But how do they get all the pigs into that tiny little syringe?

[seiberwing]

I've done my civic duty for public health and gotten my swine flu vaccination. If I start acting funny in the next few days, don't become concerned. It's probably just the mind control microchips kicking in.

I can't believe most of my class is so paranoid about it as to not get it when it's freaking free. They're just not sure it's safe. YES BECAUSE SWINE FLU IS SO VERY MUCH MORE SAFE YOU FUCKING TWITS.

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[ravynfyre.livejournal.com]

Got mine two days ago. My Captain refused his; I totally do not get that.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

People are fools.

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

I am envious! Where I am it's still reserved for high-risk groups. :(

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

I'm at a university so they want to immunize all the students. If a handful of people get it it'll shoot through the dorms like wildfire.

[mommimus-prime.livejournal.com]

My kids are done but I'm not because I'm too old. ;) Will have to wait until my turn comes. So I sit with my fingers crossed.

Even my son's social studies teacher was passing around misinformation to his students. Told them each shot cost $200. I'm not even sure where he got that information. I was stunned and told son if he repeats to speak up and tell him the shot is f-ing free.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

If your kids are vaccinated you're probably waaaaay less likely to get it. Kids are carrier rats.

[mommimus-prime.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm not that worried. I don't go out that much and yeah, herd immunity (even this tiny herd) will provide some protection.

[fly-buggy-fly.livejournal.com]

I would get it if I could for free (I'm poor) and I wish I could, because A LOT of our kids have been out with the flu =/

People who won't get it for free are morons, if you ask me.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of morons here.

Funny how Mr. 'the vaccine kills more people than the flu' in my class has been sick twice this semester. I haven't.

[artoni.livejournal.com]

...

The hell does your icon say?

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

It's the All Your Base sequence in Latin.

[cutiebirdgal.livejournal.com]

Actually, flu shots are pretty pointless. *says the biology major* The flu mutates so fast that they're only good for a year, and it's not very fatal and getting sick is good for your immune system. Now, things like smallpox and polio which don't mutate and are very fatal, we can immunize to the point where they go extinct and it will be good for everyone. But we'll never drive the flu extinct with immunization, and the swine flu isn't any more dangerous than the regular one. If you're dead set on not getting sick than go for it, I have no problem there, but if you're trying to eradicate the thing then good luck.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

...not getting sick was pretty much the objective here. And not infecting my less healthy grandmother.

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

Speaking as the biology professor, No.

The flu vaccine is designed to be good for only one year. However, there is a *LOT* of anecdotal evidence that those folks that were immunized against the swine flu in the 70s are *still* immune to it.

This flu is a killer. It's killed more *children* (147) than all of last year (85) and there's still 5 months to go in the flu season. Shoot, it's already killed almost twice as many children as last year. And it's not just children -- it's young adults too. Healthy young adults. Since August, this flu has killed 672 people.

[spiritcandle.livejournal.com]

Sorry to be an ass and reply to a week old post - and not to say that nearly seven hundred people dead is something small - but... that doesn't seem like a lot of people in eight billion to me? Or is that just in one area o_o?

(Speaking as the one who has too much conflicting data)

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

That's ok. nearly 700 isn't much. We kill more than that in drunk driving car wrecks probably every weekend.

You've got to compare that to how many died in all of the last flu season (which is about half that) and consider that most flu deaths occur (historically) in January and February.

They just announced that 35 children died this week compared to 85 in all of last year.

[lunatron.livejournal.com]

The other thing is:

It would really bite to catch the swine flu and the normal flu at the same time. So being immunised versus one means you can only catch one this season. Unless you catch a strain that the vaccine doesn't cover. So at least get one shot to try to avoid two flus at the same time.

I will try to get both shots, because I am asthmatic, and flu+asthma=unfun.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

I got the regular flu jab about a month or so ago, so I'm good on that too.