As my mother in law used to say…”blow it out your barracks bag”
The symptoms appear identical to standard flu symptoms.
so it’s flu that they just added Super to to scare people like usual ?
“Super flu” == scare the sheep into compliance.
Symptoms listed:
These can include:
High fever
Fatigue
Severe body aches
Sore throat
Chills
Runny or congested nose
Vomiting or diarrhea
While seemingly similar to flus of previous years, experts note a disturbing difference.
“Symptoms that are very intense, they come on really, really rapidly,” Dr. Kravitz added. “It’s very contagious, so it is spreading quickly through communities.”
So, now is called the “super flu”?
We’re making progress.
Don’t be obese and you almost always will be ok. I know. It’s what I do for a living.
No mention of deaths in the scare headline or first sentence?
C’mon man.
Estimated Effectiveness: Early estimates suggest that the flu vaccine may be 30% to 40% effective in adults and 70% to 75% effective in children at preventing severe illness that requires medical attention.
I've had excellent success with flu vaccines, and I'll continue to get them. The Fluzone high dose that we septuagenarians get works just fine.
Even if I do get this flu (subclade K), I'm betting that the H3N1 antigens in the vaccine will assist my immune system into attenuating the severity and duration of the disease, although I'd be surprised that it got bad enough to notice.
To each his/her own.
Already changed holiday plans because of this.
I just git over a two and a half week respiratory bug.
Sore throat
Sore ears (although not bad)
On and off hoarseness
Dry cough (until the end where it became productive)
Occasional sneezing fits
On and off runny nose
No obvious fever.
SUPER FLU!!!
SUPER FLU VORTEX!!!
SUPER FLU ATMOSPHERIC SUPER RIVER FLU!!!
Women and minorities hardest hit.
At my doc appointment this morning I was offered both a flu and pneumonia vax
I said no thanx
( like I do every doc visit )
I’m pretty confident I’m not gonna die cuz of no vax.
And I’m not susceptible to fake news flu fear porn either.
It’s not the flu’s super theat or not as super that matters
It’s my immune systems strength that matters
So increase hospitalizations to make the flu seem worse than it is and stoke fear in the public so they run out and get the flu vax.
My understanding is that it’s going around in the schools here in NH and in some schools almost 1/4 of the student body is out.
By the time February is here, the flu should be a nonstarter as everyone will be immune because they had it already..
FLUSo, does having this year’s flu shot offer any protection?
Indeed, My wife had to go to the Emergency Room and she brought the flu home.
So much for getting my annual flu shot.
Still not getting any vaxxes..take your vitamins.