i'm sorry to hear about your accident. i really am and I meant no disrespect. you probably wear your seatbelt everytime you get in a car now. vaccines are like seatbelts.

average duration of influenza infection is 2 weeks. yes, i do not think you are catching the flu.

just get it. the fact that you've never gotten the flu before means one and only one thing. you've been fortunate in the past. risk of side effects of the influenza vaccine are very very very low. it's like wearing your seat belt. sure there's a chance you could pinch your finger in the buckle when you put it on but…

there is huge body of evidence to back that up.

if you actually got influenze once a year you'd be first in line to get the vaccine. you most likely are catching a common cold. if you had the flu you'd feel like you were hit by a truck then run over by a train for 2-3 WEEKS.

they've done studies on the phenomenon of feeling sick after getting the shot. there is a growing body of evidence that says it's because people tend to get the shot a day or two after coming into contact with a sick person. you're not getting sick from the shot, that's impossible. nor is your body more susceptible to…

there are a lot of variables but keeping your shoulder moving every 10-15 minutes and hydrating the day before and the day of tends to avoid almost all of the soreness problems. it's all about blood flow

didn't feel mine this year either. nor did my 3 year old. she just pointed at the tiny drop of blood on her leg and thought it was cool then asked the nurse if she could have a sticker.

a number of years ago they started using a super tiny needle for the flu shot and you honestly barely feel it, if you feel it at all. You don't need to go to the doc's office. Any pharmacy, hell any grocery store with a pharmacy can do it. Target too.

i didn't even feel mine this year. i just kept standing there holding my sleeve up looking like a jackass still waiting for the little prick. my three year old just watched when they jabbed her. didn't even want the bandaid and they had freaking "Frozen" bandaids. "bandaids are for ouchies" is what she said.

i've never, not once broken a bone in my wrist. please hold my beer while i punch this concrete pillar.

go ahead and try to publish evidence that in a medical journal.

flu virus can live outside the body for up to 8 hours. you are contagious long before you show symptoms. let's say you swing by a coffee shop on your way to work at 7am and touch a doorknob and leave the virus there. at 3pm a little kid follows her mom into the same coffee shop and touches the same door knob. the…

it was just that year and it was only during the month of october and partly into early november.

first, everyone is vulnerable. anyone not vaccinated is even more vulnerable. to say that you have no exposure to vulnerable groups is absurd unless you live in a bubble. Even if you only count populations that are at higher risk of having serious complications from influenza, you are still exposed to them without…

Minimalize is now a word.

Talks about gutting SS to the bone grabs headlines and is a great wedge issues for politicians to fundraise and increase voter turnout. I agree with you that most of them aren't crazy enough to actually make the drastic changes they bloviate about on cable "news". It's posturing and grandstanding. 5 years ago, I would…

old email app stops working when you upgrade to android 5. if it still worked I'd be content but now i have to go 3rd party.

yeah I heard that. My N4 has a shattered screen so I picked up an N5 when it was released and love it. 5.0 came OTA for my N7 tablet yesterday but still nothing for the N5 yet. I heard there were some battery issues with 5.0 on the N5 so I'm content to wait. Gives me a little more time to get familiar with the new OS.…

I use the 5 minute rule. If I am feeling low energy and want to skip a workout, I allow myself to skip but only after I do the first 5 minutes of it. It's amazing how few workouts I actually skip. It's all about Newton's first law, an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion.