You May Need Three Flu Shots This Year

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[sionnsar]

No. I am counting angels on the head of a pin that whole week.

Good luck with that. The upper limit is in the vicinity of 3.6E14 or 360 million million angels. You're counting over half a billion angels a second, 24/7, for that week.

[Glenn]

So I will have none.

[erman]

I've never got a 'flu vaccine" .. wash hands, wipe down phones and keyboards that are used and avoid touching my face or mouth with hands if they haven't been washed. Can't do to much about someone coughing in your face other than wash off your face, try to clean the inside of your nose with some water as you wash off your face and a lot of upper respiratory infections can be avoided.

The key is trying to avoid stuff that's been touched by someone with the virus in their nose and lungs. It's like a giant "coodie" game.... avoid the coodies and maybe you'll avoid the flu.

If you're immunocompromised, elderly at risk for pneumonia or taking meds that will suppress your immune response then you might want to consider it. I don't live in dorms, barracks and avoid crowded areas but that's just me.

Some may get the flu vaccine but I'm just not one of them... IMHO.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

They’re offering it in our private school, and I can’t believe how many people have signed up for their kids to receive them.

[TNdandelion]

That's probably it. I'm just not that surprised with the 3dose regiment. Other vaccines require multiple dosing (Gardisil, Hep A) and boosters.

I'm not getting the flu shot for other reasons, not because it requires 3 jabs.

[Cicero]

Well, I’ve been getting an annual flu shot for about 20 years, on doctor’s recommendation. Good to hear that I can do that this fall, but don’t need to do the swine flu shot, since it’s separate. I think I’ll wait on that one and see how it works out.

Not that it will be easy to tell, with the people who collect the statistics pretty much under the control of Big Government. If there are deaths, is anyone going to make a reliable count of how many are due to the flu and how many to the vaccine? Is the press likely to investigate and double check, with their Holy Idol Obama’s reputation at risk? I doubt it.

[smokingfrog]

101 WAYS TO SAY “NO”
I’d love to, but...

1 I have to floss my cat.
2 I’ve dedicated my life to linguini.
3 I want to spend more time with my blender.
4 the President said he might drop in.
5 the man on television told me to say tuned.
6 I’ve been scheduled for a karma transplant.
7 I’m staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture.
8 it’s my parakeet’s bowling night.
9 it wouldn’t be fair to the other Beautiful People.
10 I’m building a pig from a kit.
11 I did my own thing and now I’ve got to undo it.
12 I’m enrolled in aerobic scream therapy.
13 there’s a disturbance in the Force.
14 I’m doing door-to-door collecting for static cling.
15 I have to go to the post office to see if I’m still wanted.
16 I’m teaching my ferret to yodel.
17 I have to check the freshness dates on my dairy products.
18 I’m going through cherry cheesecake withdrawl.
19 I’m planning to go downtown to try on gloves.
20 my crayons all melted together.
21 I’m trying to see how long I can go without saying yes.
22 I’m in training to be a household pest.
23 I’m getting my overalls overhauled.
24 my patent is pending.
25 I’m attending the opening of my garage door.
26 I’m sandblasting my oven.
27 I’m worried about my vertical hold.
28 I’m going down to the bakery to watch the buns rise.
29 I’m being deported.
30 the grunion are running.
31 I’ll be looking for a parking space.
32 my Millard Filmore Fan Club meets then.
33 the monsters haven’t turned blue yet, and I have to eat more dots.
34 I’m taking punk totem pole carving.
35 I have to fluff my shower cap.
36 I’m converting my calendar watch from Julian to Gregorian.
37 I’ve come down with a really horrible case of something or other.
38 I made an appointment with a cuticle specialist.
39 my plot to take over the world is thickening.
40 I have to fulfill my potential.
41 I don’t want to leave my comfort zone.
42 it’s too close to the turn of the century.
43 I have some real hard words to look up in the dictionary.
44 my subconscious says no.
45 I’m giving nuisance lessons at a convenience store.
46 I left my body in my other clothes.
47 the last time I went, I never came back.
48 I’ve got a Friends of Rutabaga meeting.
49 I have to answer all of my “occupant” letters.
50 none of my socks match.
51 I have to be on the next train to Bermuda.
52 I’m having all my plants neutered.
53 people are blaming me for the Spanish-American War.
54 I changed the lock on my door and now I can’t get out.
55 I’m making a home movie called “The Thing That Grew in My Refrigerator.”
56 I’m attending a perfume convention as guest sniffer.
57 my yucca plant is feeling yucky.
58 I’m touring China with a wok band.
59 my chocolate-appreciation class meets that night.
60 I never go out on days that end in “Y.”
61 my mother would never let me hear the end of it.
62 I’m running off to Yugoslavia with a foreign-exchange student named Basil Metabolism.
63 I just picked up a book called “Glue in Many Lands” and I can’t put it down.
64 I’m too old/young for that stuff.
65 I have to wash/condition/perm/curl/tease/torment my hair.
66 I have too much guilt.
67 there are important world issues that need worrying about.
68 I have to draw “Cubby” for an art scholarship.
69 I’m uncomfortable when I’m alone or with others.
70 I promised to help a friend fold road maps.
71 I feel a song coming on.
72 I’m trying to be less popular.
73 my bathroom tiles need grouting.
74 I have to bleach my hare.
75 I’m waiting to see if I’m already a winner.
76 I’m writing a love letter to Richard Simmons.
77 you know how we psychos are.
78 my favorite commercial is on TV.
79 I have to study for a blood test.
80 I’m going to be old someday.
81 I’ve been traded to Cincinnati.
82 I’m observing National Apathy Week.
83 I have to rotate my crops.
84 my uncle escaped again.
85 I’m up to my elbows in waxy buildup.
86 I have to knit some dust bunnies for a charity bazaar.
87 I’m having my baby shoes bronzed.
88 I have to go to court for kitty littering.
89 I’m going to count the bristles in my toothbrush.
90 I have to thaw some karate chops for dinner.
91 having fun gives me prickly heat.
92 I’m going to the Missing Persons Bureau to see if anyone is looking for me.
93 I have to jog my memory.
94 my palm reader advised against it.
95 my Dress For Obscurity class meets then.
96 I have to stay home and see if I snore.
97 I prefer to remain an enigma.
98 I think you want the OTHER [your name] .
99 I have to sit up with a sick ant.
100 I’m trying to cut down.
101 ... well, maybe.

[mysterio]

You May Need Three Flu Shots This Year

Fine by me; I will get them as quickly as possible. Those who want to believe the internet anti-vaccine hysteria crowd can risk the flu. I get a shot every year, and I have no complaints.

[mysterio]

Hmmmm...swine flu or Guillian Barre; swine flu or Guillian Barre? I think I’ll take my chances with the flu.

Then you need to brush up on your math.

One person gets GBS per million doses

On the other hand, approximately 36,000 deaths and more than 200,000 hospitalizations are directly associated with influenza every year in the United States. And that's just the regular flu.

So your statement above is the equivalent of you stating that since there are crooks on Wall Street, you're going to invest your retirement money in powerball tickets.

[Jim Noble]

They’re offering it in our private school, and I can’t believe how many people have signed up for their kids to receive them

That's interesting, since clinical trials have barely started and there is no FDA-approved product as yet.

[Flavius]

yeah how about no

[Fast Moving Angel]

Wrong. I need NO flu shots, this year or any year.

[combat_boots]

I might have to fire up Excel XP then and plan a quadrant sector for potential disbursal of angels appearing randomly. I suppose I could develop an algorithm to predict the rate of their appearance in quadrant sector A, etc. It might make trhem easier to count.

Thanks for the heads up. Now I have my mission. I might even have to develop a topographic detail map like NASA uses to plot sea depth, making my map reflect the dimension of the pin head. From that, I could record the angel’s appearance and then go plot it on my map as a confirmation.

This is Plan A.