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Bragging Can Be Injurious To Your Health, Re: The Flu Shot

Bragging can be injurious to your health in subtle, evil ways. The obvious one is ticking someone off who hears you bragging. Forget them. They’re jealous of your bragging abilities and the fact that you have something to brag about.

I’m speaking of more nefarious consequences and entities who overhear your braggadocious statements than the garden variety twerp who can’t stand hearing about how wonderful you are. They’re insecure underachievers with bad breath and flat feet. You, on the other hand, are confident and accomplished and just plain splendiferous.

But don’t let the universe hear you say it. Don’t even let it hear you think it.  Practice humility, ASAP, and never brag about how ‘umble you are, Uriah.

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What has brought me to this depth of feeling about bragging? I’ll tell you my insightful and thoughtful story, a story much more insightful and thoughtful than anyone else’s meager efforts.

I was discussing the flu shot with someone, a microbiologist. The discussion thread was long, involved, and full of wisdom on both our parts. Never once did we resort to screaming and yelling even though our opinions were diametrically opposed and she couldn’t believe someone as smart as I could say such things.

It was the best discussion. (I’m sorry; my bragging gets out of hand all the time.)

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My take on the flu shot is that I’ll never get one again after contracting the flu a day after I got the flu shot. It was twenty five years ago, but that flu shot is burned in my memory as a prime example of how our government leads us astray for purposes not always clear to us.

Perhaps they really are developing a Pigman, as Kramer insisted, and the flu shot is the first step to total authority over a nation of pig people. I recall there was a shot for the swine flu. I rest my case.

My opponent, and most other people, insist we should do what our government, in the person of public service announcements and myriad magazine articles and shows like The Doctors (a mouthpiece for the status quo if I’ve ever seen one) say we should do, which is get vaccinated for everything from the flu to a hangnail.

She longs for the day when it’s mandatory to get every vaccine the Pigman People dream up, to which my response predictably was “We’ll see about that.” One thing I can’t abide is hearing stories of the medical procedures judges, law enforcement, and bureaucracies presume we have to have, or which ones to subject our children to.

I’m not even an anti-vaxxer. I’m more of a “Get the hell out of my business, you politician, you.”  One must sneer when one says this, and if I may brag here, I’m a really good sneer-er. The scientists and their supporters always say the same thing to me: Scientists and researchers never have an agenda. Never.

Uh-huh. And I’m Leonardo da Vinci. Nice to meetcha.

The two of us never came to an understanding or a sympathetic joining of hands on the issue, which speaks volumes for civil discussion and how worthless it can be. Our discussion was very civil, a more civil one you won’t find anywhere, but we remained firmly on the side of the fence on which we each started. We didn’t even climb the fence to sit together, swing our feet, and look at the cows, which were all unaccountably mad. Mad, I tell you.

The crux of the matter is that I bragged about how I hadn’t had the flu in twenty five years, ever since that fateful day of the flu shot when I succumbed to the flu and was non compos mentis for three or more days, couldn’t take care of my son, and missed a week of work.

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My opponent insisted it wasn’t possible to get the flu from the flu shot, and despite me relating stories like mine from at least five people who got the flu after getting the flu shot, some of them more than once, she relegated the stories to the trash bin of  ‘anecdotal evidence’.

An excellent name for a rock group. Anecdotal Evidence opened for the Dead in ’72.  Or so I’ve heard.

Anecdotal evidence is sneered at by all the best scientists. I don’t know why; if ten people tell me their tongues turned black after getting a flu shot, I’d start worrying my tongue would turn black if I got a flu shot despite the claims of scientists who tell me that’s impossible. Furthermore, when my tongue does turn black, those scientists are suddenly busy washing beakers, and won’t talk to me.

Is it just me, or is rationality frowned on in most scientific circles?

So I bragged about not getting the flu, and a day or two later, I got… well, I don’t know if it was the flu, but I got sick. I ached all over, developed a cough, and threw up once. Just once, if I may brag here. The cough held on for a week and a half, I didn’t develop a cold, but I did brag out loud that I got over the whole thing in a day. I went to the pool for a work out, got chilled, and was slammed the next day with recurring symptoms.

Very disappointing. The universe was eavesdropping again on my business. Or it was the government. Same thing.

 

 

 

 

 

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13 thoughts on “Bragging Can Be Injurious To Your Health, Re: The Flu Shot

  • November 15, 2017 at 7:50 pm
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    Gigi, it’s indeed controversial, Pigman is real. My son was required to get vaccinated for his up coming term. He had his first bout of “low sugar”, a few hours later, almost blacking out, and it happened the next day. Please, God, don’t let this be his demise, he’s all I’ve got.

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    • November 15, 2017 at 7:57 pm
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      No way, Mary! Omigod. I’ve never heard of such a thing. Did you take him back to the doctor?

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  • November 15, 2017 at 8:03 pm
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    GREAT blog, Gigi! Like you, I once came down with three weeks of flu after receiving an annual flu shot. Since then… nuh, uh. That soured me to that particular form of ‘immunization’. Great writing!

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    • November 15, 2017 at 8:24 pm
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      Thank you, Dave! Another county heard from. But it’s impossible they say! Uh-huh. Thanks, honey!

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      • November 15, 2017 at 9:19 pm
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        VERY welcome, dear Gigi! Keep ’em coming… so to speak. ;->

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  • November 15, 2017 at 9:55 pm
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    Hope you are completely well, soon.
    I’m not about to dive into the flu shot controversy pool! I get them, but I don’t think you have too.

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    • November 16, 2017 at 12:03 am
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      I’m good, thanks. Took Sugar out for a good work out. The controversy is that bad, huh? I hadn’t noticed that until recently. Well, no one’s done anything to me YET for expressing my opinion. *goes off whistling* Hope your boy is fine, Mary!

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  • November 15, 2017 at 10:41 pm
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    As you know my Love, I wholeheartedly agree as I too, have had the same experience many years ago with getting the vile virus after receiving the anti-Vile shot.
    However, I stand by you and believe that no shot is the best shot. I further fell (cough cough).
    Drat are they after me now? I don’t see any black helicopters on the horizon.
    Well just to be safe I think I’ll go take some Echinacea.
    I feel better already just thinking about it. Tally Ho my Love.

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    • November 16, 2017 at 12:06 am
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      Thank you, my dear. We managed to get through it without everyone getting sick. Oh, no! I bragged! I take it back, Universe!

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  • November 16, 2017 at 5:17 am
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    I volunteer at my local hospital. All volunteers and employees are required to get a flu shot. (Provided free). If you refuse, you must wear a surgical mask while working, from October to March.

    How do I look in my mask?

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    • November 16, 2017 at 5:46 am
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      So you refused? You just wanted to hide out from the 90 year old ladies, you handsome devil. You can’t fool me.

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  • November 16, 2017 at 5:18 am
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    Gigi, we don’t want no nanny stare, no way. Just leave us be to look after ourselves. Great post yet again.
    However, there is a deadly virus that needs addressing bigly. If the whole of America, the world in fact set a precedent to unset the president and blew the collective whistle on him, then we could all sleep sounder in our beds even if we had a touch of flu. I’d take that shot for the team.
    It would also do wonders for whistleblowers everywhere with no fear of reprisals, just more whistling.
    Get well soon.

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    • November 16, 2017 at 5:44 am
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      I will let you make that sacrifice, John. And then we need a vaccine from ever electing anyone like him again! Or do you think we’ve built up an immunity? Nah. Whistle down the wind, John. Whistle in the dark. Thank you!

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