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Originally Posted by HOOT
haha I love the mad panic this thing caused over nothing more than a flu.
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The sad truth is that it has created a great deal of fear, obviously I'm always on the side of evidence and I think the risk vs reward for this vaccine is clearly on the side of those in risk groups to get it.
But there is a clear side effect of this flu season, the anti-vaccination movement is jumping all over this citing it as another reason why nobody should vaccinate, even their children.
I see it on facebook sadly almost every day, friends posting that 1977 video from 60 minutes on the swine flu, the stupid cheerleader who claims a vaccination turned her into a spastic, and lots of 'comments' from mostly women it seems that shows a real contempt for vaccinations.
My concern isn't much about what happens a year from now looking at the effectiveness and results of this H1N1 year, once we sit down and look at all the data. My big concern is all this nonsense in the media and the ever growing distrust of vaccinations is spreading, which has real serious consequences for the future.
All you have to do is look at the MMR scare in the UK, all the preventable deaths/complications in children caused by a horribly flawed study done by a discredited and now shamed scientist.
I think thats the big underlying problem with this H1N1 season, because even though a lot here are not getting the shot, I doubt most of them do it because they mistrust vaccinations as a whole, at least especially when it comes to protecting children and the elderly.