I just had Influenza A last week, and it was awful. Worse than the second time I had Covid. And I always get a flu shot!

They aren’t dying, just getting ill. My class attendance has been shrinking all week, with a couple of kids getting sent home mid-day by the nurse. They are all out for an extended period of time, versus the usual 1-2 absence, hence the dropping like flies comment.

Upon rereading my comment, I can see how you could misconstrue it. Poor clarity on my behalf, and I apologize.

Kids are just sick, with what, I’m not sure, but I’m assuming it’s the flu, because it’s not your usual 1-2 day absence. It’s gone for 4+ days, with doctors notes.

Reminder that it takes 2 weeks to kick in. Next year late August (if under 65) or September if older.

Now find someone with a four-wheeler or a dirt bike to tow you for some serious air

Mt. Rainier. Boom Shakalaka

How long has it been since it was first established?

Thanks, just the usual after flu shot symptoms. Headache, tired, just overall a little not right all over. Feeling better this morning, and it’s better than the flu for a week.

St Helen's. Boom

Mask up.
Flu is airborne infectious. So is RSV. Masks help prevent you from breathing in the viral influenza particles.

A lower infectious dose is easier to fight off. You’ll likely be less sick. Masks will help lower the viral dose you receive, if not prevent it altogether.

They’re simple, very effective, and you already have the masks.

Good Ventilation — Mask-up when indoors with groups — Keep indoor group encounters short.

Here’s another study from Feb 2020:
Reduction and Functional Exhaustion of T Cells in Patients with COVID-19

In short: In some cases (unknown exactly who or why) SARS-2 can directly infect the T-cells. This results in a milder set of symptoms, but serious immune system debilitation. This leaves people vulnerable to other opportunistic infections.

One marker from other studies I’ve seen: A second Covid infection is somehow much worse —for the immune system— than a first case.

And yes, one possibility is SARS-2 infecting T-cells could be one of the causes of long-Covid. There seem to be several different causes of long-Covid symptoms, it’s still unclear wtf is going on. Probably multiple things, IMHO.

Don’t catch Covid. But if you’ve had it once, definitely don’t catch it again! That seems to be a good rule of thumb so far.

The kicker with flu is that a person is usually infectious & transmitting before they have symptoms as well. So better to mask up generally right now.

The other wacky thing I’ve heard, is that there is some evidence suggesting that influenza might actually cause people to want to socialize in groups during the pre-symptomatic infectious phase, while they are actively breathing out little airborne viral particles. I’ll see if I can track down the study/ies on that.

But yeah, everybody would be safer if we all masked-up this flu season.

OJ with cayenne. The capsicum combines with the citric acid to boost the Vitamin C & it’s availability.

In fact, dispense with the OJ, cuz there’s a bunch of sugar in it.

Just peel & section and orange, then sprinkle cayenne pepper on it. Spicy & refreshing at the same time! It’s delicious. And helps kick a cold.

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One of my friends forgot to get his flu shot this year. It hit him hard & he was down for almost 3 weeks

My headache lasted until 4am when I threw up. Then I was able to sleep.
I woke up fine, but shortly after waking up I rapidly became nauseous, threw up the second time and the headache came back in force. Thankfully this time the headache seemed to taper off after about two hours and then I was fine.
I still kind of think it was something else (bad food, bad weed, i dont know...), but I've never had such a terrible headache before.

My wife is a doctor for a nursing home and even she thinks tamiflu does very little to nothing at all.

Man. I work in customer service and I had a customer sigh really hard. I legit had their breath hit my face. I could fucking taste it. I can’t stand it.. mask time again.

I’m a scientist and this is now well established (that COVID weakens your immune system through m a host of interactions with T cells, regardless of if you get long haul symptoms). It’s also well established that multiple COVID infections are associated with more impacted T cells. Population wise, since most have had COVID at least once and sometimes more than once by now, it is likely one of the things contributing to the current surge of viral illness this cold and flu season.

I took 600mg ibuprofen and it did nothing for the pain for 3 hours.

And then the next morning? Nothing. Like nothing ever happened.

Holy shit, that describes what I went through nearly two weeks ago. The headache was absolutely killer keeping me up until 4am, and I ended up throwing up twice.

Well, they still could be... Though it is a bit callous to refer to children dying as "dropping like flies."

The flu hits you like a truck. You wake up feeling fine, 2 hours later you are SICK. Colds tend to come on gradually with the sniffles or sore throat starting then build up.

Woah patient_vegetable_98, that was not very patient of you!