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[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 68 points 1 year ago (7 children)

While I'm here, everyone, please get your flu and COVID shots this winter, vaccines work, so don't get sick, and don't get other people sick.

[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got mine! 10/10 will definitely do again

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Getting a shot and then immediately walking to the end of the queue for another like it's Six Flags. dril

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah.. For people saying COVID is "just the flu", I had a friend who ended up in hospital with COVID.. When I got covid and thought I may have spread it to her (fortunately she got lucky and somehow didn't get it) , she pretty much started prepacking for hospital.

It's still a super serious virus, same as the real flu..

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know four people who ended up in the hospital from COVID, one in a medically induced coma for a couple of weeks. All except one of them is in their 30's or 40's and in good physical condition, the exception is a friend's young child who is in the ICU right now and they're not sure she'll survive…

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just went to sign up for my covid shot and it asked me to update my insurance information. I have no fucking answers for them so I stopped filling out the form.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried telling them you don’t have insurance

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Nope I'm gonna call and tell them today I think they will say its okay and the website is just dumb 😋 thanks by the way

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I highly recommend staggering them though. I did them both together last year and felt so sick that I had to take a day off of work (still better than COVID or Flu). This year, I had a COVID booster and I'm getting a flu shot Monday. The COVID shot did nothing to me but give me a sore arm and flu shots never do anything.

Flu shots are only given to the elderly and vulnerable where I live. It's weird to see people talking about getting the flu shot like it's a normal thing.

[–] sgbrain7@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'll get my flu shot once my cold mostly resolves. My entire face feels like it's about to sneeze 24/7 and it's like a personal hell