Architect, what do I know?
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I vaccinate all my animals
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