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barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
Join Date: Nov 2007
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I've never gotten a flu shot. Even when my son was in the hospital... I still refused.
I've had the flu once as an adult and that was a decade or longer ago. My daughter gets the flu shot every year - she still gets sick at least 2x over the winter. YMMV
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trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
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It's okay to get a flu shot if you have some cold symptoms, but better to wait if you're running a fever.
Influenza is mostly transmitted by large droplets but also via aerosols. That means that hand-washing, not touching your face, and staying six feet away from others are helpful things to do (most large droplets fall via gravity within six feet). In a crowd where someone could sneeze directly in your face, wearing a mask could protect you against large droplets. However, aerosols hang in the air for prolonged periods and masks don't stop them. That's why you can still get influenza even if you do everything 'right' and even if you haven't been directly exposed to anyone sick. All you have to do is walk into a space where someone sneezed/coughed out small droplets an hour earlier. A 'flu shot only protects against true influenza, not against the other viral upper respiratory infections that float around. But it's worth it to avoid the worst, or even the usual, that influenza can do.
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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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I'm in the goddamn petri dish every goddamn day. My customers have no understanding of hygiene, and no regard for any level of common courtesy regarding cough and sneeze management.
It is foul beyond foul. I cannot convey how foul it is. I wash my hands multiple times per day and internally recoil at every other person I deal with. But sometimes I realize that I have et my chicken fingers and did not wash between touching their filthy, sticky DVD cases. ~ previous to this, I was working from home and avoiding all disease vectors, except for spending every other weekend in the vicinity of a 5-year-old ~ ~ if I survive without developing tuberculosis it will be due to some lottery level of luck ~ |
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#4775 |
Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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That's far too mainstream! (Waits for Ali to stop laughing)
Confest! Not for profit, no paid performers, no paid workers, everything done by the attendees, no security or wristbands, clothing optional, drum circles, music jams, yoga, river swims, arse-djembe, mud-pit, tantric bondage workshops ...
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trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Woodford has become very mainstream as far as hippie folk festivals go. Very much a family thing these days, so you're probably right Zen, although it pains me to say it. lol
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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#4779 |
Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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Wear that on the subway and see what happens!
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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Should I also wear my tyvek suit?
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#4781 |
Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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Bedouin robes.
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#4782 |
trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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My hair is falling out. Choco was complaining about it a month or so ago. I guess it's my turn to deal with it. lol
My poor drains are full of hair, and every time I comb my hair I have to pull a handful of hair out. At this rate I'll have none left before too long! Lucky I have a nicely shaped skull!
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#4783 |
Glutton for Gluttony
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 1,409
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Oh no! Hang in there, Ali (and Ali's hair!) My loss is fiiiiinally starting to slow down -- but man is my hairline thin now!
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#4784 |
trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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haha...we make a nice pair then.
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#4785 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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Can I make it a trio. Mine is sparse too.
Not so anyone else would notice, really. But you know your own hair and I know I am losing far more than normal and it is looking thin. Funny how Mum used to predict all my hair dropping out because I used bright colours on it, whereas in fact it's nothing to do with that in the end. I expect it's slowing down/ will improve as this weekend marks three weeks teetotal.
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