• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    That’s a thing in the US too, by the way. You can walk into a pharmacy or some grocery stores and get cheap/free vaccines for the current flu strain as well as the standard immunizations for a bunch of common diseases.

    Most people don’t take advantage of it.

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      17 hours ago

      True that’s how I get my flu shots and such. It’s often extremely modest accommodations. Once my feet were resting on a pile of discarded coat hangers and other detritus from the drugstore’s retail floor.

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      15 hours ago

      It’s unfortunate that vaccinations somehow became political because it’s a great example of public health efforts for all being cheap with huge benefits