The people that are using the argument of not getting the shot because of the deaths are not very well educated people and are just living in there own little world.
Here is the reason why you get the shot and the only reason you get the shot. Majority of people won't die from this but the hospitals are full of really sick people because of the h1n1 flu, yes I agree that 75% of the people in the waiting room shouldn't be there because they are panicing over the media. For the people who say I don't need the shot well you probably don't but if everyone used that logic and lets say that .5% of the people need hospitalization (not deaths because many hospitalized people live) that would be 15000 people roughly in alberta. That is too many people for the amount of hospitals this province has.
Lets say we all take this attitude and lets say the people who are all anti shot need to go to the hospital for another reason, like appendicitus well guess what you may not get the treatment in time and you may die because of the people who think the shot is useless.
The shot is to relieve stress from the healthcare system so that the hospitals can deal with other sicknesses that aren't as common.
Use your head people, I have a friend that's a doctor and works at rocky view. The amount of people getting really sick from this flu outways the amount of people who get really sick from the regular flu. Most of those people she says will survive but they've asked her to not take any holidays and she's been averaging 13-14 hour days of work at 6 - 7 days a week. Last I checked I'd hate to have an extremely tired doctor looking after me, but this is what its coming too.
Get the shot when you can, not for yourself but for the health care system so that we can use it for what it was intended for.
This is not the regular flu, the regular flu doesn'tcreate as much hospitalization as this flu.
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