>>>>http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2011/01/06/flu-early.html
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>>>We got our flu shots about a month ago. With the limited insurance plan I currently have, I can't afford to get really sick. A flu shot is cheap insurance. <g>
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>>Sounds like "I wish I was so rich... then I could contract some exotic disease".
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>>But then the verb "contract" sounds so ambiguous... as if one could hire a contractor to be ill instead.
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>The flu business is taking off nicely. A few well placed scare stories and people pile in for unnecessary treatment.
>Here's my tip. Get flu. Go to bed. Drink plenty of fluids. Feel ill for a few days.Get better.

Actually, my prevention scheme goes like "if you feel like you may feel some wee symptoms of flu tomorrow, eat a lot of raw onion for dinner - take a big one, eat it like an apple, then wait for all the microbes to go out and puke and not come back". It does work, I haven't had flu for decades. Unless we count the American Lite, which would last a couple of hours, or maybe two days, which doesn't hold a candle to proper European flu, of which there are two kinds. The first kind, medicated, lasts a week. The other kind last seven days.

>That'll be $150.00.

Since that's the advice I already self-administered before reading this, I guess I'll have to charge myself. Now where's that charger...