i had it last year, and my husband would come and take my temperature every couple of hours to make sure he didn’t need to take me to the hospital, because i was so tired that i couldn’t really tell him about my symptoms. 

i absolutely think some people believe we’re all just blowing a bad cold out of proportion. they have no idea what the flu is like and think that if they do get it, it’s all NBD.

nah, i think they saw it and said “i’m proud to be an asshole if not getting a stupid vaccine makes me an asshole” or “i won’t do what anybody tells me because it’s all a sham anyway, and that doesn’t make me an asshole, you’re an asshole!”

that last line made me snort.

oh man, a family friend of mine (i don’t know her well but i see her occasionally) has some mobility issues with her legs. she wears braces that you can’t see if she’s got long, loose pants on, and most of the time she walks “normally.”

i’m sorry if i implied that people who weren’t getting it for financial reasons were stupid.

my husband and i were talking about this last night.

yep. white people are always trying to climb over someone else, and women are no different. misogynist white women want to control feminist white women who don’t live how they “should”, and all white women like to shit on people who aren’t white.

i don’t wish death on you. i’m engaging in this argument precisely because i don’t want you, or anybody else, to die.

yeah, i just cannot understand that level of stupidity and selfishness.

first of all, just because you haven’t gotten the flu shot before doesn’t mean you’ll never get it. that’s a crap logical argument. if that logic held, then why go to the doctor for any sort of general checkup? just because you haven’t gotten cancer yet doesn’t mean you won’t. just because you haven’t had a heart…

it’s not false, because i very deliberately didn’t say it removed all risk. i said it lowered the risk.

i do give a shit about your dad, because he’s a person. and i don’t want to inadvertently harm another person when there’s something so incredibly tiny that i could do to lessen the risk that i would be the vector that causes another person harm.

hm, and the risk of losing work and thus money doesn’t make those other workers get the shot? like, spend $20 (or get it free), and lower the risk that you’ll get sick and miss a week of work and lose hundreds of dollars. even if you do get sick, you might only miss 5 days of work, instead of 7. 

fewer people die from the flu if more people get the flu shot.

it wasn’t, in fact, 0%.

yeah, and you’re a paragon of virtue for refusing to do something cheap or free that causes you minimal pain or inconvenience, but could lower the risk of someone else getting the flu from you.

good for your husband.

oh my god, yes.

thank you for being a reasonable person and a good citizen who does something simple so that they might prevent harm coming to another person.