Just a few questions...
When people are going to the clinics to get their H1N1 shots, are they also getting their second shot for seasonal flu? Or is everyone content knowing they could contract and spread this equally deadly virus? You're being incredibly irresponsible if you're not... you could die, spread the virus to your whole family, who will then spread it to everyone they know, and they'll all die too.
I went and got my seasonal shot (in BC) and the doc told me he thought very few BC residents were also getting their seasonal shot because it costs $20. For every reason that people are getting H1N1 they should also be getting their seasonal shot. But it sounds like people in BC are willing to risk dying (if you believe the H1N1 hype, you would also believe the regular flu is deadly) at the expense of saving $20.
If you didn't get your seasonal shot, you fell for the hype and have still left yourselves exposed to the same risks you were trying to protect against.
Did you know the cost to the federal government for the H1N1 vaccination program is approaching $500 million? And that doesn't include the millions of dollars the provinces will be spending as well. Had this been well publicized before the program was implemented, I'm not sure support for the program would have been as high as it was.
And since this was an unexpected cost, what programs will be cut or taxes raised to pay for it? The money has to come from somewhere.
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