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#4401076 - 01/20/18 06:32 PM Hope You Got Your Flu Shots  
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"There's no question that the people who got their flu shots this year got less sick than the people who didn't," said Ardolic. "The sickest people are still clearly the ones who did not get their flu shots."
"If you get flu and then you get pneumonia on top of your flu, which is what happens to a lot of these people, you're not gonna do well,"
he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/19/health/flu-widespread-jan-19-cdc-numbers/index.html


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#4401079 - 01/20/18 07:02 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Haggart]  
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Got my Flu shot in Sept. Got the Flu the day after Christmas. Still recovering from it. Sickest I have ever been. When it knocks you down coming out both ends for
hours on end. For 3 days. Have lost 49lbs since June, I`ll bet 30lbs went from getting sick and not being to eat anything without it coming back up. Wife is still sick.


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#4401081 - 01/20/18 07:08 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Haggart]  
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What a stupid claim! Oh, you got your flu shot but you still got sick? Well, at least you got your flu shot! Here's a person that is virtually your clone but he didn't get a flu shot and look at him! Much, much sicker than you are!


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#4401100 - 01/20/18 08:46 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Haggart]  
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I have never gotten a flu shot and I am rarely ever sick. Before I retired the only sick days that I took were due to shingles and a broken wrist (two days when it happened and two days when they installed the plate and screws to fix it). However, I do have the advantage of not being around children very often (they are premier germ carriers). wink


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#4401105 - 01/20/18 08:59 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Haggart]  
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Had the singles here too Chich over my right eye been 3 years and still a bit numb Ugly damn thing


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#4401106 - 01/20/18 09:01 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Haggart]  
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I got a vaccination against that a few years ago and finished my Hep B vaccine series last year

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#4401113 - 01/20/18 09:25 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: rwatson]  
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Originally Posted by rwatson
Had the singles here too Chich over my right eye been 3 years and still a bit numb Ugly damn thing


How funny. That is where mine was as well. My eye was nearly swollen shut and it was years before the light sensitivity (I even had to dim my computer monitors) went away.


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#4401114 - 01/20/18 09:26 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Haggart]  
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We are encouraged to get this due to working in healthcare. I get it for free either at work or through my GP. But guess what? Earlier this year, we were down 15 people just due to the flu. Ha!


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#4401166 - 01/21/18 05:31 AM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Haggart]  
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i dont trust governament vaccines anymore, i'm not on the conspiracy level you americans have agaisnt them, but their managment has been ridiculous, 5 years ago the flu shot was expired, then last year the dengue one was not properly done with the vacinne still active, so people who took it, could get complications if they had yellow fever, and now after some doctors spread through whatsapp that the yellow fever innoculation had serious problem, the governament claims they have low stock and are going to divide it in 4 doses......riiiiiiiiiiiight......we ALWAYS have stock of yellow fever, one becouse of the army and its need, two becouse its the only one required for travel abroad, and this following the governament changing its stance that there was no need to panic as there isnt a yellow fever epidemic......to take your shots, there is a epidemic in 2 months lol.

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#4401206 - 01/21/18 03:13 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: JimK]  
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Originally Posted by JimK
Got my Flu shot in Sept. Got the Flu the day after Christmas. Still recovering from it. Sickest I have ever been. When it knocks you down coming out both ends for
hours on end. For 3 days. Have lost 49lbs since June, I`ll bet 30lbs went from getting sick and not being to eat anything without it coming back up. Wife is still sick.


That stinks, dude. I had the stomach flu over Christmas, too, and it was no joke. Six days of running to the toilet, and three running to the sink. Ugh. Hope you recover.

#4401208 - 01/21/18 03:19 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Haggart]  
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I have never gotten a Flu shot since I was a child and I have never gotten the flu, even when my roommates got it I would be mildly annoyed by some light symptoms and then be over it whereas they would be miserable for a week. Maybe that is why it doesn't seem to affect me, I've been exposed to a weakened strain and fought it off easily?


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#4401210 - 01/21/18 03:22 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Haggart]  
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Every year while in the Marine Corps, I got the flu shot. Every year, while in the Marines, I got the flu. I got out in 1989 and haven't got a flu shot since. Nor have I got the flu. After a friend of mine was medically retired due to him getting Guillain-Barré syndrome, I'll never get the flu shot. Ever.


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#4401265 - 01/21/18 09:27 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Haggart]  
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I haven't had a flu shot or the flu for over 15 years; the trick is to stay away from sick people biggrin

#4401280 - 01/21/18 10:46 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Haggart]  
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no shots since Coast Guard mandatory shots in 1975, and no flu since. not much close contact with people, especially children.


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#4401294 - 01/21/18 11:50 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Haggart]  
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Just going back to the title makes me LOL....

"Hope you got your flu shots... coz you're getting the flu anyway!!"

I hate getting my shots because I feel so miserable afterwards. "Oh, but the flu vaccine doesn't give you the flu!" Still doesn't stop it from making me feel like the bottom of a bedpan though! A few years ago, they had to offer 4 hours of holiday time to increase the uptake of the vaccine biggrin


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#4401309 - 01/22/18 12:44 AM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Haggart]  
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#4401350 - 01/22/18 11:47 AM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Nixer]  
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Originally Posted by Nixer
Where I live, the trick is to stay away from Yankee snowbirds.



That line keeps migrating further north and north each year. Eventually you will have to live in Jacksonville, Tallahassee or some other city in "southern Georgia". wink


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#4401353 - 01/22/18 12:29 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: - Ice]  
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Originally Posted by - Ice
Just going back to the title makes me LOL....

"Hope you got your flu shots... coz you're getting the flu anyway!!"

I hate getting my shots because I feel so miserable afterwards. "Oh, but the flu vaccine doesn't give you the flu!" Still doesn't stop it from making me feel like the bottom of a bedpan though! A few years ago, they had to offer 4 hours of holiday time to increase the uptake of the vaccine biggrin


Ice, my father (and to a lesser extent my wife) like you, reacted badly to the vaccine, but he was told the reaction is in direct proportion to the degree of prostration contracting the virus would have caused him. Media here, as you know have been rumour-mongering that the batch issued this year is non-effective.
As you a nursing professional I would be interested to read your opinion on that.



#4401460 - 01/23/18 10:33 AM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: Haggart]  
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What? About the prostration? biggrin Or the degree of non-effectiveness?


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#4401498 - 01/23/18 03:41 PM Re: Hope You Got Your Flu Shots [Re: JoeyJoJo]  
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Originally Posted by JoeyJoJo
I haven't had a flu shot or the flu for over 15 years; the trick is to stay away from sick people biggrin


If only i had that luxury !


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