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Joel · 09-26-2009, 05:51 AM

This time around we get to look forward to ingredients found in spermicides, cleaners, cosmetics as well as significant doses of thimerosal, squalene, and mercury... I'd rather just get the swine flu and be out of commission for a couple days building up a natural immunity, how about the rest of you?

The vids below are part 1 and 2 of a documentary by CBS on the 1976 Swine Flu vaccine. Its almost 20 minutes long so you don't have to watch whole thing, but in a nut shell it pretty much just talks about the government's rush to get the first swine flu vaccine out of labs and into citizens by October 1st (sounds familiar) which is when it caused around 4000 cases ranging from death to neurological disorders inducing full body paralysis bringing on over $4 billion in lawsuits, along with interviews with everyone involved from the officials to the victims. During this "pandemic" the swine flu itself only killed 1 person, an Army recruit who left his sick bed after already being diagnosed to go perform physical training and later collapsed. Meanwhile that year, the common flu killed 36,000 Americans.

Not implying this will be another 1976 and that you shouldn't get it because I obviously don't know and its certainly not my place to say anything like that, just something you'll have to decide for yourself.

Ospi · 09-26-2009, 05:55 AM

Hell no, needles scare the **** out of me. THey would need to drag me kicking and screaming.

Duke of Prunes · 09-26-2009, 06:51 AM

I'd never get a vaccine for swine flu. Not because I'm scared of needles or vaccines, but because I think it's unneccessary. My tetanus vaccination is hopelessly out of date (I never got the booster for it) but I've worked with compost and rusty metal with open wounds countless times and I've never caught tetanus. My diptheria/polio vaccinations are also out of date (you get a booster for them, along with tetanus in the same shot when you're 13-18 over here). Never had my BCG shot either, though I hear those aren't mandatory anymore. Anyway, vaccinations are overrated.

I've already had swine flu and my mother had it too (hers was lab confirmed, mine wasn't). It wasn't a big deal at all, a mild cough (which is nothing to me because I have a chronic cough, chronic nasal drip and chronic tonsillitis), a headache, a bit of a temperature (quite a high one, but I felt fine) and a bit of nausea (which I have all the time anyway because of my chronic post nasal drip which makes me both gag because my throat gets full of it, and makes me feel sick because my stomach gets full of it).

Honestly for such a mild condition, a vaccine is a waste of time. Maybe super-high-risk people could benefit from it, but I couldn't care less about it. People who panic over swine flu should have "THE MARK OF STUPID" branded on their foreheads for buying into the sensationalist "LOL PANDEMIC" scare crap.

millenniumman75 · 09-26-2009, 07:28 AM

Those Star Trak injectors?
I found it kind of gross that the "assembly line" of people were being injected with the same gun.

zookeeper · 09-26-2009, 07:34 AM

I'll only get it if it tastes like bacon.

ecotec83 · 09-26-2009, 08:42 AM

I'm going to get the shot when it becomes available. I have had one flu in my life and it is not something i ever want to go through again. I'm not too worried about negative side affects as everything ranging from food to medicine can cause adverse reactions or death despite government approval.

Perfectionist · 09-26-2009, 09:32 AM

No. Swine flu can come and get me.

ivankaramazov · 09-26-2009, 10:09 AM

I understand why people are apprehensive about getting this vaccine, but if you really compare this virus to 1976 then you're just being ignorant. In 76, a new virus was identified, and people freaked out. They assumed it had already spread or would inevitably, and mounted a massive vaccination campaign that proved to be completely unnecessary. They were wrong.

The current vaccination effort comes after this strain has spread across the entire planet and killed at least 4,000 people. Many of them young, otherwise healthy people. A coworker of mine had H1N1 earlier this year, and spent two weeks in the hospital on a ventilator fighting off bacterial infection. He lived, barely. The guy was 32, biked to work every day, and never smoked or drank.

Brand my forehead if you must, but the simple fact is people die from this virus, and some of them are going to die because they refused a vaccine due to misinformation. The only people being sensationalist about the vaccine are the ones buying into the conspiracy theories about it. If you refuse medical advice regarding the vaccine, you souldn't be able to seek medical treatment when you're drowning in your own mucus. It's only fair.

rcapo89 · 09-26-2009, 02:31 PM

I just got the swine flu vaccine today at Cosco's

glarmph · 09-26-2009, 02:59 PM

Nope. I'll stay cancer free.

ivankaramazov · 09-26-2009, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rcapo89

I just got the swine flu vaccine today at Cosco's

Unlikely. Do vaccines beta?

Jimbe · 09-26-2009, 04:17 PM

I thought it was funny when someone got sick they immediately thought 'oh god swine flu'

I don't really take this 'swine flu' seriously tbh, the only way it would kill you is if you were already on death's door

Logan X · 09-26-2009, 06:54 PM

nope.

IThinkIAmMe · 09-26-2009, 07:43 PM

nope
I'm hopping to get H1N1 for bragging rights!
hope I don't die lol...nah, it would still be worth it 8D

Aurora · 09-27-2009, 10:44 PM

Im so sick to death of hearing of this pathetic virus. Mass hysteria over nothing by media AGAIN. So hell no I wont be getting the shot. I havnt even got the seasonal flue shot because I dont agree with it. If I dont die of the flue, Ill die of cancer. Meh!
Now what I really have no idea over, is whether I will get my unborn child vaccinated. I dont know.

bowlingpins · 09-28-2009, 05:29 PM

Nope. I just got the regular vaccine. The swine flu vaccine is live and I don't think the benefits of getting it in healthy people outweigh the risks.

nubly · 09-28-2009, 06:11 PM

nope. i dont get the regular flu shot so im not going to bother with this one either

Just Lurking · 09-28-2009, 06:19 PM

I highly doubt it.

copper · 09-28-2009, 08:15 PM

I never get the flu shot and won't get the one for the swine flu. I don't want to end up paralyzed like many in '76 were. I think I had the swine flu back then. I was hospitalized for over a month with it. The one kid I shared a room with had it too and he end up passing away one night. Hopefully, I built up an immunity to it.

Toad Licker · 10-01-2009, 09:30 PM

Due to my asthma I get a flu shot every year so most likely I'll get a swine flu shot when it becomes available.

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09-26-2009, 05:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
Joel Status: SAS Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: California Gender: Male Age: 21 Posts: 95	Will You Get The Swine Flu Vaccine? This time around we get to look forward to ingredients found in spermicides, cleaners, cosmetics as well as significant doses of thimerosal, squalene, and mercury... I'd rather just get the swine flu and be out of commission for a couple days building up a natural immunity, how about the rest of you? The vids below are part 1 and 2 of a documentary by CBS on the 1976 Swine Flu vaccine. Its almost 20 minutes long so you don't have to watch whole thing, but in a nut shell it pretty much just talks about the government's rush to get the first swine flu vaccine out of labs and into citizens by October 1st (sounds familiar) which is when it caused around 4000 cases ranging from death to neurological disorders inducing full body paralysis bringing on over $4 billion in lawsuits, along with interviews with everyone involved from the officials to the victims. During this "pandemic" the swine flu itself only killed 1 person, an Army recruit who left his sick bed after already being diagnosed to go perform physical training and later collapsed. Meanwhile that year, the common flu killed 36,000 Americans. Not implying this will be another 1976 and that you shouldn't get it because I obviously don't know and its certainly not my place to say anything like that, just something you'll have to decide for yourself.

09-26-2009, 05:55 AM	#2 (permalink)
Ospi Status: Swoit Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brisbane, Australia Gender: Male Age: 22 Posts: 1,499	Hell no, needles scare the **** out of me. THey would need to drag me kicking and screaming. __________________ "Racing is life. Anything that happens before or after...is just waiting"

09-26-2009, 07:28 AM	#4 (permalink)
millenniumman75 Status: Super Moderator Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Dayton-Cincinnati, OH Gender: Male Age: 34 Posts: 38,682	Those Star Trak injectors? I found it kind of gross that the "assembly line" of people were being injected with the same gun. __________________ millenniumman75 You are a success story waiting to happen! Live and let live VACUUMS more than a Hoover.... Live and HELP live is better!

09-26-2009, 07:34 AM	#5 (permalink)
zookeeper Status: The floor is lava!! Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Soap Fortress Gender: Male Age: 30 Posts: 1,068	I'll only get it if it tastes like bacon. __________________ You leapt into the abyss, but find It only goes up to your knees, ~ Nick Cave

09-26-2009, 06:51 AM	#3 (permalink)
Duke of Prunes Status: A prune isn't a vegetable Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: England Gender: Male Age: 18 Posts: 208	I'd never get a vaccine for swine flu. Not because I'm scared of needles or vaccines, but because I think it's unneccessary. My tetanus vaccination is hopelessly out of date (I never got the booster for it) but I've worked with compost and rusty metal with open wounds countless times and I've never caught tetanus. My diptheria/polio vaccinations are also out of date (you get a booster for them, along with tetanus in the same shot when you're 13-18 over here). Never had my BCG shot either, though I hear those aren't mandatory anymore. Anyway, vaccinations are overrated. I've already had swine flu and my mother had it too (hers was lab confirmed, mine wasn't). It wasn't a big deal at all, a mild cough (which is nothing to me because I have a chronic cough, chronic nasal drip and chronic tonsillitis), a headache, a bit of a temperature (quite a high one, but I felt fine) and a bit of nausea (which I have all the time anyway because of my chronic post nasal drip which makes me both gag because my throat gets full of it, and makes me feel sick because my stomach gets full of it). Honestly for such a mild condition, a vaccine is a waste of time. Maybe super-high-risk people could benefit from it, but I couldn't care less about it. People who panic over swine flu should have "THE MARK OF STUPID" branded on their foreheads for buying into the sensationalist "LOL PANDEMIC" scare crap.

09-26-2009, 08:42 AM	#6 (permalink)
ecotec83 Status: Ascending from the dark Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Belleville, Ontario, Canada Gender: Male Age: 26 Posts: 367	I'm going to get the shot when it becomes available. I have had one flu in my life and it is not something i ever want to go through again. I'm not too worried about negative side affects as everything ranging from food to medicine can cause adverse reactions or death despite government approval. __________________ ~Our greatest battles are those with our own mind.~

09-26-2009, 09:32 AM	#7 (permalink)
Perfectionist Status: Too Cool for School Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: At the Hundredth Meridian Gender: Female Age: 21 Posts: 2,313	No. Swine flu can come and get me. __________________ -Oh if Hans Christian Anderson could've had his way with me

09-26-2009, 10:09 AM	#8 (permalink)
ivankaramazov Status: SAS Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Gender: Male Age: 26 Posts: 238	I understand why people are apprehensive about getting this vaccine, but if you really compare this virus to 1976 then you're just being ignorant. In 76, a new virus was identified, and people freaked out. They assumed it had already spread or would inevitably, and mounted a massive vaccination campaign that proved to be completely unnecessary. They were wrong. The current vaccination effort comes after this strain has spread across the entire planet and killed at least 4,000 people. Many of them young, otherwise healthy people. A coworker of mine had H1N1 earlier this year, and spent two weeks in the hospital on a ventilator fighting off bacterial infection. He lived, barely. The guy was 32, biked to work every day, and never smoked or drank. Brand my forehead if you must, but the simple fact is people die from this virus, and some of them are going to die because they refused a vaccine due to misinformation. The only people being sensationalist about the vaccine are the ones buying into the conspiracy theories about it. If you refuse medical advice regarding the vaccine, you souldn't be able to seek medical treatment when you're drowning in your own mucus. It's only fair.

09-26-2009, 02:31 PM	#9 (permalink)
rcapo89 Status: Exploring the moon Europa Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Georgia (northeast of Atlanta) Gender: Male Age: 20 Posts: 840	I just got the swine flu vaccine today at Cosco's __________________ I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more. - Anne Frank

09-26-2009, 02:59 PM	#10 (permalink)
glarmph Status: Hiding in my basement Join Date: May 2009 Location: Illinois Gender: Male Age: 25 Posts: 243	Nope. I'll stay cancer free.

09-26-2009, 04:17 PM	#12 (permalink)
Jimbe Status: Busy being useless Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: United Kingdom Gender: Male Age: 16 Posts: 144	I thought it was funny when someone got sick they immediately thought 'oh god swine flu' I don't really take this 'swine flu' seriously tbh, the only way it would kill you is if you were already on death's door __________________ Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. ~Stuart Chase Life is cruel

09-26-2009, 06:54 PM	#13 (permalink)
Logan X Status: I'm dead inside Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: LaSalle, QC Gender: Male Age: 36 Posts: 5,276	nope. __________________ It ain't the fall that gets you. It's the sudden stop at the bottom.

09-26-2009, 07:43 PM	#14 (permalink)
IThinkIAmMe Status: Time Lord Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Ontario Gender: Female Age: 18 Posts: 151	nope I'm hopping to get H1N1 for bragging rights! hope I don't die lol...nah, it would still be worth it 8D __________________ However long the night, the dawn will break. -African Proverb Regard my omnipresence: mimiincognito.tumblr.com twitter.com/mimiincognito mimiincognito.livejournal.com (where you can follow my Victory Lap blog)

09-27-2009, 10:44 PM	#15 (permalink)
Aurora Status: SAS Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Melbourne, Australia. Gender: Female Age: 24 Posts: 850	Im so sick to death of hearing of this pathetic virus. Mass hysteria over nothing by media AGAIN. So hell no I wont be getting the shot. I havnt even got the seasonal flue shot because I dont agree with it. If I dont die of the flue, Ill die of cancer. Meh! Now what I really have no idea over, is whether I will get my unborn child vaccinated. I dont know. __________________ I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~ Charles C. Finn

09-28-2009, 06:19 PM	#18 (permalink)
Just Lurking Status: Student.. Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Gender: Male Posts: 2,852	I highly doubt it. __________________ "The psychiatrist says, 'I think you're crazy.' The man says, 'I want a second opinion.' The psychiatrist says, 'Okay, you're ugly, too!'" ~Henny Youngman

09-28-2009, 05:29 PM	#16 (permalink)
bowlingpins Status: Temporarily Banned Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 557	Nope. I just got the regular vaccine. The swine flu vaccine is live and I don't think the benefits of getting it in healthy people outweigh the risks.

09-28-2009, 06:11 PM	#17 (permalink)
nubly Status: SAS Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: USA the greatest and best country in the world!! :) Posts: 7,065	nope. i dont get the regular flu shot so im not going to bother with this one either

09-28-2009, 08:15 PM	#19 (permalink)
copper Status: SAS Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan Age: 39 Posts: 7,768	I never get the flu shot and won't get the one for the swine flu. I don't want to end up paralyzed like many in '76 were. I think I had the swine flu back then. I was hospitalized for over a month with it. The one kid I shared a room with had it too and he end up passing away one night. Hopefully, I built up an immunity to it. __________________ troll: man, we got a lot of snow yooper: eh? troll: three feet, man! yooper: yah troll: no school, man, it was sweet yooper: you closed school for three feet of snow?!?!??!? troll: you like excessive punctuation, don't you?

10-01-2009, 09:30 PM	#20 (permalink)
Toad Licker Status: Broken Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: A Fruitloop Daydream Gender: Male Age: 44 Posts: 29,638	Due to my asthma I get a flu shot every year so most likely I'll get a swine flu shot when it becomes available. __________________ All will wither, go to sleep The ones you love you may not keep All you touch will fall apart The dreams you kill will break your heart There's no mercy, there's no rest The void will scream within your chest No one knows and no one will So leave this place that makes you Ill - Madder Mortem