OK, bear with us on this one.<\/p>\n
While we provide you with a plethora of fun to enrich your daily and weekend experiences<\/a>\u2014you’re welcome\u2014you can’t really enjoy it if you’re sick. That’s why, today, you should go get a flu shot.<\/p>\n From 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. today you can head on down to the City of Long Beach Health and Human Services, Main Health Facility to receive a free<\/em> flu shot. The service, hosted by the city’s department of health and human services, aims to reduce the number of flu outbreaks this season. And, they’re making it really easy for you. Anyone and everyone is eligible for the free shot and<\/em> there’s also a drive-through option available\u2014yes, you don’t even have to leave your car.<\/p>\n Look, you’ve no doubt made a checklist of must-sees and must-dos this month: strolling the waterfront lights in Naples; drinking one too many snowball old fashions at exorbitantly decorated bar-turned-Christmas pop-up<\/a>, The Ordinarie; taking in all the holiday splendor at the Belmont Shore Christmas Parade; staging that perfect photo shoot<\/a> in front of the lit-up Terrace Theater; catching the opulent performance that is the Long Beach Ballet’s Nutcracker.<\/p>\n But really, what good are any of your plans if you’re stuck at home, nose running, head pounding, with a trash bin full of used tissues and regret?<\/p>\n So, what’s a five second jab compared to a week\u2014maybe two\u2014of soul expunging illness? 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