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EK MtnTime's avatar

These are some really shocking statistics.

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Duct Tape's avatar

I was an enlisted aircrew member in the Air Force. This involved a lot of continuous training and other events to keep us qualified for world wide deployment at a moment's notice. As this was long ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth, we each received our monthly training requirements on a sheet of that green and white computer printer paper with the perforations on each end. I remember every year in the fall an event would appear as: MANDATORY FLU SHOT. It was unofficial policy that all of us would go to the shot clinic on a Friday when we weren't scheduled to fly the following Monday. This is because without fail we would all get sick for three days after getting the shot. We called this malady The Mandatory Flu. Even the Flight Docs called it that. We treated it as a joke because getting angry would do no good. I haven't taken the flu shot since leaving the Air Force. As such, I haven't had any cases of The Mandatory Flu. It is a wonder any of us survived long enough to retire. Oh, and they want us dead. (To keep retirement costs down)

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