Anyone catch the nasty Upper Respiratory Infection

[Stomper]

LMAO... Taku and Tunus, you're killin' me!

Seriously though, I wish my fellow 2A loving citizens nothing but good health and prosperity, even Ben Beckerich.

 

[Nutty4Guns]

I've had it since a week ago yesterday. I think I might feel well enough to go back to work tomorrow. Been burning up all of my paid time off.

 

[forefathersrback]

I don't take the flu shot. Haven't been sick in years. I take my liquid vitamin D daily plus other vitamins. However, I did get sick this one time when I seen a picture of Stomper on this site. Upped the vitamin D, POOF gone.

 

[Stomper]

I don't take the flu shot. Haven't been sick in years. I take my liquid vitamin D daily plus other vitamins. However, I did get sick this one time when I seen a picture of Stomper on this site. Upped the vitamin D, POOF gone.

BURN!!!

 

[rick benjamin]

I take vitamins for stress (married w adult children)
I get the flu shot
Immunized for hep A&B (was EMT)
Tetanus boosters forever
You know the horror stories about military vaccines in boot camp? They're all true.
Plague, 1&2, and a bunch that I don't recall from gun injectors into both arms, and needles.

Best advice EVER, came from a Navy Corpsman serving us jarheads.

"WASH YOUR HANDS, DON'T TOUCH YOUR FACE!"

 

[U201491]

gun injectors into both arms

The line of 3 to 6 on each side with the guns. Then to the pushups or you won't be able to move for a week.
Go too fast and those damned things slice ya like a knife.

 

[Stomper]

Best advice EVER, came from a Navy Corpsman serving us jarheads.

"WASH YOUR HANDS, DON'T TOUCH YOUR FACE!"

Stay off the grass, shine your shoes, wipe your..... face!

 

[rick benjamin]

Aaah, the memories!

 

[oknow]

Do like I did and get a good case of chronic tinnitus... it's the only cure for deafness that I know of!

Got mine

 

[oknow]

If you get sick after a flu shot within the first 2 weeks. You either got the flu or some other virus since the flu shot takes 2 weeks to prime your immune system. The flu shot does not cover every flu virus going around. It takes a year to make it so they have to guess what is going around. This year they guessed bad and only 20% of the flu viruses were covered.

If you get 2-3 days of flu symptoms right after a flu shot, it may mean that your immune system thought it was getting infected, issued a full defcon 1 red alert and started to mobilize all the troops. Then a few days later, realized there was no actual infection and stood down. So it might mean that you have a very robust immune system. Most of the symptoms of the flu come from your immune system, not the virus.

Obviously flu shots are optional. But the flu shot did not give you the flu. Its not a live virus. It would be like saying someone throwing a bucket of KFC on your lawn caused a chicken infestation in your back yard.

More likely, you should be proud of your immune system for kicking the poop out of those viruses.

It would at my house. The darn chickens would be there eating it instead of being out in the pasture eating bugs.

 

[oknow]

Stay off the grass, shine your shoes, wipe your..... face!

All we had was sand with rake lines drawn down it.

 

[powersbj]

Isn't that whooping cough ??????/

Yes.

 

[erudne]

Not a worry so far, but as I am a bit isolated one whiff of a bug and I'll probably melt on the spot

 

[CounterOfBeans]

I'll have to take a spittoon with me up on stage to hok my lung oysters into while I'm doing karaoke on Monday. Should sound hi-fi with the microphone and all.

 

[maxisback]

Fires in Siberia have smoke traveling here on the jet stream. Any connection?

 

[erudne]

going to PDX to buy victuals tomorrow, we'll see if'n I pick-up a bug

 

[gaijinsamurai]

I picked up a respiratory bug in late February. Was hacking up copius amounts of phlegm for a good month or two. Cold/Flu symptoms as well. Finally starting to subside. I work at one of Portland's hospitals, and the doc who treated me said I probably picked it up from a patient.