Flu season may be early

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.

But I just went and got a flu shot.

Might be worth considering.

I had the flu last year. NOT fun. At all.

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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.

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Thanks for the reminder. We usually get our flu shots about this time of year.

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Seemed a little early to me, although I guess not by much.

I found hearing about local cases from my friends to be rather motivating though. :slight_smile:

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”…

2 people from work have already contracted the flu. It’s around.

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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

The flu is dangerous, get your shots

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.

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:rofl:
Looks like the ads are working…

So I’ve been told by the “news”, the ads, etc. Just like I said:

It is not new and improved, it designed for the strains that they expect to be circulation

It is a different vaccine, a vaccine for each year

It is nothing like a new model of car, the older one will still work Last years vaccines
is often little help this year

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. :rofl:

Edit to add sources:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/vaccination/effectiveness-studies.htm
(I know, not scientific since all my sources are really the same one, but hey, this is TALK, not Scientific American!)

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Its not dogma it is FACTS and science Big difference

Say what?

Dogma: something held as an established opinion

Are you saying that “the established opinion” (i.e. “dogma”) is not that people should get flu vaccines annually?

So yo are science and facts to protect your false beliefs

The question is whether there are facts supporting this opinion, or, as the quote says “without adequate grounds”.

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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…

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I am going to bow out before I get rude, Just stay home when you get sick

And you are endangering others when you refuse to get vaccinated There are those thet
can not receive vaccines for REAL reasons

Read up on herd immunity

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Boy, youya’ll’re getting personal quickly these days…

Wait, wait, wait!

Where did I say I “refuse to get vaccinated”?

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lol…Wait 'til she gets going!

Too bad you didn’t do it before you became condescending.




Is science real? It sure is. Should every study or conclusion published simply be believed like it was religious "dogma"? For Eru Ilúvatar's sake, no:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/08/27/researchers-replicate-just-13-of-21-social-science-experiments-published-in-top-journals/?utm_term=.8969ea11a921

Pro tip: don’t take this article as gospel either just because it is in the Washington Post.

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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