Essentia Health fires 69 employees over refusal to get flu shots

[HockeyMom]

88. Same here

I was a very sickly kid, and young adult. Mom used to say that every February I was going to get sick. True. Since we are both the same age, you too probably got the flu as a kid during the 1957 Pandemic. Did you get the flu during the 2009 Pandemic? I was working at an Elementary School then, which starting looking more like a Senior Center than a school. Kids were out sick. The younger teachers were out sick, but those of us over 50 weren't. Why? We had lived through that 1957 Pandemic and got immunity from that. Other posters can look that up. The CDC has admitted it. Mutates? Apparently not enough from 1957 to 2009. Immunity, not asymptomatic carriers.

I just don't catch the flu from people around me with. One February I came up from Florida to see my Daughter and Grandson. They all had the flu. My Grandson got his flu shot, still got it, and gave it to his parents. Ran myself ragged taking care of all of them. Never caught it myself. Was I the asymptomatic carrier to them? From 1,000 miles away? Geesch. My husband got the flu last June which went into pneumonia, despite getting both a flu shot and two pneumonia shots. To quote his doctor, "They don't always work". Did I give him pneumonia too?

Office Workers at Hospitals were fired also. Don't become a Health Care Worker? Patients themselves can refuse flu shot, or any other vaccines, but Office Workers can't?