(08-30-2020, 01:00 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: We all know the flu will be upon us soon, we also know there is a bad virus on a collision course with both the flu season and pneumonia.

No virus vaccine yet, but I read only 55% of the general public get the flu vaccine. I know I have not in over 30 years due to a bad reaction. Does anyone know if the athletes are required or strongly asked to get a flu and a pneumonia vaccine (2 different vaccines)? I hope so for so many reasons.

FYI...the flu vaccine is 100% at CVS and available now, I believe also free at other pharmacies.  I just got mine 3 days ago, no poor reaction, just a little soreness in my arm that is almost gone. I urge everyone to get a free flu vaccine in next few weeks as flu season is upon us and a collision with the virus could be deadly. We need our team and our fans healthy when we lift the Lombardi.

2 weeks until Bengals play, I can't wait to see some Joe Burrow Bengal football. How about you?

(08-30-2020, 01:00 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: We all know the flu will be upon us soon, we also know there is a bad virus on a collision course with both the flu season and pneumonia.

No virus vaccine yet, but I read only 55% of the general public get the flu vaccine. I know I have not in over 30 years due to a bad reaction. Does anyone know if the athletes are required or strongly asked to get a flu and a pneumonia vaccine (2 different vaccines)? I hope so for so many reasons.

FYI...the flu vaccine is 100% at CVS and available now, I believe also free at other pharmacies.  I just got mine 3 days ago, no poor reaction, just a little soreness in my arm that is almost gone. I urge everyone to get a free flu vaccine in next few weeks as flu season is upon us and a collision with the virus could be deadly. We need our team and our fans healthy when we lift the Lombardi.

2 weeks until Bengals play, I can't wait to see some Joe Burrow Bengal football. How about you?

(08-31-2020, 11:53 AM)BengalChris Wrote: I've never had a flu shot and don't intend to start getting one now. I've had the flu twice in the last 20+ years, so it's a rare occurrence. With the social distancing and masks and hand washing that's going on it will be less of a situation this year.

I'm not a fan of forcing people to get shots. It's a personal choice.

 

(08-31-2020, 12:22 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: No one is forcing anyone, I am all about free choice. I wear a mask, but a free choice option for anyone regardless what a politician tells us. I bring it up as those calling to force people to wear a mask in many cases say no problem, get the flu with Covid and possibly kill someone while stating opposite view wearing a mask.

Both are individual options. I just think we talk about prevention and the experts virus could get more deadly during flu season, but not if more people get a flu shot.

I have to be honest, I had no idea the number of flu deaths in the US every year.

(08-31-2020, 05:15 PM)Bengalitis Wrote: Once the govt decided to not make vaccine makers liable, i bailed out. I would if ppl were
dropping like flies.  I may takw the shingles one when i get there.

(08-31-2020, 05:15 PM)Bengalitis Wrote: Once the govt decided to not make vaccine makers liable, i bailed out. I would if ppl were
dropping like flies.  I may takw the shingles one when i get there.

(08-31-2020, 06:43 PM)Nately120 Wrote: All this flu talk has me pumped for our first thread of the season where we argue about the Bengals not having an indoor practice facility.

(08-31-2020, 06:31 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: My mom got the shingles, that is some bad shit. Yeah, if there is one I would take it would be to stop that from happening to me.

Damn, that stuff is rough.

(08-31-2020, 07:37 PM)QueenCity Wrote: Had Shingles as a kid.... still remember that misery and I think I only had a small case of it.

I think I barely got the Chicken pox which is why I got it.

(08-31-2020, 12:12 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: I don’t get flu shots as they give me a 6 month long cold every time I tried.  I would rather just take the one week of hell the flu gives me.

As for the team, there has been no requirement in the past.  I recall several instances of multiple key players getting the flu during the week of key games.

(08-31-2020, 01:28 PM)BengalChris Wrote: If you wear a mask and social distance and wash your hands, the chances of you catching the flu or covid are diminished greatly.

We take great precautions here and sanitize our house daily and office twice a day and cars after each use. No one's getting sick, no colds, nothing. I've never cleaned so much in my life, but it's paid off so far.

If you don't catch it, you can't spread it. Catching it or not catching it has more to do with what you do than what other people do. You can control what you do.

 

(08-31-2020, 12:12 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: I don’t get flu shots as they give me a 6 month long cold every time I tried.  I would rather just take the one week of hell the flu gives me.

As for the team, there has been no requirement in the past.  I recall several instances of multiple key players getting the flu during the week of key games.

(09-01-2020, 10:11 AM)Sled21 Wrote: The flu shot is a crap shoot, as it's not one thing. They take a best guess which flu will be the strongest in the coming season, and that's the variety of vaccine you get. If they miss their guess, it is ineffective. If they hit on it, then it works.

(09-01-2020, 12:56 AM)Mobster Wrote: You cant get a virus from a flu shot lol

(09-01-2020, 10:11 AM)Sled21 Wrote: The flu shot is a crap shoot, as it's not one thing. They take a best guess which flu will be the strongest in the coming season, and that's the variety of vaccine you get. If they miss their guess, it is ineffective. If they hit on it, then it works.

(09-01-2020, 10:21 AM)Luvnit2 Wrote: So you are saying it is like the draft each season.