From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: paying people to get sick (flu study)
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,"Mike B."
 <yahoo at omniphile.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:20:02 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

   Working at home means meeting fewer people and being
exposed to fewer colds.   However the cold house also
means that your metabolism is higher and you use up more
calories to produce heat.
"24 hour flu" is normally food poisoning or notavirus so
not a good indicator of a robust immune system.

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 23:28:19 -0500
  "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com> wrote:
> On 1/28/2014 11:31 AM, Tamar Lindsay wrote:
>> They should find people who don't generally get the flu
>> and test their DNA.
> I think the variation might also be explained by past
>exposure.  I think
> that the more flu you get early, the less flu you get
>later. It's like
> your immune system learns to recognize the general virus
>type, and can
> then recognize variations on it quicker.
>
> When I was a kid I'd get the flu all the time. Less as I
>got older. Got
> a really bad one when I was about 19...but I beat it in
>7 days, when
> most people needed 10.  In my 20s I got the "24 hour
>flu" a couple of
> times, but generally it only lasted about 8 hours (full
>day for others I
> worked with).  Since then I think I've had the flu once,
>back in the
> mid-90s.  Lasted a couple of days.  I've never gotten a
>"flu shot".
>
> I think that environment has an effect too.  Since I've
>started working
> at home (14 years ago), and keeping the thermostat set
>in the mid-60s in
> the winter, I've had fewer colds.  I think that going
>from warm house to
> cold outside and back gives the rhinovirus a better shot
>at getting in,
> and obviously the more contact you have with other
>people, the more you
> get exposed.
>
> I wonder if these trials are taking into account such
>variations in
> their test subjects?  By excluding older folks they are
>also excluding
> the "most experienced" immune systems.
>
> -- Mike B.
>