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Originally Posted by Rerun
If you don't get the H1N1 vaccine you could die.
If you get the flu because you did not get the vaccination, you may not die, but you could possibly spread it to someone else who does die. If you cause someone else to die, may you rot in ****.
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According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, "The flu affects 10-25% of Canadians each year. While the majority who become sick will recover, the flu results in an average of 20,000 hospitalizations and 2,000 to 8,000 deaths in Canada each year."
I hope that you've always been such a huge supporter of flu shots in your lifetime and have gotten one every single year. Because if not and you have ever had the flu, not only are you lucky to be alive, but you may have killed someone. The mortality rate of H1N1 is similar to, if not lower than, the seasonal flu.
The fear-mongering being spread this year is out of control. I don't remember reading up to 8,000 newspaper articles any year over the past several telling me about all the people who died from seasonal flu.
Being slightly more at risk than most people, I get flu shots yearly. But I don't judge people who don't want one for whatever reason. If somebody would rather run the risk of being sick for a week, than expose themselves to the purported risks of vaccinations (or go wait in line somewhere with hundreds of people that are at higher risk and already more likely to be sick with something I could catch), that's totally cool with me.
Everyone just needs to chill out.