H1N1, vaccine my daughter yes or no?

[Eos of the Eons]

Waits for the OPer to be shredded by the forum for being stupid and anti vaxxer. Simply because she asked a legitimate question.

Playing coy will not win you any sympathies. Instead, your strawman will just burn. Thanks for playing. Fail.

 

[truethat]

Playing coy will not win you any sympathies. Instead, your strawman will just burn. Thanks for playing. Fail.

Since you replied and didn't bother to read the rest of my post I guess the fails on you. Also Fail is sooo 2007.

 

[Eos of the Eons]

Since you replied and didn't bother to read the rest of my post I guess the fails on you. Also Fail is sooo 2007.

Oh yes, my bad. Not an antivax ARGUMENT in sight in your post. Kudos.
However, Your fail for not acknowledging that nobody actually called YOU an antivaxxer, ever.

2007 is more current than my eighties or nineties terms, y'know, like HARSHhhhhhhhh....

 

[krazyKemist]

(why wasn't that caught and dealt with so it didn't end up in a death?)

It happened here in Quebec. According to what I heard in the news, the person who died was a very old (93 years old if I remember correctly) man and had an extremely rare delayed anaphylactic shock.

So basically he waited the habitual 15 minutes, went home, and had his reaction there, where nobody could help him.

 

[Rolfe]

That's very sad. My 93-year-old mother wasn't required to wait at the surgery at all, in fact.

It's not always possible to avoid a fatality when that happens anyway. I once assisted at a post mortem of a middle-aged cat who died right there in the vet's surgery immmediately after a routine booster vaccination, having gone into anaphylactic shock while his mate was being vaccinated. That was especially sad because the justification for yearly boosters in dogs and cats who have been fully vaccinated as youngsters is questionable anyway, and the diseases being vaccinated against aren't all that prevalent these days (thanks to vaccination).

There's no perfect solution, there's only making sure your gun has as few loaded chambers as possible when you're playing the Russian roulette of life.

Rolfe.

 

[Myriad]

I'm overjoyed to report that I have now acquired immunity to H1N1 flu. So at this point, who else gets vaccinated or doesn't get vaccinated is no longer likely to have any effect on me (barring some freakish event like getting hit by a fever-impaired driver).

My apologies to anyone to whom I have directly or indirectly passed along this gift of eventual immunity. I hope you all survive too, with minimal discomfort and inconvenience.

I would have greatly preferred to have acquired the immunity by means of the vaccine, but it just wasn't available in my area in time. Those who have the option to choose, please choose rationally.

Respectfully,
Myriad

 

[Dikken]

I got the H1N1 flu shot yesterday at my local supermarket. I guess the availability logjam has broken.

 

[Bodhi Dharma Zen]

She'll also be infectious, so she can't go to school. Somebody else in the house might get sick as well, which means more time off from work. Remember, she'll be infectious before she shows any symptoms, so she may infect other people. That's not very nice.

I'm not sure about this, I believe that the vaccine, based on dead virus (whatever that means) is not infectious to people around?

BTW she had her shot today. And I still want my own!

 

[Uncayimmy]

I'm not sure about this, I believe that the vaccine, based on dead virus (whatever that means) is not infectious to people around?

BTW she had her shot today. And I still want my own!

What I meant was that if she gets her immunity "naturally" she'll be infectious. You had asked, "What I wondered is if it would be better to get sick or get the vaccine." I was responding to the first part, but I don't think I made that clear. Sorry.

 

[Estellea]

The jab is non-infectious, the FluMist (if in the U.S.) can shed for ~4 weeks but transmission is very infrequent, although something to keep in mind if around immunocompromised or asthmatic people.

Este

 

[Bodhi Dharma Zen]

thanks to both.