H1N1 Shot

I have had both shots the seasonal and the H1N1 my job made us get them or we have to wear N95 masks at work..

 

i'm a healthcare provider and my hospital is making us get them or wear the N95s. i've got a preggo wife at home who is also a healthcare provider. we both say fuck the h1n1 vaccine. there's no chance i'm putting this weird shit in my body. i'm in psychiatry too so that mask should scare the shit out of my already paranoid patients.... maybe i'm sick but that video was kind of hilarious

 

Yeah I'm a firefighter and I work in an emergency room and the hospital is the on that said to get them or wear the mask all season so I did it. I had my H1N1 about a week an a half ago and I had no side effects from it. Although the people who siad they did the nasal had bad congestion for about 24 hours.

 

My wife and I have always gotten the seasonal flu shot....as have my 7 and 2 year old daughters....since they were old enough to get it, that is. And just today both of my children also recieved the H1N1 nasal mist. My wife is 39 and I'm 41 and both healthy. So we'll be the last to get the H1N1 vaccine....if we can get it at all. But we'll get it if we can.

Situations like the young lady in the video are truely 1 in a million. IMO, you have a greater risk is dying from complications from the flu than some sort of risk with the vaccines. According to the CDC, on average, 36,000 people per year die of flu related complications in the U.S. How often do you hear about someone dying as a direct result of the vaccine? Very rarely.

Ultimately it's a personal decision as to whether one gets the shot...and they should not be judged either way.

 

never got a flu shot before and have been healthy most of my life (Thank God) was forced to get immunizations when I went to Afghanistan...but we don't get them (vaccinations) for my kids either..

 

This video almost looks fake..........

 

Every year I was in the Air Force I was forced to get the Flu shot and every year I got the Flu. I havent gotten it since I have been out 7yrs and I have had the flu 3 times so I im not getting it.

 

I'm torn on what to do about it. The thing is that the only reason the media is going nuts about this is because this flu has more affect on children and young adults, age 6-24 years old. I'm 32, and have had shitloads of flus over the years. The rate of people my age dying from it is the same as the regular flu. For young people, its still not that high of a percentage.

My Mom is a teacher and hundreds of kids in her school got it. None of them got seriously ill. The only reason I would consider getting it is because I don't like getting sick period and I might be starting a new job soon.

Then again, when it was out here in Cali last year, I got really sick for 5-6 days. I wonder if I had it then because everyone around me is now sick and it hasn't had an affect on me.

 

i dont believe in the flu shot. i haven't gotten a flu shot since elementary school and i haven't gotten the flu since elementary school (knock on wood)

 

thats horrible. is it permanent?

still, would you rather take the 1 in a million chance of being like that or risk possibly feeling crappy for a couple weeks?

i have a pretty good immune system. i never get the flu, or strep or anything like that. i'll occasionally get a random cold or a sinus infection and once every year or so a stomach bug that makes me sick for a night (although that could also be food poisoning, hard to tell the difference). but for the most part i very rarely get more than a cough or a runny nose and even that is pretty uncommon