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[kbbbb]

those people should be thankful that the state wants to help the residents when it comes to SWINE FLU!

Flu is flu, however...it sounds like a bad idea. Swine flu is just a nasty case of regular flu, and it's not like Rubella (serious birth defects) or polio (mangles limbs) or TB. It was a nasty flu but...not permanent for most.

What the media and WHO wern't harping on about was the number of elderly and frail that die every year from REGULAR flu.

Vaccinations are important for eradicating dieases like those above, but they shouldn't be mandatory, just strongly encouraged. A friend of mine went partially deaf at age 2 from a vaccine. Making it mandatory would make those in the high risk category from complications far harder to avoid being damaged by the vaccine.

Besides, recently the cervical cancer vaccine was pulled in the US because a few young girls had a reaction. Kinda hypocritical to mandate one that's not necessary and scrap another that's far more important to a wider audience. Come on, it's a vaccine...of course injecting live virus into a human body will have consequences for some people.

[Elindoril]

Flu is flu, however...it sounds like a bad idea. Swine flu is just a nasty case of regular flu, and it's not like Rubella (serious birth defects) or polio (mangles limbs) or TB. It was a nasty flu but...not permanent for most.

Aaaaaand you completely disregarded my in the spoilers where that implied that I was kidding, I never cared about the Swine Flu nor thought it was any more dangerous than the regular flu.

[kbbbb]

Aaaaaand you completely disregarded my in the spoilers where that implied that I was kidding, I never cared about the Swine Flu nor thought it was any more dangerous than the regular flu.

Sorry I sometimes don't press the spoiler buttons.

I'm glad we're of similar opinion.

[anim0sitee]

I am completely against vaccinations. When my son was 3 months old, he had his first set of vaccines and we were assured that they were "completely harmless, side affects were extremely rare, the good outweighed any possible side effects" etc, etc. Long story short, my son went into pulmonary arrest and seizures, died twice while being airlifted to a children's hospital. Luckily, those seizures saved his life because the extreme amount of signals being sent by his brain made him start breathing again. He's 2 now, perfectly healthy, but I can bet my life he will never have another vaccination.

[kbbbb]

I am completely against vaccinations. When my son was 3 months old, he had his first set of vaccines and we were assured that they were "completely harmless, side affects were extremely rare, the good outweighed any possible side effects" etc, etc. Long story short, my son went into pulmonary arrest and seizures, died twice while being airlifted to a children's hospital. Luckily, those seizures saved his life because the extreme amount of signals being sent by his brain made him start breathing again. He's 2 now, perfectly healthy, but I can bet my life he will never have another vaccination.

Yeah, similar thing happened to a good friend of mine. I think it was a rubella vaccination she had at 2 or so, and she is now profoundly deaf. Adverse reactions are horrible.

[iargue]

I am completely against vaccinations. When my son was 3 months old, he had his first set of vaccines and we were assured that they were "completely harmless, side affects were extremely rare, the good outweighed any possible side effects" etc, etc. Long story short, my son went into pulmonary arrest and seizures, died twice while being airlifted to a children's hospital. Luckily, those seizures saved his life because the extreme amount of signals being sent by his brain made him start breathing again. He's 2 now, perfectly healthy, but I can bet my life he will never have another vaccination.

Sad to know that hes going to die then.


Vaccinations are extremely important.

[kbbbb]

DELETE ME... (I don't know where this came from, I didn't hit refresh)

Edited by kbbbb, 24 February 2010 - 06:57 PM.

[Metigue]

Yeah, similar thing happened to a good friend of mine. I think it was a rubella vaccination she had at 2 or so, and she is now profoundly deaf. Adverse reactions are horrible.

Double split post? lol

Well Vaccinations are important, however there are other methods of prevention that will in the future be safer, just be thankful with what we have now.
Anywho, this thread was BADLY gravedug by some guy 3 posts ago but while we are on the topic, we have 30 million spare swine flu vaccinations on the NHS, if you go to the doctor with a broken arm they will give you a vaccination just to get rid of it.

[kbbbb]

Double split post? lol

Well Vaccinations are important, however there are other methods of prevention that will in the future be safer, just be thankful with what we have now.
Anywho, this thread was BADLY gravedug by some guy 3 posts ago but while we are on the topic, we have 30 million spare swine flu vaccinations on the NHS, if you go to the doctor with a broken arm they will give you a vaccination just to get rid of it.

Your tax dollars at work At least they were over-prepared....I don't know how many spares Australia has, but my doctor was encouraging me to get one for this year (because I was hit so hard last year with it).

I don't know what happened with the double-split post above...edited it.

[pyke]

I am completely against vaccinations. When my son was 3 months old, he had his first set of vaccines and we were assured that they were "completely harmless, side affects were extremely rare, the good outweighed any possible side effects" etc, etc. Long story short, my son went into pulmonary arrest and seizures, died twice while being airlifted to a children's hospital. Luckily, those seizures saved his life because the extreme amount of signals being sent by his brain made him start breathing again. He's 2 now, perfectly healthy, but I can bet my life he will never have another vaccination.

Sad to know that hes going to die then.


Vaccinations are extremely important.

/facepalm