Get Your Flu Shot, Folks!

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81. You're sounding snarky

But entertain me while I go into detail.

I know a lot of people, as I'm sure you do too, who get the flu shot booster. Three of them stand out in my mind as having weak immune systems, but the appearance is they're all getting sick more often and for longer periods.

One of my co-workers here gets sick throughout the year. Her sicknesses mirror those of my oldest brother. Not sure her reasoning for the booster, but my brother gets them because his wife is a RN, so it's upon her recommendation. Their sicknesses are clearly not allergies, they are actually sick. Most of the time it's colds or bronchitis, which lingers with them for months. Of course, the flu shot doesn't help them with that at all. The worst part is that don't have any sick time remaining, so they come into work sick "because they need the money." And the co-worker to the girl here, who also got last year's flu shot, still got the stomach flu. He also had several colds between Fall & Spring, which he made clear were colds, not the flu.

O-kay?!

All three received this year's shot too, because they say it decreases the length to which their sicknesses last. To which I have to respond, your sicknesses last forever as it is. If that's your definition of shorter, you must really need the flu shot booster, because your immune system is beat to hell.

There are some who get the shots and don't seem to get the flu too often as well, but many of them are health and exercise nuts.

I just wish that anyone who thinks or knows they're coming down with an illness would just take it upon themselves to quarantine themselves until they're no longer contagious. That should be common courtesy.