Last May I gloated that having had the flu jab the previous November (ie 2012), I hadn't needed time off work for anything more serious than jet lag since
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That sounds like a right nasty dose. I'm starting to get over some sort of vicious cold/chest infection thing that started on Boxing Day. The last fortnight has been just like having a head cold, but with more tiredness, and fed-up-ness.
I don't think it was the flu, but G, who got the cold on the same day as me, got over it in a fortnight. He ad the flu jab this year and I didn't. Which has us wondering if the jab helped him.
Cheers! I am definitely nearly better, but so fed up having to have tissues constantly at hand. Is it too late for the family to get a flu jab for this season?
Last year they got a visitor in to give jabs in the office, but this year they just offered to give a voucher to go to the high street pharmacist for one, provided you saw the email in time before the offer ran out in November. In consequence, I and several other people had at least a day off work each.
Not that it would have killed us to buy our own, but it illustrates what I always say, that every barrier you put in the way of people doing something you want, no matter how trivial your awesome organised self thinks it is, will result in another percentage of people missing the deadline. In this case the two barriers were money and a trip to the high street.
Last year I didn't have my jab, but it didn't matter because the person I got flu from had theirs - we just got the wrong strain! As the nurse said, "we vaccinate against the strains that are going to kill you/put you in hospital, not the ones that just make you feel awful for a week".
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But I'm sorry to hear you've been laid up too. Certainly for me it's a lesson learnt.
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This year's flu seems really bad.
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I don't think it was the flu, but G, who got the cold on the same day as me, got over it in a fortnight. He ad the flu jab this year and I didn't. Which has us wondering if the jab helped him.
Hope you all feel better soon.
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Not that it would have killed us to buy our own, but it illustrates what I always say, that every barrier you put in the way of people doing something you want, no matter how trivial your awesome organised self thinks it is, will result in another percentage of people missing the deadline. In this case the two barriers were money and a trip to the high street.
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