That’s not true (about the 1918 flu, I mean). It preferentially killed young healthy adults, apparently because of an overreactive immune response. For ordinary flu it is true, though.
I am a flaming liberal, but I approve of Bush’s gesture. It was a serious way of suggesting that healthy adults should not use up the flu shots that could be used for the very young or very old. And let’s face it, could he have done a worse job had he been out of action for a few days (or even a few years)?
The flu usually knocks you out for a week or more. Since I don’t recall any President ever getting the flu or some other virus that the general population usually get, I suspect that the President has access to a super vaccine that the public will never know about.
Ha ha ha ha – classic!
Yes, you’ve said this twice now. If the President got the flu, you would never know about it. Do you have any evidence whatsoever that this “super vaccine” even exists, or that the Prez is a recipient?
I think I’ve had the flu a few times. It’s never knocked me out for more than three days. Even then, I would have been, at my worst, capable of talking and listening and making reasonably lucid phone calls from my bed or an armchair.
Flu also responds quite well to simple treatment. Generally aspirin alone diminishes my symptoms by over half. I’ll still be tired and achy, but those are not incapacitating.
President Ford got the 1976 swine flu vaccine, which actually caused more problems than it prevented. But then I was an assembly worker for a Fortune 500 company at the time and they offered it us free at work (I took it and survived).1976 swine flu outbreak - Wikipedia
You have to figure these guys have the best medical care available and handlers who worry over everything they do.
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