UK Flu Theat this winter

[Mortblanc]

I had my flu vaccine back at the first of September.

I asked the Doc how effective this year's batch was.

He said 25-27%, but that was what it has always been. We never have just one strain and they can not cover the entire spectrum. They hit the worst strains and hope folks can fight off the weaker bugs.

My next door neighbor just spent 10 days in hospital with this year's strain and it nearly killed him. He lost 10 kilo and did not have 10 to spare. He was in the garden a couple of days ago and looks like death on a biscuit. I do not expect him to last the winter.

Staying away from crowds is always good advice, until you realize those people never go anywhere, do anything or know anyone, have no family and no friends and if they do catch the flu and die in their beds from dehydration because there is no one to bring them a sip of water it is a month or so before their maggot ridden body is found and the cat has lived on their remains for that time.