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    Default Will you get vaccinated?

    So......

    The pork-cough is over us, our governments(most of us anyway) are buying millions of flu shots for us. We'll probably see mass vaccination soon, with pharmaceutical companies all over the world rubbing their hands in anticipation of the easiest wad of cash they'll ever make...

    So, the question is simple; will you get vaccinated against the pig-cold, or not?




    note: poll might be slightly biased...
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    Default Re: Will you get Tamiflu?

    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post

    note: poll might be slightly biased...
    Well, I'm actually seeing a slightly bigger problem with your poll.

    edit: No, probably won't get it. Young and healthy after the sick and old/really young.
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    Default Re: Will you get Tamiflu?

    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    So......

    The pork-cough is over us, our governments(most of us anyway) are buying millions of flu shots for us. We'll probably see mass vaccination soon, with pharmaceutical companies all over the world rubbing their hands in anticipation of the easiest wad of cash they'll ever make...

    So, the question is simple; will you get vaccinated against the pig-cold, or not?




    note: poll might be slightly biased...
    Tamiflu isn't a vaccine.... so I'll leave the rest, including evaluations of people's intelligence alone.
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    This samba-cough is such a dissapointment

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    Default Re: Will you get Tamiflu?

    Doctor + Asthma. I am at the head of the list. But give up 2 weeks off work?

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    Default Re: Will you get Tamiflu?

    My brother got given it on monday, after finding out he had swine flu.

    He left for the UK on friday. Got in fine.

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    Default Re: Will you get Tamiflu?

    Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
    But give up 2 weeks off work?

    que? Side-effects?

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    Default Re: Will you get Tamiflu?

    Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
    Doctor + Asthma. I am at the head of the list. But give up 2 weeks off work?

    Yep, asthmatic here, too. They can give me double doses of any experimental crap they want.

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    Default Re: Will you get Tamiflu?

    I'll happily get the vaccin once that has been developed. Not doing so seems pretty daft - unless there are downsides to vaccination that I'm not aware of, and I don't mean the conspiracy theories regarding vaccination in general.
    Not tamiflu though - I'm not asthmatic, it only takes away one day of illness on average and it has side effects that barely weigh up against the alleviation of the symptons. So I won't bother.

    I understand that you can get tamiflu for free over here once you've been diagnosed with the mexican flu, so I can understand why people would take it (especially since it minimizes the chance that you'll contaminate others)
    But there are a few people here who have stashed their own private supplies beforehand, buying it for hundreds of bucks on the internet. Wich is a "little" silly.

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