Dennis was a colourful character. Not self-opinionated; more enthusiastic about his opinions. He stuck to his guns more for entertainment value than from conviction. At least that’s what people thought.
One of his great hang-ups was the annual flu injection. You watch; it makes people sick! They get the flu jab and feel ill for days. And what good does it do? People go down with the flu anyway.
Dennis refused to get vaccinated. For the funeral his wife suggests we all wear something colourful.
Dread is a killer, isn’t it? 😀 😀 😛
! That sums it up beautifully!
There seems to be a theme emerging the last couple of posts. 🙂
The theme “Be positive” (which incidentally is my blood type – B+) seems to be the theme emerging??? !
We are twins, separated at birth! You can donate blood to me, Bruce Almighty.
I’ve known people who died from heart disease, cancer, accidents, etc…..but I’ve never met anyone in my long lifetime— nor heard of anyone first or second hand, nor in the current news—- who died of the flu.
I have never known anyone who died of the flu either – although the statistics make claims to quite a number each year. Do you think it could be a Republican plot? All will be revealed in the emails!
For those interested: here
The CDC–Center for Disease Control—could be seen as ominous and tyrannical, to cynics like me. It depends what they decide to call a disease…….
I wonder if those busybee scientists in Iran (or ISIS) can discover a way to infiltrate Big Pharm and contaminate whole dose-loads of flu vaccine?
The CDC seem to be saying that most “flu deaths” are flu related only. So if you’ve got chronic heart disease, the flu (as well as other things) can push you over the edge! I get the injection because I hate getting the flu – it’s free and it seems to work
Of course you must make your own wise choices.
! I like the free bit!
Argh, that’s a cheery thought about ISIS. I hope no one from their mob reads Bruce’s blog, or we’re doomed.
I had the same though, Yvonne!
I’m with Dennis – in opinions that is. And Cynthia. Big Pharm is in the business of making money, not health [she said in her enthusiastically opinionated manner].
PS There is to be loud music and dancing at my funeral.
Don’t worry Pauline – we’ll be dancing!
That must cheer up Pauline no end, BA.
One has to look on the bright side – it’s very gloomy here today.
Is it okay to cry while I’m dancing?
Funerals make me cry
I’ve teardrops in my eye
I start off with a sniff
And am sobbing in a jiff…
me too.
You’ll be too breathless from all that tangoing …..
Oh, no….My tango days are done. Anyway, that dance is nothing but sexually suggestive walking. Nowadays I just kinda stand alone with my cane and twist and shout…
My website seems to be jammed. Must be all that tangoing.
Well, that’s what I meant really …..
I’ll do some Line dancing steps, if that’s OK, Pauline?
I think we’ve just about got the whole funeral organized. Any last requests, Pauline?
That’s what I’d probably be doing 🙂
I always get the flu shot. I had the flu once. Not some virus that lasts a week and you drag into work with and contaminate your co-workers. No. A chills, fever, ache-all-over, don’t even get out of bed virus that got steadily worse for an entire week, gave me bronchitis, and took six weeks to recover from. In the winter of 2003-2004, more than 48,000 people died of the flu in the US. A few years back there was a cluster of pediatric deaths from flu in Colorado early in the flu season, which seemed to freak people out and make them get flu shots, but I always tell people flu is no picnic. Get the shot. Sometimes it may not cover all the viruses circulating, but you start with some immunity. Sorry to be preachy, but it lays you low.
Amen, Sistah! I heartily agree with you. The flu sucks, big time.
Recent estimates put the 1918-1919 flu epidemic deaths between 30 and 50 million. It was introduced into New Zealand by the then Prime Minister who refused to be quarantined on board a ship when it arrived in Wellington Harbour.
What a Richard Cranium!
No Yvonne, I’m not a dickhead – but I was a librarian, and every second aspiring historical novelist set their story in the flu epidemic…. So…
Eek! It pays to read comments in context. The Prime Minister was the Richard Cranium – not me!!!!
Yes, you are Bruce Almighty, not a Richard Cranium like that PM. I’d NEVER call you a Richard Cranium. I’m sorry you misunderstood my comment.
Oh but I’d like to be a Richard Cranium …
Okay, on any day ending in “y”, you can be one of those. Are you happy now?
I get the flu about once every two or three years… (this is not a cold but the flu!)
When you gotta go, you gotta go
Them’s the breaks…
Ha Ha! I expect that at some point you will have a story about a medic who gives lethal injections?
Oh dear! What an oversight!
I am still trying to figure which is the more cruel bit —the death by flu or the coloured dresses for mourning. No, let me sleep over it.
We were just discussing last night (independent of this story) how many cultures wear white for mourning.
For one, Hindu widows were supposed to wear white for the rest of their lives; men during the funeral and as long as mourning stretched.
I know throughout the Pacific islands everyone wears white – at least to the funeral.
We seek silence and tranquillity when faced with the claws of the grim reaper.
It’s a game of chance. Will they make the vaccine to a strain that actually is running amok this year?
The two hemispheres (north and south) seem to take turns at mutating!
I never see your endings coming – enthusiastically optimistic maybe? – but they always raise a smile. 🙂
Great debate on the ‘flu injection in the comments! My penny’s worth? Living with MS, we’re advised not to get the jab – which then makes me wonder how it can be good for anyone? Supposing to prepare your immune system for ‘the attack’ may be a good idea but then it must have an extra effect on some folks, and less on others. Each of us different. Each of us responding in our way – to the ‘flu or the vaccine. The concern for me is more around all the other substances that go into the vaccine (often including mercury) together with the antigen. Much more scary! Each to his or her own!
That’s extremely interesting that someone with MS is told not to get the flu jab. I have chronic heart disease, which is why I’m told to get it! As you suggest – they probably don’t tell anyone the full story.
And each healthcare provider tells it the way they see it! Such an interesting world we live in… or is it ‘on’? 😀😀