Poll: Are you vaccinated agains the H1N1 aka. Swineflu?

[k3v1n]

no and it's just a flu, it's not deadlier than the one that came or the one which will come, but in either case, if you've had flu and got better, congrats, you are supposedly now inmune to swineflu

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I feel no need. I got a flu shot and a week later contracted the H1N1. I'm still alive and if my vague understanding of the concept behind a vaccination is true, I'm fairly certain that I am now highly resistant to future H1N1 infection.

 

[Cylem]

I got it a few weeks ago--had to stand in a massive line for a couple hours for the nose-spray thing. Better safe than sorry, though. I get sick a lot during the winter months.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

I always get my seasonal flu shot, I see no reason not to get the shot for the New Seasonal Flu, especially since it's free and all at the moment. Though my city has really screwed the pooch with our vaccination program, so I may have a 1 Hour or Longer wait when I actually end up going.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Yes I know, I studied about it enough.

Just agreeing, not negatively criticizing.

Oh no, I know where you're coming from. It's just that H1N1 is..like Paris Hilton. Everyone has something to say about it's existence.

 

[Hiphophippo]

It's a joke of a flu, sure, but I get vaccines free at work so I did it anyway. If nothing else just to curb the chances my 6 month old daughter could get it.

 

[Cormitt]

No and I absolutely refuse to.
I'm more afraid of the fucking pink elephants murdering me in my sleep.
H1N1 is a bunch of media bullshit. Regular flu kills more people.
The only dangerous thing about it is the fact that it spreads really fast.

AMEN!!! Even the flu vaccine is a joke. The flu mutates so quickly that by the time the general population gets their shot it's already mutated. Follow the money on this one. Who wins if everyone gets the shot??

Now don't get me wrong. I'm a firm believer in most all other vaccinations and have gotten them for my family, but the flu shot.. not bloody likely.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Nope, but thats because no one has offered so I guess its not that important.

 

[hotdogoctopus]

Why is there not a 'yes, but I didn't want to' option?

 

[lior13]

i had the Swineflu it's just like any other flu just with a difrent name.
i was sick for 1 week and i had to stay in bed but that was it.
i dont get whats the big deal, why cas people died from it people also die from the regular flu.

 

[thunderchiken]

Nope, not gonna get it. I have been vaccinated for both smallpox and anthrax previously before, allthough not by choice, and recovering from the sickness i got frome those shots was not fun, so kinda turned off to getting vaccinated against even more random sicknesses.

Allthough, has any body ever noticed all the people who freaks out about these things, and yet how many people do you see not washing their hands when they leave a restroom or something. Just saying, theres ways to reduce your chances of getting sick without getting stuck with a needle full of a rushed vaccine.

 

[El Poncho]

Yes I have, I have asthma so I had a letter sent to me to go get it.

 

[Doug]

No, because I'm in the least at risk category (young, healthy, well fed). For the time being priority is going to health workers, the sick, elderly, pregnant and very young. If and when it becomes more generally available I'd probabyl get it, don't want to go spreading it to other people.

Same here. Realistically, its only the very young and the already sick who need to fear swine flu. But if they offer it for the general population, I'll probably take it.

 

[TotallyFake]

i had the Swineflu it's just like any other flu just with a difrent name.
i was sick for 1 week and i had to stay in bed but that was it.
i dont get whats the big deal, why cas people died from it people also die from the regular flu.

I will say this once more, final time. Hopefully people will get it this time:
What swine flu is NOW is not what we should be scared of. What it might BECOME is worth fearing.

Get it? As swine flu is a novel strain the population has less resistance to it than normal flu. So if it mutates and becomes more pathogenic a large number of people could die. How can we stop that? By vaccinating people and stopping it spreading NOW.

The reason SARS and Bird Flu blew over? They didn't become what we feared they would.SARS was clamped down rapidly and never had a chance to spread, bird flu hasn't yet mutated to gain human-to-human transmission. Hopefully swine flu will blow over, but that won't mean we were wrong to be concerned.

 

[Rooster893]

I don't think I'll get one, but I don't care.

 

[cartzo]

i voted "no and i dont want to", worse case senario is that i'll have to lie in bed all day one day, and eat chicken soup.

 

[Misaek]

No I haven't and people treat this thing like the plague when its not even that bad like at all you can wake me up when leprosy comes back O.K. media?

 

[mikecoulter]

I'm not, as it would be pointless. Seeing as I've already had it.

 

[Spudgun Man]

Nope, instead i'm a healthy Welshman. (like that counts for shit)

 

[Puzzles]

I don't want. My body needs to learn to defend itself. I'm pro germ, anti bacterial wash.

I don't enjoy the idea of humans ending up as bubble boys.

If it was an AIDS vaccine, then yeh I'd get it, but swine flu doesn't really kill you unless your body is immuno-compromised in the first place.

So while my body is healthy, I'd like it to deal with non lethal attacks its own way.