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re: Anybody else get a flu shot this year and catch the flu?
Posted on 2/19/19 at 5:55 pm to RealityTiger
Posted on 2/19/19 at 5:55 pm to RealityTiger
I have a resting heart rate of 45, my BP is 110/70, I'm 6'1 and 195 lbs of well tuned man with a beautiful blonde beard. I laugh at medicine.
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Posted on 2/19/19 at 5:56 pm to RealityTiger
Saw stats last week, 47% effectiveness as measured as only decreasing the severity, NOT as preventing getting the flu.
Last year the shot was only 40% effective, again at lessening the severity, not prevention.
The CDC has given up on "prevention" terminology. So it really is total BS medical providers firing workers for refusing to lessen their severity. Of course anyone, in any industry, should not be going to work and coming into contact with anyone else when they have been exposed to the flu.
According to the CDC's own words, the flu shot only lessens the severity under 50% of the time historically. CDC Avg of VE column 40.81 (VE = Vaccine Effectiveness, which again is severity not infection rate)
Highest ever "effectiveness" = 60%, lowest = 10%
Last year the shot was only 40% effective, again at lessening the severity, not prevention.
The CDC has given up on "prevention" terminology. So it really is total BS medical providers firing workers for refusing to lessen their severity. Of course anyone, in any industry, should not be going to work and coming into contact with anyone else when they have been exposed to the flu.
According to the CDC's own words, the flu shot only lessens the severity under 50% of the time historically. CDC Avg of VE column 40.81 (VE = Vaccine Effectiveness, which again is severity not infection rate)
Highest ever "effectiveness" = 60%, lowest = 10%
Posted on 2/19/19 at 5:59 pm to RealityTiger
1. I do not have the flu. My wife and 7 year old have it.
2. It's been weeks since we got the shot, so it's not that the shot gave it to them.
So if the shot is simply based on last year's virus and may or may not be effective at all for this year's strain, why is there such a push to get the shot? You would think it was a no brainer the way people push you towards getting the shot. Almost like it's 100% effective protection.
I've been on the side of those saying, "just get the shot and shut up", but this kind of changes my mind on that a little bit.
2. It's been weeks since we got the shot, so it's not that the shot gave it to them.
So if the shot is simply based on last year's virus and may or may not be effective at all for this year's strain, why is there such a push to get the shot? You would think it was a no brainer the way people push you towards getting the shot. Almost like it's 100% effective protection.
I've been on the side of those saying, "just get the shot and shut up", but this kind of changes my mind on that a little bit.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:00 pm to ThatMakesSense
quote:I'm sure your boyfriend thinks you're just a Greek God(dess).
I'm 6'1 and 195 lbs of well tuned man with a beautiful blonde beard
Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:01 pm to RealityTiger
But 2 didn’t get the flu....
Hmmmm
Hmmmm
Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:01 pm to RealityTiger
Don’t worry man. I got the placebo as well this year.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:01 pm to RealityTiger
quote:
I'm sure your boyfriend thinks you're just a Greek God(dess).
Quit flirting with me.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:02 pm to memphis tiger
quote:Starting to think exactly that too.
the placebo
Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:02 pm to RealityTiger
Clean your house and wash your hands more often.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:05 pm to AlceeFortier
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zpac does nothing for a virus.
This! Had a co-worker sick recently comes back from doc proclaiming it was diagnosed as viral, non contagious, and he was given a Z Pak. Meanwhile he's hacking around everyone and proclaiming it's viral thus not contagious. I wanted to ask if it was the HIV. As the cold inevitably made its way around the office he kept telling everyone to go to the doc and get checked out and come back if it's a virus because that means your not contagious. WTF?!
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Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:05 pm to RealityTiger
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Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:06 pm to ExtraGravy
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Flu is the #8 leading cause of death in the United States.
Wish we could give a shot to fat people.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:07 pm to TorchtheFlyingTiger
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Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:07 pm to RealityTiger
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But all 4 members of my family got the flu shot this year, and 2 of us have the flu right now. What the frick man?
I haven't had a flu shot in over 10 years and have gotten the flu once.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:08 pm to ThatMakesSense
Come on buddy, you can't troll on top of a troll. 
Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:09 pm to RealityTiger
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Come on buddy, you can't troll on top of a troll. ?
Saying people die from flu is misleading. Same as saying people die from being fat.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:15 pm to RealityTiger
It is a fact that flu viruses change.
There are three going around.
Three.
If your vaccination was for type b, you could still get type a.
If your vaccination was for h1n1 and you caught something else that explains it.
Repeat after me, there were 3 main kinds of flu and I don't know which ones I was immunized against. And they change a little.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:17 pm to RealityTiger
Flu shot is a scam. Haven’t gotten it in 12 years and haven’t had the flu since I last got it
Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:18 pm to CelticDog
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and I don't know which ones I was immunized against
I line up to be injected with unknown substances.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 6:22 pm to RealityTiger
Yes, family of 4 all got flu shots and 3 tested positive for Influenza A last week
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