Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional

[Grammy23]

37. I remember quite well having the flu in 1977. I was in my twenties.

I was teaching a kindergarten class and fell ill in Feb. Valentines Day to be exact. I went to my doctor because I was so sick I knew it was no ordinary head cold. In addition, I was as weak as a kitten. My doctor informed me that I had the flu and I’d be sick for at least a week and to be prepared to stay home for that long. I thought he was exaggerating and figured I’d be up and around by the end of that week. In other words, three or four days. I was wrong. I was in bed sick as a dog for the full week. There was no Tamiflu or other drugs at that time. Just treat the fever and call him back if I developed other symptoms that could be treated, such as cough.

The following week I returned to my job because all the flu symptoms were gone. But here is the truth. I felt like a zombie and just moved slowly through my days, barely keeping myself upright. It took three full weeks for me to begin to feel like myself again. That meant a total of one month, counting the actual time I was in bed and the recovery period afterward.

Flu is no joke. Kegsbreath needs to enjoy a bout or two of the flu to fully appreciate what he brought upon those young people in training. They are far too young to fully understand what opting out of the flu shot was risking. He is not qualified to make that decision about to vaccinate or not. That is best left to medical professionals. Thank goodness for Tamiflu. I hope they had plenty of it to help those young recruits recover.