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💉🌡💊. Heard someplace the other day that the latest vaccine is only about 10% effective and the nurse at the VA told me to NOT let them talk me into getting one. I didn't.
2 posted on 01/14/2018 3:37:05 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Why did the nurse tell you not to get a flu shot?


3 posted on 01/14/2018 3:39:09 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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There was a wrong guess on which form of the flu would be most prevalent.

Getting this information out in a timely manner is a crap shoot.

Emphasis on crap.


4 posted on 01/14/2018 3:39:19 PM PST by alloysteel (Sometimes I have to tell myself, it just isn't worth the jail time.)
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Yes, that is correct. 10% effective was the story I read recently.


11 posted on 01/14/2018 3:44:23 PM PST by WeWaWes (When I look in the mirror I see an elephant--a bad ass elephant)
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That's silmilar what I have heard.

This flu strain is different than the vaccine.

Well, at least flu thins the herd.

As long as I do daily cardio (hard!), I never get the flu.

If I stop, I get the current variety.

Conclusion: Work out daily with solid cardio...unless you want to leave this world.

14 posted on 01/14/2018 3:45:35 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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...the latest vaccine is only about 10% effective and the nurse at the VA told me to NOT let them talk me into getting one.

Respectfully, my good FRiend, I do not agree.

If the shot were 10% effective, might that mean that it could, at the least, reduce infectivity some, reduce the severity some, reduce the duration of infection, reduce the mortality and infection-related-effects some?

Worst case, if you get the shot, you just might survive a miserable experience.

Get the shot, my good FRiend.

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51 posted on 01/14/2018 4:48:51 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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I know a nurse at the local VA and she won’t take the flu shot. The last time I almost got a flu shot was in the 80s when someone brilliant decided that they would give soldiers a double dose of the Swine flu shot .... as they were passing out and taken to the hospital, I just signed my card and left.


61 posted on 01/14/2018 5:38:18 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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I didn’t get one either. But when it came on — I took the Echinacea and extra Vitamin C. I got it on a Friday and was pretty much over it by the following Wednesday.

Still have some coughing spells, though.


96 posted on 01/14/2018 7:16:42 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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The original estimate was 15% now it’s changed to 10%, CDC got this years vaccine totally wrong.

There is a TAMIFLU warning, it has killed 1 child.


124 posted on 01/15/2018 5:23:43 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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Depending on your health and age, NEVER take more than the single dose vaccine, the 1 for seniors and health compromised is a TRIPPLE dose..which is DUMB as they are already health compromised, and reactions are higher to the Triple or Double dose Flu vaccine.


125 posted on 01/15/2018 5:26:24 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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