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Originally Posted by Ashartus
The economic cost of not vaccinating would be way higher (cost of treating people with flu and cost of people not coming in to work). That's why even before flu vaccines were free a lot of companies paid to have their staff vaccinated.
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I don't doubt it - and a lot of those costs are going to be incurred if people don't get their seasonal shots.
My main point is that I hope everybody still gets their seasonal flu vaccination. I've been following this thread for several weeks and there has been a flood of reasons why people should get the H1N1 vaccination - if you bought into the hype, you should get the seasonal vaccine as well. To not is hypocritical.
People have been giving reasons here like: it's a simple way to keep from getting sick/dying, you won't pass the virus to someone high risk, you won't miss work, you won't clog hospitals and doctor's offices, it's safe, etc... These are all reasons to get the seasonal shot as well - in addition to the fact we have a much longer history with the seasonal vaccine, meaning if anything it's safer than the H1N1 shot.
For me, I'm not totally comfortable with their being little history with the H1N1 shot, so I opted to just get the seasonal shot again. I'm willing to run the risk of contracting H1N1 due to the lack of long-term history. But I've never had anything more than a sore arm with the seasonal shot.
I'm probably being overly cautious, but I'm ok with that for this year.