It’s not that I take the flu lightly. The only time I’ve been hospitalized for an illness is for a case of the flu. I got one of the strains they didn’t vaccinate for that year. I hate to think of how sick I’d’ve been without the partial immunity conferred by the shot. That said, I still won’t be the first in line for the first batch of vaccine. Not unless the mortality rate get a heckuva lot higher.
“Not unless the mortality rate get a heckuva lot higher.”
Please, everyone, understand this:
We don’t know the mortality rate of this flu yet. We haven’t had enough cases outside of Mexico yet.
I urge all due caution here. Not panic, but caution. Do not blow this off yet. You may live to regret it. Or not.
Maybe it will turn out to be a non-event. Or not. WE DON’T KNOW YET.
I’ve never had the flu and neither has anyone in my family or any of my close friends. 3 of my friends took the flu shot and were sick for a week. They said never again. If you eat healthy, use Purell on your hands 3-4 times a day, stay away from others that are sick the odds are in your favor you won’t get it. If you do, your body should be able to fight it unless it’s a rare killer strain.
The reason this one may be hitting the younger hardest is that they don’t have antibodies from other viruses that they haven’t had yet. The common cold is actually thousands of different viruses. Each time you get a cold from the time you are a baby and on, you build up antibodies to that virus and similar ones. That’s why kids always have colds and adults have them less and less as they get older.