5/22/09: Are Baby Boomers Immune To The Swine Flu?
Posted by the912project on May 21, 2009 · 53 Comments
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If this thing mutates this fall into a pandemic it would affect the younger generations the most. One more thing we did back then is if we had a bad cold or flu we stayed home from school or work for a day or two. Every flu season now I keep reading and seeing comercials on tv saying…if you have a cold or flu get yourselves to the doctor and they can give you something to lessen the duration. There are a lot of people with serious health issues like heart and lung disease sitting in the waiting rooms of doctors offices and they are the ones who get hospitalized and even die from complications. I think the way we behave in society today, (the loss of common sense is a bigger pandemic) can make this situation worse. If you go to the CDC website their advice runs the same as when I was a kid, except the use of sanitizers. Wondering why the CDC is all for sanitizers?
Thank you Marine for serving our country.
I talked to a friend who studies epidemiology and if H1N1 follows the pattern of pandemics, the first round will be mild and as in 1918, will return in the fall with a vengeance after mutating. There is a chance that the flu will be far more dangerous due to secondary ailments (pneumonia, etc.,) and us Baby Boomers could be more resistant for a number of reasons, mostly due to the tendency for strains to mutate to target certain age groups.
The world experiences a massive pandemic every century or so and I'd say we are due.
Well I think it would make sense since we probably were all exposed to it back in the 1970's. Some got sick, some didn't. As I recall, more people died from the actual swine flu shot than the flu itself. I just read an article about the H1N1 flu and how it is hitting the the younger generation much harder and that would make sense since they were not around for the initial exposure in the 1970's.
not immune … allergic, be nice if they broke out in hives around pork
with all the shots I had to take when I went over seas , I rarely get these flus , I will get a cold but not these flus.
I still wonder waht this Goverment is up too. IN LIBERTY
I was thinking that by them having a huge flow of Mexicans into the U.S, it would make it very difficult if not impossible to identify and root out Muslim Extremists. Hmmmm!
You know what? I think getting rid of pigs is one of the objectives of this whole Swine Flu issue.
Obama just gave GMAC 7.5 billion and changed the rules for them to give them a notable advantage over their competition, including FORD.
How can i give a rats a$$ about swine flu?
chump change
I just wish that Congress was immune to pork.
Brass , that was great. good one my freind.
I'd rather just give all of them the swine flu!!!
Let's look at this and see what might be another reason that Baby Boomers may have some resistance to the swinw flu. Most baby boomers grew up playing outside, aircondition homes were rare, if at all. If it was hot, you opened another window or turned up the fan another notch. Basically, there were exposed to all types of "germs". Today, the most houses are sealed, kids are inside playimg computer games, if you want to loss weight take a pill or exercise in a gym, you wash your hands with antisepetic soap, you get a cut you use another antiseptic (they use to just wash it off with soap & water and continue playing). The long and short of this is people have shelterd themselves so much that the body, yes the body, has not built up a natural immunity. Believe it or not the body can fight off most germs.
Yes, you are quite correct. I have a colleague that has a PhD in microbiology and he says the same thing (privately of course).
As a side note I was also in the Corps.
Semper Fi! Once a Marine, Always a Marine.
i GREW up in FL …………running behind the mosquito spray trucks every nite…(we thought they were fog machines)………..anyway it was fun…….
I think i'm immune to everything.
me too heck im still in FL
oldmarine you are very well correct also ,they find kids on farms have fewer heath problems with viruses.
When you hear how things are today, compared to when we grew up….for all intensive purposes we shouldn't have survived childhood. Rode bikes without helmets, skated and didn't have to be dressed like a line backer to do so. Swam in quaries, played in dirt……the body can fight off most germs. I certainly don't go looking for exposure, but your chances of recovering are alot better, if you have been exposed to things and not kept in a bubble.
Hey…say! Wasn't it reported that during the G20 Summit Hillary Clinton made a comment about there being too many people in the world?
Yep, and they are immune to massive Solar Flares too!
HAH! good one
Its seems that there is no generation that is immune to the "swine flu", as evidenced by the fact that certain people wont shut up about it. Is it impossible for the media to present the "news" from a non-hysterical point of view? What is lacking in stories like these, is perspective, For instance; Nationally, nearly 20 times more people die in automobile accidents DAILY, than the total number of American deaths from H1N1 since it originated. The bottom line is the media is pretty lame, but I suppose to say that is just stating the obvious.
Since when are Baby Boomers only those aged 60 or more? I thought the last of the Baby Boomers was born about 1960. PS Along the same line of partial immunity….you can acurately age someone by whether they have the small-pox vaccination scar or not. Few Americans under the age of 44 or so have this scar. There are now two entire generations with no immunity whatsoever from this true scourge of humanity. God help us if it is ever used as a bio-weapon.
All I can say to that is … Oh Yeah baby… you know it!
thats not true All us army soldiers have been givin small-pox injections, along with polio,typhoid,tetnus,pnumonia,etc… some even have the anthrax vacine
Sorry Fellow Patrito Chevy, I remembered after I had posted that the military was innoculated for small-pox I think soon after 9/11. My comment was meant about the general population.
Hey I'm proud of my vaccination scar. Looks nice sitting above my American Bald Eagle tattoo on my left arm
I'm a "boomer" and not 60 yet. I got the pox scar I remember it being a nasty vaccine. If it's like the rest of things they do, they can just change names and dates and meanings of words at will to suit whatever their agenda might be. You would think after being around all these years, we'd naturally develope an ammunity to something.
Hope so
In Obama's perfect little egomaniac mind, there will be no baby boomers because they are just a drain on society. So bring the flu on, it will only be another piece of the puzzle that is put into place.
I agree….. I think they are using a VERY old textbook and following it to the tee!
I think you are right on if a bunch of boomers go it will help the fed with all the money it stole form SSI over the years
I raised this question when the first reports of this flu affected the young so hard. I'm not 60…close but not there yet, but I had several cases of flu in the 1970s that were awful! Soon as I heard about this one, I wondered and questioned. So far, no problems with me or my husband. Of course, I DO take extra precautions though…making sure that I wipe down grocery carts with antibacterial wipes and making sure that I don't touch bathroom door handles or such in public places after washing. But, I've been doing that for years. Flu is flu, after all.
I raised this question when the first reports of this flu affecting the young so hard. I'm not 60…close but not there yet, but I had several cases of flu in the 1970s that were awful! Soon as I heard about this one, I wondered and questioned. So far, no problems with me or my husband. Of course, I DO take extra precautions though…making sure that I wipe down grocery carts with antibacterial wipes and making sure that I don't touch bathroom door handles or such in public places after washing. But, I've been doing that for years. Flu is flu, after all.
Well it is good to know Swine Flu, will not be their demise. Still contend, Nationalized Healthcare will be though!
All the more reason why we should not be trying to "quarantine" anyone from this virus. It's alredy shown itself to be relatively mild, so why scare the hell out of people. They should go ahead and identify the common issues for those people who exhibit risk for serious illness, but let everyone contract this strain.
It'll come back, so why not confer immunity now, vice risking a more serious strain later?
Just how do you suggest we immunitized people? They don't have a vaccine for it yet, that will take six months or more to develope. The virus could and most likely will change, it usually does, so I ask again, just what do we start vaccinating with?
I say we use the Marine Corps Immunity program ……. 60 guys in an open Barracks.
Every one gets sick for a day or two, the weak go to Doc for treatment.
If you value your life you won't take ANY so called "Vaccine" they come up with in the Fall…. I have never been vaccinated against the flu in my adult life and I have NEVER had a flu! Just keep yourself strong and as healthy as you can so that when it DOES break out again you will have a natural resistance to it and stay away from large crowds etc. This is a part of something that has yet come to light in the MSM..
That's what I've been saying all along. It would be better to get it now and build up immunity when it's mild, than wait until it turns nasty.
Yeah, we are protected to a degree from H1N1…..some immunity may be from the swine flu immunization from 1976 and Type A Flu attenuated virus from subsequent years. But the cases that I have followed are from toddler ages to 60 -ish.
The same immunization that caused crippling and death?
Nancy,
You know I appreciate your posts. As a matter of fact I had noticed your absence the last couple of days. I know you are in the health care field, but I agree with Marine on this one.. the people who seem to be able to shake this off are probably among those that got the vaccination for the (non-exsistent) flu in 1976. I do not trust the scientific community enough (especially these day with all the eugenics talk etc) to ever take any vaccine they try to force down the public's throat. So I respectfully dissagree with the propaganda that they are going to and have been touting. Don't you think it is a little over the top the way they have been going on and on about something that has made so FEW sick and Killed hardley anyone that didn't already have some downright awful conditions to start with? Question Authority NOW!
Good to see you here again… keep posting girl.
Actually, I got the swine flu in 1976…so there was no point in taking the shot (either then or now).
Works for me!
Thank you all for your sacrifice and service to keep us free. God bless you all.
The one time I took a flu shot (back in 76) I got sicker than I have ever been in my life. Never again will I take a flu shot.
no problem, i joined in 99 and on day 2 went thre the shooting gallery.. rows of nurses get shot in the right and left arm step foward do it again step foward do it again step foward do it again . you get the idea… hurt for a week.. its repeated every year for rapid deployment units like mine ( 1st CAV )
no problem, i joined in 99 and on day 2 went thru the shooting gallery.. rows of nurses get shot in the right and left arm step foward do it again step foward do it again step foward do it again . you get the idea… hurt for a week.. its repeated every year for rapid deployment units like mine ( 1st CAV )
I am curious though if the small-pox vaccination has changed since in the forty years since I received it. It was a device with multiple little prongs and unusually painful. Curiously, the scar never fades. It seems to last a lifetime. Even major surgery scars fade out after a decade or two.
It was a live vaccine back then….now it's not.
you recived a pressure injection, air pressure literally blows the vacine thru your skin. my father had the same thing in vietnam