Have you had the H1N1 vaccine??

[fivebyfive]

Don't know if it is H1N1 in all of them, but I didn't want to take chances.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Wow - 3 deaths in London? That's a rather scary number if all 3 deaths were recent.

 

[Drakestar]

no way. it's poison

vran.org

this is a nation of sheeple.

 

[DisneyFairytale]

no way. it's poison

vran.org

this is a nation of sheeple.

Troll website. Stick to reading from government oriented websites.

 

[ferris198]

no way. it's poison

vran.org

this is a nation of sheeple.

So are we to believe that young Clayton commited and was arrested for armed robbery as a result of his vaccination ?

 

[Kurby]

unbelievable.

not discounting any medical problems "clayton" may have had due to reactions to any vaccine but seriously the mother is blaming vaccines for his thieving???

wow - now if only they had a vaccine for criminal behaviour

 

[Tinkermom76]

Me and my 3 children have all had the vaccine and our arms are no longer sore and no one has so much as a sneeze.. it seems more than half of the people I know have H1N1 so I am very glad we got it

 

[aanderson5]

Well despite getting the shot DS(3) has H1N1. We did just get it on Monday so he was not yet immune. The doctor said he has seen over 1000 people with H1N1 and has only sent 2 to the hospital. DS is on Tamiflu and DH got a script since he is high risk (he only needs to fill it if he gets sick).

 

[RookieMouse]

unbelievable.

not discounting any medical problems "clayton" may have had due to reactions to any vaccine but seriously the mother is blaming vaccines for his thieving???

wow - now if only they had a vaccine for criminal behaviour

I'd prefer that someone develop a vaccine for stupidity... but that would be wishful thinking.

DW and I have both had the H1N1 vaccine... she is a health worker and I have a chronic condition. As the kids are not in the high-risk group, they have not had theirs yet (although we have all had the seasonal flu shot). No side effects here except a sore arm for a day or two.


John

 

[squirrel]

I waited 2 1/2 hours yesterday for my H1N1. Got there 30 min before it opened and also the 15 min after the shot.

Arm is a little sore. I didn't bother with the flu shot. My mom, sister and my two nieces also got their H1N1 shots yesterday.

 

[AZMyers]

Got mine yesterday along with the regular flu shot!

I feel fine now. My arms are a bit sore and last night I felt a bit achy. I'm really glad that I got it even though it won't be effective until the second day or so of our trip.

Was in and out in just under 2 hours.

 

[deanie]

I live in Kamloops, BC and our first H1N1 clinic was on Tuesday. The clinic opened at 9am and I got there at 8:30. I waited almost 5 hours to get the shot, 4 hr 50 mins of that outside and it was cold!! I have bad arthritis in my knees and it was really hard standing there. My arm was not very sore but I felt achy for 2 days afterwards. My DS, his girlfriend, and my DD has had it so I maybe had a touch of it before my flu shot. BTW, even a hot bath afterwards did not warm me back up to normal!!

 

[BELLEDOZER]

My 2 young boys and I had the H1N1 shot on Tues through our family doc. I had moderate body aches, but my older son had really bad body aches to the point where I pulled him out of school for 1 day so that he could recover enough to go to school the next day. My younger son had no side effects and was fine after the shot.

 

[Tinkermom76]

it's been 5 days since me and my kids had the shot and we are all fine. My mom who is a healh care worker and was dead against the vaccine has now changed her mind and is going to get it. Maybe she just needed someone to have it and feel ok?

 

[momlady]

Our entire family (myself -- chronic condition and health care worker, DH, and both DS', one of whom has a chronic condition) had our shots. We all had sore arms and 2 of us had a mild fever afterwards. I work in an office of about 60 people. On our floor alone (25 workers), there are at least 5 kids (of people who work there) who have had H1N1. Two were hospitalized with complications: one with pneumonia and one with a neurological complication related to Guillain Barre syndrome -- from the VIRUS, not the vaccine. One had high fever and was sick for almost a week before recovering and 2 others are currently sick. My own DS was home with similar symptoms this week but I feel they were more cold than flu-related. This flu IS different from seasonal flu, and I am glad we have been immunized. I think the next wave will be even worse than this one.

 

[squirrel]

My sister called earlier this evening and the oldest niece has a red swollen spot where she got her H1N1 shot. My niece was complaining she was hot but my sister said she didn't have a fever.

The rest of us are still a little sore but no red swollen spot on our arms.

 

[minnie56]

Our arms were sore for a couple of days and my husband and I felt a little 'off' the night after the vaccine. All fine now...tomorrow is one week since we had the shots.

 

[tone.def]

H1N1 overplayed by media, public health: MDs

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/11/06/h1n1-media.html

Public health officials and journalists have overstated the importance of the swine flu, a former Ontario chief medical officer of health says.

Dr. Richard Schabas, chief medical officer of health for Hastings and Prince Edward Counties in eastern Ontario, said the H1N1 influenza outbreak needs to be put into proper perspective.

About 200,000 people die in Canada every year from all causes combined, including about 4,000 from seasonal flu.

"By the time all the dust has settled on H1N1, somewhere between 200 and 300 people will have died in this country," Schabas said Thursday during a panel on media coverage of H1N1 on CBC News The National.

Schabas criticized the media for not trying to put the story into perspective, and for being "a little too easy to spin sometimes" by public health officials.

"I'm not letting the media off the hook totally, but I think the real villains of the piece here have been those public health officials who have consistently overplayed and overstated the importance of what is happening," he said.

"By the time all is said and done, this is not a major public health event, but you'd never know that from what some people are saying."
13-year-old's death

The panel also looked at the front-page coverage given to the death of Evan Frustaglio, a 13-year-old hockey player from Toronto. Evan died on the eve of the H1N1 vaccine becoming available, and demand for the vaccine jumped overnight, catching health officials by surprise.

"It was very clear when we were reporting the lines that most of the people in there did say, 'We came because we saw the story about that little boy,' " CBC reporter Ioanna Roumeliotis said.

Evan's death and his grieving father's plea to parents to consider vaccinating their children was a tremendous human interest story, agreed Dr. Allison McGeer, an infectious disease specialist at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital.

But "I'm quite sure that the people who were reporting that didn't necessarily think about what the consequences of that would be or the context that was in," McGeer said. "What we saw afterwards was that it caused an enormous amount of fear and anxiety that we would all like not to have seen."

A healthy child in Canada is about 20 times more likely to be killed by a car than by the H1N1 virus, Schabas said, but that isn't going to make the national news.

"Children actually die of flu every year and a few more die of H1N1. This was not unexpected, and the way it was presented — as if this was a sudden bolt out of the blue, some change in our perspective of H1N1 — that's what created the anxiety. It was the way it was presented."

Will everyone chill out now? IT'S THE FLU!!!!!!!!

 

[Newcastle]

H1N1 overplayed by media, public health: MDs

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/11/06/h1n1-media.html



Will everyone chill out now? IT'S THE FLU!!!!!!!!

Just wanted to thank you tone.def for posting this reference. Around this time every year, I literally have to stop watching the news due to the incessant fear mongering that seems to go on regarding the flu. This year it's even worse with the H1N1 virus. It just makes me nuts!!!!

 

[minnie56]

As I mentioned previously..everyone has to do what they feel right for them and theirs!


..Apart from that-the title of this thread is 'Have you had the H1N1 Vaccine" not "what are your views about the fear amongst people"!

 

[tone.def]

..Apart from that-the title of this thread is 'Have you had the H1N1 Vaccine" not "what are your views about the fear amongst people"!

oh gosh! i'm so sorry for inter-jecting!!!!

ok, since i've been scolded - no, no vaccine for me. i will not inject myself willingly with thimerosol and squalene. i will not die from swine flu, nor will my 3 month old daughter.