Flu Jab. Have you had yours yet?

[Captain Nemesis]

... 'virus' ...

Please stop denying the existence of Covid-19.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

Yawn ... that old "it's not been tested yet" argument is getting a bit old now. Especially when it is scaremongering *******s.

But thats what he does.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

Have you had yours yet?

Had mine on Saturday at the GP.

Should get my Covid vaccination booster around the end of the month.

 

[ajohn]

Odd thing about flu. Lots think they have had it and then one day actually do catch it. That is likely to truly put flu into perspective.

Some recent additions to the stats on covid due to looking at true reinfection provide another perspective on that. It suggests 6,000,000 have been infected. Not a large number really compared with our actual population size. Misleading etc, maybe but still an interesting number.

 

[noseall]

Got my Flu jab in a couple of weeks.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Odd thing about flu. Lots think they have had it and then one day actually do catch it. That is likely to truly put flu into perspective.

Some recent additions to the stats on covid due to looking at true reinfection provide another perspective on that. It suggests 6,000,000 have been infected. Not a large number really compared with our actual population size. Misleading etc, maybe but still an interesting number.

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SWMBO claimed she had flu last week, it never kept her in bed, nor off work - so she insisted it was flu when I insisted she just had a common cold. Instead I am now calling it 'women's flu'.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Yes, and as she has proved, it's no match for man-flu.

 

[Notch7]

Had my flu jab a couple of weeks ago, it was 1 minute after my wife had hers.

 

[JP_]

Some people do get a mild flu, and some people get really bad colds, so sometimes hard to tell apart.
I think I've only have flu once, was knocked out for a week. What I remember most is total loss of appetite, and just pretty much sleeping and drinking water for about 4 days before I felt ready to eat, by which time I was very weak

 

[Brigade77]

I've had the flu 2x so far & I don't ever want it again. At my age I truly reckon it is what will likely kill me, now that shot by a jealous husband is out the window

Someone at sometime decides what particular strain of flu will be popular this winter & mocks up a jolly good injection to defeat it.

We know from our history that this is all nonsense.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Odd thing about flu. Lots think they have had it and then one day actually do catch it. That is likely to truly put flu into perspective.

Yes, that's exactly what happened to me. Very occasionally had flu lite over the years then 7 years ago it was the real thing. Having lungs with what sounded like a couple of pints of fluid rattling away, passing out on a couple of occasions, literally steaming hot one minute then freezing the next, I can easily see how older people end up in hospital with it.

The previous bouts were just a trial run.

 

[JP_]

Reminds me of something I read the other day, criticising the suggestion that when we are in "endemic" phase we're OK. They mentioned how people think Spanish Flu went away, but it never did, it's just that there is more immunity and the strain changed and is sometimes in the flu vaccines.

"But every so often, direct descendants of the 1918 flu combined with bird flu or swine flu to create powerful new pandemic strains, which is exactly what happened in 1957, 1968 and 2009. Those later flu outbreaks, all created in part by the 1918 virus, claimed millions of additional lives, earning the 1918 flu the odious title of “the mother of all pandemics.”"
https://www.history.com/news/1918-flu-pandemic-never-ended​

 

[Brigade77]

Most of us have absorbed more knowledge about science & medicine these past 2yrs than any other generation ever has in history.

Yet you still cannot grasp science & medicine.

Spanish flu has been mentioned & yet most folk cannot comprehend that Covid19 isn't even a hair on the gnats gonads of Spanish flu.

Scientifically, medically & mathematically, Covid19 isn't virusX. Spanish flu came very close, but even that wasn't enuff.

Take a virus like ebola. Ebola is far more deadlier than Covid19 & we know from our MSM that ebola outbreaks can & do happen occasionally.

Could you all please use your new found knowledge of science & medicine to understand why ebola cannot possibly ever be virus X.

When/if you can work that out, maybe then you qualify to discuss Covid19 & the possibility that this is either the greatest threat humanity has faced so far . . . Or it is just one big hoax that takes all of our money & gives it to a small percentage of people.

 

[JP_]

this is either the greatest threat humanity has faced so far . . . Or it is just one big hoax

Or, what is far more likely, somewhere in-between.

I have not heard a single person, before you, describe it as "the greatest threat humanity". But a lot of idiots think it's a hoax.

Yes, it is not as bad as Spanish flu was. But, maybe that is partly because, when Spanish flu came about, people were still moving in masses following WW1, there was no lockdown, social distancing - people didn't understand the spread of such viruses so well, and of course, no vaccine at the time. If Spanish flu arrive today, then maybe it would have only killed 5 million instead of 50 million.

However, we also need to remember that, although Covid seems over for us in the UK, it is far from over in many countries where vaccine rates are still in the low single percentages. e.g Nigeria, 0.9%; Ethiopia, 0.8%. In India, only 17.9% vaccinate. There is still a long way to go, and ....

 

[JohnD]

Had my flu jab a couple of weeks ago, it was 1 minute after my wife had hers.

my GP suggests I have it at the same time as a COVID booster, but not until 6 months after I had my second jab.