Okay people. Those of you that believe that we are all going to get it eventually-look at it this way.
This is an example, not confirmed numbers:
If 0.1% of people that contract the seasonal flu die and 10% of Canada's population (call it 30 million), 300,000 people will get the seasonal flu and that would be 3000 deaths.
If the swine flu is not as lethal as the seasonal flu (which is preached by some on this board) and only kills at say half the rate (0.05%) of its victims and say 50% of the population does not get vaccinated-and of those 50%, half of them get infected by the swine flu (7.5 million people-which would be very conservative as this flu is extremely contagious), that would be an additional 3750 people. Of those 3750 people several would be in the prime of their lives as this flu has shown that it is not just the very young and very old that die from it.
My father-in-law has leukemia, I'd hate to be the one who brought home the swine flu as his immune system is compromised.
I think most of the resistance is still deeply rooted in the overall fear of needles and the campaigns against vaccinations in general are fueled by people who fear needles.
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