Ugh 😩 I met my new doctor today, had my yearly exam, and got three vaccines.
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@benroyce if I ran a company, I'd offer two free days off for anyone getting a vaccine. One to get it, one to recover.
And it'd still be cheaper than the loss of productivity from multiple sick days across multiple people each year when just the flu sweeps through.
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@alice Last year when the measles outbreak started, I checked with my doctor if there was any way I could verify my vaccine. Turns out I was born in a period when they used a version known to quickly lose effectiveness, and sure enough my blood tests came back negative. Got a new MMR shot the next week. Can't believe I've gone carefree for so many decades and never caught it!
@Shdwdrgn 😅 glad you dodged that! Measles is brutal.
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@PatrickoftheG I had a company that did that. Would've been *even* better if it coincided with the day they'd bring in the Ben & Jerry's truck and give out free ice cream.
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i think "the day after a vaccine sucks" is a big motivator of the antivax movement
no one likes that day
but for a certain sort of painfully ignorant type of person, that is all vaccines mean
the whole "protect you from diseases that will REALLY make you miserable or deathly ill, for a week, a month, or years, possibly maim you, permanently, or possibly kill you" part...
you know, the fucking obvious
it doesn't matter to people who can't or won't think about really simple things
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my employer used to set up a tent just inside the gate and give away flu shots to anyone who would take them. Which was good.
They also ran a rewards program if you didn't take sick days. Which was bad. I had to fight with one of my direct reports once who was like no, if I go home I lose my incentive, and I was like I don't give a shit you just dripped snot on my desk I'm putting you in for a sick day no matter what you do, so go fucking home.
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Ugh 😩 I met my new doctor today, had my yearly exam, and got three vaccines. Now I feel like shit from the jabs, and lemme tell you...
I'd get them again in a fucking heartbeat, because science and social responsibility fucking rock 🤘
@alice That reminds me, I've got to do similar. I'm a big boy now and hardly flinch despite my enduring fear of needles...
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@PatrickoftheG I had a company that did that. Would've been *even* better if it coincided with the day they'd bring in the Ben & Jerry's truck and give out free ice cream.
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@Shdwdrgn 😅 glad you dodged that! Measles is brutal.
@alice I mean, I'm 57 so really it's a killer at my age. Got my shingles vaccine several years ago too before it got too bad. I just don't get why any parent would *choose* to expose their children to the torture and possible death of these illnesses that can easily be prevented, especially knowing that they themselves have benefited from the same vaccines.
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@Shdwdrgn 😅 glad you dodged that! Measles is brutal.
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@Aprazeth orange cream, but I also had chocolate peanut butter cup ice cream earlier 😅
... Can I ... Can I have like a little taste?Also, please ignore the comically large spoon I am holding. Has nothing to do with my request
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@FredricT @alice I would counter that in the last 20 years or so those holes have gotten significantly wider. I live in an area where people consider themselves highly progressive, and yet school vaccine rates have dropped below 80% in some spots. It's the whole mentality of "I read it on the internet so I'm smarter than my doctor."
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Ugh 😩 I met my new doctor today, had my yearly exam, and got three vaccines. Now I feel like shit from the jabs, and lemme tell you...
I'd get them again in a fucking heartbeat, because science and social responsibility fucking rock 🤘
@alice
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my employer used to set up a tent just inside the gate and give away flu shots to anyone who would take them. Which was good.
They also ran a rewards program if you didn't take sick days. Which was bad. I had to fight with one of my direct reports once who was like no, if I go home I lose my incentive, and I was like I don't give a shit you just dripped snot on my desk I'm putting you in for a sick day no matter what you do, so go fucking home.
@Wyatt_H_Knott incentives to come in to work sick are fucked up. Do folx not understand how communicable illnesses work?? 😮💨
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@PatrickoftheG I used to work in the game industry—they'd do anything to keep us from ever leaving work to see our families.
- stocked fridges
- cereal dispensers
- unlimited soda/coffee
- daycare downstairs
- free ice cream days
- game nights
and so on.I typically worked 70 hour weeks.
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@Wyatt_H_Knott incentives to come in to work sick are fucked up. Do folx not understand how communicable illnesses work?? 😮💨
@alice They just didn't want people to take sick days. Same company got in trouble with the labor board because their "culture" was you worked 45 hours a week, even though your contract said 40. The designers sued them and got back pay, but we engineers just got dirty looks if we didn't clock OVER 40 hours every week. Very frowned upon to clock exactly 40.0 and I was always like WTF, that's what you PAY ME for.
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@alice They just didn't want people to take sick days. Same company got in trouble with the labor board because their "culture" was you worked 45 hours a week, even though your contract said 40. The designers sued them and got back pay, but we engineers just got dirty looks if we didn't clock OVER 40 hours every week. Very frowned upon to clock exactly 40.0 and I was always like WTF, that's what you PAY ME for.
@Wyatt_H_Knott more reasons we should outlaw capitalism. It's inherently exploitative (not to mention built on the back of women's free domestic labor).
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@Wyatt_H_Knott more reasons we should outlaw capitalism. It's inherently exploitative (not to mention built on the back of women's free domestic labor).
@alice @Wyatt_H_Knott @benroyce I initially misread that as "built on domestic abuse" but actually yeah pretty much.
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