Re: idiots walk among us

William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> writes:

Paul Dormer wrote:

In article <vqi9v6$adaq$1@dont-email.me>, wthyde1953@gmail.com (William
Hyde) wrote:
 

In middle age I had the flu for seven consecutive years, and serious
cases too.    Being the ultra-fast thinker that I am, I had an idea:
"What if I get a flu shot?".  In the more than a quarter century
since then I've had no serious  cases of  the flu, and only a very
few mild ones.

[...]

Effectiveness varies from year to year, as they have to guess months
in advance which strains will dominate in the next flu season.  But
the vaccine is never entirely ineffective.  Such weak infections as I
have had in recent years came when the guess was a poor one.
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But then I am quite susceptible to the disease, or so it seems.

I started taking the free jabs from work around 2007.  I had never had a
bad flu and have not had one since.  I travel to work by public
transport and think the vaccines plus exposure keeps my immune system
working.  I did get covid once in late 2020: fully immunised and had
symptoms for a few hours one day, got tested and found positive. Had no
further symptoms.


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Stephen Harker                       sjharker@aussiebroadband.com.au