Yeah—Just like in the Spring when we were heading for what could have been one of our worst hurricane seasons in years.
Whatever !!!!!!!!!!!
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Isn’t every year going to be the worse flu year ever? Probably global warming . . . .
I get the flu shot every year because people all around me come to work while sick :-( I can handle my own kids being sick off and on all school year but at the factory I am out numbered.
The labs almost never get the flu vaccine right because by the time they make it the flu has mutated. Last year the vaccine gave you a 45% protection. We have oil of oregano and elderberry tincture that we take during flu season. So far so good.
Gee, wonder which big pharm corp they're pushing this year.
Check out N-Acetyl Cysteine taken along with about twice the amount of buffered ascorbic acid and see what it will do for you. There is plenty of info about it available.
The history of flu vaccination suggests other reasons to doubt claims that it dramatically reduces mortality. In 2004, for example, vaccine production fell behind, causing a 40 percent drop in immunization rates. Yet mortality did not rise. In addition, vaccine “mismatches” occurred in 1968 and 1997: in both years, the vaccine that had been produced in the summer protected against one set of viruses, but come winter, a different set was circulating. In effect, nobody was vaccinated. Yet death rates from all causes, including flu and the various illnesses it can exacerbate, did not budge. Sumit Majumdar, a physician and researcher at the University of Alberta, in Canada, offers another historical observation: rising rates of vaccination of the elderly over the past two decades have not coincided with a lower overall mortality rate. In 1989, only 15 percent of people over age 65 in the U.S. and Canada were vaccinated against flu. Today, more than 65 percent are immunized. Yet death rates among the elderly during flu season have increased rather than decreased.
Above from The Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/11/does-the-vaccine-matter/307723/
In practical terms, pay attention to the following.
1) The flu shot comes in regular and extra strength. The latter targets the “elderly” (65+), those with kidney problems, and diabetics. This season they are quickly using up the extra strength shots, so if you or someone you love needs one, get it soon.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/vaccine/qa_fluzone.htm
2) The length that the flu shot works for the elderly is thought to be much less than for younger people. So if they get a shot early in the season, around now, they should consider getting another shot in January. Do not mention this to whoever you are getting the second shot from, as there is no official doctrine that supports this, and they may turn you down.
3) It is also vital to keep up your serum vitamin D levels during cold and flu season. 1000 IU/day supplements should be enough for adults, unless you are sensitive to it.
In addition to directly attacking viruses, it also opens immune pathways to detect and react to them. The icing on the cake is that it is a natural ACE inhibitor, which moderates the immune response, and keeps your system from overreacting, which can itself be unpleasant or even lethal.
4) Last but far from least is if you are out in public during the flu season, that you frequently use hand sanitizer. The optimal conditions for flu to be spread by coughing and sneezing are 40F and low humidity. If the temperature and humidity are higher than that, the spread of flu is much more dependent on physical contamination.
And the hands are the primary means by which flu spreads from person to person, and from objects to person. If there is visible contamination, use soap and water to remove it first. Otherwise, at least 60% ethanol sanitizer is needed.
I’ve always wondered how many people every year develop cancer because their immune systems have been diverted by being challenged by some vaccination that may only be a crapshoot in terms of its efficiency. I prefer to take my chances with the flu, although I’ve never had it.
Already had it. Sucked. Took me two days to recover (normally beat the flu in one). Have a dear friend who was sick with it for over a week and still is not fully recovered. And her immune system is STRONG.
Going to be a bad flu year.
BookMark
Ugh. Winter before last, I had a flu shot. The vaccination site got all swollen up and turned hard as a rock. Was sore and stayed that way. - So, last winter, doctor avoided giving me a flu shot after I told him about that. - Just as well. They’d conjured up the wrong flu strain anyway. - So. Just as with antibiotics (I can’t take a full course of them because on about the last couple of days of the course, I start violently upchucking my guts out until every trace of the meds are up and out.) I’m sorry. Twinkie’s not dainty.
vitamin D3
4000 to 5000 IU per day........
I take a year-round flu shot. Via daily 5000iu pills of Vit D3. Don’t remember ever getting the flu. Or much of anything else either.
Remember the Swine Flu hysteria.
Do not fall for these flu-shot scams.
Influenza prediction ping...
Here we go again. Time to fill the coffers of the vaccine manufacturers.
This is the third, or maybe the fifth, time in as many years we have been warned about the Flu season. Makes one wonder what they put in the Flu shots that they want all the people to be exposed to.....
Take 3,000mg of Vitamin C per day and it’ll ward off most of those baddies.