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Originally Posted by Cowboy89

Well to be fair to our corporate fear mongering friend, Canada still buys the vaccine and other H1N1 drugs from international drug companies. Capitalism exists in some facets in our system since we do not exist in a vacuum.

The issue as I see it is that in life there are no absolutes. On one hand there is no 100% guarentee that the vaccine will not have any negative side-effects (the 1976 vaccination campaign in the US provides an example), nor is there any guarantee that the vaccine will even 100% protect you from the current strain of H1N1. For whatever reason, when there is a choice of tradeoffs of possible negative outcomes people tend to ignore what the probabilities tell you and go with the 'do nothing option.' For whatever reason they think that doing nothing makes them personally less culpable if something negative happens. Even if that means doing nothing, getting swine flu, not dying themselves, but passing it on to others in which someone in their chain of infection actually does perish. Out of sight out of mind I guess.

I have asthma, a flu that causes serious breathing problems has a much larger probability of killing me than most of the population. The probability of me dying from H1N1 is much higher than me dying or suffering serious consequences from this vaccine. There are many people out there like me who won't have the ability to get vaccinated or who will still get sick despite getting vaccinated (Because it will only be 80 or 90% effective). People like me will die this winter and fall because of people who brush off getting vaccinated, thus allowing it to spread more than if more people were vaccinated. If I was someone who didn't have asthma, I'd still get the vaccination at the very least to do something to help those who are more vulnerable.

Giving you a "Thanks" just wasn't enough.