Get A Flu Shot!

I got mine today. I probably should have gotten it a couple of weeks ago when they first started having the clinic open, but between one thing and another I’ve been putting it off. Today I was “oot & aboot” and made a point to swing by.

You want to know how horrible and trying it was? You want to know what the worst part was? It was chilly (mid 50’s) when I went out this morning so I had on my usual chilly+casual garb, a flannel shirt over a turtleneck. (Are the New York fashion designers paying attention? When that’s the next hot thing, I want credit!) When I got to the clinic, in order to get the shot I had to take off the flannel shirt and then roll the sleeve on the turtleneck up far enough to expose my upper arm.

That’s it! That’s as hard as it gets! Mind you, this comes from someone who, as a kid, would cry like I was being dragged off  to be tortured to death every time I got a shot.

As for those who think that you shouldn’t get a flu shot because you’ve been told by an actor or pop star that it’s in some way bad for you (freakin’ idiots!) or your third cousin twice removed heard something that was relayed fourth hand from a guy he knows in his bowling league — well, first of all, BULLSHIT (because, like, “science” and “facts” and all of that), but secondly, here‘s an excellent site that keeps track of all of the urban myths and fallacies that are going around and the medical and scientific facts that refute them.

The tl;dr version is that the flu kills people (far more than you think), you can get it, the flu vaccine is about 99.999999999999999% safe, the flu vaccine will not do any of the BS things that the urban myths say it will, and the more folks who get vaccinated, the fewer people we’ll have spreading it in the first place.

Since it’s cheap (maybe free) and easy (took me longer to walk in from the parking lot than it did to fill out the paper and get the shot) and pretty painless (even a wussy boy like me can handle it), you would have to be a moron to not get one.

You’re reading my blog, so you’re obviously not a moron.

QED, you either already have your flu shot or you’ll be getting one in the next couple of days. Maybe tomorrow.

Right?