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arthritisR_US

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23. LOL...metric yes but Alberta is so right wing red neck that bilingual, no :) Eight hours away,

Reply to Orrex (Reply #22)

Tue Jan 8, 2013, 01:40 PM

Jan 2013

to the west of us, in Vernon, British Columbia for example, they have very little flu to speak of. So is the rape of our land via the tar sands any kind of factor? Environmental underpinnings exacerbating the situation? I just posit these as I contemplate the state of my navel

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Flu shot. [View all] morningglory Jan 2013 OP

I bet that fox news watchers don't get the flu vaccine tavernier Jan 2013 #1

The pharmacist gave me the injection, and it hardly hurt at all. nt morningglory Jan 2013 #2

I had three clients yersterday tell me they had arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #3

Lots of people use the word "flu" to refer to the common cold. athena Jan 2013 #5

These were definitely the flu. Each described arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #6

The bad flu going around is not in this years shot AngryAmish Jan 2013 #8

An epidemiologist at the university told me the arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #11

The vaccine takes 2 weeks or so to reach full efficacy Orrex Jan 2013 #10

Some of us with compromised immune systems arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #12

Okay, but that's not the fault of the shot Orrex Jan 2013 #14

I never said it was and I was just providing arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #15

Okay, but still irrelevant. Orrex Jan 2013 #16

My mother had her shot the first week of Oct and arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #17

That sucks Orrex Jan 2013 #18

He was speaking about here in Alberta. By this time last year we had flu hospitalizations of a few arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #21

Ah, sorry. I wrongly assumed you were in the US Orrex Jan 2013 #22

LOL...metric yes but Alberta is so right wing red neck that bilingual, no :) Eight hours away, arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #23

Sounds like gastroenteritis to me Cirque du So-What Jan 2013 #25

These were all medically confirmed flu cases. arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #36

I hope your mother gets better soon! The flu is scary stuff. Glimmer of Hope Jan 2013 #34

Thank you! She is 83 with a number of health arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #35

This obamanut2012 Jan 2013 #7

Not just the common cold but almost any stomach bug sharp_stick Jan 2013 #9

We sure have. This flu has a set pattern of symptoms. arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #13

the very first flu shot MFM008 Jan 2013 #26

I got mine at a grocery store pharmacy in mid-October slackmaster Jan 2013 #4

I got my jab back in October at the doctor's nadinbrzezinski Jan 2013 #19

I would never get one Ter Jan 2013 #20

Yeah, measles shots are much worse than the disease that they prevent. Orrex Jan 2013 #24

If you're a balloon, maybe cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #27

.... Lex Jan 2013 #33

wow this sounds like a night mare riverbendviewgal Jan 2013 #28

My experience was different Lex Jan 2013 #32

I was in and out of CVS with a flu shot within about 25 minutes. No problems. Lex Jan 2013 #29

It's almost too late in the season to get one at this point. . . . BigDemVoter Jan 2013 #30

Never got one. Never will. Never got the flu. postulater Jan 2013 #31