Flu Shot Mania
Correspondent:: asscoassc@aol.com (AssCo Assc)
Date: 17 Oct 2004 17:32:30 GMT
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Seventy-year-old Gomer Cronk spent nine hours
with his wheelchair parked next to a supermarket
Halloween display to get a flu shot. He wasn't able to
get the injection at five other supermarkets and drugstores.
"I've had five bypasses and six stents in me now.
I never had to wait this long -- it only took two hours
to have the last stent at his local Walgreen's Pharmacy.
"I need a shot!" said Cronk who got the third spot in line
next to the Halloween scarecrow by arriving at midnight
for a clinic scheduled to start at 9 on Sunday at the
Kroger store. It was the last vaccination clinic in the area.
Feeble, huddled masses lined up at pharmacies and
supermarkets in the middle of the night across the
country. Hundreds of people were forcibly dispersed
from a Safeway supermarket in San Francisco.
People pushed, shoved and elbowed their way into the lines
out of turn.
Some seniors have collapsed in exhaustion.
A 79-year-old woman died Thursday from head injuries
after waiting four hours and then fainting.
President Bush addressed the situation this morning.
"I realise that old people are dying, but that's because
they're old. It's natural for old people to die -- that's
what they do. They get old and die. Frankly, this is
a good thing. Survival of the fittest. Maybe we can
hold on to some more Social Security money in the
deal. Once these slackers kick the bucket, they don't
get a social security check in the mail. And that's
money we've saved. You see, there's a positive side
to all of this, too."
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0"
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 10:47:17 -0700
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AssCo Assc wrote:
>
> Seventy-year-old Gomer Cronk spent nine hours
> with his wheelchair parked next to a supermarket
> Halloween display to get a flu shot.
The ironies involving flu shots are bizarre.
First of all, they just *guess* at which strain is
going to be the "predominant" strain in a season.
If they guess wrong, the shots are pretty useless.
Second of all, the *guess* this year is of a type
of flu most dangerous to young infants, not old
farts.
Third, and this one is a little bit of a secret.
For most part, the half-life of immune protection
from a flu shot is 1-1/2 months. After three
months, your immunity is down to 25%. So getting
your shot too early can screw you up. Plus, it is
*not* recommended to get them more than once a year,
as your immune system needs time to recover.
This year, the projection is that the flu will peak
around Jan-March.
Flu *used* to characteristically travel from east
to west around the planet, which meant the US was
the last to get kissed from an Oriental strain,
which was most of them. This is no longer true,
because of the Alaska down the west coast route of
cruise lines, bringing new strains into the US much
more rapidly.
The "avian" flu scare the hell out of the medicos,
because it also kills chicken embryos, where the
antibodies are created. For this reason, every
chicken in Hong Kong has been burned and replaced
four times in recent years, after an outbreak.
However, ironically, the "swine" flu strains are
more deadly to humans, if they mutate to a strain
that evades the immunizations.
For updates on everything fluish:
http://flustar.com/
--
"Do not EVER watch a Rammstein video when
you are fried on Hawaiian mushrooms."
--take my word for it
Correspondent:: "Rev. 11D Ricardo MadGello"
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:00:25 GMT
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I don't get fly shots!
Flu germs are hallucinogenic!
Braise "BOB"!
Correspondent:: Zapanaz
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 11:42:59 -0700
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On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 10:47:17 -0700, "nu-monet v7.0"
wrote:
>AssCo Assc wrote:
>>
>> Seventy-year-old Gomer Cronk spent nine hours
>> with his wheelchair parked next to a supermarket
>> Halloween display to get a flu shot.
>
>The ironies involving flu shots are bizarre.
>
>First of all, they just *guess* at which strain is
>going to be the "predominant" strain in a season.
>If they guess wrong, the shots are pretty useless.
>
>Second of all, the *guess* this year is of a type
>of flu most dangerous to young infants, not old
>farts.
>
>Third, and this one is a little bit of a secret.
>For most part, the half-life of immune protection
>from a flu shot is 1-1/2 months. After three
>months, your immunity is down to 25%. So getting
>your shot too early can screw you up. Plus, it is
>*not* recommended to get them more than once a year,
>as your immune system needs time to recover.
>
>This year, the projection is that the flu will peak
>around Jan-March.
>
>Flu *used* to characteristically travel from east
>to west around the planet, which meant the US was
>the last to get kissed from an Oriental strain,
>which was most of them. This is no longer true,
>because of the Alaska down the west coast route of
>cruise lines, bringing new strains into the US much
>more rapidly.
>
>The "avian" flu scare the hell out of the medicos,
>because it also kills chicken embryos, where the
>antibodies are created. For this reason, every
>chicken in Hong Kong has been burned and replaced
>four times in recent years, after an outbreak.
>
>However, ironically, the "swine" flu strains are
>more deadly to humans, if they mutate to a strain
>that evades the immunizations.
>
>For updates on everything fluish:
>
>http://flustar.com/
Another very scary problem is that if immunization DOES work, we are
making it inevitable that we will breed a strain of flu that does
evade immunization.
--
Zapanaz
International Satanic Conspiracy
Customer Support Specialist
http://joecosby.com/
Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0"
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 11:59:40 -0700
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Zapanaz wrote:
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> Another very scary problem is that if
> immunization DOES work, we are making
> it inevitable that we will breed a
> strain of flu that does evade immunization.
Ordinarily that's the case, but flu's special.
First of all, it has animal vectors: pigs,
ducks and chickens. The ducks have huge
migration patterns to spread the disease,
and all three are domestic animals in close
association with people. The animals can't
be immunized effectively.
The second factor is that flu has an
inordinately high number of what are called
"flexible genes", so mutation happens at a
much faster rate than with other diseases.
This worked in our benefit in the past when
the somewhat nasty Swine Flu of the 1970s
mutated to a less-harmful strain just before
reaching the US. A good thing in that we had
a vaccine problem then, too.
Mutations can be used as a last-ditch to fight
really deadly strains, that being to intentionally
infect people with less harmful strains, which
forces limits to its spread.
The zinger to infection is that 90% of infections
are received through hand contact with other
people--*not* through coughing and sneezing, as
was previously believed--so if you don't touch
other people, or touch what *they* have touched,
you have a much lower chance of getting it.
--
"YOU BELONG TO US NOW!"
"GET DOWN WITH MY SICKNESS!!"
--Kino Beman, brand name
Correspondent:: "Rev. 11D Ricardo MadGello"
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:07:07 GMT
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SHUT UP!
Correspondent:: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)
Date: 17 Oct 2004 16:58:42 -0700
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"nu-monet v7.0" wrote in message news:<4172C11C.72DA@succeeds.com>...
> The zinger to infection is that 90% of infections
> are received through hand contact with other
> people--*not* through coughing and sneezing, as
> was previously believed--so if you don't touch
> other people, or touch what *they* have touched,
> you have a much lower chance of getting it.
Best testimonial AGAINST going to Wal-Mart I've seen yet. Also, never
kiss anyone at X-Day you ain't already been kissin', or you might wind
up with gonococcaherpashitacozenza, or "Ghee-C." It isn't collagen
injections that give 'em those Jagger lips. You done been warned.
--
HellPope Huey ~ www.subgenius.com
This church is like watching a 450-pound black waitress
breakdance nude in a wading pool filled with Crisco.
"Kerry works a crowd the same way
Frankenstein's monster worked villagers."
- Nick Gillespie
GLOBULAR WARMING IS HERE. IT'S THE DAY
AFTER THE DAY AFTER! YOU'RE NEXT! YOU'RE NEXT!
- Rev. Unclaimed Mysteries
Correspondent:: "Rev. 11D Ricardo MadGello"
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:06:18 GMT
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>
> Another very scary problem is that if immunization DOES work, we are
> making it inevitable that we will breed a strain of flu that does
> evade immunization.
>
HIV PLUSPOSITIVE!
Correspondent:: "ghost"
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:59:11 GMT
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"nu-monet v7.0" wrote in message
news:4172B025.671B@succeeds.com...
> AssCo Assc wrote:
> >
> > Seventy-year-old Gomer Cronk spent nine hours
> > with his wheelchair parked next to a supermarket
> > Halloween display to get a flu shot.
>
> The ironies involving flu shots are bizarre.
>
> First of all, they just *guess* at which strain is
> going to be the "predominant" strain in a season.
> If they guess wrong, the shots are pretty useless.
>
> Second of all, the *guess* this year is of a type
> of flu most dangerous to young infants, not old
> farts.
>
> Third, and this one is a little bit of a secret.
> For most part, the half-life of immune protection
> from a flu shot is 1-1/2 months. After three
> months, your immunity is down to 25%. So getting
> your shot too early can screw you up. Plus, it is
> *not* recommended to get them more than once a year,
> as your immune system needs time to recover.
>
> This year, the projection is that the flu will peak
> around Jan-March.
>
> Flu *used* to characteristically travel from east
> to west around the planet, which meant the US was
> the last to get kissed from an Oriental strain,
> which was most of them. This is no longer true,
> because of the Alaska down the west coast route of
> cruise lines, bringing new strains into the US much
> more rapidly.
>
> The "avian" flu scare the hell out of the medicos,
> because it also kills chicken embryos, where the
> antibodies are created. For this reason, every
> chicken in Hong Kong has been burned and replaced
> four times in recent years, after an outbreak.
>
> However, ironically, the "swine" flu strains are
> more deadly to humans, if they mutate to a strain
> that evades the immunizations.
>
> For updates on everything fluish:
>
> http://flustar.com/
>
Ducks.
It's all because of migrating ducks. They're the carriers.
Kill all wild ducks and flu pandemics will end.
Hunters are your friend.