Also, here's a date to remember: Free Flu Shots for Equity Members in NYC
Thursday, Oct 25 - 10:30 am to 3 pm Friday, Nov 16 - 10:30 am to 3 pm
AEA Council Room (14th Floor), 165 West 46th St, NYC First Come, First Serve
The Annual Broadway and Off-Broadway Free Flu Shot Program will take place on Thursday, Oct 25 and Friday, Nov 16, 2007 (10:30 am to 3 pm), funded by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and sponsored by Actor's Equity Association. Volunteer physician services are provided by Physician Volunteers for the Arts (PVA), which was founded in 1997 by Dr. Barry Kohn.
Posts: 50 | Location: New York | Registered: May 28, 2007
I don't believe in flu shots... well, I believe they exist, I just don't get them.
And I must admit that I did get the flu in 2004... and I had no one to blame but myself (and the massive depression I was going through at the time that lowered my resistance).
Posts: 286 | Location: Hollywood, CA | Registered: August 10, 2005
The widespread use (and overuse) of vaccines worldwide has been a topic of increasing concern. Add to this condition the looming fears stemming from the misuse and overprescription of antibiotics and you have the recipe for health crises that we are only now beginning to understand (new and uncurable "Super Bugs" are just the tip of the iceberg).
There are many health care professionals who decry their use as "being more of a danger than a help." When I researched much of the easily available literature on the perils of the wholesale injections of vaccines, it literally scared the hell out of me. After learning of the massive amounts of MONEY generated by these new and sometimes largely untested substances, like many of the things being forced upon us daily, it seems more a PROFIT MOTIVATED exercise than a HEALTH motivated one.
As in anything foreign in nature that you are thinking about introducing into your body, just Google the topic and do your due diligence before you start shooting this stuff into your arm -- whether you're a young soldier shipping out to Iraq or taking your dog into the vet for another purposeless and expensive rabies shot, vaccines can have long term side effects that we simply don't yet understand. So do your homework before you decide on using any of these new "cure-alls."
The dynamic of PROFITEERING FROM WORLDWIDE DRUG SALES is at the very heart of what's gone wrong with the system, and must be fixed.
Posts: 953 | Location: New York City | Registered: January 05, 2007
I don't get the flu shot. I understand why some must but for me it's a no go. The last time I got one in about 2000 is when I did get the flu. I haven't gotten one since and I haven't gotten it once. The flu shot is just a guess anyway. They don't know exactly which strain is going to go around and be the strongest so you can get the flu shot and not be protected at all. I think only people who are at high risk should get it.
Posts: 107 | Location: Pittsburgh | Registered: October 07, 2007
i understand that but they ask & if you do not know, they will not give it to you, i am giving out advice to people here as we all do. No one is claiming to be a doctor. although you seem to give out tons of "Friendly" advice with no jabs at .thanks for that
Posts: 351 | Location: ny | Registered: July 13, 2005
it was a huge hslp, you are not the only one who can give advice, and when you DO give advice it is alwaysposted to the people in a narsistic way,why do you keep coming back to a board you have been banned from about 30 times, who is the one with the problem(Take a hint) so what movie in NY are you making now???hmmmmmmmmmmmmporno
Posts: 351 | Location: ny | Registered: July 13, 2005
ya know it's not an english class it's an online message board, i actually do not owe you an explanation of why i write the way i do.
I asked if you did prno, big deal, that's a normal question,
eat more cookies & feed my 7 cats, oh that's a normal thing to say you have no clue what you are talking about. anyway go do your movie & grow up before you do any real damage one day, good luck I mean that you are not the kind of person i'd like to keep talking to & i'd appreciate the same from you. leave me alone
Posts: 351 | Location: ny | Registered: July 13, 2005