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While I'm here, everyone, please get your flu and COVID shots this winter, vaccines work, so don't get sick, and don't get other people sick.
Got mine! 10/10 will definitely do again
Getting a shot and then immediately walking to the end of the queue for another like it's Six Flags. 
Yeah.. For people saying COVID is "just the flu", I had a friend who ended up in hospital with COVID.. When I got covid and thought I may have spread it to her (fortunately she got lucky and somehow didn't get it) , she pretty much started prepacking for hospital.
It's still a super serious virus, same as the real flu..
I know four people who ended up in the hospital from COVID, one in a medically induced coma for a couple of weeks. All except one of them is in their 30's or 40's and in good physical condition, the exception is a friend's young child who is in the ICU right now and they're not sure she'll survive…
Also get your dogs rabies vaccines! We are getting dangerously close to having less than 80% of the dogs in the US vaccinated. This will cause pockets of disease in your pets.
I highly recommend staggering them though. I did them both together last year and felt so sick that I had to take a day off of work (still better than COVID or Flu). This year, I had a COVID booster and I'm getting a flu shot Monday. The COVID shot did nothing to me but give me a sore arm and flu shots never do anything.
I just went to sign up for my covid shot and it asked me to update my insurance information. I have no fucking answers for them so I stopped filling out the form.
Have you tried telling them you don’t have insurance
Nope I'm gonna call and tell them today I think they will say its okay and the website is just dumb 😋 thanks by the way
Flu shots are only given to the elderly and vulnerable where I live. It's weird to see people talking about getting the flu shot like it's a normal thing.
I'll get my flu shot once my cold mostly resolves. My entire face feels like it's about to sneeze 24/7 and it's like a personal hell
How? as it has been demonstrated that it does not protect against transmission?
But take your shots please.
Would've been better to say something like: Don't get as sick and potentially die when you do catch one or both of these viruses. Also stay home when you're sick.
It does reduce transmission it just doesn't reduce it to 0%. Life is not so black and white.
It does technically reduce transmission potential, though indirectly.
If you do contract covid or the flu after having been vaccinated, you are less likely to have severe symptoms, including coughing and sneezing. If you're not coughing up a lung all over the place, you're not spreading as much as someone who is hocking loogeys over everyone else.
Except everyone I know who got the shot has gotten sick way more frequently then those who didn't. That's backed up by the data that shows the shots give an initial boost in immunity, but slow negative effectiveness long term
Anti vaxxers need your own island. You'd... "sort yourselves out"... in about 10 years.
Strange, so you are protected, you would apparently protect from transmitting too SO why unvaxxed to COVID (not antivaxx, little schmug) would have to isolate on an island?
you see how crazy you are?
Not everyone who wants to be vaccinated against covid can be vaccinated.
And not everyone who is vaccinated can receive the full benefits of vaccination due to being immunocompromised.
As someone who gets a Hep B vaccine every single year, I do what I can to protect myself, but my body is incapable of producing antibodies long term, it's because of an autoimmune condition, not because the vaccine isn't widely effective. I'm always going to be more susceptible to it (and I work in healthcare so I have to keep getting the vaccine). I'm lucky I only have this issue with hep b, my other vaccines seem to have "taken", but I'm not alone, there are many people out there that have this issue with various vaccines.
My cousin had an anaphylactic reaction to the flu vaccine a few years ago, he can't take it again. He's in a vulnerable position because he has a trachy, so his airways don't have as much natural protection. He has to trust that his co-workers will stay away from him if they catch the flu, because he can't get vaccinated even though he wants and needs to.
Did you intend to make some kind of point here?