.......... she was probably such a fine and pure young girl rolling it there would be nothing to worry about.

dubleuhb wrote:

Fear not the occasional handmade cigar with a human hair protruding from the cut cap, dubya.{;-)

riverdog wrote:

I've got one with two long hairs coming out of the cut end if you want to smoke it, RD.

lou2row wrote:

Hearing the military in this makes me think back to when you had to walk a grey line with circles...stop on the circles...someone with an airgun hyperdermic delivery system shoots you in one arm...move forward...they shoot you in the other...lather, rinse, repeat about 5 more times...you walk out of the auditorium and they PT you while you look around everyone's got blood dripping down their arms...we're doing about 50 push-ups...next wekk everyone is falling out for sick call...yeah...no wonder I don't get them.

DrMaddVibe wrote:

Got my flue and pneumonia injections in late August/early October- when they firs became available. BCBS paid me $25 for getting each!

rfenst wrote:

I am 71 years young..I have been gettin the Flu shot for the last 10yrs along with an Irish Whiskey in both paws..Gotta make sure it is really a dead virus in dat dam needle.. 😣

walksalone wrote:

Nope... since I left the military, I have sworn off any and all shots that I do not need.

I'm healthy, my immune system works fine, so I don't need any shots... whatever they're for.

Hell, even when I was active duty I'd skip the flu shot (even if it was mandatory).

MACS wrote:

Nope... since I left the military, I have sworn off any and all shots that I do not need.

I'm healthy, my immune system works fine, so I don't need any shots... whatever they're for.

Hell, even when I was active duty I'd skip the flu shot (even if it was mandatory).

MACS wrote:

One of the things that I personally wasn't aware of (in past years) is that all the eggheads that are involved in flu vaccines put the data together and try and figure out what the flu virus make-up might be for the upcoming year. They can't make a cure-all but try to address the real nasty stuff that will kill an old person and/or really screw up an infant.....that sort of thing. They take their best SWAG and go with it. Sometimes the virus' we get are a little different than what the vaccine was targeted for and so we still get sick. We look at it as "sick is sick" and the shots are a waste of time.

knokmdwn wrote:

I usually get one every year and I've never gotten the flu when I've gotten the shot. I was at my Dr's office in November and forgot to ask for it... Sure enough as you all know I got the flu and got it bad. Every year that I forget to get the shot I've gotten sick and every year I get the shot I've been fine. If you get sick don't "ride it out" go to your Doctor and get antibiotics to help prevent a secondary infection. I hear people say all the time that taking antibiotics when you have the flu is silly because a virus causes the flu and antibiotics won't help. The point of taking the antibiotics though is so you don't get what I got... a bad respiratory infection because the flu left my immune system trashed and wide open to everything. Get the shot! Especially if you are going to be around small children or the elderly, you really don't want to be the person who got a little kid or an older person sick.


Celtic

CelticBomber wrote:

Um,,,
You work in the Correctional System in California..

You should get every vaccination and wear Bio Hazard suit,,,

wheelrite wrote:

Went to Thailand for training back in 88, had to get an encephalitis vaccination. Two part, a week between injections. Right in the upper arse area, couldn't sit on that cheek for most of the week. Went to get the other part and the stuck the needle right in the same spot, fudge that hurt, had this huge lump there and a few days later was sick as I have ever been, almost missed the deployment. Of course they told me it had nothing to do with the injection. Still wonder what exactly that was all about and to think I volunteered to go on that as support as it was a different unit that was deployed.

dubleuhb wrote:

you morons know Flu Shots arem only 60% effective in a good year,,,

wheelrite wrote: