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Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: Westy on September 20, 2004, 02:14:38 PM
Run.    Don't walk.....


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/191418_flu18.html
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: Nilsen on September 20, 2004, 02:45:42 PM
flu shots are just silly
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: Scootter on September 20, 2004, 02:50:37 PM
Kinda makes ya go......  hmmmm


Might get one this year, we are over due and thats something I heard for the last few years about hurricanes.  

Note where I live... ouch!
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: Thrawn on September 20, 2004, 03:21:05 PM
Didn't feel like doing my part to make a super virus.
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: Skuzzy on September 20, 2004, 03:22:36 PM
Never had one in my entire life.  Not sure why I should start.
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: Nilsen on September 20, 2004, 03:28:42 PM
You should not start. Your imune system is better off in the long run if you let it handle things like this.
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: Westy on September 20, 2004, 03:39:04 PM
I'm not really advocating a flu shot. I've never gotten one either. Never felt the need.  Thought about one as I read what the doctors and scientist want to do that's for sure.


Essentially my remark was more a reflection of my concern  that there is a group which wants to cultivate and study the influenza virus from the 1918 pandemic.  In a major US city to boot!   Reports on the 1918-1919 outbreak say 20-40 milion died. that's no common cold they're playing with.
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: AKS\/\/ulfe on September 20, 2004, 03:42:08 PM
Shot? My doctors been giving me suppositories...
-SW
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: Thrawn on September 20, 2004, 03:45:49 PM
Did they shave your scrot?
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: SOB on September 20, 2004, 03:46:08 PM
I thought FunkedUp told you to quit calling him "doctor".
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: AKS\/\/ulfe on September 20, 2004, 04:12:06 PM
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-SW
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: Ripsnort on September 20, 2004, 04:47:08 PM
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Originally posted by SOB
I thought FunkedUp told you to quit calling him "doctor".


Doc Ameristalk?
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: vorticon on September 20, 2004, 05:17:08 PM
nope, and im not gonna get one either. the worst that can happen (nowadays anyway) is a week of feeling ****ty, only 1 of which is bad enough to stop you from doing anything.

of  course it takes about me about 1-2 weeks after any illness breaks out to get it, and when i do im down for less than half the time as anyone else. presumably because most light colds and the like i merely ignore, or treat any annoying symptoms (havea cold right now, just drink peppermint tea every now and again to keep my nose clear, and drinking small amounts of RealLemon(tm) everynow and again to kill the sore throat.)
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: lasersailor184 on September 20, 2004, 05:23:47 PM
I've never gotten a flu shot or a flu for that matter.  They just don't affect me.


However, a Cold will drop me like a rock out of a 3 story window.  If there was a vaccine for colds I'd be first in line.
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: Sandman on September 20, 2004, 06:07:57 PM
Doctor:  Have you ever had an adverse reaction to this medication?
Me:  Yes, as a matter of fact. I got the flu.
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: DieAz on September 20, 2004, 06:14:42 PM
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Originally posted by lasersailor184
 If there was a vaccine for colds I'd be first in line.


they never will have a vaccine for colds.

like the flu, colds mutate, but a lot faster than flu does.

and there is nothing wrong with getting a flu shot, unless you are allergic to the components in the vaccine.

one other thing, the vaccine for flu, will not protect anyone from the 1918 version of the virus unless it is made from the 1918 virus.
and as some pointed out, it may not be a flu virus.

oh and the flu shot won't give you the flu, if properly prepared.
the symptoms will be like a mild case of flu because your immune system is attacking dead virus. that is the way the body builds up immunity

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;-)
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: DieAz on September 20, 2004, 06:20:19 PM
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Originally posted by Sandman
Doctor:  Have you ever had an adverse reaction to this medication?
Me:  Yes, as a matter of fact. I got the flu.



lol I was typing a long reply and spell checking when you threw this in.
this is a common misconception.
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: Halo on September 20, 2004, 06:24:08 PM
Read the link.  This isn't about annual flu shots.  It's about reviving the 1918 worldwide killer flu epidemic bug in the name of "research."

First reaction:  Let sleeping dogs (bugs) lie.

Second reaction:  Oh good, give terrorists another target.

We've seen this movie before -- "Go ahead, sweetheart, pull the stake out of the monster's heart.  It's okay, it's ... dead ..."
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: DieAz on September 20, 2004, 06:43:22 PM
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Originally posted by Halo
Read the link.  This isn't about annual flu shots.  It's about reviving the 1918 worldwide killer flu epidemic bug in the name of "research."
 



thread title "get your flu shot yet?"
link is to his reason why.

not bothering to repeat what I just posted while ago, in this thread.
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: DREDIOCK on September 20, 2004, 06:57:59 PM
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Originally posted by Halo
Read the link.  This isn't about annual flu shots.  It's about reviving the 1918 worldwide killer flu epidemic bug in the name of "research."

First reaction:  Let sleeping dogs (bugs) lie.

Second reaction:  Oh good, give terrorists another target.

We've seen this movie before -- "Go ahead, sweetheart, pull the stake out of the monster's heart.  It's okay, it's ... dead ..."


Hold the phone a min here the idea may have some merit.

First we can infect one of these detainiees we have down in guantanimo. Then we can let him go home. Hell we can let a couple go home to their perspective countries Such as Iraq,Sadia Arabia.
Hell maybe we can even send one to France LOL
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: myelo on September 21, 2004, 07:44:07 AM
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Originally posted by Halo
Read the link.  This isn't about annual flu shots.  


You want us to read the link? Next thing somebody will want us to start reading the contents of the posts.

Here's how it works: We read the thread title and fire off a post with the first thing that pops into our head.

You new around here?
Title: Get your flu shot yet?
Post by: Fishu on September 21, 2004, 08:11:36 AM
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Hold the phone a min here the idea may have some merit.

First we can infect one of these detainiees we have down in guantanimo. Then we can let him go home. Hell we can let a couple go home to their perspective countries Such as Iraq,Sadia Arabia.
Hell maybe we can even send one to France LOL


Your soldiers comes home from middle east and boom..  you have it in america. smart :rolleyes:

Even the most radical leaders up to date have stayed away from biological warfare which involves infectious bacterias or viruses, because those simply cannot be limited to certain areas.
Unpredictable at the best.
You don't want to kill yourself with those...

Doesn't matter that much after your own people are infected with it, which explains the biological warfare in the past.
Like catapulting dead bodies to the enemy fort or giving infected material to indians.