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I don't know what a hurricane is, I don't know what a cold front is, I don't know the difference between a government service and a government taxation screw job, now I don't know what the flu is.

Living vicarious through the Liberal mind, is like trying to eat a Steak dinner with a condom over your tongue.

I didn't fall off of the turnip truck I was driving the mother fucker.

Call it Crazy says

I suck it up and deal with it until it passes. It's mind over matter.

What if someone hoses off a sidewalk near your place? How do you hold your composure in that situation?

rufita11 says

Wow. That actually sounds like whooping cough. Did they actually do labs to find out it was the flu?

The doctor did the nasal swab and said it was flu. We were visiting from Europe, so the doctor was the guy the hotel sent to our room.... So who knows!

For whatever reason, we were all coughing a lot. The kids stopped coughing within a week, but for the grown-ups, we were coughing still a month later... even though we were otherwise better. You know, that lingering, stupid kind of cough that wasn't producing anything anymore, but would start back up every time you started talking. Like you were just ever-so-slightly choking on something that went down the wrong pipe. Beyond annoying!

mell says

Inguinal hernias are pretty common amongst kids and can develop over time, cough can trigger them but is not usually the root cause, it's just weakened abdominal walls.

I didn't mean to suggest that the cough caused it. He was born with the weakness. I agree that the hernia would have appeared eventually, anyway. It might have been a good thing that it appeared when it did, because it's more easy to repair when the kids are younger, as the hole is smaller. We had it repaired as soon as we returned to Ireland. Unfortunately, the repair didn't hold and we were back in surgery last September (here in California). Hopefully, this is the last repair.

CiC - were you infected with the one strain that was circulating that year?

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/viruses/types.htm

I have no doubt that you and your best friend Curmudgeon Shutup have experienced a strain of the flu. I was simply pointing out that there is more than one strain, and to say that the way to endure it is "mind over matter" is a complete and total crock of shit.

First, there's the whole "many strains, some of which can become fatal" aspect of the flu.

Then, there's the issue of good health staving off the flu. If you are healthy, it helps to alleviate some flu symptoms. However, even the healthiest person can develop a fatal case of the flu.
http://www.health.harvard.edu/flu-resource-center/10-flu-myths.htm

By the way, those people who actually have the flu and don't self isolate are the ones who infect the rest of the population. If you are sick, you should stay home.

To imply that a man is less masculine simply because he had a bad case of the flu is just plain crazy. Your name is apropos.

elliemae says

To imply that a man is less masculine simply because he had a bad case of the flu is just plain crazy.

It wasn't until I got the flu that year that I knew I had never had the flu before. I had mistakenly thought that the bad colds I had gotten over the years prior to that were actually the flu. I, too, thought people were wimps! Once I had a true case of the flu, I knew that what I had had in the past couldn't have been the flu.

Before that year, I too, used to think that the flu went away in a day or two and that you could push through it. The actual flu was beyond all that. It hit me like a ton of bricks. Suddenly I had a 104 fever that lasted for days (NSAIDS brought it down a little, of course). My eyes were injected (all the whites were very red). The coughing, headache and congestion was non-stop. The exhaustion was in my bones. My appetite was non-existent. I lost several pounds in two weeks. All medicine did was make it easier to sleep. Nothing helped but time. The really bad symptoms (high fever and the need to sleep 20 hours a day) were better in about three for four days... But I had a lot of lingering, milder symptoms. It truly took weeks to get back to normal. I had never had anything like that before in my life.

We were flying back to Ireland in a few days because we had to get home, of course. God only knows how many people we spread the joy to.

Seriously.... worst vacation EVER!

mell says

Because GBS is nothing to sneeze at.

George Bernard Shaw has been dead for many years. He won't harm you.

Call it Crazy says

When I've gotten the flu, which is rare, It might slow me down to half-speed for a day or two max, then I suck it up and deal with it until it passes. It's mind over matter.

So then why were you worried about other viruses (for example, Ebola) when you could have simply willed your way (no fluids, no healthcare, etc.) back to good health?

CaptainShuddup says

I don't know what a hurricane is, I don't know what a cold front is, I don't know the difference between a government service and a government taxation screw job, now I don't know what the flu is.

You know what you don't know (or at least a small portion). Progress is being made.

So basically I knew everything about Covid and the Vaccine since 2014.

Are there any Debaters from this thread in 2014, that still worships the does dickall flu shot?

We all got Influenza A recently. 3-4 days on ivermectin + @Rin cocktail and everyone was feeling much better. I went from 102 fever to normal in that time. We were coughing a lot so added 500 mg/day azithromycin to the mix. My wife resisted the z-pack, but kept suffering a residual cough. Finally, she relented, took the z-pack, and is fine as well.

Man, this is so much easier to deal with when you don't have to involve the medical mafia.