Flu shot heresy (Read 2156 times)

A senior girl in several of my son's classes got H1N1 this week, but so far he's fine. The vaccine should have taken effect by now.  I'm kind of surprised she got it, since they got the shots two and a half weeks ago.

That's why it's important for everyone to get it as soon as they can...sometimes vaccines don't work for some people, then their only protection is not having the virus floating around to get them ill.

Dane is running a low fever...100.7.  This is only the second fever he's ever had.  I think it's going to be a bumpy week or two in our house.  On the bright side, perhaps we will all be sick before Thanksgiving and not have to deal with illnesses when we are out-of-state visiting family.  Nothing worse than being sick away from one's own bed.

 That's what really counts isn't it?  My friend stumbled and sprained her ankle while running a couple of weeks ago.  Everyone made appropriately empathic comments, helped get ice and whatnot, then pretty much in unison we all said "thank god you already ran your marathon." 

It's so true!  I sat out one race after registering and it sucked.  Ever since then I rarely register before a race, unless it's the sort of thing that fills fast or has no race day registration.  And training for a marathon and being sick/injured on race day would be truly awful.  What a lot of work for nothing, especially if it's the last available race a person can run in a season.

I did have a flu about two years ago when I had  started two jobs. I missed work from both of them. One job I was fired from. The other went full time. I don't remember if I got a flu shot that year.

2 years I got the flu after having the shot, too.  That was the year that the medical community pretty much admitted that the predicted strains had been off.  So you may have gotten it, but not had full immunity to the bugs that were floating around.

BTW, I think Trent has a pseudonym...

It really seems like the recent wave of infections had dissipated in our area, but that's interesting that they predict a 3rd bout in Jan.  I'm still questioning whether I got my seasonal flu shot too early (late Sept., IIRC) and should get a "booster" of that...I can't get a straight answer on that depending upon who I ask.

"almost 10,000"

English is hard.

 

I'm sure the New York Times wouldn't publish an inflammatory headline like 10,000 DEATHS FROM SWINE FLU, RUN FOR THE HILLS MOTHERFUCKERS unless they were really, really sure that was accurate.

Of course the times wouldn't publish such a headline.  It would do little but incite panic and panic-stricken people rarely take the time from being panicked to buy a newspaper.  That's just silly.

However, if you go back to the article, you'll see the actual headline reads "10,000 DEATHS FROM H1N1 FLU.  WHAT NOW, BITCHES?!"  They wouldn't say swine flu since the pork industry is a major sponsor of the times and the addition of "What now, bitches?!" makes the headline far less scary and more like a challenge.  Like the whole world's at one giant bar, everyone's had a few, and swine flu just called your mamma fat.  You're not just gonna let swine flu talk about your mamma like that, are you?  Hell no you're not!  Now you get your ass over there and you kick swine flu square in the nuts!  WHAT NOW, BITCHES?!

"WHAT NOW, BITCHES?!", quite possibly the greatest philosophical question of our day.  Bravo to the NYT!  Bravo.

 

Tell it to the Times.  It doesn't say "almost" in the headline.

Oh.  Where was the "50,000,000" in the headline?  I'm lost.