I’m hearing from friends that there are already flu cases around. One picked it up at a convention on the west coast last week. Others note school teacher friends are already seeing it in students.
Not a doctor. Do not play one on TV. Your mileage may vary.
Thanks for the heads up. I already know of someone whose kid has the flu but I wondered if they were just horribly unlucky. Making appointments for flu shots for everyone ASAP tomorrow morning.
Also - just my personal experience - Tamiflu is amazing if you do get the flu and get to the doctor early enough. I rush to the doctor the second I think I have the flu.
Didn’t realise it is ever NOT flu season anymore…
I view flu vaccinations like new car models. Nothing’s really changed, but the ads claim “all new and improved” and “time to trade in last year’s model for this year’s, even if you think it’s still good”…
The flu changes every year, that is why we need a different vaccines each year
Some years that do a good job of guessing what strains will be going around and sometimes
they dont get it as good They tend to look for what strains are active in other parts of the world
Your view is ill informed at best. ( That is an excercise in diplomacy, which is one of my weaker skill sets. )
The flu changes considerably each year. The production process for each year’s vaccine takes 5-6 months, so there is a certain amount of guesswork involved. Often this is an imperfect process. It’s still better than not having the vaccine.
If you disagree, by all means skip the shot this year. Please stay away from DMS if you contract the flu as a result. Sharing is not a plus in this case.
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
If “it is different every year, a vaccine for each year”, how, exactly, is it not “new and improved” annually or so?
I beg to differ on this point, too.
By the CDC’s own numbers, “this year”'s vaccine isn’t all that effective, at around 50% or so since records have been kept. That’s about what one would expect when one has a binary outcome…
Mostly, I think it’s funny there are objections to my analogy, even though I in no way opposed your dogma nor the assertion that we should all rush right out and get “this year’s model”, whether I agree with either or not.
That is not the question; note the other parts of the first definition, both of which preceded this, of which the “adequate grounds” plays no part.
Irrespective of that, I did not counter the {whatever we will call the thing we are not calling dogma but which is the prevailing opinion}, did I?
I did not say “don’t do it!” did I?
Because, generally, what you do to your body on your own time is none of my business, I did not.
I simply stated my vantage point when gazing across this particular landscape.
Apparently that hit some nerves.
And gave me a good laugh.
Still is…
Did you notice what type of studies they were Social studies, those are always subject to a lot
of built in bias
There is a huge difference between that type of study and studies in lab science
I see that used to support anti vaxxers, anti biotech and climate change deniers and even those
pushing come conspiracy theories