The cure for the flu is coming in 2012

[Macamus Prime]

This would be great.

And then the government can bail out the companies that rely on $$$ from treating flu symptoms.

 

[TwiceOver]

Well this should be good for these deadly strains and for 3rd world countries I guess.

I haven't had the flu or a flu "shot" in 20+ years.

 

[Nintendesert]

Won't happen. The government needs a way to distribute their mind control drugs, and the flu vaccine is a way to play on people's fear. 😛

We also can't secretly collect DNA from our enemies if we can't vaccinate them.

 

[eits]

Well this should be good for these deadly strains and for 3rd world countries I guess.

I haven't had the flu or a flu "shot" in 20+ years.

not trying to jinx it, but i'm in a similar boat.

 

[alanwest09872]

not trying to jinx it, but i'm in a similar boat.

I get sick every 1-3 years with the flu.

 

[CZroe]

People talk about the flu like it was some super bad disease like cancer. The flu is actually less bad than a cold.

Flu: lasts 24 hours with a few days of recovery. A bit of puking here and there, fever, lot of sleeping, next day you're a new person.

Cold: can last months. sore throat, coughing, runny and/or stuffy nose, fevers... colds are much worse. They just drag on and on forever and the symptoms are so aggravating.


So if this is a vaccine, then what is the flu shot? I figured it basically was a vaccine as well.

Every time I've had the flu it has been several days of being completely out-of-commission with MONTHS of coughing up the disgusting remnants left in my lungs and throat. I sound sick and scare people away for several weeks. I get stuck in a vicious cycle of remaining flem causing irritation triggering coughing triggering more irritation causing more flem and so on...

 

[Muse]

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I just wanna say 3 cheers to the ones that are coming out with this vaccine. You did a great job.

Well, let's hear a cheer for smallpox and polio vaccines. After the flu is taken care of you will have new things to worry about, such as the plethora of diseases lumped into the category known as cancer. No one vaccine is likely to take care of those. And you can always worry about earthquakes, volcanos, hurricanes, tornados, lightning, varicose veins, sagging chin line, creeping old age, and death in general, if you need something to worry about.

I get sick every 1-3 years with the flu.

Do you get the yearly vaccine? I don't remember getting the flu. Well, I might have had a case last year, it wasn't completely obvious what it was. A virus, for sure. I get my shot every year, it's free with my medical plan.

People talk about the flu like it was some super bad disease like cancer. The flu is actually less bad than a cold.

Flu: lasts 24 hours with a few days of recovery. A bit of puking here and there, fever, lot of sleeping, next day you're a new person.

Cold: can last months. sore throat, coughing, runny and/or stuffy nose, fevers... colds are much worse. They just drag on and on forever and the symptoms are so aggravating.


So if this is a vaccine, then what is the flu shot? I figured it basically was a vaccine as well.

The flu is generally regarded as a much bigger deal than a cold. Look it up. A cold is not usually associated with a fever, maybe, just maybe a slight fever. I think you have the cold and flu mixed up.

 

[Muse]

here's a very hyperbolic example, but imagine that you need to get from point a to point b... one year, point a to point b is straight ahead of you, so you buy a car that can only go straight... the next year, point a to point b is to the side of you, so you buy a car that can only go sideways. what if someone invented a car that could go straight, sideways, backwards, etc? then, you won't have to worry about ever figuring out which specific car to buy each year.

There you go, explain something to an American in terms he can understand: what kind of car he wants to buy. 🙄

 

[eits]

There you go, explain something to an American in terms he can understand: what kind of car he wants to buy. 🙄

lol