3 week plan to boost immune system?

paperpudding

No that isnt the way it works Macy - if it was, there would be no point in anyone getting vaccinated.

Vaccination is backed by scientific studies showing it works - not the other way round.

Macy9336

paperpudding wrote: »

No that isnt the way it works Macy - if it was, there would be no point in anyone getting vaccinated.

Vaccination is backed by scientific studies showing it works - not the other way round.

I never said vaccination didn't work. All I said is that the flu vaccine only protects you against the specific flu viruses ( species) that it immunises you against. The idiot was the person saying the flu vaccine can protect a person against entire strains of flu ( hundreds of thousands of flu viruses) and that getting the vaccine confers extra immunity against flu viruses NOT in the vaccine when the opposite ( negative contributory immunity) has been proven by science.

geebusuk

Cheers for the further thoughts everyone - had a really busy run up to the festival, so no time to reply.

I was single this year (and alas, didn't kiss any random ladies!), only had a couple of questionable drinks (ie a friend made me a cocktail and tasted it herself first). I always have a shower every day - I take a caravan with a 125l water tank with double pumps and 16kw 'tankless' water heater, so make full use of it .
I *did* get involved in some mosh pits, gave several young ladies a sit on my shoulders and went crowd surfing. Cooked all my own food, though did snaffle a load of 'birthday cake' from the party my friends had at the base-camp.
Thanks to the caravan I got pretty decent sleep to start with (double black out blinds and parked in the shade)... though Saturday night a the room started spinning thanks to a bit too much vodka and the last night was 8am to midday, then running around collecting stuff. Did make sure hands were washed or sanitised after using toilets, but otherwise didn't really bother.

Somehow, this was the first year I DIDN'T get ill - there was a slight hint of it, but didn't develop and may have just been from being in a dusty environment and that last night .

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »

Wear a VO2 mask and pretend you're cool

A few years ago I went a bit better than that!

The year before I went to the Tomato fight event. Decided that having tomatos thrown in your face by others (we all had instructios to squish them with our hands first), then said tomatos on the floor being picked up and thrown at others.... was a very bad idea for illness.
So I decided to take protection. Proper protection - the above is a proper milatry gas mask to prevent against chemical and biological attack, with fresh filter. I don't think the people running the greenpeace showers were entirely impressed I went in pretty much like that - but they couldn't make out what I was saying as I didn't take it off until I'd showered all the muddy-tomato-goo off me .