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Get a flu shot.
Unfortunately, the flu shot is about 30% effective for the version of the flu that is currently going around.
Yes but isn't 30% fewer sick people in the hospital a good thing?
I too am diabetic and have history with pneumonia. Spent Sunday night in our local ER because of another little heart attack brought on by a mild pneumonia I have right now. 100 years ago the world experienced probably the last true pandemic with the flu. I lost a great uncle that was a big strong 17 year old starting the prime of his life. My grandmother mourned him until the day she died. On another thread we are talking about dangerous encounters with wild animals. The truth is, the most dangerous encounters to humans is the smallest animal, a virus.I get flu shot every year since
becoming diabetic
having pneumonia
getting extreme URVs that just decimated me to the point where I could hardly breathe and coughing pulled some of my intercostals.
My kids that are teachers and nurses get the worst of it........then the grandkids bring it Home from school. Terrible underestimated stuff in our society. Since we solved water born illness, this has to be one of the toughest things we have to deal with as humans in the whole. We have a lot of history of epidemics starting in Asia but with travel as common as it is, doesn't take long to infect the world. The 1918 epidemic was brought to the US by soldiers returning from the WW1 battle fields, things like the flu killed many more native Americans than anything else when introduced by Europeans, our bloody civil war had many more deaths from disease than any battlefield action although some of that was water born illness and infections.It' difficult for youngstern and working people to avoid the flu when they have a lot of people contact. Young friend has two kids down with the flu and she has it too. She works in a big office so by the time she gets over it the flu will be passed around a few times. She and her kids get flu shots.
My kids that are teachers and nurses get the worst of it