Is it my imagination, or are flu shot clinics fricking ubiquitous this year? It seems I can’t swing a dead cat without seeing a poster about when flu shots will be available. Kaiser, my office, my church, the grocery store, the rec center … I expect to find them setting up in Starbucks and Home Depot next thing you know.
Not that it’s a bad thing, by any means (go! get! your! shot!), but I don’t ever recall seeing it this common, almost to the point of getting irritated about it, ever before.
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I haven’t seen one, so it could be just you.:)
I was talking about this with a few other people the other day and honestly? I kinda don’t mind if I get sick, and can take a few days off work to sit around in my pajamas and be miserable. There’s something a little freeing about it.
I’m not saying I want to get sick every other day or anything, but once a year? Yeah, I can live with that.
The local Walgreen’s pharmacy is advertising their flu clinic.
I don’t get flu shots. Husband does, but I don’t.
I’ve seen them all over too — the same places that had flu clinics last year. Lots of places do. But they’re more conspicuous about it, I think, because there were shortages last year, and People Talked.
True flu, unfortunately, is more than just “a day or two off work” kind of a disease. It’s potentially life-threatening, and at the very least debilitating (i.e., you won’t enjoy the time off). I’d recommend flu shots to anyone, honestly.
True, they work really well. The one time I had one I had the flu a week later and right into Bronchitis….sickest I have ever been in my life.
Lesson (per my Doctor) from that is that you have to be perfectly healthy when getting a flu shot and not be fighting a cold or infected with a cold that you may not be aware of yet otherwise flu city.