We have heard different stories all this time.
The vaccine is ready, but how ready are we to have it?

Personally, I am not going to have it. How about you?

Read the article and then tell us if you are ready for the vaccine or you will just ignore it.
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Yeah, I know about these things. I'm not getting it, no way.

My mom has to get it because she works for the health department, I hope she will be OK.

Already got mine...

Nope no way I'm having it.

I already declined the Chinese vaccine, even though we have had about a dozen of our students come down with H1N1. We even had almost a week off due to the flu with some folks quarantined. But it seems to be under control now with no recent cases.

I just don't think that at this point being so paranoid about H1N1 is really warranted. Sure, people have died, but people die from the flu every season.

Yeah, but the point is that the people dying this year are very young, with no prior illnesses, very healthy people.

That may be true but I am not convinced that what we hear "reported" is necessarily reality. I don't believe any country really knows for sure just how many people actually contracted H1N1 which went unreported. Therefore, the "statistics" can easily be skewed. Of all the healthy, young students at my school that got diagnosed with H1N1, none of them died (that I know of). So the skeptic in me still thrives.
And if I do get H1N1 and pack it in, I am a believer in evolution and survival of the species. So my death would just be an indication that I was too weak and should have been removed from the gene pool for the greater good of mankind.

loving the positive attitude!

I'm not getting the vaccine, and I'm not going to get swine flu either - I decided that when the first news of it broke. I can be very stubborn

Swine flu = For Kathryn

Yeah, I know what you mean. Some people just "assume" they are sick with it without any blood testing by their doctor. I've had some people tell me they have swine flu, and when I ask them if they've had bloodwork done, they tell me no!

I don't know about China, but in Canada, the deaths they report in the media are the cases with actual positive test results.

I won't be getting the vaccine...but that's not due to my beliefs in any danger that is inherent in the vaccine. It's not that I think the vaccine is dangerous, I just don't see the need to get a shot for a flu. The swine flu hasn't been any more deadly than the regular seasonal flu to date, so I'm not one to jump on the media bandwagon.

And all of the dangers you hear about regarding the new swine flu vaccine are ridiculous. The rates of contracting an illness from this vaccine is far less than the rates of contracted an illness from the regular flu vaccine. The media just loves pumping up stories.

No way

Well, I got it. Strangely, I wasn't worried about the swine flu though. It came available here through our medical group, and quite a few kids have died in this town. I'm in Southern California.

So I decided to take my kids to get it. But then they said my daughter couldn't get it because she has asthma, which ticked me off because she is precisely the kind of person that should get it. (Asthmatics can't take the nasal vaccine, so they have to get the shot). They had extended it to a certain age which made it available to me, so I went ahead.

I still have to take my daughter in to her doctor for the shot, and I have to take my son in for his second nasal (under 10 you have to have 2 doses).

I dunno though...

I wasn't going to get it and was opposed for my kids getting it until healthy, young people started to literally drop dead.

Even now I still cannot make up my mind.

As I mentioned in the beginning I am not going to get it, however the people who die are usually those who are really overweight, and those who have been for years suffering from different illnesses.

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That's the scary part though.
Recently, perfectly healthy people (including a teenager here in New Jersey) just dropped dead without any signs of sickness.

Did that teenage have the vaccine and then died?

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Nope.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/o...y_teen_who.html

"State health officials said Wednesday the teen was last in school on June 5 and had no symptoms"

Sadly he died June 8th.

I see!
The week I was in Cyprus, the majority of my students were all ill.
It is worrying indeed but still I won't have it.

Do you still hug friends and relatives?
Here in Greece we continue this habbit! Tonight at the choir nearly all the people present were hugging and kissing!
Imagine me entering and telling them that I am scared to get a kiss or hug!! Sometimes it is difficult to do what you really want to so that they don't start thinking negatively.

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Yes, unless they're sick or I'm sick.

I won't even shake hands with people if my kids are sick (even though I'm healthy), which is a bit awkward in business but you'd be suprise of the positive responses I was getting.

When I say that I'd rather not shake hands because my kids are sick many people thank me for my consideration instead of being insulted. If they insist of shaking my hand I have no problem to accomodate them.

Very clever of you!
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