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Originally Posted by HOOT
People were comparing not getting the shot to drinking and driving. I'm personally not going through the 70 pages of mostly crap but people were talking big when it was going on.
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This is why I drink and drive. I mean, there are so many things I could possibly die from.. getting hit by a bus walking to work, heart attack, murdered by a mugger. Not drinking and driving won't "save me". It would just "save me" from smashing a vehicle into a tree. So instead, I'm going to eat better and exercise more and continue to drink and drive.
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I was not comparing the two. I was sarcastically pointing out that one can do TWO things to improve their health AT THE SAME TIME. Jammies said you should "eat better and exercise more" rather than getting a flu shot. My point was, "why not do both?"
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Anyhow, I heard on the radio yesterday that 53% of Ottawa had the vaccine. Approximately another 17% were either already immune or caught the virus and are now immune. Given a total of 70% of the population now being inoculated, the doctors here believe that we are in good shape should H1N1 sweep through again in the spring as anticipated. Meaning less people off work (yay.... that was the month from hell here.... I was fixing systems that I was the backup to the backup to the backup on). It means less cramped waiting rooms. It means it is less likely that someone in the high risk categories is going to catch it and die.
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I do find it funny. There is a serious flu. The government acts swiftly to implement a mass vaccination of the population so that most don't get the flu. Then when there isn't a mass epidemic, people are like "See, what a waste of money that was?". Isn't there one of them logical fallacies in there somewhere?