Today, I overheard my co-workers talking about how they don't need flu shots because everyone else gets them. These people are in the medical industry. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my adult son is visiting, sick on my couch with influenza A. He's spent all week screaming about how anti vaxxers are stupid, but admits that he didn't get a flu shot because, "they don't work." I got my flu shot and still got sick because I'm immunocompromised. He fails to see the irony. FML
Today i had a patient come into the practice six times to ask about vaccines they've had. Apparently, their "doctor" friend (with a PHD in arts) is a more reliable source of information than trained medical staff telling them, "Yes, that is in that group of vaccines" with a vaccine leaflet, and a head nurse explaining it all. FML
Today, someone who lives off the government stated that all I do as a front line nurse is wipe arses, and that I know nothing about Covid because I'm not a doctor. He refuses to get the vaccine as well. FML
Today, while chatting with my in-laws, I told them about my upcoming spinal surgery. Soon after, when I went to get us some drinks, I overheard them murmuring about how many surgeries I've already had, how I'm a drain on the healthcare system, and how I should ideally just die. FML
Today, I'm sick. I got the flu shot for the first time ever this year and for the first time in my life, I have the flu. FML
Today, I got tons of sympathy (and hugs) from my co-workers after intense sneezing and coughing due to my "seasonal allergies." When I got home, my SO asked if allergies are contagious, because he had them too. He didn't have allergies. We have Covid. And so do most of my co-workers now. I suck! FML
Today, I had to listen to my coworker complain about how working 19 hours a week leaves her with no time to go to the doctor and get her bronchitis treated. Meanwhile, I work 40 hours a week, as well as doing 18 credit hours at school, and she refuses to cover her mouth. FML
Today, I was going over my vaccinations when I spotted that I hadn't gotten my Covid vaccine since last year. Not a big deal, my doctor hadn't made a mention of it on the last visit, and I got my flu shot last month. At least it wouldn't be a big deal if my friend hadn't tested positive for Covid last week. FML
Today, while I was at work, a coworker began ranting about his theory that the government is going to create a disease that sterilises everyone, and use the antidote to control the population. I was just trying to take a crap in the stall next to him. FML
Today, I went into an exam room to do a check-up on one of my patients. I told the little girl's mother that she needed her flu shots. When the girl heard this, she took an apple out of her pocket and threw it at me. FML
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tony1891 22
thats Cause the flu shot is an actual virus.
Ashd09 30
I hope these people don't give advice to patients. They need to rethink their job descisions
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Comments (149)
MaryTheLamb 4
You have to look at the there logic from there Pocahontas. They think if everyone gets them then what's the point of getting one of you most likely won't get it if others don't have it.
cm1995_fml 10
Oh the irony...? you and all the others saying how your coworkers are idiots, when they are right. If someone is vaccinated, and the vaccine is actually effective in what it is claimed to do, then no one can contract the flu from that person. That's the point of vaccines, to prevent one from contracting a communicable disease.
personThingy 13
"if the vaccine is actually effective at what it is claimed to do" Well, sometimes it's not. That's the main difference between science and magic: science has a particular effect, with a given confidence level, under normal circumstances. If vaccines magically made anyone incapable of contracting a disease, with absolute certainty, and could be given to everyone instantly, then everyone who chose not to be vaccinated could get every preventable disease at once and we wouldn't care. But that's not the way it works. You could easily pass any disease onto someone who can't be vaccinated due to allergies, or who hasn't been vaccinated yet, or for whom the vaccine failed. Also that's not even irony. That's just people disagreeing with you.
PegLegRacing 34
Flu shots are for young children and old people. If you're a healthy adult, they are useless. Usually the strain you get vaccinated against isn't the one that will hit that year. My dr even told me not to get it.
RogueKnight 12
Technically the flu shots don't really work. They only work about 9% of the time. All they really do is suppress your immune system for a little bit making it more likely you'll catch the flu. Several medical studies have proven this.
Nymeria_fml 25
Can you link to any of these several studies? The CDC says that recent studies show that the vaccine reduces children's risk of flu-related ICU admission by 74%, and it reduces flu-related hospitalization in adults by 77%. I don't know, but that sounds good to me, because the flu is AWFUL.
Nymeria_fml 25
You could follow your own advice and do more research than Google to find out what studies. The CDC website has a long list of the studies they used. Here's a condescending happy face for you too: :)
Nymeria_fml 25
You should probably work on your reading comprehension, because I said the CDC has a LIST of studies. I didn't say they have a study. Also, it's laughable how you are trashing the CDC first and then you say it's one of your sources. I don't think it matters if you were a paramedic and are a nurse now... OP's coworkers are in the medical industry and they are idiots too.
Brayson 12
And can you link to any of those studies 55?
Nymeria_fml 25
You can go to the CDC website and see the long list by yourself, or I can paste it here in a long-assed comment. It's really easy to just go there, because I mentioned my source, unlike RogueKnight.
moshpit11 8
The only time I've ever gotten a flu shot I was the sickest I have ever been by FAR I was sick for 2 months
Ryan8878 21
It seems your co-workers are forgetting that not everyone can get flu shots due to weakened immune systems and other serious problems. Your co-workers are putting the most vulnerable of us at risk. Assholes.
siggy_mcsigx 22
Never got the flu shot, never got the flu. *shrugs*
rc89 9
I understand the flu jab for the elderly and children and understand how awful flu is but I rufese to have it and my child wont be having it as it only protects you from a few strains so you are still able to get sick and why put something foreign in your body when it doesn't offer complete protection
personThingy 13
"Why put something foreign in your body when it doesn't offer complete protection?" Because that's how humans work. We put foreign things into our bodies, and our bodies react in a hopefully positive way which allows us to live better lives. By "hopefully positive," I don't mean we just shove down whatever we feel like; we should make sure that we only consume substances with little to no risk (e.g. thoroughly-tested doctor-prescribed medicine).
1gullible_bugger 34
That's fine.. I have never had a flu shot and to this day, knock on wood, have never had the flu. I don't agree with flu shots, so I won't be changing soon.
demonfacee 14
They should rethink their job desicions and hope they don't give advice.