My youngest has asthma, so she gets a flu shot every year. The rest of us never do and probably won't this year either.

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I'm a carrier and have nothing to fear.

I am replacing most of my body fluids with alcohol to combat it. Wish me luck

unless your immune system is absolute shit, swine flu is no worse than regular flu.

Never once even thought about it. It will go away just like every other silly little sickness fad the government likes to try and scare us with. (bird flu, West Nile virus, monkey pox, aids, etc)

http://wireofinformation.wordpress.c...ple-refuse-it/

what a crock of shit.

i wont be getting one. media/gov has played this out to be the plauge. 1976 the gov said the swine flu would kill 1 million americans. it didnt..and i think it was like only 33% of people got the swine flu vaccine. such a low number was because the vaccine actually killed people instead of helped them....just sayin.

I won't be getting this shot, much less any vaccine in the future. For anyone who cares about their family, before your vaccinate, educate. Read the article I will link to below, as it also has solutions for countering the flu.

http://drtenpenny.com/the_truth_about_the_flu_Shot.aspx

 

Originally Posted by Jaybone2315

Do the same thing I do to prevent the regular flu.

Absolutely nothing.

This. I've never had a flu shot and I haven't had the flu since I was a kid. I've been sick like three times the past decade, and two of those times were after destroying my body for several days in a row in Vegas.

got my regular flu shot last week but not on the swine. maybe we will, maybe we wont. who knows.

I think I already had it. Not 100% sure, but I got sick for the first time in about 3-4 years, and I'm guessing it was swine flu. My immune system is pretty bad ass most of the time, so I'm not getting it.

I'm waiting for Obama to tell me what to do.

I am pretty sure my 3 year old actually had it last year. By the time she got sick it was already way deep into the season and the pediatrician said that there was no reason to even test.

She had flu-like symptoms for about a week and then she was fine. Never ran too high a fever either.

I'm not saying to immunize or not, just that it wasn't so serious for us last year. That said, the fact that there might be a shortage of vaccines this year might make me consider it more than I would normally.

Bottom line is that I told my wife to ask the pediatrician what he is doing with his kids and follow suit.

Good luck.

 

Originally Posted by kidrockin

imo these things only compromise your body's ablilty to fight off colds natuarally.

I dont think this is correct

check my post from two weeks ago but the vaccine helps your system fight it off just like when your kids got stronger for having it

Whoa, no need to bring science into this discussion.

 

Originally Posted by kidrockin

check my post from two weeks ago but the vaccine helps your system fight it off just like when your kids got stronger for having it

The key word I wrote was "naturally."

By injecting yourself with a dead (mutated or whatever it may be) virus along with all the other crap they put into those vaccinations you are doing it unnaturally with the potential for unknown side effects.

If the vaccination was for a deadly, debilitating and/or contagious disease ie Small pox, polio, tb etc that the body cannot overcome naturally... a person would be crazy not to get the vacc.

However, for a simple flu and healthy people... its effin retarded.

 

Originally Posted by XquiziVex

The key word I wrote was "naturally."

By injecting yourself with a dead (mutated or whatever it may be) virus along with all the other crap they put into those vaccinations you are doing it unnaturally with the potential for unknown side effects.

If the vaccination was for a deadly, debilitating and/or contagious disease ie Small pox, polio, tb ie that the body cannot overcome naturally... a person would be crazy not to get the vacc.

However, for a simple flu and healthy people... its effin retarded.

I agree with this to some extent. My wife was sick in bed for 2 days after she got her flu shot last year. Drs said it was somewhat normal. Doesn't seem worth the risk, assuming of course that H1N1 is mostly like a regular flu.

Flu shots for the elderly or very young make sense because they could be dangerous.

I was sick a few weeks back (hell, I'm still sick). Went to the doctor's office (3 days after the symptoms started) and he indicated that I likely had the swine flu (based on the symptoms I described). While not officially diagnosed as having H1N1 - I'm assuming that I did.

So I developed bronchitis after the flu (which is fairly common and has been lingering for almost 2 weeks now). When I followed up with my doctor, I asked him, can I get it again, and he indicated yes. While your body does build up immunities, there is no way of knowing whether or not I had a seasonal flu or H1N1. They are different strains of the flu.

So in a few weeks, after my bronchitis symptoms have been gone for a few days, I'm planning on getting both shots if available. And I'm not worried about it all. I figure by that time, enough people will have gotten shots and we'll know if there are problems with the vaccines.

And if you think that the government is doing this for any other reason than providing protection against these viruses - then LOL at you. If the government wanted to "thin the herd", there are a lot better ways to do it.