Swine flu vaccine news. . . . interesting read - poll inside!

[episodic]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...25-deaths-America.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/hea...me-will-be-probed.html


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t...flu/article6797993.ece

Wonder how accurate all of this is? I was considering the vaccine since I work in public alot. . . I'm thinking not if all of this is true.

 

[g8wayrebel]

Yes , I get the vaccine every year through work and will do both if offered.
I have been getting it as a part of my employment for a number of years and haven't had the flu since I started.

Edit: I hadn't read your links prior to response. I will do my homework before taking the H1N1 vaccine after reading , thanks.

 

[boomerang]

I've never had a flu shot in my life and haven't had the flu in thirty years. My answer is no. They can keep their concoctions to themselves.

 

[StageLeft]

Probably not. I will if it's part of a generic flu vaccine. This swine flu continues to be hysteria on the level of sars, bird flu. Couldn't really care less. Everybody is far more likely to die from other strains of the flu or car accidents or heart disease or whatever.

I've never had a flu shot in my life and haven't had the flu in thirty years. My answer is no. They can keep their concoctions to themselves.

This is why I"ve never gotten one. I am never sick, for all intents and purposes, certainly never had the flu. I've only thought of getting the yearly vaccine this time to maybe protect my kids.

 

[Jaskalas]

I will not get it, never had any intention of it.

 

[eits]

i wasn't gonna get it anyway

flu vaccines = total crap
swine flu vaccine = even dumber

 

[Cogman]

No, Swine Flu was nowhere near as dangerous as the media tried to make it out to be, so why get vaccinated against it? It has a slow enough mutation rate that I can see this bug killing itself off.

And a flu vaccine is fairly dumb as well as it is just a blanket shot for whatever flu they think might be present in the area, so there is no guarantee that it will even help.

 

[WHAMPOM]

Our 2009 swine flu is very close genitically to the Spanish flu that killed millions, but now we do not have crowded troop ships and camps insuring thousands of infected carriers. Now I do want the shot.

 

[Schadenfroh]

I get the seasonal flu vaccination every year, have since childhood since influenza came close to killing me when I was little (glad I was too young to remember that hospital stay). I will likely get this one as well as well.

 

[Tequila]

Nope, not touching this 2009 swine flu vaccine with a 10 foot pole. I was a teen in '76 and still remember to this day the fear of the similarities between the swine flu back then to the Spanish flu of 1918. The outcome speaks for itself.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

People would have to be dropping dead before my eyes before I get any sort of vaccine. You're not gonna stick me with that thing, brotha.

 

[blackangst1]

I wont. I havent had a flu vaccine...well...ever, and havent gotten anything that kept me out of work.

But then I have a polka dotted rock on my table to keep vampires out, and I havent seen any vampires either.

 

[reallyscrued]

Never had any flu shots, never will.

blackangst, try garlic.

 

[vhx]

I think the fact they passed a bill providing immunity to the corporations for any damage it causes is laughable and suspicious in of itself. That and the fact it was approved as a national inoculations system BEFORE it's fully human tested... yeah... sign me up. Not.

Like the other person, unless I started seeing people drop dead everyday I wouldn't touch it. No point to it now anyways as others have said, it's basically dead.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31...5/ns/health-swine_flu/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32...3/ns/health-swine_flu/

 

[IceBergSLiM]

no...getting sick keeps my immune system strong.

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: WHAMPOM
Our 2009 swine flu is very close genitically to the Spanish flu that killed millions, but now we do not have crowded troop ships and camps insuring thousands of infected carriers. Now I do want the shot.

Our level of healthcare is much higher than it was in 1918. As you note the swine flu last Spring was not a huge event. And this is in an age where air travel can send you across the globe in the matter of hours.

 

[1LordEmperor1]

I've never had a flu vaccination and probably won't until I'm so old I figure I can't handle a flu anymore.