What happened to the obvious tag?

Some doctors say that they can cure cancer with a tonic. I have swine flu. It's a biatch.

Sure, that's why I know at least 20 people who have/had it.

Some doctors say - get this - if it hurts when I do this, I should stop doing it. Who knew?

The hell you say!

4 out 0f 5 doctors recommend vaccine.

Ignore them, subby.

FireBreathingLiberal: 4 out 0f 5 doctors recommend vaccine.

Ignore them, subby.

Please do. All this medicine is really putting the shiats on natural selection. People like Submitter would have died of stupiditis, hopefully before reproducing, in bygone days.

Yeah, because one retired medical official from some little district in Ontario knows what's going on sooo much better than the Freakin Center For Disease Control

Alacritous: Yeah, because one retired medical official from some little district in Ontario knows what's going on sooo much better than the Freakin Center For Disease Control

Like some little city in Louisiana knows what's going on sooo much better than the Freakin Federal Emergency Management Agency

My doctor told me this yesterday. Then he said I need to watch out for the superflu going around because it's worse and not publicized.

/can possibly turn your organs into liquid shiat?

rjShadow: My doctor told me this yesterday. Then he said I need to watch out for the superflu going around because it's worse and not publicized.

/can possibly turn your organs into liquid shiat?

If only we'd all swam in raw sewage as children like GC did.

So what should I do? Go stand in line with hundred of other potential flu victims to wait for a vaccine that may not work and is most definitely hard to come by? The last update for my 'risk group' said that I should expect my dose by mid December. And, one of my coworkers had to take little trip in an ambulance to the clinic after 'coming down with severe flu like symptoms'.

At this rate I should just go lick his keyboard and get my dose... unless I've already got it.

Oh well. As it stands, I have no option other than to go about my daily life and avoid getting stressed out about it.

I'll let the kids and old timers vaccinate and I'll just wash my hands like I've got ADD and try not to touch my face.

I do that every year with regular flu, and I haven't had it for 10+ years (knock wood...).

Just like SARS was going to kill us all, or any number of other fake "epidemic" flu scares we've all listened to over the last 30 years...

LordZorch: Just like SARS was going to kill us all, or any number of other fake "epidemic" flu scares we've all listened to over the last 30 years...

*eye-roll*

So, if health authorities are proactive and handle a situation before it goes out of control then you say they overreacted. If they let something go out of control will you be the first to say that they dropped the ball?

What's all the fuss about? In 1993, the flu was so devastating (new window) (predominantly among the elderly) that it lowered American's average life expectancy (new window), yet there was no fear-mongering and there's almost no mention of it in medical history. It was a non-event. Oh, wait... that's the year that Medicare started paying (new window) for vaccinations for old people.

FireBreathingLiberal: 4 out 0f 5 doctors recommend vaccine.

Ignore them, subby.

Yes. And when I went to get a vaccine so that I wouldn't miss work, I was told that I wasn't allowed to have one because I wasn't old.

GreenAdder: Yes. And when I went to get a vaccine so that I wouldn't miss work, I was told that I wasn't allowed to have one because I wasn't old.

The H1N1 vaccine age group priorities are different from the normal seasonal flu age group priorities.

Old people take priority for normal seasonal flu vaccines.

Younger people take priority for H1N1.

From the CDC's website:

"Initial Target Groups Are:
When vaccine is first available, ACIP recommends that programs and providers administer vaccine to people in the following five target groups (order of target groups does not indicate priority):

* pregnant women,
* people who live with or provide care for infants younger than 6 months (e.g., parents, siblings, and day care providers),
* health care and emergency medical services personnel,
* people 6 months through 24 years of age (especially those with higher risk for influenza-related complications like children younger than 5 years and those who have high risk medical conditions), and,
* people 25 years through 64 years of age who have certain medical conditions that put them at higher risk for influenza-related complications."

SchlingFocker: GreenAdder: Yes. And when I went to get a vaccine so that I wouldn't miss work, I was told that I wasn't allowed to have one because I wasn't old.

The H1N1 vaccine age group priorities are different from the normal seasonal flu age group priorities.

Old people take priority for normal seasonal flu vaccines.

Younger people take priority for H1N1.

From the CDC's website:

"Initial Target Groups Are:
When vaccine is first available, ACIP recommends that programs and providers administer vaccine to people in the following five target groups (order of target groups does not indicate priority):

* pregnant women,
* people who live with or provide care for infants younger than 6 months (e.g., parents, siblings, and day care providers),
* health care and emergency medical services personnel,
* people 6 months through 24 years of age (especially those with higher risk for influenza-related complications like children younger than 5 years and those who have high risk medical conditions), and,
* people 25 years through 64 years of age who have certain medical conditions that put them at higher risk for influenza-related complications."
* CEOs and other people who make political contributions.


FTFY.

Lundah: Sure, that's why I know at least 20 people who have/had it.

So what if everyone on the farking earth gets it. It's about the severity of the damned thing not how wide spread it is. Most people who get it try to make it sound worse but it has still been nothing more than the farking flu. The same damned symptoms they get every damned year, except now they get to sensationalize it. The people who are suffering the worst from H1N1 are the same people who would suffer from any sickness because they have weakened or even broken immune systems. So yes, 20 of your friends got it. Be sure to count how many get the regular damn flu next year and see how impressive that number is then.

Sure, maybe in Canada, but here in America we have a rational, logical, low-key media.

O RLY?

Is the hype too much? Yes, the virus is still treatable and preventable at this rate.

Should there be a concern for it? Yes. It is a new strain, one that has to be monitored, but not exaggerated.

Should you take the vaccine? If you want, but I personally will take it after the epidemiologists understand better how it ticks.