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In reply to the discussion: Essentia Health fires 69 employees over refusal to get flu shots [View all]CreekDog
(46,192 posts)60. so you read one article about one study and think that makes you more informed
than if you accepted all the valid studies? (primary sources, not secondary by the way)
if you think that makes you smarter or more informed, you don't know what you're talking about.
but you pretty much established that from the start.
by the way, do you go to doctors?
WHY?
YOU'RE TOO SMART FOR THAT. We're the sheeple going to the doctors, getting vaccinated, accepting scientific conclusions MORE than cranky crackpots using 1% of that science and 99% of their own head stories to say their ideas are better.
But we're the dumb ones.
You have fun now.
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I took one a couple of months ago and didn't even know the pharmacist had done it as it was so...
brush
Nov 2017
#15
Get real. The flu can kill. Hospital workers should not subject patients to possibly getting the...
brush
Nov 2017
#17
Absolutely. Why would anyone who works in a hospital want to take a chance of passing on the flu...
brush
Nov 2017
#23
Understood, but those people, unfortunately because of the risk of contagion should not work in...
brush
Nov 2017
#29
baloney.....nurses, HCA, CNA, MA etc already had the shots during their training and externiships
BoneyardDem
Nov 2017
#108
Not to mention that they cannot enroll in school unless they have it
Horse with no Name
Nov 2017
#116
so you read one article about one study and think that makes you more informed
CreekDog
Nov 2017
#60
Hard as it may sound, protecting the hundreds of people in a hospital is more important than one...
brush
Nov 2017
#68
Who really knows what the long-term impact of all these vaccines has on our immune systems.
Doodley
Nov 2017
#82
Even medical consensus can get it wrong. We may not know the true effect of over-medication
Doodley
Nov 2017
#83
You are the one that does not get it. If you have a reaction, them you stop getting flu shots
Thor_MN
Nov 2017
#95
Actually, from what I've read the childhood vaccines are much safer than the flu shots
womanofthehills
Nov 2017
#70
I know 2 people who were injured by vaccines so it made me do some research
womanofthehills
Nov 2017
#77
Yes, you work in an industry with sick folks with compromised immune systems...get the shot or get
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#101
Agreed - and "The flu vaccine may have a strange problem that US scientists can't fix"
womanofthehills
Nov 2017
#65
There should be exceptions to those who have medically documented adverse reactions to the flu shot.
MarvinGardens
Nov 2017
#28
The hospital I worked at allowed emplyess to wear a mask while at work, if the employee
Tess49
Nov 2017
#50
My wife and her mother are highly allergic to the vaccine. As a doctor you should fucking know
madinmaryland
Nov 2017
#38
I doubt anyone much cares what anyone else orders others to do on a message board.
cwydro
Nov 2017
#89
There some vaccines that are for that express purpose...but with all due respect. Your wife and
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#102
I do know better. I also know that vaccine allergy is relatively rare, and that exceptions based on
Aristus
Nov 2017
#125
My wife and her mother are highly allergic to the vaccine. That's why they don't take it.
madinmaryland
Nov 2017
#39
Flublok is interesting - no eggs, formaldehyde, thimerosal, latex, antiobiotics, no ..
womanofthehills
Nov 2017
#75
Why would you think the flu you got 50-70 years ago confers immunity now when flu viruses mutate?
CreekDog
Nov 2017
#74
I have a niece in Miami with two beautiful little girls, ages five and two. She is a rabid anti-vax.
secondwind
Nov 2017
#79
I have a niece in Miami with two beautiful little girls, ages five and two. She is a rabid anti-vax.
secondwind
Nov 2017
#81
They have in the past allowed the employees to wear masks the entire flu season
Horse with no Name
Nov 2017
#113