Swine Flu/H1N1 Vaccination - Yes or No?

[intarsiabox]

I'm not sure about BC but in Alberta the regular flu shot is free to all family members if one of them has asthma and since the H1N1 shot is free to all canadians I'm sure any ID or the puffer should be adequate.

I really have to wonder if all this conspiracy was around when the polio or small pox vaccines came out. Both of these diseases have almost been totally wiped out because of vaccines. People claim that vaccines are the cause of some other problems but that really doesn't explain the millions of other people who contract these diseases and never received vaccinations of any sort. It's unfortunate that genetic diseases exist but people are born with the gene and science doesn't know enough about gene therapy yet to solve the problems. As a parent I would be angry too if one of my children got a disabling disease and might seek to blame something for it. So I understand why people feel that way but if I took my first ever Tylanol and down the road I developed autism which I bet lots of people who develop the disease has taken the drug I wouldn't blame Tylanol I would blame bad genes. I really don't think people go to university because their life long ambition is to become an evil scientist and destroy the world, I would think most just want to make a positive difference in the world.

[bbb1080]

It's not about you getting sick. It's about herd immunity. Getting the vaccination can save not your life but the succeptable person in the elevator beside you. We have had 6 kids die this week in peds ICU of h1n1 that were healthy and vibrant, not immunocompromised. Those deaths were preventable. Don't think about yourself and make it your prerogative to risk others lives out of ignorance of a simple very low risk immunization.
As a side note there seems to be a bit of cross
immunity for individuals born before 1955, it is less important that these individuals be vaccinated.
Sorry for the rant but this issue hits close to home for me.

[intarsiabox]

Originally Posted by bbb1080

It's not about you getting sick. It's about herd immunity. Getting the vaccination can save not your life but the succeptable person in the elevator beside you. We have had 6 kids die this week in peds ICU of h1n1 that were healthy and vibrant, not immunocompromised. Those deaths were preventable. Don't think about yourself and make it your prerogative to risk others lives out of ignorance of a simple very low risk immunization.
As a side note there seems to be a bit of cross
immunity for individuals born before 1955, it is less important that these individuals be vaccinated.
Sorry for the rant but this issue hits close to home for me.

This is why I got my kids and myself vaccinated. Not so much for myself but for my daughters, their friends, school mates and neices and nephews that we come in contact with daily. You don't know who is a carrier or who is especially suseptible just by looking at them and I don't really want to be the cause of someone's child dying.