Are you getting the H1N1 Vaccine?

Are you getting the H1N1 vaccine?

  • Yes

    Votes: 7 12.7%

  • No

    Votes: 48 87.3%

  • I've already been vaccinated

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    55
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My family has received the regular flu vaccine, but not the H1N1 vaccine. We feel like the H1N1 vaccine has not been properly tested and that the H1N1 strain is not any worse than the regular flu.
 
I believe the H1N1 thing is another case of hysteria being magnified by an irresponsible news media. A good option might be a shot of Uranium-235 in the flux-capacitor! :rolleyes:
 
Raleighjeepguy and jovibuilt, were your family members Diagnosed with it, or were they tested and confirmed to have it? I ask because my niece was diagnosed with it and when the test results came back, after it had subsided, it was found that she had the regular flu.

It's apparently being missdiagnosed A LOT!!!!

either way, it sucks your family members are sick. Hope they come through fine.

Personally I feel that the Flu in any form is not like Polio or something that can be eradicated with a vaccine. I've not had a flu shot and I certainly don't plan on it.
 
mbalbritton said:
It's apparently being missdiagnosed A LOT!!!!
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that's been my understanding. it seems that most samples are not sent off to be compared to regular flu strains. Docs are just assuming its H1N1.

i heard a PSA the other day asking medical facilities to send in their samples to the CDC or WHO....i didnt really pay much attention, i am not doc, and have not been collecting flu samples (ha, on purpose anyway, im sure i have picked up a few germs here and there).
 
At $1500 a test many are not really tested for H1N1. Doctors are just assuming that it is H1N1. If doctors and nurses in are refusing to take it then I don't think I want to either. The pharm company has been exonerated of all liability, which means if you get some other problem or, goodness forbid, die from it, you or your family have no recourse.
 
I will not be taken it. My fiance told me at work. ( Novant ) there almost requiring them to take it. or have to wear a mask.. if she gets sick and dosnt take it, she dosnt get paided time off..

Ill take it one day, If its been tested more. and there isnt anything bad about it. Everyone i know, and I are just not to sure about it.
 
I haven't taken any type of flu shots .
When I got my first flu shot it put me in the hospital for a couple of days . I think this is a way for the pharmaceutical company's to make a dollar on a bunch of b/s . I do not belive in getting any medicine if you don't really need it
 
X2 Wwildman ....... (except never had one)

it's incredible we've all lived as long as we have without flu shots
 
1980CJ7 said:
X2 Wwildman .......

it's incredible we've all lived as long as we have without flu shots
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Well my wife wants me to get a physical . I have not been to a doctor in 15years I wonder how bad my health will be when heckecks me out :shaking:
 
While I know H1N1 has the potential to be more dangerous, I feel it's just more media hype...by the numbers, waaaaaaaaay more people die each year from the regular flu than swine flu could even compete with. It's the yearly paranoia...it was bird flu, west nile, mad cow disease, etc. It's a money maker to put the public into hysteria, then get tested and treated.
 
Wwildman said:
I haven't taken any type of flu shots .
When I got my first flu shot it put me in the hospital for a couple of days . I think this is a way for the pharmaceutical company's to make a dollar on a bunch of b/s . I do not belive in getting any medicine if you don't really need it
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I've had the flu twice in my entire life. Both times I had a flu shot a week or so before I got the flu.......... My last shot was 8 years ago.
 
never had a flu shot and have only had the flu once in my life.The way I stay "FLU FREE"
1.Stay the hell away from sick people
2.Wash my hands before eating.
3.Stay the hell away from sick people.
 
I won't take the H1N1 based on what Leslie was told at school. I did however take the regular flu shot this year, for the first time. I had a cold at the time. Didn't change anything. It ran it's course. I didn't get the flu.

This stuff wouldn't be spread so easily if people used their heads. For instance. I got that bad cold from work, due to so many there having it. People out of sick days(we get three a year) so they came to work. Computers, phones, Microphones, Keyboards, Mouses, File drawers, bathroom sinks, toilet handles, etc. Just too many things to try and wipe off to keep from getting sick.
 
All Firefighters and EMS in Wake County are required to take it, and all in Johnston County are strongly encouraged. Ive been flip flopping back and forth between a cough and a cold for over a month now, so Im going to wait an let my immune system recoup before I get it.

Duane
 
More people die in the US from season flu in one year than have died from swine flu world wide. Last year my wife and daughter got the seasonal flu shot and both got a bad flu. My son and I had no shot and we didn't get the flu at all.
 
CLRracer said:
All Firefighters and EMS in Wake County are required to take it, and all in Johnston County are strongly encouraged. Ive been flip flopping back and forth between a cough and a cold for over a month now, so Im going to wait an let my immune system recoup before I get it.
Duane
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Weird, I havent been told about this. Never have had one, never will get one.
 
My aunt forced one on me today........I swore I'd never get a flu shot. I'm disapointed in myself.
 
Heard a good word for it the other day. Not a pandemic, but an "infodemic", due to all the media attention blowing it out of proportion.

That said, I'll might get it. Doing computer service, and working with the Scouts for many years, I'd end up getting the flu almost every year. 12 or so years ago, I started getting the flu shot every year...only had the flu once in the last 12 years. At least for the seasonal flu, I think it works.
 
I voted no. In the ER, obviously we are seeing a lot of people come in with flu-like symptoms. Based on the CDC guidelines, we are only testing people <5 years, >65 years, morbidly obese, immuno-compromised, or pregnant. They say that these are really the only folks that are "'dying" from the flu/h1n1.

If you do not fall in to one of those categories, if we don't find anything else going on with you, basically you get diagnosed with "presumed h1n1" and told to drink fluids, rest, and treat your fever with OTC meds at home.

That said, i doubt the vaccine itself is all that dangerous, it may keep you from getting sick. I personally am not getting it because I've probably been exposed to enough flu/h1n1 already at work that my body has already built defenses to it. (watch me get sick as hell tomorrow haha). But yeah, the media hype is ridiculous and definitely creates a lot of unnecessary traffic in ER's that clog up the system and make everyone's stay/wait that much longer
 
I have had the flu shot before and still got the flu so I figured what's the point, so I don't get it anymore. I certainly will not get a shot that has not been tested fully. The military tried that with the anthrax vaccine when I was in the service and threating to kick people out that did not get it (I saw a lot of people leave). So I'm not getting that or any other shot unless I absolutely have to do it.
 
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