11/5/2009 9:16 pm
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... to be taken?
The best vaccine to ... H1N1 vaccine paranoia ?
That if you get the flu, chances are 99.999% in your favour that you will... survive? You'll be back on your two feet in matters of days ?
That there are more people who will die from the "ordinary" seasonal flu than from H1N1, and yet no one gets excited about the seasonal flu?
So, I have to get all upset about getting vaccinated at all costs, fearing that I might that H1N1 thingy?
Mhhhh...
The amount of insanity... amazes me.
Heard from a colleague: Her kid is in cries and she confess to her whether she's going to die if she gets the swine flu?
Open the radio and tune to any local station, the silliness is raging.
There was this horror story about a pregnant woman *heavily* pressured by about everyone close to her, including her hubby... to get the vaccine, even getting name calls for being such a bad mother for "endangering" herself and her soon-to-be-born baby by refusing to get vaccinated?
Hello ?
And people waiting as much as 8 hours, outside, in cold weather (Hey, this is Canada), to get vaccinated? Incredibly loooooong line ups, everywhere. It makes great headlines on newspapers. Even the local TV's 'copter went on with live coverage of these looooong waiting line at various vaccination centers.
Mhhhh...
Heck I wouldn't wait even 5 minutes, I'd turn around. If I get it, so be it. Just another flu, among others. It's part of living in Canada, One flu at a time. 
Now someone had an idea that they should do like Disneyworld, or to a live concert. You go to the admission to get tickets. For a specific day and time... and you are part of the show.
And to make matters worse, or to shoot way up the paranoia level... there is going to be a severe shortage of vaccine.
Ah.
(see how scared I am! )
Whether I'll get vaccinated, I'm still debating. There are some serious questions about the vaccine itself, and considering that it is unlikely that I'm going to die if I get the flu...
I can afford to sit and wait.
One would see conspiracy?
Mhhhh...
Don't see evil when it can get explained by just sheer stupidity of humans.
Another way of saying...
To take with a grain of salt.
It's the best antidote that I know!
Cheers!
-E
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5468 posts 11/5/2009 10:20 pm |
What will cure any cold or flu.......
5 cayene peppers, ground roughly
3 cloves of garlic, crushed
3 whole cloves, ground roughly
1/2 tsp oregano
Boil it up in a tea and drink it as hot as you can stand it.
The Slug
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2397 posts 11/6/2009 6:20 pm |
The risk is not put into any context but its own... that's the problem... if it were couched in terms of "... compared with seasonal flu mortality rates, H1N1 flu is ( what ever percentage ) ( more or less ) likely to kill you....
Note that even vaccination against the 'normal' flu is a crap shoot. No one knows which flu viruses will be virulent the following year, but based on statistical analysis, the top three most likely strains are selected and then a vaccine is developed. Some years, it's a 100% miss...
Full INFORMED consent would entail knowing the history of the accuracy of these projections in lessening the mortality rate said vaccinated-against virus', the mortality and "side effect" rates of each annual vaccine, the mortality rates of the other strains of the flu, and all this delivered in a single format for easy comparison.
"... my last thought turned out the lights when it left." - Calvin
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12224 posts 11/8/2009 1:47 pm |
Quoting slug:
What will cure any cold or flu.......
5 cayene peppers, ground roughly
3 cloves of garlic, crushed
3 whole cloves, ground roughly
1/2 tsp oregano
Boil it up in a tea and drink it as hot as you can stand it.
Whew! Powerful stuff!
I've been thinking of worcestershire sauce and tabasco sauce on top of what you mentioned.
Though I'll say: You go first.
Jokes aside, garlic is good at fighting cold. I've no idea about cayene peppers, but it makes me wondering!!!
Cheers,
-E
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12224 posts 11/8/2009 1:50 pm |
Quoting EscapedPrimate:
The risk is not put into any context but its own... that's the problem... if it were couched in terms of "... compared with seasonal flu mortality rates, H1N1 flu is ( what ever percentage ) ( more or less ) likely to kill you....
Note that even vaccination against the 'normal' flu is a crap shoot. No one knows which flu viruses will be virulent the following year, but based on statistical analysis, the top three most likely strains are selected and then a vaccine is developed. Some years, it's a 100% miss...
Full INFORMED consent would entail knowing the history of the accuracy of these projections in lessening the mortality rate said vaccinated-against virus', the mortality and "side effect" rates of each annual vaccine, the mortality rates of the other strains of the flu, and all this delivered in a single format for easy comparison.
I've been thinking that is why they seem to do everything to raise the paranoia level as high as they can.
How to take any cold blood, cold headed informed decision in such circumstances?
Not that I see conspiracy everywhere... but I always suspect something when the pharmaceutical are making so much money from our misery.
Cheers!
-E
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