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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @dafyre
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      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      The only studies I've found suggesting the flu shot is safe and beneficial are sponsored by those who profit off of it... just something I've noticed, but I haven't looked too deeply into flu shots. I just know that we're (myself and family) all perfectly fine without it.

      Are you an anti-vaccer?

      No, I just don't do pointless shit that is potentially more harmful than beneficial. Getting the flu myself is less harmful imho.

      If I were old an frail, then that may be reversed. But until then, no thanks.

      I'm up-to-date on most of my important vaccines (had to get them when I got my implant a couple of years ago). That said:

      I don't get the flu shot either. I haven't had the flu in years. On the rare occasion that I get the flu, it's generally not bad enough to warrant anything more than a couple of days of bed rest and a box (or three) of kleenex. For a week or two after, I keep hand sanitizer around for those who come in contact with me.

      Of all the folks that I know (in real life) who get the flu shot, all of them but one usually wind up with the flu.

      If it works for you, that's awesome, keep it up! If it doesn't work for you, don't get it, *shrugs*.

      Having been on and off the flu shot in recent years I can say usually getting the shot means getting the flu.

      Whether its less likely to happen when you actually do it routinely I couldn't say.

      While it is anecdotal, I know no one who ever gets the flu other than people with shots. Like I have no idea what we are preventing, who actually gets the flu anymore?

      There have to be some stats on this, but as doctors routinely misreport stomach bugs as influenza because they aren't semantically correct or pedantic like they need to be and think that people will "just know from context which thing they mean", I question if anyone has a language for discussing if the vaccines work at all.

      Or as the docs call it around here: the stomach flu.

      That's a little better, at least you can tell that they mean not the respiratory thing that is the real flu.

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        I've definitely been very sick though in the past and would say I've had the flu.

        Where I am from, everyone even doctors refer to the 24 hour stomach bug as the flu, which is nothing like a real flu. So everything things that that is what the shot is for.

        I'm not discussing a 24 hour bug though. I'm talking 3-6 days of severe illness.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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          @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          I've definitely been very sick though in the past and would say I've had the flu.

          Where I am from, everyone even doctors refer to the 24 hour stomach bug as the flu, which is nothing like a real flu. So everything things that that is what the shot is for.

          I'm not discussing a 24 hour bug though. I'm talking 3-6 days of severe illness.

          Respiratory?

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            I've definitely been very sick though in the past and would say I've had the flu.

            Where I am from, everyone even doctors refer to the 24 hour stomach bug as the flu, which is nothing like a real flu. So everything things that that is what the shot is for.

            I'm not discussing a 24 hour bug though. I'm talking 3-6 days of severe illness.

            Respiratory?

            Mostly, head and chest and breathing issues. Not to long ago I got past a head cold that turned into a throat/lung thing. I had a cough for 3 weeks after. I didn't go to get checked out, but I probably should've.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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              @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              I've definitely been very sick though in the past and would say I've had the flu.

              Where I am from, everyone even doctors refer to the 24 hour stomach bug as the flu, which is nothing like a real flu. So everything things that that is what the shot is for.

              I'm not discussing a 24 hour bug though. I'm talking 3-6 days of severe illness.

              Respiratory?

              Mostly, head and chest and breathing issues. Not to long ago I got past a head cold that turned into a lung thing. I had a cough for 3 weeks after. I didn't go to get checked out, but I probably should've.

              Could be flu. Could be strep. I get strep constantly (but I know why and don't care.) LOL

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              • dafyreD
                dafyre @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                I've definitely been very sick though in the past and would say I've had the flu.

                Where I am from, everyone even doctors refer to the 24 hour stomach bug as the flu, which is nothing like a real flu. So everything things that that is what the shot is for.

                I'm not discussing a 24 hour bug though. I'm talking 3-6 days of severe illness.

                Respiratory?

                Mostly, head and chest and breathing issues. Not to long ago I got past a head cold that turned into a lung thing. I had a cough for 3 weeks after. I didn't go to get checked out, but I probably should've.

                Could be flu. Could be strep. I get strep constantly (but I know why and don't care.) LOL

                ROFL. Stomach bug knocks me on my butt for a week (even the 24hr one). Strep does too. Fortunately, I don't get either of them often.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403
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                  I also (for whatever reason) seem to have a lower (not low) than median white blood cell count. . .

                  So that likely has to do with why every year I get sick. . .

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                  • black3dynamiteB
                    black3dynamite
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                    Participating in our annually moving employees and furniture to different offices day again.

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403 @black3dynamite
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                      @black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      Participating in our annually moving employees and furniture to different offices day again.

                      Oh I just had the same thing! Just yesterday.

                      Musical chairs everyone!

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                      • wrx7mW
                        wrx7m @black3dynamite
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                        @black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        Participating in our annually moving employees and furniture to different offices day again.

                        You are lucky that it is only annually. Here, it is semi-annual.

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                        • momurdaM
                          momurda @wrx7m
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                          @wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          Participating in our annually moving employees and furniture to different offices day again.

                          You are lucky that it is only annually. Here, it is semi-annual.

                          Is this some sort of get to know your co workers program from HR?
                          Or did you all just move the entire company to a new office building?

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                          • NerdyDadN
                            NerdyDad @wrx7m
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                            @wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            Participating in our annually moving employees and furniture to different offices day again.

                            You are lucky that it is only annually. Here, it is semi-annual.

                            Ours happened in November, but typically its around January time. Not here as there is no where to move to.

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                            • NerdyDadN
                              NerdyDad @momurda
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                              @momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              Participating in our annually moving employees and furniture to different offices day again.

                              You are lucky that it is only annually. Here, it is semi-annual.

                              Is this some sort of get to know your co workers program from HR?
                              Or did you all just move the entire company to a new office building?

                              Sometimes employees just get an itch and want to move somewhere else for whatever reason.

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                              • DustinB3403D
                                DustinB3403 @NerdyDad
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                                @nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                @momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                @wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                @black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                Participating in our annually moving employees and furniture to different offices day again.

                                You are lucky that it is only annually. Here, it is semi-annual.

                                Is this some sort of get to know your co workers program from HR?
                                Or did you all just move the entire company to a new office building?

                                Sometimes employees just get an itch and want to move somewhere else for whatever reason.

                                It's because of the itch

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403
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                                  or the clap, idk which. . .

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
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                                    @black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    Participating in our annually moving employees and furniture to different offices day again.

                                    Ah, the "reorg". I'm used to that.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
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                                      I work from home, so maintain two offices in the house and move back and forth once or twice a year.

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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        I work from home, so maintain two offices in the house and move back and forth once or twice a year.

                                        Yeah your office moves generally include travelling across half a continent or more.

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                                        • ObsolesceO
                                          Obsolesce @DustinB3403
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                                          @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          Participating in our annually moving employees and furniture to different offices day again.

                                          You are lucky that it is only annually. Here, it is semi-annual.

                                          Is this some sort of get to know your co workers program from HR?
                                          Or did you all just move the entire company to a new office building?

                                          Sometimes employees just get an itch and want to move somewhere else for whatever reason.

                                          It's because of the itch

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                                          • Reid CooperR
                                            Reid Cooper
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                                            I got her some moving, because itches love moving.

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