This years Flu Vaccine

After reading the full article, I feel better having taken it than not having taken it. I take the high-dose, whatever that is, so maybe I get 15% protection. Who knows?
 
Don M. said:
This years Flu Vaccine may not be very effective....perhaps working only about 10% of the time. An emphasis on hygiene, and avoiding crowds, may be the Best prevention methods this Winter.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/years-flu...dical-experts-035811048--abc-news-health.html
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The article tells us to avoid touching our eyes, nose and mouth. Never touch your ears until you've washed your hands, for the same reason. You can thank my commonsense PCP for that piece of advice.

The last time I got the flu, it was the swine flu and it was after I had been immunized. It was one of the years the immunologists guessed wrong. I haven't been immunized since then. I stay away from crowds during flu season, I always wear gloves and a scarf (which I sometimes pull over my mouth) when I'm out in public and I wash my hands even more frequently than normal.
 

Many who received the flu shot here in Australia ( including myself ) still got a really nasty flu that “hit Australia “ last winter ,( we are just going into summer now ) I had what seemed to be a never ending cough for 7 weeks I was exhausted from coughing and had to put pillows under the top end of the mattress to prop myself up so I could breathe while trying to sleep
The flu killed quite a few including healthy young people
 
Wearing a surgical mask outside is much more effective than any flu shot has been in the past five years.
 
Funny, while wife and I were having breakfast at iHOP this past Sunday, and we could hear some people coughing, I asked her when we got home......."Wonder how many Seniors don't eat in restaurants during winter/flu season? They order take-out instead and eat at home? How many don't go to church due to all who go and a person can hear them coughing during the Service?"

Thing is, Seniors have to go some places where there are people walking around, like the grocery store or even a Mall.

We got the Senior Double-Dose Flu Shot last November, however there have been times since that we've both had to take a regular cold and flu tablet after being somewhere where people were coughing. Seems like the beginning of Stomach Flu we get and then, after taking the tablet, we are better.

Wife told me last week, when she got home from work, that a young lady was wearing a surgical mask while getting coffee in the Conference Room. Wife told me she was of Asian Descent. Thank God this lady worked at the other end of the building.

There was a good size article online last year talking about people who, financially, can't take time off of work for sickness. Either the company they work for doesn't offer Sick Pay, or they simply don't want to take time off to get better. Thing is, nobody really knows how many days it would take to get better. Back in 1999, I got a bad cold on a Monday and had to take the rest of the week off. Even had to get medication from the VA for it. It was a pretty bad cold. Fortunately, because my living expenses were so low, I could take some of the time off without pay.
 
Wife told me last week, when she got home from work, that a young lady was wearing a surgical mask while getting coffee in the Conference Room. Wife told me she was of Asian Descent. Thank God this lady worked at the other end of the building.
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But was she trying to protect you guys, or was she wearing the mask to be protected from you?
 
retiredtraveler said:
But was she trying to protect you guys, or was she wearing the mask to be protected from you?
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She was at my wife’s work. She is not the first Asian we seen wearing a surgical mask during flu season. Seen another at local Walmart last year and quickly got away from her.

Since so many American’s go “out and about” with a cold or flu, I think there should be a law to wear one. I mean if that surgical mask actually does stop others from getting a cold or flu from someone.

Seniors are extremely vulnerable and could die from getting the flu and/or pneumonia.
 
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