Will you be getting the H1N1 vaccine?

[Ellie]

young adults are in fact at high risk from this. two of them just passed this week where my dad works. before you ask, the healthcare in this province is exceptional.

besides, in a year the shit'll have probably passed over anyway. I don't see any merit to avoiding something simply because it's temporary.

"still very new" doesn't hold a lot of weight with me anymore, since new iterations of the vaccine are coming out very shortly and they're apparently keeping on top of the shortcomings.

Especially since with viruses mutation and whatnot (I won't try and understand that) any viral vaccine has to by definition be "very new".

 

[Xaixis]

My school is offering it for free.

One of my friends got it and was out for 2 weeks, I just can't afford to miss that much class. I'm not all that concerned about if it will kill me or something, I mean if it does then meh, but I really doubt it.

 

[Love]

A little boy, aged 9 years old, died just after that taking the vaccine. They said he had bleeding in his brain, blood vomiting, and other things. And another reason for me not to get the vaccine~

 

[bacon]

Well, afer watching this video, I dont think I will ever want to take another shot again. ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEN5KGwNGeo

(Its kinda sad if you think about it. Even though it is rare, it could still happen and I honestly dont want it to.)

 

[mawk]

A little boy, aged 9 years old, died just after that taking the vaccine.

and balance that against all the tragic H1N1 deaths that didn't get this kind of insane media coverage

 

[mawk]

honestly I like how everyone here is like "WE'RE NOT SLAVES OF THE MASS MEDIA OVERYHYPING THIS WHOLE THING" but really the media is UNDERHYPING it on purpose and you're all falling for it gj

(that's not fair actually a lot of people here are well informed and have legit reasons for not getting it but those of you who are just going by the deaths you see in the news are sortof disgusting imo)

 

[Incognitus]

Baxter Pharmaceuticals, who received the contract for the H1N1 vaccine, were caught up in a scandal way-back-when as they had, somehow managed to mix the live Avian Flu virus in with a bunch of healthy vaccine jabs.

Neither my father or uncle, both of whom work for AstraZeneca (in not-entirely-small roles) trusted Baxter's safety record BEFORE that. My uncle is concerned about teh SwineFlu, but he's not going to rush out and get jabbed.
And so I'm thinking, obviously if one is lucky enough to know a successful biochemist, one should take a note of their opinion; I'll get it when and if he sees the need to get it.

 

[mawk]

yeah. I got my own doubts about the vaccine, but for me they're acceptable given the odds. the issues I have would be present for most given vaccinations, anyway.

in the end, the decision to get it or not is a personal decision and it's silly to get wound up over what other people are deciding. all that really matters is that you're informed enough to stand behind your decision, and it ticks me off a little how many people are going with platitudes or fear of needles as their major motivation.

 

[Incognitus]

On the bright side, it's Survival of the Fittest: Once all the needle-fearing people are dead, we will have a superior race of human beings who don't go into cold sweats whenever they get their jabs. :thumb:

 

[Love]

honestly I like how everyone here is like "WE'RE NOT SLAVES OF THE MASS MEDIA OVERYHYPING THIS WHOLE THING" but really the media is UNDERHYPING it on purpose and you're all falling for it gj

(that's not fair actually a lot of people here are well informed and have legit reasons for not getting it but those of you who are just going by the deaths you see in the news are sortof disgusting imo)

I am not really sure how the media would make it seem big. I mean, something happened, they told us. I am pretty sure they didn't make it up, right? If you mean about "the boy died JUST AFTER he took it" whole thing, I think they just pointed out a fact, nothing more.

 

[Venetia]

IMHO the only reason why the media is kind of laying off the hype-up of it is because it doesn't really pull in the ratings it used to. Back when the first cases started cropping up they were all over that shit day and night like Jacko's death but now most people are like "whatev dog" and flip over to cartoons so CNN and everyone just moved on to more appealing stories.

I am not really sure how the media would make it seem big. I mean, something happened, they told us. I am pretty sure they didn't make it up, right? If you mean about "the boy died JUST AFTER he took it" whole thing, I think they just pointed out a fact, nothing more.

the news hasn't been about just "pointing out a fact, nothing more" since ... Well, ever. In America, anyway. It's always been about the ratings. If they have a hot topic on hand that people are scrambling for info on, that's all they show, 24/7. When Obama was first named prez the news media was REACHING for shit to report on. I even saw a story on what school lunches his two daughters could expect on their 1st day of school. When Jacko died all they did was cover it for like 128 hours straight (his death got about 4x more press than Ronald Reagan's--that speaks for itself about the influence of ratings on news networks).

People're dying right and left in Iraq, we're calling for a surge in Afghanistan, people're dying due to this epidemic, and even still all CNN/MSNBC/FOX/etc are covering are pop trends, big forest fires, and box office numbers. The only place I'm able to find an honest hour's news is on local stations, and even then, it's only local news.

It's annoying but that's just how it is with news. I sincerely doubt there's anyone or anything trying to impede these people from hyping H1N1 other than their marketing execs complaining about the latest ratings polls.

 

[Venetia]

in any case, hype isn't always a good thing.
people in at-risk positions should DEFINITELY be aware of the danger but when the media starts to over-hype, shit gets stupid. it makes a panic.
people are better off well-informed but when trouble crops up the sheeple mentality sets in and a stampede tramples all the free-thinkers in the herd.

 

[Love]

Oh I don't really know about that. The news that said about the boy's death is Egyptian, since the guy is Egyptian. And Egyptian news are not really the kind of hyping up news. ._.

 

[Venetia]

i forget that you're from egypt
actually in your case it's far more likely that the government would come in and tell the news media what they can and cannot cover.

 

[Love]

Yeah, probably. Though I think that the media is transferring about everything about the swine flu. Like they say that about 1600 got it, and 96.6% got well again. 6 died so far, including the little boy.

Umm this is not over reacting, is it? o-o And they said that the vaccine is all over Egypt now, and they encourage people to have it although not really are brave enough to do so. (Including me. o-o)

 

[Ellie]

We used to have an independant not-for-profit newspaper here but again, only for local news . That went with the dodo.

 

[Perihelion]

My school isn't getting more vaccine till sometime later this month, but iirc I'm on the waitlist for it. I was sick earlier this year, but I don't think it was H1N1.

 

[mawk]

just heard my little bro and little sis came down with it. very mild case, though, since they're already partially immune to it.

 

[friend]

my country has no vaccines yet.

 

[zchin]

I won't because I heard it may cause paralysis, which means no video games! Anyway I just hope the government doesn't force people to take the vaccine.

Thank you and have a nice day!