I love how they call it “your” flu shot. Like they’re trying to personalize it. Weird. Exact same thing was said to me at my doctor’s office.
Okay but so far this is just something being discussed by one province’s medical association, that does not equate to the government of Canada (or even Ontario) at this point.
If this got any further than a discussion (which has not been adopted as policy), then presumably it would be offered to patients at doctors’ offices and all one would need to do to avoid it would be to say no or not go in the first place.
As I am capable of doing both, and I don’t live in Ontario, I don’t feel an imminent threat. But of course this talk is concerning and must be carefully monitored (and resisted).
I always tell them NO when they want to give me a flu shot.
Twenty years ago this month, my father had a flu shot.
The next day, he had the sniffles.
The day after that, his body felt like a block of ice. He couldn’t even keep down a glass of water!
My father wound up in the ER, and then was hospitalized for ten days with pneumonia and congestive heart failure. The doctor treating him believed it was all caused by the flu shot.
He came home but never recovered 100%. He died five years later.
When I tell the medical types this story, they back off.