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Flu Vaccine

jglass

jglass

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Will you take it when it becomes available?
I have read many sites who seem to be playing on the hype and fears about the vaccine. Many other sites make logical arguments about the safety of the vaccine. I am trying not to let irrational fears cloud my judgement in regards to the vaccine but I do have concerns about it. At this point I would take it if it were offered to me.
I have asthma and a weak immune system already. I do not look forward to the thought of trying to fight off a case of swine or any other kind of flu.
Jon and I do not get out much except to go to the store occasionally and to his Dads. When I am out I am careful not to touch my face with my hands but my husband is OCD about constantly smoothing his moustache. Very bad habit during flu season.
Last year we nearly avoided the flu all together til my beautiul little niece came for a visit and brought the flu with her. I got it and of course so did Jon. Jon has scarring on his lungs from when he was on a ventiltor years ago after the car accident where he lost his site. I am always extra worried when ever he gets a cold or the flu.

No matter how careful you are you will have friends or family come by who have been exposed. Last year for instance my brother in laws wifes family came to the Thanksgiving dinner we had at my father in laws. With them they brought a 10 year old family member suffering from strep throat and a his little sister who had a horrible cold. We had dinner with all of the doors and windows opened to keep air flow going. If I had known those sick kids were coming I probably would have taken the food down and left before dinner. I think it is thoughtless to knowingly expose your loved ones that way. My brother in law and his wife had a premature baby at the time who ended up catching the little girls bad cold.

In the case where my niece came by with the flu my sister didnt know she had it. They had headed here with her as soon as she came home from school that day and she had been fine that morning. I could tell she was getting sick after she was here for just a few minutes and drug out the lysol spray but I still got it.
As someone who is uninsured I take pains not to spread it around if I get a cold or the flu. I know how expensive an out of pocket doctors visit and prescriptions can be. Cough and cold meds from the store can be costly enough.
 
I would not touch it with a barge pole. Apart from the fact that I believe that this flu is being blown out of all proportions, I think the vaccine is more dangerous than the actual virus. I won't be having it. I've never had a flu vaccine.

There has been a couple of cases on my husbands section, so we've just upped the vitamin C and garlic in our diets.

It is only effective in 40% of the population or so I'm told and if you have been exposed to the virus and have the innoculation it is ineffective.

This hype about spreading from country to country, what can we expect when travel is so quick these days and people are mobile not only from country to country but continent to continent.

Call be crackers but I really think this extra hype about this flu is to hide or take our minds off the tragic loss of life that is going on in the middle east.

I'm not saying whether is is right or wrong to be there what I'm saying is that our troops (American and British) are out there, ill equipt, under protected, like sitting ducks. Needless loss of lives. It is a disgrace.

If the governments are not prepared to fund the needs of the soldiers then they should not have sent the men in in the first place.

I'll get off my soap box now.
 
They have four cases of swine flu in the next county over from us where I go shopping at a few times a month. So far no identified cases in this county.
Flu seems to be here already though. Many people are suffering from influenze and there is a stomach bug going around.
Jon has started calling me Mom cause I insist he wash his hands when we come home lol.
 
Good idea, it is a good idea to be cautious. My neice has been diagnosed with 'swine flu' oh yeh.

I asked her how did her GP diagnose it. She said, "he just said I had it".

I'm not Einstien but with out taking swabs for culture how can he tell the difference from any old viral flu?
I've been a registered nurse for over 25 years and he can tell just by eye then he should be snapped up by a science project.

In this country it appears that even it you have a heavy head could or severe bout of hayfever you have Swine Flu.....

This stinks of scare mongering.
 
Thanks for the concern, she is a young adult, fit and healthy, it won't be long before she is back on form.
 
iIl be taking the vaccine both for regular flu and the swine flu as I work in a nursing home. iI is mandatory to keep my job, as is a yearly tb test. I have never had flu vaccines before getting into this work. Never believed in them.
 
I was talking to the mechanic I had look at my cars ac the other day and he was all that vaccine has cancer cells in it. I told him some German doctor is the only one who has come out with that claim.
 
I get a really sick feeling the more and more I research the H1N1 situation and it doesn't pan out to what I consider "reality". I find it especially interesting that all other flu's tend to mutate, making the anticipated vaccine for it useless, yet the H1N1 is publicly stated as mutating on several occasions seemingly to increase the pandemic state, yet the vaccine is still pushed. A vaccine that evidence shows was actually prepared long before. Something is seriously wrong with this scenario and more and more people are getting that message.

And then we get news like this:
Cops jump on swine-flu power: Shots heard 'round the world

Napolitano: 'Big Influx' of new infections likely - Yahoo! News

.... for a flu that has been reported to be milder than most annual flu's that come around. Everyone is encouraged to do their own research. Your life may depend on it.
 
A very wise assuption Canman.

I can't say about the US government because I don't live there and don't know what goes on but I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that the British Government has a hidden agenda.
 
well I have no hidden agenda...JUST Let me tell you a customer came in obviously sporting a terrible cold, sat down at my desk while I was waiting on her and proceeded to cough all overme, she did not even try & cover her mouth it blew right on me!:( I sat there angry for a moment at her rudeness of not even covering her mouth or turning her head, then I spoke to my co-worker across the desk from me and said "Ashley please bring me the Lysol disinfectant spray." Well if looks could kill :D

HOW RUDE OF HER>>>So many times this has happened and I say not a word this time I spoke up!
 
Good for you Cathy!
They sent a letter home with my five year old niece yesterday stating they are confirmed cases of swine flu in her school. They have no plans to close the school. They are just encouraging the kids to practice good hygeine. Scares me silly to think of her getting that.
 
CanMan I read the one about the bill that is trying to be passed titled: Cops Jump On Swine Flu Power. How terribly ridiculous can idiot law makers be. They are most def. trying to take away our rights. I do not think this bill will pass the House! I will write my Congressman to veto that God Forsaken "Pandemic Response Bill" 2028 !!! How totally ridiculous! Of-course then you have idiots like the lady who came to my desk and was rudely coughing all over me! Cripe, maybe it is because of idiots like her they are trying to pass bills like that!
 
jglass said:
Scares me silly to think of her getting that.
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Do your own research on the Internet (while you can) to get the real answers and don't accept anyone's word for it, not even mine, but right now I'm more afraid of the killing aspect of the "vaccine" than I am of contracting the H1N1 virus.

BTW, there is still a lot of research going on, but apparently Vitamin D is a viable protection against the flu if taken in doses of 5,000 i.u.'s daily in the winter when you are not getting the normal sun contact. Of course that will not prevent our governments/military from forced compliance.

I also have not heard anything bad about the normal flu vaccine being given out at the present time towards this season's exposure. I may get that one because I'm 65, but I will be avoiding the H1N1 vaccine like the plaque. I'm also getting a Pneumonia shot next week, which is a one a lifetime shot for most of us. To easy to get and die from that virus not to get the shot.
 
I spoke with my sister a couple of minutes ago and she has a horrible case of the flu.
Watery eyes, stuffed up nose, congested, body aches and fever.

I get 800 IU's of vitamin D in my one a day vitamins. I may have to get something extra. I already take extra vitamin c and calcium.
 
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CanMan said:
I assume the 'fever' was confirmed, but sounds more like a cold, which is preferred.

http://www.flufacts.com/about/cold.aspx
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Her hubby is a volunteer paramedic and he has all the gear to take her temp and blood pressure in his equipment bag. She sounds awful. She promised if she wasnt any better by tomorrow she would go to the doctor. I called and checked on her a few minutes ago and she sounds just horrible. He had gotten her some over the counter flu medicine she was going to take and try and sleep. One thing is for sure she has no tolerance for medicine. If he got her something with the stuff in it to make her sleep she will be out for hours. She has really bad fall allergies that may have flipped into one nasty cold. It worries me when she is sick. She may be 27 but she is still my little sis. I hope her two kids dont get it. I have that mother hen streak especially when someone is sick.
Thank you very much for the link.
 
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