Thread: THE DREADED LURGIE...(flue)

Originally Posted by Tombie

I actually believe the opposite though....
Touch as much “dirt” as you can..
Get that immune system kicking along nice and hard...

All these “hand sanitised”, clean freaks, seem to spend a large portion of their time with some kind of cough, cold, sniffle...

Those of us that played in the dirt, got filthy, and just got out there seem to rarely get as sick.

At least if you weren't the unlucky kid who didn't get antibiotics for the horrible infection he picked up in the knee graze and died.

There is a large amount of anti vaxx bull**** out there. The flu vaccine covers the 4 most common strains of flu. There are often more than 4 strains of flu around. I missed the flu vax last year, I got the flu. I missed the flu vax 16 years ago, I got the flu. This year has been particularly bad for flu. It depends on what strains are selected. As for the govt being cheap. Not true.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

True, but hand rails were mentioned above. They can carry bacteria for strep throat, gonorrhea, gangrene and E coli, since many people don't wash their hands regularly. So, the storel to the morey is, don't touch hand rails.

Im reluctant to ask how you get gonnorhea on a hand rail , but im not sending my kids to your school

The shot does give some protection but only against old versions of the flu. Due to the regular virus mutations the vaccine will never protect against the latest version of the flu and hence is always out of date. The Australian version is being used is usually not the latest either. Saying that if it is available and free some protection is better than none if you are prone to it or in the at risk category.

Originally Posted by bee utey

At least if you weren't the unlucky kid who didn't get antibiotics for the horrible infection he picked up in the knee graze and died.

Never had antibiotics for any graze...
Just washed with Water and Detol if it was real deep

Originally Posted by Tombie

Never had antibiotics for any graze...
Just washed with Water and Detol if it was real deep

Years ago, for barbed wire cuts, skinned knuckles and so forth, power kerosene was the standard disinfectant

Well that would have “tickled”

I remember the only time other than Detol was a tetanus shot after I stepped onto a roofing nail that had been set up as a man trap. Went clean through my right foot! So we figured a shot was a good idea

Originally Posted by Tombie

Never had antibiotics for any graze...
Just washed with Water and Detol if it was real deep

Yep... and at home when I was a kid, if an infection clearly turned to blood poisoning (which is what would have anecdotally killed the anecdotal kid with a knee graze and no antibiotic?), as evidenced by the dark streak up a vein - mum would have us soak the wound in a bucket of dettol/water as hot as we could stand for a few hours at a time.

No doctor, hospital, antibiotics...