{"id":39419,"date":"2013-10-31T07:02:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/31\/get-your-flu-shot.html"},"modified":"2013-11-01T10:36:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:36:21","slug":"get-your-flu-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/31\/get-your-flu-shot.html","title":{"rendered":"Get your flu shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Okay, laziness and procrastination and forgetfulness I can appreciate (cough), if not approve of. \u00a0But if you&#39;re making a conscious decision to avoid a flu shot for quasi-scientific reasons &#8230; don&#39;t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102356721871221463140'>George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Richly documented article on flu shot myths. Never mind if YOU get sick, please don&#39;t be a vector to other, possibly more vulnerable people: get a flu shot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/6j1pODS7JsFa90KDdrbu8kcsXBvViw7ylW4PeNbRd3QQbLtPS38oFMXD-Me1cDk2X8pf_6d86EoibHe_WogPWQrCrzp68oWQ1WKFF6f8CqRyvedOIUzF=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.redwineandapplesauce.com\/2013\/10\/28\/setting-the-record-straight-dubunking-all-the-flu-vaccine-myths\/'>Setting the record straight: Debunking ALL the flu vaccine myths \u00ab  Red Wine &#038; Apple Sauce<\/a><br \/>\n                                                It&#8217;s that time again \u2014 that time when dozens of spurious articles pop up all over the web touting all the dangers of the flu vaccine. Articles on unreliable, alarmist, misinformative sites like Natural News, Mercola, chiropractic blogs and other such sites rail against the \u201ctoxins\u201d in the &#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/EwgVSbqQBrL' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, laziness and procrastination and forgetfulness I can appreciate (cough), if not approve of. \u00a0But if you&#39;re making a conscious decision to avoid a flu shot for quasi-scientific reasons &#8230; don&#39;t. Reshared post from +George Wiman Richly documented article on flu shot myths. Never mind if YOU get sick, please don&#39;t be a vector to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/31\/get-your-flu-shot.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Get your flu shot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11235,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/flu_shots.html","url_meta":{"origin":39419,"position":0},"title":"Flu shots","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 16-Oct-07 11:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Is it my imagination, or are flu shot clinics fricking ubiquitous this year?\u00a0 It seems I can't swing a dead cat without seeing a poster\u00a0about when flu shots will be...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/health"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10653,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/01\/looks_like_i_picked_a_bad.html","url_meta":{"origin":39419,"position":1},"title":"Looks like I picked a bad week to stop sniffing live, attenuated influenza vaccine","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Dec-06 12:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Got my \"flu shot\" yesterday. 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The latter is not that different from the former; we're not talking about one of the horsemen of the apocalypse here, but it should still\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/health"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13573,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/12\/searching_for_the_flu.html","url_meta":{"origin":39419,"position":4},"title":"Searching for the flu","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 12-Nov-08 6:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"What if you could see people wandering around the streets saying, \"Can you tell me about the flu? I might have the flu? Do you think I have the flu?\"...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health Science&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health Science","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/health\/health-science"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16125,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/02\/a-note-on-post-flu-coughing.html","url_meta":{"origin":39419,"position":5},"title":"A note on post-flu coughing","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 2-Nov-09 10:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's freaking exhausting. 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