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Thread: Please get a flu vaccine
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01-16-2018, 02:07 PM #51
Did some reading on the flu pandemic of 1918 the other day. It resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million (three to five percent of the world's population), making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.
Interesting how the virus attacked the young & healthy by turning their healthy immune system against them:
There are several possible explanations for the high mortality rate of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Some research suggests that the specific variant of the virus had an unusually aggressive nature. One group of researchers recovered the virus from the bodies of frozen victims, and found that transfection in animals caused a rapid progressive respiratory failure and death through a cytokine storm (overreaction of the body's immune system). It was then postulated that the strong immune reactions of young adults ravaged the body, whereas the weaker immune systems of children and middle-aged adults resulted in fewer deaths among those groups.[11]
1918 flu pandemic“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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01-16-2018, 02:11 PM #52
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01-16-2018, 02:19 PM #53
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01-16-2018, 02:23 PM #54
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01-16-2018, 02:27 PM #55
Me and the Mrs. got flu shot. So did my little bro and his wife. So for, knocking on wood, I have not been laid low by the flu. It got my wife, my bro and SIL. But it has also laid waste to the company I work for. And most people got the flu shot, but as has been mentioned it's the wrong strain. Can't get it right all the time. One person in my dept. was in the hospital for 3 days it was so bad. She was out almost two weeks, and just came back today. Wash those hands with soap, and don't touch anything! Now, where's my can of Lysol!?
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01-16-2018, 02:50 PM #56
The nasal spray flu vaccine (live attenuated influenza vaccine or LAIV) should not be used during 2017-2018.
Deadly flu sweeps across Texas“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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01-16-2018, 02:59 PM #57
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01-16-2018, 03:30 PM #60Funky But Chic
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01-16-2018, 03:34 PM #62www.dpsskis.com
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01-16-2018, 03:41 PM #63Funky But Chic
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01-16-2018, 03:47 PM #64
By Al Gore with a hair dryer?
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01-16-2018, 03:52 PM #65Funky But Chic
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I remembered this article, but holy fuck it's 20 years old! Look at the memory on this kid here.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1.../the-dead-zone
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01-16-2018, 04:11 PM #66www.dpsskis.com
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Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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01-16-2018, 04:38 PM #67
Thank you for your concern.
I have had the Vaccines about 6 times the past 20 years. Had what I am sure was influenza 2x.
I believe in Vaccines for disease such as Polio, Measles etc where you have the Vaccine and are pretty well done.
A Vaccine for a different strain every year? I will pass, thank you again.I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
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01-16-2018, 05:28 PM #68
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01-16-2018, 05:38 PM #69
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01-16-2018, 06:10 PM #70
Iceman knows icemen.
Two separate scientific expeditions recovered tissue samples from victims buried in permafrost in Norway and Alaska. More clues were obtained from lung tissue from a first world war soldier, discovered in a pathology warehouse in Washington DC.
The pic on the article of policemen wearing masks provided by the American Red Cross in Seattle, 1918“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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01-16-2018, 06:21 PM #71
I got a flu shot this year, and I did not get the flu.
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01-16-2018, 06:42 PM #72
Then you, Sir, are winning!
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01-16-2018, 06:45 PM #73
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01-16-2018, 06:49 PM #74“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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01-16-2018, 06:50 PM #75Registered User
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Last time I had the flu (25 years ago?) I had a flu shot.
as someone else pointed out, it's e temporary vaccine targeted to a specific strain. I'd rather take my chances that my immune system and common sense will protect me.
Also questionable are people who overuse hand sanitizer and lysol. Some of the sickest people I know.
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