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because i had it in may and at that time everyone was having it
Now I know why you guys post in the coffee room and not on the main site. Thanks for a good laugh. Reminds me of the movie Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson, but that was more believable. It’s funny- the British who have horrible socialized medicine are worried about a complication that happened in the seventies. Don’t they think that maybe the pharm. companies have improved the vaccine since then? And don’t tell me be Makish H1N1 to H1N1, this isn’t a Gezairah Shoveh!
So Health, by all means please vaccinate yourself. Hashem made the body quite capable of making it’s own immunity. If you are in the health field, then you will know this. If you are a healthy person, who avoids sweets, gets some Vitamin D and eats fruits and veggies, then getting the flu should not be a problem except a little inconvience. If you are person with underlying health issues, then by all means, get the vaccination. I don’t want the vaccination and believe this pandemic to be too hyped up. If you can prove how many healthy people without underlying issues, passed from the H1N1 flu, please give me the numbers. I rather take my chances by not getting the vaccine, then by injecting myself with some short tested, vaccine.
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When is that Guillain-Barre article from? It was an issue with the first flu vaccines many years ago (which is referenced there as the 1976 debacle). Now it is not known whether the new vaccines are dangerous – or effective in any way. My insurance covered it in Moscow and New York so I got it; here I can’t get it so I don’t bother. In NY I caught something anyway and was not overly pleased with the vaccination which is why I don’t bother with it here even though it is probably around $10.
To mazal77,
You are correct about immunity, but you need to be exposed to the antigen first. You can be exposed by either getting sick or by getting a shot. I prefer the shot it usually doesn’t make you feel sick or cause death. Also with regards to this swine flu,
it can be different than the regular flu. So far bli ayin horah, it’s acting like a regular flu or even milder; not too many deaths. But in 1918 this strain -H1N1, called at that time the Spanish flu, mutated and turned very deadly. This is why a lot of people are hyping this up -they are afraid of some sort of deadly mutation. We really don’t have anything to fight the flu with- the meds (tamiflu & others) don’t work to well. The best protection we have against the flu is vaccination. Two reasons a shot will help in this case. 1. The less people that get sick- the less of a chance the virus has of mutating. 2. Even if it mutates, the shot will probably give you some immunity, so you probably won’t die chas v’sholom from this deadly strain. I hope this clears some stuff up for you.
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