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I never used to get the flu or much of anything. Then living Petri dishes moved into my house and through continual exposure to flu's and what not, I end up catching something.

I'm guessing you're both like me in that you have resistance to most flu's but immune you are not. Through continued exposure to someone who is sick (like when it runs through 1 child, to another, then to your wife covering a 14 day period), you'll catch it as well.

Edited, Oct 25th 2014 5:43am by Uglysasquatch

You're probably right. I don't have any children and am rarely around them.

Edit: More data to support your position. My sisters do have children.


So I guess the moral of the story is that the key to surviving the impending end of the world plague is to avoid children at all cost.

Edited, Oct 25th 2014 11:59am by CoalHeart

-- other thread is 50/50 and this one is the best chance at attention.

Yeah. Herd immunity is not 100%. It's about probability. That's the whole point.



Wiping out a disease is neato, but not really what we're talking about here. Also, not terribly applicable to the flu.


Using vaccination to artificially increase herd immunity against the flu is like trying to hold back the ocean with a screen door. It simply does not work. There are mountains of evidence that it does not work (technically, it just works very very poorly). The flu virus changes too quickly, there are too many variations, and immunity is relatively short lived. I'm not saying that people should not get flu shots if they want to, or if they are in high risk professions. What I am saying is that spending time and effort attempting to coerce people into getting a flu shot out of the belief that it'll create a significant herd immunity effect is wishful thinking at best.

Modern sanitation has had a vastly more significant impact on the spread of diseases like the flu than vaccination. It's not 100% either, but it's something that has benefits far beyond the short term effects of a flu shot.

Those people don't count because Benghazi 9/11 Ebola General Zod.

Edited, Oct 28th 2014 10:41am by lolgaxe

Wait now, so we can cite ourselves as proof now?

I'm going back to my bashing America ways. I'll cite myself all the time, which will make it all true.

We always could, we just usually word it as a third person anecdote.