The Flu Is So Hot Right Now!

[Crocop42]

it's the new thing, and everyone is getting it.


in ny, the flu taking the media by storm. it's the only thing i'm hearing about right now. I have noticed a flu outbreak in people around me. why is the flu shot being pumped so much right now. everything and everyone is telling me to get the flu shot. i don't want it, and i will not get it (i'm going to edit this when i get the flu). for some reason it scares the hell out of me.
from my very, very basic knowledge of on anything science, i think i've heard that a virus will always adapt. the flu seems to mutate at a very high pace. i've heard the vaccine they're pumping out isn't even for the strain that people are getting now.

is it like this everywhere? i'm getting that generic mutated/medical mishap movie/video game feeling from this scenario.

 

[ufcfan4]

It's going to end with a desolate Time square and will smith battling a bunch of flu zombies.

 

[Malas]

Pretty sure it's terrible in Illinois, where I am.

I haven't gotten it yet, but I'm starting to hear stories close to me.

 

[MortalWombat]

Lol. Quick check - are we talking The Flu, or just one of the various urti's that get labelled "The Flu" by the uninformed?


Either way, wash your hands, kiddies.

 

[thebluerider]

i got da flu shot im impervious

 

[Fawlty]

Watch out for pneumonia after you think you feel better. That's kicking a lot of asses right now.

 

[Dinkin_Flicka]

It's been going through our office, but I got the shot a few months back. Still planning on taking a few fake sick days this week though.

 

[Malas]

Watch out for pneumonia after you think you feel better. That's kicking a lot of asses right now.

My great-grandmother fought through that about a month or so ago.

 

[JonesBones]

in before conspiracy theorists think it is a fear mongering plot by big pharma and vaccines are poison.

 

[GSPOAB]

I aint catching shit, my immune system is sick.

 

[JonesBones]

Watch out for pneumonia after you think you feel better. That's kicking a lot of asses right now.

You can get a vaccine for that that lasts for life. I think I'm gonna get one at my next doctor appointment. That shit is not to be fucked with. Never had it but don;t want it either.

 

[feedmelies]

You can get a vaccine for that that lasts for life. I think I'm gonna get one at my next doctor appointment. That shit is not to be fucked with. Never had it but don;t want it either.

How does that work? I thought the flu virus constantly mutated?

 

[JonesBones]

How does that work? I thought the flu virus constantly mutated?

I was referring to the pneumonia vaccine that lasts for life. They reformulate the flu vaccine every year, and you have to get a new one every year.

 

[Fawlty]

I don't think I'd put faith into a lifetime flu shot just yet. Eventually we'll have one and the flu will be a memory, but we've only had this huge annual flu shot program for a relatively short time.

ed: you meant pneumonia, nevermind. I didn't know we had one of those, interesting.

 

[Vitamin C]

You can get a vaccine for that that lasts for life. I think I'm gonna get one at my next doctor appointment. That shit is not to be fucked with. Never had it but don;t want it either.

Pneumonia is the inflammation of alveoli in the lungs, and may be caused by any number of viruses or bacteria.

edit; just looked it up. Seemed to my knowledge something that shouldn't be possible (One shot in a lifetime.) That is what they are saying, though in Alberta you cannot get it if you are under 65.

 

[El Chimpo]

havent had the flu.....ever

 

[Nihongi]

just coming off of a bad one myself and its been going around my job as well.

 

[LS1Rx7]

It's not pnemonia but a bad cough seems to be going around more so than the flu

 

[Josh]

Pneumonia is the inflammation of alveoli in the lungs, and may be caused by any number of viruses or bacteria.

True that. There is a vaccine for some of the more common bacterial pneumonias, but calling it a pneumonia vaccine is a bit of a stretch.

 

[Bullitt68]

That swine flu thing a few years ago freaked everyone out, and ever since, flu coverage has increased to much more than it used to be, at least that I've noticed. And I care just as much now as I ever did, and that's not at all. I just go about my business, and if I get sick, I let my body do what it's supposed to do: Fight it and get stronger.