H1N1 Flu Vaccinations

Summary


In a story on MSNBC , it tells about the skepticism of Americans, concerning the 'swine flu' vaccinations. It tells about how a combination of factors, including political agendas, misinformation, and a lack of information, has spiked a high skepticism about the vaccinations. This is the most aggressive vaccination campaign in history. It is the CDC's goal to have every single man, woman, and child vaccinated against the H1N1 virus. Apparently the vaccination has only been tested on a total of forty six hundred people, and alot of americans don't believe that is enough to warrant 'pushing' it on billions. There is just not enough known about the vaccination, to be distributing it to pregnant women, elderly people, and small children, seems to be the resounding complaint among those interviewed.


Response



I agree one hundred percent with the skepticism. As a parent, the last thing I would ever do, is have my child administered a new, hardly tested, and relatively unknown vaccination. Vaccinations can be scary as it is, especially if it is a live culture immunization, but when you factor in the unknown, it is just terrifying to me. I know of lots of people who have taken the regular flu shot, and ended up getting the flu from it, and worse than they probably would have naturally. What if that were to happen with the swine flu? Is the CDC, in their attempt to keep people from getting the swine flu, actually increasing the spread of this strand of flu? We just don't know, and in that fact, lies the part of the skepticism. I personally have never even taken the regular flu vaccination, and am not really a big 'medicine person' . If medicine is neccesary, then yes, but if there is an alternative, then I will go with the alternative. I just really don't have alot of faith in the medical industry, or the pharmecutical companies either one. I don't think that the swine flu has really reached an 'epidemic level', it's statistics doesn't seem to be very far off from the statistics of the regular flu, and I think that the rushing of this vaccination, and the aggressive campaign to push it on the public, are very unjustified.