euro_trash
stands with the workers of Wisconsin
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« on: September 01, 2009, 03:00:26 PM » |
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please discuss.
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Euro_trash is blinded by his love for Endnote
I hate to sound like euro-trash, but
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gennimom
Somewhat Southern (Have I really posted that much?)
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Let's get summer over with! Me want snow!
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« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2009, 03:01:02 PM » |
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BTDT (I think), and don't plan to repeat it.
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madhatter
We proudly present the fora's Least
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Just killing time
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« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2009, 03:19:28 PM » |
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"I may be an evil scientist, but it doesn't take a degree purchased from the Internet with your ex-wife's money to know how special and important you are to me." -- Dr. Doofenschmirtz
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molli_sols
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« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2009, 03:51:54 PM » |
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I'm really looking forward to the pandemic. I already have a three month supply of food and medicine for my family. While everyone else is looting the Piggly Wiggly for milk and toilet paper I'm going to be avoiding the crowds and raiding the public library.
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qrypt
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« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2009, 04:04:37 PM » |
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I'm really looking forward to the pandemic. I already have a three month supply of food and medicine for my family. While everyone else is looting the Piggly Wiggly for milk and toilet paper I'm going to be avoiding the crowds and raiding the public library.
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"I'm tired of being your love slave!"
"Does that mean I'm not going to get my coffee?"
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mystictechgal
Happy in my "full, rich adulthood", and as a
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One step at a time
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« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2009, 04:08:02 PM » |
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Only time I was ever hospitalized in critical condition was after getting a flu vaccine so I just keep on washing my hands, stay away from the obviously ill, and hope. I'd rather take my chances with the flu than the vaccine.
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If a pouting pluot ploughman planted pluots in a plot, and the plot were ploughed on Pluto, would his pluot ploy play out?
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spork
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« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2009, 06:27:49 PM » |
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Only time I was ever hospitalized in critical condition was after getting a flu vaccine so I just keep on washing my hands, stay away from the obviously ill, and hope. I'd rather take my chances with the flu than the vaccine.
Since polly_mer hasn't come along yet, I'll do the debunking: your illness was not caused by the vaccine. I will be vacationing near the epicenter of the pandemic at the height of the flu season. |
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a.k.a. gum-chewing monkey in a Tufts University jacket
"Please do not force people who are exhausted to take medication for hallucinations." -- Memo from the Chair, Department of White Privilege Studies, Fiork University
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oldadjunct
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« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2009, 06:40:37 PM » |
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Only time I was ever hospitalized in critical condition was after getting a flu vaccine so I just keep on washing my hands, stay away from the obviously ill, and hope. I'd rather take my chances with the flu than the vaccine.
Since polly_mer hasn't come along yet, I'll do the debunking: your illness was not caused by the vaccine. I will be vacationing near the epicenter of the pandemic at the height of the flu season. I am not an "anti-vaccinator", but your debunkinating is incorrect. This from the CDC, "Almost all people who receive influenza vaccine have no serious problems from it. However, on rare occasions, flu vaccination can cause serious problems, such as severe allergic reactions." http://www.cdc.gov/FLU/protect/keyfacts.htm |
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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
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Fiction is baseball; Rhetoric is football.
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mirandaf
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« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2009, 06:54:03 PM » |
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Only time I was ever hospitalized in critical condition was after getting a flu vaccine so I just keep on washing my hands, stay away from the obviously ill, and hope. I'd rather take my chances with the flu than the vaccine.
Same here. The one and only time I got the flu shot, I promptly got the flu afterwards. I blame the shot. No one - not Polly_Mer, not Spork, not our family physician - can convince me otherwise. Yup, it was the shot. Yup, yup, yup. No, I'm not listening to you with your "facts" about how the shot doesn't cause the flu. < hands over ears> I can't hear you, I can't hear you, I can't hear you... |
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« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2009, 08:40:40 PM » |
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Wasnt there a major problem with the flu vaccine in the Ford administration?
It tainted my opinion of the vaccine process.
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"The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" Darth Vader
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sad_goat
Nothin' but love for ya
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Requiring tolerance from the tolerant every day.
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« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2009, 09:40:23 PM » |
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I'm hoping the flu will take out the know-it-alls first. At least I will eventually die in peace.
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In other words, it is a moral and philosophical question, not a question of details.
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anthroid
Annoying bad luck snails
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No happy socks because nobody gets Manitoba.
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« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2009, 09:45:09 PM » |
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I have had the regular 'flu vaccine every single year for the last decade. I have not had the 'flu in the last ten years. Spork is right: the vaccine, which contains killed virus, does not cause the 'flu. If you got the 'flu after getting the vaccine, it's because you were already infected. I eagerly await both the regular and the swine 'flu vaccines; I will take both.
It helps to be over 50 and otherwise disgustingly healthy. I'm pretty confident that I won't be taken down by either 'flu.
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Do you hail from Planet Hello Kitty? It's like an action movie, but boring.
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new_bus_prof
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« Reply #12 on: September 01, 2009, 10:16:28 PM » |
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Well my family and I regularly get the flu vaccine each year..early.
My physician tells me my family has already had contact with the swine flu...
The apocalyse...I don't think its on my schedule.
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comp_queen
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« Reply #13 on: September 01, 2009, 10:31:30 PM » |
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Sorry guys, the flu vaccine does cause the flu, at least for some of us. That's why I haven't had one in 12 years. That season, I got the flu twice. Once days after the vaccine, and once a couple months later. In all the years of my life before that, and every year since, no shot, one bout of flu.
It is perfectly legitimate everyday human reason to reject "evidence" that does not jibe with lived reality.
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barred_owl
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« Reply #14 on: September 01, 2009, 10:59:39 PM » |
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I know there are some infectious disease specialists here on the fora, so they may chime in about the details of what a flu vaccine is and isn't, but...Don't forget that each year the formulation for the vaccine and the strain of influenza that is deactivated as part of the vaccine is based on predictions about which live strain is likely to be most infectious/problematic in the population as a whole. If you got the flu months after having received the vaccine, comp_queen, you most likely suffered from infection by a strain other than the one that was contained in the original vaccination.
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