What made your day a crap one?

[R181]

I haven't had the flu jab for a few years and try to risk manage the chance of getting the flu by avoiding contact with people who may be suffering. Mrs Vac makes a point of thorough handwashing as soon as she comes into the house.

You can only get so far by risk managing by avoiding contact with people who may appear to be suffering from the flu. People may be contagious for days prior to showing any signs of having the flu. Thoroughly washing your hands when you come home does help as does wearing a mask when out in public. It also helps if you have had your pneumonia shots. None of these shots is guaranteed to prevent getting these infections but should prevent severe infections so that you survive them.

It has been a particularly bad flu season here and added to that there have been large outbreaks of measles with deaths reported to add to the misery. For decades measles was considered eliminate here which is no longer the case. Draw your own conclusions about the value of vaccinating for measles from that.

Bob

 

[Twelvefret]

You can only get so far by risk managing by avoiding contact with people who may appear to be suffering from the flu. People may be contagious for days prior to showing any signs of having the flu. Thoroughly washing your hands when you come home does help as does wearing a mask when out in public. It also helps if you have had your pneumonia shots. None of these shots is guaranteed to prevent getting these infections but should prevent severe infections so that you survive them.

It has been a particularly bad flu season here and added to that there have been large outbreaks of measles with deaths reported to add to the misery. For decades measles was considered eliminate here which is no longer the case. Draw your own conclusions about the value of vaccinating for measles from that.

Bob

For me, I do not want to be restricted.

 

[DesertIguana]

Dealing with two customers service problem, and having to do AI & People in third world country.

Hate it.

 

[R181]

For me, I do not want to be restricted.

No one is saying you have to be restricted. Like I told a tradesman who came to my house during Covid to do some work; I don't wear a mask for you but for me as I don't care if you get Covid yourself. That was in response to his saying; I hope you are not wearing that mask for me.

Protective measures are done either for your own good and/or collectively as a society for the whole. In the end nobody gets out of this world alive still applies.

Bob

 

[Twelvefret]

No one is saying you have to be restricted. Like I told a tradesman who came to my house during Covid to do some work; I don't wear a mask for you but for me as I don't care if you get Covid yourself. That was in response to his saying; I hope you are not wearing that mask for me.

Protective measures are done either for your own good and/or collectively as a society for the whole. In the end nobody gets out of this world alive still applies.

Bob

To repeat, I do not want to be restricted, but will add, by avoiding people and being isolated.

 

[UKRob]

I haven't had the flu jab for a few years and try to risk manage the chance of getting the flu by avoiding contact with people who may be suffering. Mrs Vac makes a point of thorough handwashing as soon as she comes into the house.

In my late forties/early fifties I suffered winter flu for several years running - if there was a vaccine available then I wasn’t aware of it. Round about then I noticed hearing loss which is now so bad it’s classed as profound and, I’m told by a consultant, was probably due to the severe flu attacks. Given my time again I’d be jumping at a vaccination every year.

 

[R181]

In my late forties/early fifties I suffered winter flu for several years running - if there was a vaccine available then I wasn’t aware of it. Round about then I noticed hearing loss which is now so bad it’s classed as profound and, I’m told by a consultant, was probably due to the severe flu attacks. Given my time again I’d be jumping at a vaccination every year.

Sorry to hear about your hearing loss

Bob

 

[Randy]

You can only get so far by risk managing by avoiding contact with people who may appear to be suffering from the flu. People may be contagious for days prior to showing any signs of having the flu. Thoroughly washing your hands when you come home does help as does wearing a mask when out in public. It also helps if you have had your pneumonia shots. None of these shots is guaranteed to prevent getting these infections but should prevent severe infections so that you survive them.

It has been a particularly bad flu season here and added to that there have been large outbreaks of measles with deaths reported to add to the misery. For decades measles was considered eliminate here which is no longer the case. Draw your own conclusions about the value of vaccinating for measles from that.

Bob

Having the flu jab last year (and this year of course), although H1N1 hit us a bit hard, I can't even imagine what would have happened if we didn't do it.

Fluarix or Vaccigrip Tetra, both are doing a great job. You can STILL catch the flu , but the symptoms will be less.

My mother in law, last year, didn't do the vaccine because she was afraid, finally caught the flu along with us, and was hospitalised for a week in high flow with unbearable fever and strong cough.
Lesson learned and this year she took the jab from the first.

 

[purerockfury]

Are folks opting out of the influenza vaccine? I contracted influenza in 1987 which manifested as a form of small joint arthritis. I gotten the vaccine since.

wow you got a bad flu or whatever it was... moons ago my sr. was given the flu shot by the doctor he was going to and nearly ended up in the er/hospital he got a bad flu which back than was what the flu shot was a version or deadish flu... he never got the flu shot again and after seeing his reaction to it i will never get it... i maybe had a flu a couple of times during my young life...

Dealing with two customers service problem, and having to do AI & People in third world country.

Hate it.

as i was reading this thread i was on my dumbphone yelling human to the computer that answered my call... maybe 3mins and i got to the waiting for a human lines... a slight surprise the human agent i got was easy to understand and might not have been on customer service land...

 

[Twelvefret]

wow you got a bad flu or whatever it was... moons ago my sr. was given the flu shot by the doctor he was going to and nearly ended up in the er/hospital he got a bad flu which back than was what the flu shot was a version or deadish flu... he never got the flu shot again and after seeing his reaction to it i will never get it... i maybe had a flu a couple of times during my young life...



as i was reading this thread i was on my dumbphone yelling human to the computer that answered my call... maybe 3mins and i got to the waiting for a human lines... a slight surprise the human agent i got was easy to understand and might not have been on customer service land...

My grandmother had a similar experience.

 

[TobyC]

The cold that’s been hanging around me for a couple of days has finally come out fully.

Runny nose, streaming eyes, sneezing but luckily not the sore throat. Mind you, that’s tempting fate saying so…

steve

Sex, every six hours, for three or more days, eat and drink everything you can find in between sexual encounters. You'll be a new man!

 

[TobyC]

In my late forties/early fifties I suffered winter flu for several years running - if there was a vaccine available then I wasn’t aware of it. Round about then I noticed hearing loss which is now so bad it’s classed as profound and, I’m told by a consultant, was probably due to the severe flu attacks. Given my time again I’d be jumping at a vaccination every year.

I get the flu shot every year, wife too. If you haven't done so, get the shingles and the pneumonia vaccines.

 

[Northam Saint]

I get the flu shot every year, wife too. If you haven't done so, get the shingles and the pneumonia vaccines.

Depends here in the U.K. if it’s as easy as you say “get” it.

In the UK, the NHS offers shingles (Shingrix, 2-dose) and pneumococcal (PPV, single-dose) vaccines to older adults and at-risk groups, typically from age 65, with specific eligibility for those turning 65 post-Sept 2023 (age 65 offer) versus before (age 70 offer). The pneumococcal vaccine protects against pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis, while shingles protects against the painful nerve condition; both can be given with other vaccines like flu or COVID.

I get the Flu vaccine on the NHS as I am at a greater risk of heart attack and stroke , having had a mini stroke and them catching me in a. pre heart attack situation. Until this year they also gave me the Covid vaccine, but the NHS changed this. I would take the Shingles vaccine if they offered it, having had shingles a few years ago it’s not pleasant for sure.

 

[SpeedyPC]

Sex, every six hours, for three or more days, eat and drink everything you can find in between sexual encounters. You'll be a new man!

@TobyC is on the mighty BLUE PILL again, humping away

 

[TobyC]

Depends here in the U.K. if it’s as easy as you say “get” it.

In the UK, the NHS offers shingles (Shingrix, 2-dose) and pneumococcal (PPV, single-dose) vaccines to older adults and at-risk groups, typically from age 65, with specific eligibility for those turning 65 post-Sept 2023 (age 65 offer) versus before (age 70 offer). The pneumococcal vaccine protects against pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis, while shingles protects against the painful nerve condition; both can be given with other vaccines like flu or COVID.

I get the Flu vaccine on the NHS as I am at a greater risk of heart attack and stroke , having had a mini stroke and them catching me in a. pre heart attack situation. Until this year they also gave me the Covid vaccine, but the NHS changed this. I would take the Shingles vaccine if they offered it, having had shingles a few years ago it’s not pleasant for sure.

I'm 67, I get what I want just by asking for it, and it costs me nothing. The Social Security Administration is pretty amazing. I can just go to the local pharmacist and ask for it, no doc visit, no waiting for an appointment.