Flu?

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:05:48 -0600, BlueBrooke wrote:


enjoy your case of the flu. meanwhile millions of less ignorant people
will enjoy neither the flu or the 'aftermath of the shot.'

your pal,
blake
 
On Jan 26, 9:55?am, blake murphy wrote:

In order to live up to my cruel reputation, I'm going to state that
folks who refuse to get their kids vaccinated DESERVE IT if their
children die of those diseases. If anyone knows someone who doesn't
vaccinate their kid(s), ask them how they'd feel if their kid died
because of their foolishness. Tell the person that (s)he should
picture the child laying in a coffin, and knowing the parent had
killed the child.

--Bryan
 
Bryan wrote:

After plumbing, vaccination is the second greatest medical advance ever.
Folks who decline vaccinations (mature ones not experimental ones)
actively try to spread an epidemic. But try to tell such an idiot they
are responsible for someone else getting sick? Even simply ideas like
contagion are beyonf the kenn of some. Like Einstein said - The only
truly unlimited natural resource is human stupidity.

I get that a tiny number of problems happen with vaccinations. Orders
of magnitude less than the diseases being vaccinated against but not
zero. Reading posts about vaccination makes one thing clear - Many
folks who decline vaccinations have never even met anyone who had a
problem from one and those that have met someone do not themselves have
problems with vaccinations.
 
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Doug Freyburger wrote:


I try not to get too anal about things, although I don't always succeed.
When somebody tells me that they missed one day of work because they had
"THE FLU", I know that they probably did not have a full-blown attack of
the influenza virus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza

"Influenza spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, resulting in
the deaths of between 250,000 and 500,000 people every year,[11] up to
millions in some pandemic years. On average 41,400 people died each year
in the United States between 1979 and 2001 from influenza.[12] In 2010
the CDC in the United States changed the way it reports the 30 year
estimates for deaths. Now they are reported as a range from a low of
about 3,300 deaths to a high of 49,000 per year.[13]

Three influenza pandemics occurred in the 20th century and killed tens
of millions of people, with each of these pandemics being caused by the
appearance of a new strain of the virus in humans."

What they meant was that they had a bad cold or a stomach virus.

But then when it comes time to talk about getting a flu vaccine, people
are still thinking about bad colds and other viruses, not influenza.
They aren't the same. The flu vaccine won't keep you from getting those
things that most people call "the flu", because they aren't.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]
 
On 2/2/2011 9:53 PM, Dan Abel wrote:

I think I've only had a real flu maybe 2 times. You can tell it's a flu
and not the common cold because you're stuck in bed unable to barely
move and shivering and sweating at the same time. You hurt up to your
hair follicles and down to your toenails.
 
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