Ok, not really as simple as all that... but if you had the free time, would you?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/n...ed-with-the-flu/amp/

From the article-
Researchers are turning sick day into pay day for volunteers who will be infected with the influenza virus as part of a study on how our bodies combat the seasonal illness.

As many as 80 people aged 18 to 50 will get paid $3,300 to inhale a nasal spray containing Influenza A, or the common H1N1 strain, which produces mild to moderate symptoms, according to US News & World Report.

They’ll then spend at least a week holed up in a clinic where they’ll be closely monitored with blood samples and nasal and throat swabs to track “initiation, size and duration of various immune system responses and to detect virus shedding,” according to the National Institutes of Health.

Symptoms including fever and muscle aches and weakness will be recorded for a total of two weeks, and volunteers will undergo a 90-day follow-up with more blood and nasal samples.

Not. Enough. Money. For me anyways.

nope - no chance in hell I would deliberately make myself sick

I will pass. A few years ago I got the flu, confirmed when I went to the doctor. Don't remember which but they told me the exact strand. Saw the doc quick enough to get the meds to help but I was still sick as a dog. 102 fiver. I can't remember having such a fever since I was a kid.

Don't see putting myself through that just for kicks.

Hell no!

in the early 70"s ( ARMY) as a sp4 was in a gathering of about 300 Army soldiers in a room where they were looking for voluntiers for medical research..could not sit on my hands fast enough / could not vacate room fast enough...let someone else be test dummy.......drill sgt.

No.

getting paid to possibly die. for an xtra $50 you can sign up for the bola. lovely.

There is a point at which I might be tempted and think about it, but it ain't $3300, I can tell you that.

Sure, why not

And whats to say that they are not testing some other strain of "something" and just telling folks its the common H1N1 ?

No thanks.

Add a bunch of more zeros behind the 3 and I'd still say no. Seriously, we are comfortable in our retirement and are in our 70's so no way would I jump on that.

Jim

Cool! I haven't been sick in 20+ years. Wouldn't mind the wads of cash to still not get sick.

...spend at least a week holed up in a clinic... Hell no!

Add a few zeros and a back rub and we might be able to do business.

Id do it! . Im fairly young-ish with a good immune system though.

If I was 20 years older, probably not.

Had flu in 2015 turned into pneumonia. I truly thought I was going to die one night. Couldn't breath, chest full of fluid.

I'll pass.

Yeah, I'd do it.

quote:

Originally posted by gearhounds:
Let the government give you the flu for $3,300

Usually I get it for free.

The biggest downside for me (and family) would be the week+ stay in the facility, mandatory.

As an aside, I’m shocked nobody has mentioned the Umbrella Corporation or Captain Trips

The equivalent of a month's pay in exchange for a few days of discomfort and a week in a clinic watching Netflix and getting occasionally tested?

*shrug* I'd probably do it, if I didn't have anything else going on.