THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

maryb

Seeing reports about a nasty strain of flu in the Southern Hemisphere likely to be the version we get this winter. They don't know yet if the flu vaccine being rolled out this autumn will be effective against it but it does contain some of the H3N2 strain so probably a good idea to get vaccinated

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maryb wrote: »

so probably a good idea to get vaccinated

not for me

short_bird

A superb piece of reporting from Venezuela on SHTF.

http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2128-my-wealthy-country-became-dystopia-6-realities.html

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Our clinics are on the 30th September and the 14th October, we'll be first in line! Influenza is more dangerous than is realised and as we age, our immune systems are less able to fight it off, I'll take all the help I can get!

Person opinion, not for all of us I realise!

mardatha

I got flu every winter and was always laid out by it, 3 times it went into pneumonia and several times to a chest infection. Since I got the jab, I only got it once and that was really mild. That's why I get it.

fuddle

I'll be walking in to walk in next Tues for the flu vac. History has taught me that it doesnt matter how fit and healthy we think we are summit can have us in a right state. I did contract p after the flu jab twice last year but I never had flu. I have chronic stress and work every day to give my scarred lungs and asthmatic airways a fighting chance. The flu jab, for me, is a necessity but I know it's not going to save me. Here comes another season and ironically worrying about it will make me more susceptible. I think all thats left is to touch wood!

GreyQueen

I'm booked onto a flu clinic in October, I'm one of the sub-pensioner-with-chronic-illness cohort and have the jab on the advice of my consultant. It doesn't make you 100 % flu-proof but it can make any flu a less-serious matter than it would have otherwise have been.

It's about playing the odds in your favour, but everyone should do what s/he feels is right for them; working in a call centre one bug quickly spreads like the plague, anyway.

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In his latest offering whilst addressing the massed diplomats of the UN Mr. Trump has threatened to totally destroy N. Korea, how lovely!!!

GreyQueen

Trump could die at any time of natural causes. Such as his secret service bodyguards accidentally-on-purpose being in the wrong place at the wrong time when some nutter goes for him with a gun or a knife. Reminds me of the joke about Dan Quayle when he was the vice president; that if anyone assassinated H.W. Bush, the secret service had a standing order to shoot James Danforth 'Potatoe' Quayle.

I don't bother with the news on NK/ USA. Not because I'm some pollyanna believing the best outcome for all will be achieved, but because it's as unmanageable a risk as a comet hitting the earth.

I like to focus my attention on what I can deal with rather than stress about what I can't influence or control.

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True! but you can't help but wonder if either of them are really totally in full sanity mode can you?