Thread: 2020 flu season

Well, the 2020 seasonal flu vaccine is here now so the boss and I wandered down to the pharmacy for a quick jab. The fellow giving it was good, hardly felt a thing. Anyone else had theirs yet or are going to get it?

Bob

Aloha!

I'm semi-retired but my part time retirement career puts me in harms way when it comes to contracting a virus. I am definitely getting the Flu shot. Timing of the shot will be this Friday (or next Friday at the latest). I like to get it on Friday because I sometimes feel a bit run down a day or two after the shot as my immune system adjusts to the vaccine. So I get it on Friday, rest Saturday and Sunday, and then back to work on Monday.

Stay healthy!

-Zip

Not yet. I'm planning on getting mine in Chinatown(nyc) I figure it should be as close as I can get to the real thing. Lol. Maybe snakeheads for lunch? The wife got hers. I will be getting mine for the first time. Dr says getting covid and seasonal flu could happen at the same time. No bueno he said so Im in.

We got ours last week
Since the effective time for the vaccine is 4 to 6 months we asked if we should get another dose in March.

The answer was no as the senior shot is stronger than the regular vaccine.
If you don't get a senior dose you may want to ask about a booster next spring.

Yep. Got mine last week.
The wife is on too many meds/antibiotics right now or she would have gotten hers. She gets the extra dose for old people. I'm not old yet. LOL.

Got mine a few weeks ago. I had to pay $70 for my 'free flu shot'. I can't remember the last time I had a flu shot, at least 40 years. I decided to get one this year as the Corona virus has made me realize that you don't get vaccinated strictly to protect yourself. When I was told of the $70 I had second thoughts, but I concluded that the money shouldn't bear on my convictions.

Got mine Monday.

Originally Posted by bluesman7

Got mine a few weeks ago. I had to pay $70 for my 'free flu shot'. I can't remember the last time I had a flu shot, at least 40 years. I decided to get one this year as the Corona virus has made me realize that you don't get vaccinated strictly to protect yourself. When I was told of the $70 I had second thoughts, but I concluded that the money shouldn't bear on my convictions.

I always thought making people pay for the seasonal flu shot was a false economy on the part of governments. The seasonal flu accounts for much lost time at work and can overburden ERs that in the end costs those same governments more than giving a free flu shot. That is not to discount the sizeable number of deaths it too can cause.

Bob

I think we're going grocery shopping this afternoon so I'll call into the IDA or Shoppers and get mine today.

The Australian experience was that there was less flu this year because social distancing for COVID19 also helps reduce the spread of the flu so if a person was looking for an upside to our brave new world, I suppose that could be it.

The flu shot has always been covered by OHIP, I have never been asked to pay anything.

Probably get ours this weekend when my son is back in town. I never got the flu shot until I had the nephrectomy. Dr. says I have to get it now because the weeks of taking NSAIDs could be detrimental to the remaining kidney.