Humanity

I got rear-ended on the freeway during Friday morning’s rush hour.  Nobody stopped to offer themselves as witnesses to the accident.  Nobody stopped to see whether anyone was injured.  Nobody stopped to offer assistance during the 30 minutes the two cars sat in the median with emergency flashers on waiting for the police to arrive.  And now I can’t sleep because I find this deeply disturbing.

Flu Shots

I was standing in line at work for a blood pressure check yesterday (mine is barely within acceptable bounds at 120/80) and had to listen to some dumb-asses tell everyone within hearing why they don't get flu shots. These were otherwise intelligent people who in this instance are woefully ignorant and cling to their urban myths. My blood boils when I listen to ignorant people spread their superstitions around like they are facts.

What is even worse, they won't bother to read up on the facts, and when presented with authoritative information, they prefer to discount and ignore the authority and stick to their superstitions instead. Believing themselves to be right is apparently more important to them than actually BEING right.

It's funny, in a pathetic way, how people will get their children all the basic childhood immunizations, like DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus) but don't "believe" in flu shots. They otherwise believe in doctors, medical science, the scientific method, and the proven repeatable results of lab experiments, but in the case of flu shots they choose NOT to “believe” the proven science of experts. They trust the doctor for all their other ailments, but in the case of the flu shot they trust only their own ignorance.

This is unbygodbelievable! My only response is to make disparaging remarks, and that isn’t kind. Regrettably, as I read the previous paragraphs it appears I have already done so. I am sorry about that, but not very.

Please remember that even intelligent people can be ignorant.
Also remember that ignorance can be cured; not so with stupidity.

Here is the truth from an authoritative source. All of it is science. The myths and superstitions are completely debunked.

http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/features/top-13-flu-myths

I hope your parents were successful in educating you against the superstitious crap about flu shots.

Okay, now I really do sound like my father.