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Originally Posted by KTown
The shot is to relieve stress from the healthcare system so that the hospitals can deal with other sicknesses that aren't as common.
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.
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The hype and fear health officials created has effectively already put a huge strain on the healthcare system. They created this disaster themselves.
And since you seem so concerned with the healthcare system, your efforts pushing people to get a flu shot would be better served targeting smokers, drinkers, and anyone who's overweight. Those people are putting many more times the strain on the system than those who don't get a flu shot.
Maybe we'd all focus on the effects of heart disease if everytime somebody overweight died of a heart attack, their picture was plastered on the front page of the paper.
H1N1 is trendy... once enough people don't die, we'll forget about it. Life isn't sexy enough for the media.