Împrôvéd Flu Poll

[Virgil Showlion]

Jan 11, 2013 17:25:38 GMT -5 Chocolate Lover said:

Jan 11, 2013 16:42:47 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

You would vote "Flu At L. Once; Severe; 75%+ Cases While Not Vacc".

I'm not able to vote for you.

You can see how that doesn't translate that well right?

At least with all those percentages sitting there mucking things up.

Some people have trouble with percentages and prefer fractions (e.g. "3/4 of the time I was ill, I was not vaccinated").

I find most people prefer percentages to fractions, which is understandable, given percentages are simply a limiting case of fractions.

I also contemplated using subjective terms such as "I am vaccinated most of the time", "I am vaccinated some of the time", etc., but those can also cause problems and confusion—for obvious reasons.

If this were a professional survey, they would probably ask:

1. During your lifetime, how many times have you contracted the flu?

2. Of the times you contracted the flu, how many times were in years where you received that year's vaccination for the flu?

Then they would simply calculate the percentages, ratios, etc. themselves. Proboards doesn't give us that option, unfortunately.

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Growing up, my family's definition of the flu required vomiting as a symptom. It wasn't really a cold-type illness. Now I think that maybe we had stomach viruses but we called them the flu for some unknown reason. We also had 24-hour "bugs" which had you vomiting for 24 hours and then a quick recovery.

As an adult, I've had what *I* consider the flu, but I have never been officially diagnosed with it. I do know that, in years past, I would get severe colds, fevers, chills, body aches, headaches, stuffed up nose, post nasal drip to drown a whale, and a bone-rattling cough that would last a month -- I always just said that I was really sick -- didn't label it the flu.

Haven't had one of those for a few years, thank goodness. Hope never to have one again. We are all healthier now with baseboard heating than we were with forced hot air in our old place. Except last February, when 3 out of 4 of us got nailed by a nasty rotovirus (vomiting and diarrhea) but that wasn't a heating issue.

And, my one and only flu shot ever was yesterday. Hoping any flu I come in contact with is one of the 3 in the vaccine.

[Deleted]

Blech.  DH has the flu, only one unvaxxed in the house because of egg allergy.  They gave him tamiflu but are running short so I have to go back in for more.  He had a 10:30 appointment was the fourth one with flu the doctor saw this morning.   They are making all patients with flu like symptoms wear masks. 

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i will not take part in this personal information gathering scam

[weltschmerz]

And, my one and only flu shot ever was yesterday. Hoping any flu I come in contact with is one of the 3 in the vaccine.
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Be careful, wash your hands a lot and keep your hands away from your face. Full protection via the vaccine doesn't kick in for about two weeks.

[weltschmerz]

So many people get the shot, are exposed to the flu a few days later, then complain that the "vaccine gave them the flu".

[wyouser]

I did not get the flu shot, but I did get the flu.......Then, I died.  When I came to in the hereafter, I discovered all that is here are Walmarts. Same chaotic parking lots...and "gasp"...even longer checkout lines than were in the world I just departed. So "PLEASE" get yourt flu shot...Dont wake up here!~!!!.......Huh?...Whats that you say,....I was not sent to heaven...instead they sent me straight to h........oh my....

[Iggy aka IG]

Finally got a flu shot yesterday.  Yanno that teeny needle they're touting this season?  Oh, sure, it doesn't hurt, but when plunged into your body, the meds burn like hell. 

And, like the nurse practitioner said yesterday, a person can get sick just by walking into their office, and it may not be because of the flu shot itself.

[Virgil Showlion]

Jan 28, 2013 17:34:50 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

So many people get the shot, are exposed to the flu a few days later, then complain that the "vaccine gave them the flu".

Even if getting the shot increases odds of getting sick by some incidental means (for example, the shots are only administered in a clinic where 10-50 highly contagious people are wandering about at any given time), it still counts as a reason not to get the shot.

[Iggy aka IG]

Jan 30, 2013 16:57:30 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Jan 28, 2013 17:34:50 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

So many people get the shot, are exposed to the flu a few days later, then complain that the "vaccine gave them the flu".

Even if getting the shot increases odds of getting sick by some incidental means (for example, the shots are only administered in a clinic where 10-50 highly contagious people are wandering about at any given time), it still counts as a reason not to get the shot.

  The heroin addict looking flu stricken lady in the waiting room yesterday comes to mind. 

[lynnerself]

2 doctors in my building are out with the flu.
If I assume they got their flu shots (like they request of the employees), that means we have a strain going around that is not one in the vaccine.I.m not happy to know it is in the building.