How well I know that.
In 1976 I transferred from the Philippines to Naval Air Station, Fallon, Nevada. Within a week of reporting to the base, and while getting base housing set up, my father had a heart attack and stroke. I had to travel back to Orange County, California on emergency leave. Unfortunately that same day the base administered the Swine flu shot to everyone.
I left Fallon around 5PM with my wife and 5 year old son for a 16 hour drive. After around two hours of driving through the high desert in winter with outside temperatures around 40 degrees and the car heater on full blast I came down with a very high fever and had to keep the driver window down to try to lower my temperature.
The fever broke just about the time that we arrived in Orange County but I was laid up in bed for another 2 days.
To this day I refuse to take a flu shot. Even when the doctors plead with me to take it I still refuse.
To this day I refuse to take a flu shot.
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Likewise.
In 1956 I took all the shots the Navy threw at us even though in Boot Camp I was hospitalized a few days after a battery of them.
I do think we were given quinine pills while in the area around the Philippines and SE Asia (not entirely sure)
Would be something if somehow we built up an immunity of sorts.
All the shipmates I am in contact with these days, none of them have gotten sick with the ‘beerflu’ and the better majority of them from those days are still alive...
Sort of a coincidence(??) that we/I am in the ‘HIGH DANGER range’ yet none of us has contacted it...
All of which makes me say this BullSchiff is being overblown....