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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My grandfather only lived to be a father because of the polio vaccine. Even my stepmother had polio in the fucking womb... it ate her kneecaps... she became a dancer to build leg muscle strength. My family has a valid, empirical respect for vaccines. I am a nurse and when I was young, I passed on the flu shots... until I got the flu... and found out what that hell was, I wasn't sure if I would survive it. After that, I will get every flu shot offered, I take every Covid Booster, I go the shingles vax and next year, I will be eligible for the RSV shot. I am getting them all, like Pokeman.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nurses not getting vaccinated is an unreal phenomenon, isn't it? I work in a hospital, and some nurses who worked with COVID ECMO patients refused the COVID vaccine and got let go. How could you look at these people withering away and not want to be protected?

The flu shot is super important. I read about a preteen boy in Ohio whose parents didn't get him vaccinated, and he got influenza, and immediately got bacterial pneumonia and died, and his mother is wailing about how fast it all happened. Um, it didn't need to happen at all, they don't give them out for fun! I've thankfully never had it myself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

As someone working in a hospital, how are you not on every vaccine, especially those for world travelers? If someone picks up something unusual from a different part of the world, they will be going to the hospital, they will be exposing you to it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And they have no real reason for it ever. It just seems to be obstinate behaviour because they don't want to be told what to do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Picked the wrong fucken profession then

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not just not getting vaccinated but actively promoting ng against it. They should be fired immediately. All the other so called medical professionals who take that track as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They were all fired, or got it under duress. Canada isn't like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Bullshit. I am a former paramedic in Canada. I know loads of supposed healthcare workers who avoided COVID shots and still happily work their jobs spreading the disease of stupidity today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Thought so with all that center of the universe stuff. Canada is a big country.