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Flu Shot question, part Deux

Would you agree with government mandated flu shots?


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I agree, there is no need to worry. I'm not going to die if I get the flu, nor am I going to die if I get H1N1. I'm a healthy person. 7% of people who get H1N1 die. That's comparable to the normal flu. Why should I be panicked?

If that's your attitude, that's fine. To each his own. I'm just pointing out that worrying about Guillain-Barré syndrome or other complications with the vaccine itself is a completely irrational reason not to get it.

Personally I don't see why one wouldn't get it, if they didn't have any allergies to shots. It takes ten minutes and it can prevent a week of illness. Granted, I probably won't die from swine flu if I get it, but I'd rather not be ill either. "I'm a healthy person" is a similarly irrational reason not to get the vaccine IMO. If you get swine flu, chances are you're going to be sick for at least a few days no matter how strong your immune system is.
 
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Never. That would be the perfect excuse for the government to wipe people out.
 
If that's your attitude, that's fine. To each his own. I'm just pointing out that worrying about Guillain-Barré syndrome or other complications with the vaccine itself is a completely irrational reason not to get it.

Personally I don't see why one wouldn't get it, if they didn't have any allergies to shots. It takes ten minutes and it can prevent a week of illness. Granted, I probably won't die from swine flu if I get it, but I'd rather not be ill either. "I'm a healthy person" is a similarly irrational reason not to get the vaccine IMO. If you get swine flu, chances are you're going to be sick for at least a few days no matter how strong your immune system is.

Don't get me wrong, I respect it if people want to get the vaccine. In a way, people getting the vaccine allows for others to be able to not get it, since the protected segment of society is the buffer for the unprotected. But even within that rationale, the flu is something that mutates so the buffer is never complete in the first place.

If you are someone with a healthy lifestyle, contracting the flu will be a normal experience in illness.
 
Uh, they do already. buh-bye
You are poorly educated on the topic, it would appear. "Mandatory Vaccinations" can be circumvented with a simple doctor's note. Therefore, you do not HAVE to be immunized.
 
You are poorly educated on the topic, it would appear. "Mandatory Vaccinations" can be circumvented with a simple doctor's note. Therefore, you do not HAVE to be immunized.

In Canada people can also be excused on religious grounds.
 
while it is tragic that anyone has died from Swine Flu, it has not in the most contorted version of the word, reached an epidemic proportion, that would require mandatory vaccines. And I include Military and Medical personnel in that
 
while it is tragic that anyone has died from Swine Flu, it has not in the most contorted version of the word, reached an epidemic proportion, that would require mandatory vaccines. And I include Military and Medical personnel in that

YET!

I do not support the gov. trying to force anything medical on people as we have saw in past that they have no qualms using us good citizens as their guinea pigs but this is a real issue and one that we need to worry about:shock:
 
I do not support goverment mandated vaccines, ANY vaccines. People (and parents!) have the right to choose for themselves and their children, IMO.
 
If that's your attitude, that's fine. To each his own. I'm just pointing out that worrying about Guillain-Barré syndrome or other complications with the vaccine itself is a completely irrational reason not to get it.

Personally I don't see why one wouldn't get it, if they didn't have any allergies to shots. It takes ten minutes and it can prevent a week of illness. Granted, I probably won't die from swine flu if I get it, but I'd rather not be ill either. "I'm a healthy person" is a similarly irrational reason not to get the vaccine IMO. If you get swine flu, chances are you're going to be sick for at least a few days no matter how strong your immune system is.

When influenza vaccine has thimerosal in it. And all thimerosal is composed of 50% mercury. And ALL mercury diminishes the overall well being of all humans neurologically, and is independence/life threatening to all those lacking in neural health. Then yes. It is.
 
When influenza vaccine has thimerosal in it. And all thimerosal is composed of 50% mercury. And ALL mercury diminishes the overall well being of all humans neurologically, and is independence/life threatening to all those lacking in neural health. Then yes. It is.

No. It's not. Worrying about mercury from vaccines is stupid. There are plenty of more potent sources of mercury than vaccines, starting with any fish you might eat or any factories that you might live near.

"Diminish overall well being"? And getting swine flu doesn't do that?
 
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No. It's not. Worrying about mercury from vaccines is stupid. There are plenty of more potent sources of mercury than vaccines, starting with any fish you might eat or any factories that you might live near.

"Diminish overall well being"? And getting swine flu doesn't do that?

I rather develop an immunity without the help of mercury thank you very much. All natural.
 
I rather develop an immunity without the help of mercury thank you very much. All natural.

Have fun getting an immunity from polio without a vaccine.
 
I rather develop an immunity without the help of mercury thank you very much. All natural.

Do you understand the point of developing an immunity in the first place? So that you don't get swine flu. And you would have to first get swine flu to develop a natural immunity to it, which means that this reasoning doesn't make any sense.
 
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I am having my free standard flu jab at 09.30 am Gmt today, I dont need the swine flu jab, as a jew I just paint a lamb blood cross above my right nipple and eat the odd christian baby when in season:)
 
Do you understand the point of developing an immunity in the first place? So that you don't get swine flu. And you would have to first get swine flu to develop a natural immunity to it, which means that this reasoning doesn't make any sense.

Considering how mild swine flu is compared to the regular variety, who cares? It's not like it's particularly dangerous to a healthy adult. I'd no more get a vaccination for the common cold.
 
Do you understand the point of developing an immunity in the first place? So that you don't get swine flu. And you would have to first get swine flu to develop a natural immunity to it, which means that this reasoning doesn't make any sense.
It does if you are looking to develop a stronger immunity to the disease.
 
It does if you are looking to develop a stronger immunity to the disease.

What is the purpose of developing a stronger immunity to the disease? Flu viruses are such that you are going to get each of them exactly 0 or 1 times in your life, whether you're vaccinated or not. So contracting the flu so that you can get an immunity to it makes no sense. It's like burning your house down to prevent someone else from burning it down in the future.
 
If it becomes a larger problem I might support mandatory vaccines. Currently, I think it would cause too many frightened Glenn Beck viewers to deteste their government to be worth it. But if it starts killing more then yeah.

I do support the government subsidizing it, and vaccines in general. It's one product that even if you choose not to obtain the vaccine, you benefit by others taking it. Others, by vaccinating themselves, won't get the swine flu and thus won't pass it on to you. So those that don't get vaccinated are basically free loaders on the system - so subsidies are good.

So I think the government should strongly encourage it but not force it.
 
if i was in the US i would not get one for any reason.
 
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