Hey, countrygirl12. With all due respect, I said people ought to stay at home but they don't always do that. I have been guilty of going to work sick but I took extra precautions against spreading it along. Staying home is ideal, but I know that people cannot always do that. It is just the ideal. You said yourself that all you employees plus the customers passed it back and forth, which kind of proves my point.
And your statement that most people who get the flu shot is patently untrue. It is a very common myth. The vaccine does not cause the illness. The virus in the vaccine is not active and an inactive virus cannot transmit disease. The people who sometimes feel sick after the vaccination may be feeling their immune response working. Also, if they have actually contracted the flu, it may be that they had it prior to the vaccination or they are experiencing flu from another strain of flu since they vaccinate with the current strain that is going around at the time. They also could be confusing a bad cold for the flu since sometimes the symptoms are similar.
Getting the vaccination and avoiding the flu can avoid any subsequent flu-related complications due to your body working hard to fight the flu and becoming weakened, such as pneumonia which can be deadly. And people with other compromised immune systems (older people, people on chemotherapy, young children) might experience those complications as well.
I personally get the vaccine because I live with someone with heart disease and I don't want to compromise his health if I should contract the flu. Otherwise, I might not get it.
I firmly believe that vaccinations are one of the reasons why we do not experience the horrible epidemics and pandemics that used be to be around. I don't think we should discourage people from getting them. Just my take on it. Don't mean to offend anyone.
I am going by FACT. Every person that I know who got that shot last year got the flu. Several got sick right after getting the shot. Yeah yeah, I know they were already getting sick. Bull. There is always an excuse from the ones who are all for all these vaccines. And again, I have no problem with people taking the flu shot. I do have a problem with people trying to force it on me. If they have the shot then even if I had the flu they can't get it from me because they had the shot.
If you want to take the shot then by all means take the shot. Like I said before I have never had the shot and never had the flu. Yes, the year I worked retail in the winter we all stayed sick. We had NO choice but to come to work. You can't stay at home because you have a cold. And most of us got sick from CUSTOMERS who came in the store sick. You would be surprised at the idiots who walk around coughing and sneezing and do not cover their mouth.
The people I referred to having the flu actually HAD THE FLU. They went to the doctor and was told they had the flu. Of course I think doctors just say that sometimes because around here they do not even do a test half the time. They diagnose by symptoms.
I did miss a couple of days last year when I was too sick to stand up. But you cannot call in for a snotty stuffed up nose or cough. Another reason I would love to work full time from home. I don't have to be around people.
Most of the childhood vaccines I had I do not have any problem with. Now when you start telling me I need them again I am not sure I would run get it. I don't know.
I think you took my comments too personal. I hear people all the time saying if you are sick you need to stay home. I am just pointing out that is not possible. People have to work. Even if they want to call in most people do not have sick days and if they do call in they will be fired if they do not go to the doctor. Not sure how you can go to the doctor and spend more than a week paycheck for them to say get rest and drink orange juice.
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Topic: Flu Season Strategies (Read 1907 times)
February 20, 2010, 01:05:04 pm
