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Clash City Rocker

(3,396 posts) Mon Feb 17, 2020, 11:51 AM Feb 2020

Maybe they should give influenza some trendy new name

And talk about it like it’s new and exotic. Then maybe people would get the flu shot, wash their hands more often, etc.

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Maybe they should give influenza some trendy new name (Original Post) Clash City Rocker Feb 2020 OP

A rationale typically given by parents who decline the... 3catwoman3 Feb 2020 #1

And if we declared WAR on disease and injury then our healthcare system would get a blank check ck4829 Feb 2020 #2

3catwoman3

(24,006 posts)

1. A rationale typically given by parents who decline the...

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Mon Feb 17, 2020, 11:56 AM

Feb 2020

...flu shot when we bring it up at the pediatric office is, “We’ve never gotten the flu.”

I politely reply, “Past good luck is no guarantee of future good luck.”

ck4829

(35,077 posts)

2. And if we declared WAR on disease and injury then our healthcare system would get a blank check

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Mon Feb 17, 2020, 12:36 PM

Feb 2020

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