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View Poll Results: Will you be getting the H1N1 Flu Shot?
Yes, right away 66 16.38%
Yes, but not right away 143 35.48%
No, for medical reasons I cannot get flu shots 4 0.99%
No. (any other reason) 190 47.15%
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Old 10-30-2009, 01:55 PM   #721
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You fail at math. Badly.


Oh man that's embarrassing, what's really sad is I'm a finance major.
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Old 10-30-2009, 01:58 PM   #722
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People who become ill with the flu and spread it to someone else may very well cause that person's death.
They may also die themselves.

To believe otherwise is akin to sticking your head in the sand. The facts are the facts. Just because you say it ain't so doesn't mean it isn't. People will die, and have died, because of the H1N1 flu. Thats a fact. I also suspect that 99% percent of those people were not vaccinated.
I suspect that 99% of those people also had underlying health complications.
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Old 10-30-2009, 01:59 PM   #723
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You have no right to tell people what to put into their bodies. Quit buying into the hype...
Of course I have the right. I have the right to say anything I want. Just as you have the foolish right to not to listen.
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Old 10-30-2009, 02:00 PM   #724
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I suspect that 99% of those people also had underlying health complications.
Tell that to the father of the perfectly healthy 13 year old boy in Toronto, who died the other day. He may disagree with you.
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People who become ill with the flu and spread it to someone else may very well cause that person's death.
Maybe that person should have been smart enough to get the shot themselves.

Just found out my dad might have it, doctor says most likely he does, and I'm still not going to rush down to get my shot. There are people out there who need it a lot more than a healthy male, 26 years old with no history of medical problems.

If anyone dies I will blame the healthy people who didn't need to get it right away taking the shot away from those who needed it more.
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Old 10-30-2009, 02:01 PM   #726
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Old 10-30-2009, 02:02 PM   #727
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Of course I have the right. I have the right to say anything I want. Just as you have the foolish right to not to listen.
You should hit the streets with a bull-horn and tell everyone they should get the shot. If they disagree, you should then tell them what dumb/foolish/selfish/murderers they are.
I have a feeling you would come home with a black eye....
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Of course I have the right. I have the right to say anything I want. Just as you have the foolish right to not to listen.
So now people are foolish because they don't listen to your and other peoples opinion? I bet you were the first person in line to fix your Y2K problems too weren't you.
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Tell that to the father of the perfectly healthy 13 year old boy in Toronto, who died the other day. He may disagree with you.
I said 99%.....
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You should hit the streets with a bull-horn and tell everyone they should get the shot. If they disagree, you should then tell them what dumb/foolish/selfish/murderers they are.
I have a feeling you would come home with a black eye....
It's easy to say things over the internetz.
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Old 10-30-2009, 02:06 PM   #731
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Of course I have the right. I have the right to say anything I want. Just as you have the foolish right to not to listen.
Yes you're right everyone should listen to you and your irrationally and those who do not are foolish. You're just as ignorant and stubborn as the people who refuse the shots for irrational reasons (conspiracies, etc.) you are trying to make it sound like if you contract the disease there is a much higher chance of you dying than there really is. Furthermore you make the jump by saying that those who spread it to someone else who dies (however unlikely that may be) are entirely responsible for it and should "rot in hell".

Do you even know the likely hood of someone dying after contracting H1N1?

I know this maybe beside the point but I'd like to shed some light on the irony of you and your sanctimonious reasoning that you have some god given right to tell people what they should put in there bodies like you're some expert when your choice for lunch today was Kraft Dinner and Hot Dogs.

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I will be lining up at a clinic before 7am tomorrow morning. I was going to go today, but ran out of time.

I thought I was growing out of my asthma, but I just had an asthma attack last week, so I am not taking any chances.
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Old 10-30-2009, 02:10 PM   #733
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Maybe that person should have been smart enough to get the shot themselves.

Just found out my dad might have it, doctor says most likely he does, and I'm still not going to rush down to get my shot. There are people out there who need it a lot more than a healthy male, 26 years old with no history of medical problems.
I refer you to Bobblehead's answer:
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Since the vaccine doesn't guarantee that you will become immune (I think it is a 90% probability if you get the one with the adjucant) then even if you have done everything you can do you may still get it. But if a significant portion of the population gets immunized then even if your immunization didn't "work" there is a good chance the immunity of everyone else will prevent the virus from getting to you (it is called herd immunity, and I believe you need 70% of the population or greater to be immunized).
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anyone dies I will blame the healthy people who didn't need to get it right away taking the shot away from those who needed it more.
Those in the high risk category should have first priority.

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We got to the NE clinic today at 7:30 and out by 10. Not bad overall, glad we went nice and early.
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So now people are foolish because they don't listen to your and other peoples opinion? I bet you were the first person in line to fix your Y2K problems too weren't you.
Now you're just being silly.
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Old 10-30-2009, 02:21 PM   #736
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You should hit the streets with a bull-horn and tell everyone they should get the shot. If they disagree, you should then tell them what dumb/foolish/selfish/murderers they are.
I have a feeling you would come home with a black eye....
What if I told you I was 6'6" and weighed 260 lbs. and I was a member of the Hells Angels?
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Yes you're right everyone should listen to you and your irrationally and those who do not are foolish. You're just as ignorant and stubborn as the people who refuse the shots for irrational reasons (conspiracies, etc.) you are trying to make it sound like if you contract the disease there is a much higher chance of you dying than there really is. Furthermore you make the jump by saying that those who spread it to someone else who dies (however unlikely that may be) are entirely responsible for it and should "rot in hell".

Do you even know the likely hood of someone dying after contracting H1N1?

I know this maybe beside the point but I'd like to shed some light on the irony of you and your sanctimonious reasoning that you have some god given right to tell people what they should put in there bodies like you're some expert when your choice for lunch today was Kraft Dinner and Hot Dogs.
You don't like KD with weiners??
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Old 10-30-2009, 02:27 PM   #738
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And I bet that those 400 plus people who died last year on Alberta's highways would have driven more cautiously had they been give the chance to do it again, what's your point?

Are you trying to say that death is preventable when you exercise caution? That's not anything new to anybody.
I was talking about the drivers in the first place, which was my point.
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Standard Operating Procedure.
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What if I told you I was 6'6" and weighed 260 lbs. and I was a member of the Hells Angels?
Well if you are out there pushing your nonsense on people, and then insulting them for disagreeing, Hells' Angel or not the angry mob would get you.....
I wish I had a picture of an angry mob to illustrate this for you.
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