Persuasive-Flu Shot
Introduction:
Hi my name is Marah and today I am going to persuade you to get a Flu vaccination. I recently got a job working at Walgreens Pharmacy. Every day that I work I see people coming in to pick up their prescriptions that don’t look like the feel very great, with a tissue in one hand and their money in the other. No one wants to be sick, it’s not fun and it makes you feel like crap and you get absolutely nothing done. So it would only make sense if everyone was taking the precautionary measure in getting a flu shot. People should be lining up to get their vaccinations in order to prevent them from them getting sick and missing school, work or important events; but they aren’t, at Walgreens, we give maybe about 4 flu shots a day, and my pharmacy is pretty busy. On average we fill 350 each day, but on busy days such as Mondays we usually fill about 450. Today I am going to persuade you to get a flu shot by telling you history of the flu, facts about the flu, what kind of symptoms the flu causes, what the flu vaccination is, where to get it and finally how to treat it, if you end up with the flu.
Main Points:
First I will tell you about the history of the flu.
The symptoms of the flu, or technical name influenza, has been around for 2,400 years as stated in the article “Who discovered the Influenza Virus” by Sonal Panse. The article also states that the first record of flu symptoms was noted by Herodotus but the information was not released until much later on.
It is thought that the influenza virus was actually started when the domestication of animals began and therefore transferred to humans.
It has become understood by doctors and people alike that a different strain of the flu becomes more common from year to year.
When a type of flu that just is in one particular country strikes it is called an “epidemic” and a “pandemic” if it becomes worldwide which is stated in the article “History of Flu Epidemics” by Anne Adams.
Now I will tell
Hi my name is Marah and today I am going to persuade you to get a Flu vaccination. I recently got a job working at Walgreens Pharmacy. Every day that I work I see people coming in to pick up their prescriptions that don’t look like the feel very great, with a tissue in one hand and their money in the other. No one wants to be sick, it’s not fun and it makes you feel like crap and you get absolutely nothing done. So it would only make sense if everyone was taking the precautionary measure in getting a flu shot. People should be lining up to get their vaccinations in order to prevent them from them getting sick and missing school, work or important events; but they aren’t, at Walgreens, we give maybe about 4 flu shots a day, and my pharmacy is pretty busy. On average we fill 350 each day, but on busy days such as Mondays we usually fill about 450. Today I am going to persuade you to get a flu shot by telling you history of the flu, facts about the flu, what kind of symptoms the flu causes, what the flu vaccination is, where to get it and finally how to treat it, if you end up with the flu.
Main Points:
First I will tell you about the history of the flu.
The symptoms of the flu, or technical name influenza, has been around for 2,400 years as stated in the article “Who discovered the Influenza Virus” by Sonal Panse. The article also states that the first record of flu symptoms was noted by Herodotus but the information was not released until much later on.
It is thought that the influenza virus was actually started when the domestication of animals began and therefore transferred to humans.
It has become understood by doctors and people alike that a different strain of the flu becomes more common from year to year.
When a type of flu that just is in one particular country strikes it is called an “epidemic” and a “pandemic” if it becomes worldwide which is stated in the article “History of Flu Epidemics” by Anne Adams.
Now I will tell
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