TradEddie
Trad climber
Philadelphia, PA
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Not every year, only because I couldn't be bothered, but if I was less healthy, absolutely. My kids get it every year, my youngest caught flu before he was old enough to be vaccinated, I never want to go through that again.
I've only had "real" flu once, it's a whole other story to that bad cold most people think is flu.
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roadman
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2012 - 10:27am PT
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I've only had "real" flu once, it's a whole other story to that bad cold most people think is flu.
So true! Easy to understand how people are fearful of it because we can all get spooked by the idea of tinkering with things too much, but really once you've had a true case of the flu (so long as you don't have egg allergies or GBS in your fam) it's a no brainer to get the shot every year or at least often.
Funny how we don't understand till we get smacked down by a tiny virus! Before I got it, I though I was healthy and that I'd build my immune system for toughing it out...boy that was dumb..
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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I never used to until I got myself a copy of the real flu one year.
I think most people, and me up until that viral assault, have not had a "REAL" flu virus.
I was in the best shape of my life, ice climbing in Ouray that year when the hammer of God struck my partner and myself.
There were two nights in particular I really thought that I might die by drowning in my own fluids. The body aches were so bad, I could have sworn I was in some major motorcycle accident, every day.
One week literally stuck in bed.
Two weeks until I returned home.
I can now easily understand how the real flu kills people.
A solid month until I felt even vaguely "right" again.
So yeah, I get the vaccine now. It might not work, but I'll take that chance.
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Riley Wyna
Trad climber
A crack near you
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The flu is a very strange bug.
Some people are very prone to getting it.... A weakness in the histology of the oropharnyx or upper airway..
I seem to have a weakness for this particular virus....
It sucks..
As far as vaccines..
You should get every vaccine you can....end of story...
The vaccine stuff is another home made story of American stupidity..
I missed my fly shot this year and I have had this stupid flu for going on three weeks now.
It's a wierd flu this year....not a rapid killer like Swine was, at least for healthy people, but still an awful flu..
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WatchSteveClimb
Trad climber
Dallas, Texas
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not only no but hell no, its all a scam to scar parents into spending money... notice how media pushes it more than doctors do, eat healthy stay active, and drink orange juice lol
orange juice and smoothies are my only tools against little viruses like the flu, cold, bubonic plague
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WatchSteveClimb
Trad climber
Dallas, Texas
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I've always been a very sick person lol
im 23 and have had phenomena 4 times already in my life, and now since drinking orange juice everyday i havent gotten sick (except from a stomach virus i got from my mom) in over a year, and thats good for someone with a weak immune system like me, plus i work in downtown dallas around gross homeless everyday too
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darkmagus
Mountain climber
San Diego, CA
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you GOTTA be a troll if you're saying that OJ can prevent yersinia pestis infection (the bacteria that causes the "bubonic plague").
We have tularemia here in California, it's pretty common, and produces a disease very similar to the bubonic plague. I propose an experiment whereby you drink nothing but OJ while bivying naked in the Owens valley for a few nights, until you get bit by a mouse or two. You can have access to ALL the OJ you want...
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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No he's just 23....
I believed stuff like that at 23 too...
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The Guy
Trad climber
Portland, OR
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NO! I was born naturally and like mucci, raised on the titty. Nice to see all the NO's!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Hey, the flu and bubonic plague are natural, too.
Go suck on some natural bubos!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Never had the vaccine. Still alive.
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dirtbag
climber
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not only no but hell no, its all a scam to scar parents into spending money... notice how media pushes it more than doctors do, eat healthy stay active, and drink orange juice lol
LOL...you do realize the poster immediately above you is a nurse?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Never get a flu shot but wear a flea collar...RJ
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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WatchSteveClimb reports
im 23 and have had phenomena 4 times already in my life
I'm not sure what this is... I study phenomena, but never "had" it.. and you are so young and had them 4 times...
...but you say OJ prevents phenomena, quite amazing...
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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1. Clean water.
2. Sewage and garbage disposal.
3. Immunizations.
4. Sound basic health care and nutrition for pregnant women, infants, and small children.
5. Nutrition.
6. Basic health and dental care.
Together, they account for most increases in life expectancy and quality of health over the last two centuries. High tech modern medicine has contributed relatively little. (I bet Ken M can add to this.)
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MH, I think I agree with that.
Personally, I think there is a vastly wrong emphasis on high tech as the "first option", for everything. I think there was be vast improvements in health if we were to emphasize exercise, diet, and stress reduction. But it won't work within the healthcare system
However, technical solutions can produce miracles. Smallpox is gone.
Polio is within reach:
http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx
Guinea worm is within reach:
http://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/mini_site/index.html
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Flu shot taken care of. Phew. By the way, I get mine at Target. No appt needed and easy to deal with.
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stephenbmx1@yahoo.com montoya
Sport climber
texas
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jesus! I was kidding about the plague!
Edit:
sorry "pneumonia" is what Ive had four times already lol
I just come down hard with being sick my whoooole life, I've been critically hospitalized so many times in my life, and not from physical injures either, just sic as a dog with bugs, pneumonia, severe dehydration eye balls sucked in the back on my head cause of no fluid, I've had pectus excavatum
so for me not being sick for over a year is very good I think, and ive never had a flu shot
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