It is Thursday the 10th of October 2024 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K

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I'm your host, my call with me today is Marsh hello and Alice and I'm not going to ask what you've been upED because I thought that'd be very smart. I got a little text with the doctor saying,

come and get your COVID vaccine, but that's a very good idea. I don't want to catch COVID as well.

I don't understand why I keep, I mean I have a lot of health conditions so I assume it's one of those but

I get an invitation to get COVID vaccines.

I get them all the time and I would I would otherwise contest it except it turns I

also have an odd immune system that is constantly fucking up and the doctor doesn't know about

that because anytime I've raised you with the doctor they've gone now it's probably fine and so it's not

on my medical records anywhere but I'm willing to give it a goal and Karen getting

vaccinated because my means

systems fog.

Well, yeah, I stay, I allowed myself to stay on the list because my mom had

cancer, was undergoing cancer treatment and I was like, well, it's

useful for me to be vaccinated.

I don't want to put my mom at risk.

And then she's still on

cancer treatment even though she's off the chemo now so it's like why not?

So yeah so I had the vaccine for for COVID and then it was Alice's idea to be

like while you're there, you could say, do you want the flu,

would you give the flu vaccine as well?

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