Influenza
3/4 of the household has the flu. 3/4 of the family had a flu shot. 2/3 of those with flu had flu shots.
Anyway, creeping crud. Feel awful. Talk amongst yourselves.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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January 22nd, 2014 at 4:21 pm
I hate to hear that. You can’t really have the flu though as the flu shot cannot give you the flu. At least according to authorities. Funny how the last time I got the flu was a couple of days after getting a flu shot… Get well.
January 22nd, 2014 at 4:35 pm
I was told there wouldn’t be any math.
January 22nd, 2014 at 4:46 pm
Get well! I’m not sure how I’ve avoided it given I went to an urgent care center for X-rays after Christmas and was about the only one there without the flu.
I guess flu shots do actually work sometimes.
January 22nd, 2014 at 4:48 pm
Local doctor said this years flu shot was ineffective against the current strain.
Make sure everybody stays hydrated.
January 22nd, 2014 at 4:50 pm
Flu shot/mist is a 50/50 thing in my experience. The little bugs mutate so fast that they cannot always get it right 12 months before you take it (the approximate time it takes to manufacture the next batch).
I didn’t get it because I was already down with a cold. So far no flu, but do have bronchitis from something else.
At this point, I don’t think it much matters. I got a 2 and 5 year old in the house and they are like little petri dishes. If it ain’t the flu, it’ll be something else.
January 22nd, 2014 at 5:02 pm
Commiserations. Just got over it. For a week I felt like I was clearing rocks in the hot sun with a whiskey hangover. No cough or sinus to speak of, so I wasn’t even sure what I had. Get well.
January 22nd, 2014 at 6:34 pm
Flu shots are for suckers. And old people and kids.
Meh
January 22nd, 2014 at 7:23 pm
The flu shot can’t give you flu, but if there’s strains going around that aren’t in the shot, you can get those strains. This years vaccine was pretty well matched, but that’s still no guarantee.
January 22nd, 2014 at 8:37 pm
I never get the flu. Yet I work retail. Either I am the luckiest person on earth or I am immune to influenza.
January 22nd, 2014 at 10:34 pm
Ever since I had to take my wife to ER because of a bowel blockage from a flu shot, we have stopped taking flu shots. That was in 1974. We have not had the flu since then and all we do is take supplements and keep our immune systems up. Do your research on flu shots on the Internet–you may want to stop taking them. Of course the government says they are safe. You can trust the government–RIGHT?
January 22nd, 2014 at 10:42 pm
This is the first time I’ve had a flu shot or the flu in about 20 years. Probably not scientific but I figure I know my body.
January 23rd, 2014 at 8:16 am
>Local doctor said this years flu shot was ineffective against the current strain.
See, the CDC won’t get around to telling the public that until well past this years flu season. I mean the exact thing happened just last year. I’m pretty sure the CDC is more than willing to lie on behalf of the manufactures in order to ensure they don’t go out of business before next year.
I really wish someone would make a special flu shot for people who got the flu shot last year. Instead of doubling down on the strains that were in last years vaccine, they could pick three or four entirely new strains to inoculate me with.
Seriously, I would pay for such a vaccine 9 months in advance, giving the flu shot producer a guaranteed profit and zero risk because they get all the money up front.
Everyone looks at me a little funny when I describe my business plan for “boutique vaccinations.”
January 23rd, 2014 at 8:39 am
What you have to do Mischief is show a statistical correlation on the improvements of your method versus the old method. In other words show how much money will be made or saved yearly. Make it about money and they will believe.
January 23rd, 2014 at 9:16 am
@Standard Mischief They’re not really working on that, but there are several companies that are very close to producing broad spectrum flu vaccines through a variety of methods. I’d bet (and am betting since i’ve got some of my portfolio in these companies) that in less than 5 years ineffective flu vaccine will be a thing of the past.
January 23rd, 2014 at 9:17 am
I got the flu a few weeks after the shot last fall – BUT – I recover in a day while my wife was sick for a week.
January 23rd, 2014 at 10:27 am
Flu shot are strictly a statistic game. In most years they stop 80% of the infections. Makes the difference between 20,000 dead and 40,000, in a good year. You’re really not taking it because it will surely protect yourself, but because it reduces the general spread.
January 23rd, 2014 at 10:55 am
The only people I know who’ve gotten the flu this year are 50 who has gotten it . Doesn’t seem to matter this year if you got the shot or not . I got the shot , wife didn’t . Neither of us has gotten the flu even having been around those who have gotten the flu . May be some strain from ages ago with some residual immunity in us old folks .
January 23rd, 2014 at 11:12 am
Wife and baby got the shot… adn 2 days later, got the flu. Same as last year. And the year before.
I on the other hand, didnt get the shot, or the flu.
January 23rd, 2014 at 12:22 pm
Fiance, baby, 7 year old all home sick.
11 year old and myself will be working in the basement tonight. We both made sure we got to school and work today, to get away from said petri dishes.
January 23rd, 2014 at 2:01 pm
I got the shot EVERY year when working EMS.
Now retired, I don’t have to ride in the germ box with sick people or go to the germ building filled with sick people. I’ll get a flu shot now if I’m nearby but I don’t go out of my way for it.
Got one 2 yrs ago, no flu – haven’t had one since, no flu. If the wife, (an ER Nurse), gets sick, I use a cross to keep her at bay…seems to be working so far.
January 23rd, 2014 at 2:05 pm
Good afternoon everyone. My name is John (Hiiii Joooohn!). I have been flu shot free for about 9 years and I’m here today to tell you that with a strong will, vigilance, and a news feed other than The Huffington Post, you too can resist the temptation of finding comfort and solace at the end of needle.–
I’m not really a conspiracy theorist. I just need odds better than 50/50 and “because we told you so” statements to convince me that questionable science trumps eating right, getting enough sleep, washing your hands religiously, and dealing with….life…..which includes getting sick from time to time.
January 23rd, 2014 at 3:28 pm
Conspiracy is anything which happens by being planned and executed by two or more people, and that without checking with us first.
January 23rd, 2014 at 3:38 pm
Have the flu by what diagnostic criteria? Rapid Flu test? Culture?
I love how so many people are sure they have the flu, when the flu is a virus that can cause symptoms EXACTLY like a common cold in some people while causing life threatening illness in another, and most of the time causes a disease somewhere in between.
This years flu vaccine is actually a pretty good match, by all reasonable accounts. I have yet to see a single case of diagnosed, actual flu in anyone that has been vaccinated, but I’m seeing positive rapid flu tests and CXR’s full of fluid daily.
Choosing to not get the flu vaccine today because of a 40 year old reaction that possibly was vaccine related is akin to madness.
Go check the numbers; see how many people died from a vaccine reaction and how many died after receiving vaccine due to the flu, and then compare that statistic with deaths from unvaccinated people.
Conservatives complain the liberals don’t want facts, they want to use squishy, feel good narrative, and yet most of the people reading this blog rate themselves as conservative, and then I see posts like most of those above! Pay attention to the facts, look at the numbers!
No vaccine is 100%. Standard Mischief, your idea won’t work, flu vaccine is only effective short term. Some studies show as short as 3 months in some patients, making it critical WHEN they receive their vaccine. I typically postpone vaccinating my patients until November or December, because the flu season here in the Northwest starts in late December or early January typically. My Snowbird patients get vaccinated in October before heading South.
Get vaccinated, people! This stuff kills people!
January 23rd, 2014 at 7:25 pm
Hey Bill, I’m calling Bullshit alright? I was in the service for ten years and was FORCED to get the flu shot. Guess what? Got sick with the flu are whatever you wanna call it (I felt like shit) almost every year. Been out for 20 now and had two flu shots. I’ve had the flu 4 times.
Fuck the flu shot. Eat right, get your ass up at 0400 and work out and live.
Fin
January 24th, 2014 at 12:50 pm
Get injected with something that may or may not work, will only work for a short time if it does, and as a side effect may make me sick as a dog? I think I’ll take my chances without the vaccine.