I never get a flu shot. Does that make me a bad person, or bad citizen or something?

Nah. You're not in any high-risk groups, and you don't do work that involves contact with gasquillions of strangers. In a lot of places, you wouldn't even be able to get it, because the available supplies are only enough to cover kids/pregnant women/health care workers/immunosuppressed/group xyz that needs it more than others do anyway.

This flu spreads like WHOA, and it's really, really fucking everywhere already -- controlling the spread as much as they can is the really big thing, from what I understand. But in your position, it's not a crazy choice not to.

Word on the street is that the seasonal flu shot is pretty much pointless this year anyway, since the VAST majority of cases being seen are H1N1, which had the good sense to attack before that vaccine had been distributed.

We still have no idea when the H1N1 vaccine will be available in our pediatrician's office - nobody seems to have it yet.

Last year was the first year I ever got a flu shot - and it was mostly because I happened to be in the building when they were giving them out.

A friend in Las Vegas was able to get an H1N1 vaccine for her son (who has a heart condition that puts him at the top of the list) but only after spending 3 hours in a line that she could have lived without. She was especially pissed because, apparently, when first responders were scheduled to get their shots, only 300 showed up.

My mom always gets the flu shot because she has lupus, but I never have. I've never gotten them for the kids, either. Up here, I haven't heard of anywhere that even has the H1N1 vaccine yet, though.

I've never gotten a flu shot, either, and I think I've gotten the flu once. I think I should maybe get it going forward, since I'll be spending more time with my 90 year old grandmother.

The only time I got a flu shot (they were giving them out in the Law School) I swear, I got sicker that year than ever before, so never again. Of course, people keep telling me that sometimes happens, and the next one will be better, but no thanks!

I have never gotten a flu shot and for 3 years I worked in a department that gave them as a business! No one does have the H1N1 in upstate that I know of. No one has much regular vaccine left in Rochester either.

We have a free clinic for the flu shot every year for Gov't employees. I always get it, so I don't end up spreading it to my elderly parents.

Woman arrested for assault while having a seizure: [link]

"I just remember being strapped down, feeling like I was in a straitjacket, and I just kept taking off the strap, like 'please no, please no', not really understanding everything that was going on," Kourtney said.

But Tiffini repeatedly confronted the paramedics about what she saw as heavy-handed tactics, telling them, "'I called you all to help her but you're being too rough with her. It's almost like you're assaulting her.' As soon as I said that, one of the EMT guys pointed to Kourtney and says, 'you're going to jail.'"

Kourtney says she was dragged down the stairs of her house in handcuffs to a waiting police car.

She was in police custody for nine hours before getting anti-seizure medicine from an ER.