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karma_aster

Ow.

Oct 14, 2009 16:48

So, I'm now all seasonal flu-shotted. And, aside from a tiny bruise at the injection site, no fever, no general feelings of being ill, and no impending autism.

Screw you, Andrew Wakefield.The H1N1 vaccine wasn't available yet at the location where I went, and even if it were, I'm not amongst the most-vulnerable group eligible to recieve it yet. ( Read more... )

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ginzai October 14 2009, 21:32:26 UTC

I've got less of an issue with this for swine flu, given that the risks for getting it seem so low. If the risks went up, then I'd be all about it. My kid sibs are going to be getting it, but that doesn't surprise me seeing as my stepmother works for the CDC.

The one that boggles my mind is the HPV vaccine. Why anyone wouldn't go out and get that for their child (daughter OR son) as soon as possible blows my mind.

karma_aster October 15 2009, 02:55:10 UTC

Oh, but didn't you know that anything that makes sex less potentially deadly will automatically ENCOURAGE teenagers to have sex? I mean, everyone knows that. My god, I knew all about various STD's and the effectiveness of various forms of birth control and safer-sex methods as a young teenager and it TOTALLY meant I was whorin' it up all the way through high school!

Really. That whole virginity thing? Just a front.

greycoupon October 14 2009, 22:02:35 UTC

I work with some nice "vaccines are evil!" people.

Yeahhh.

nique October 14 2009, 22:18:03 UTC

Depends on the vaccine. The people who refuse to give their kids the MMR vaccine are just asking for a dead kid.

I can see not doing the H1N1 because while it will make you sick, it's still more-or-less your average flu, just with above-average infection rates (and it's still a bit contested, to be honest, because the vaccine is so new.) I never received a single flu shot as a child, and my mother has a masters in nursing. We got all the 'serious' vaccines, though.

karma_aster October 15 2009, 02:51:48 UTC

Well, yeah, I didn't tend to get flu shots as a kid, mostly because I was also a ragingly healthy kid, but I do it now because I work around the public on a regular basis and I really, really don't need to be laid up with the flu ( ... )

alpha_strike October 15 2009, 02:36:38 UTC

I'm old enough to have known people with polio. One was the father of an elementary school friend who contracted polio before the Salk vaccine was available. The other -- my age -- contracted the disease as a child in the mid-sixties when an effective vaccine was readily available but her parents "didn't believe in vaccinations". What a waste of a life.

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karma_aster October 17 2009, 06:46:11 UTC

Actually, that was my comment to Mom after I'd gotten the vaccine. "So, I've done my part to add to herd immunity."

That and...yeah, I really don't want the flu. But it is also nice to know that I'm not an infection risk for anyone else I encounter.

The anti-vaccine people just kinda blow my mind.