Are you getting your H1N1 shot

Grumpy · #1 12-12-2009, 07:07 AM

So how many of you are going to get your flu shot ?

Just curious.

merrylander · #2 12-12-2009, 07:15 AM

We will if they finally decide that over 65s are worth saving.

noonereal · #3 12-12-2009, 07:59 AM

My daughter had H1N1 in June and I did not catch it. The second wave went through this part of the country in October and I did not get it. It is almost after the fact already and the vaccine is still not locally available so I will skip it. I may get the regular seasonal flu shot as that should start to surface now.

Boreas · #4 12-12-2009, 08:43 AM

No, I won't be getting it. I'm 64 which means I'm at low risk for this strain and there isn't a lot of vaccine to go around. I never get the seasonal flu anyway.

John

Grumpy · #5 12-12-2009, 09:47 AM

I thought some folks over a certain age were more resistant to this flu due to built up immunity. Not that its much of a consolation .

Boreas · #6 12-12-2009, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Grumpy

I thought some folks over a certain age were more resistant to this flu due to built up immunity. Not that its much of a consolation .

H1N1 seems to go after younger people and pregnant women.

John

BlueStreak · #7 12-12-2009, 10:36 AM

I am neither young, nor pregnant. But it doesn't matter as I refuse to get the vaccination anyhow, because my dog, who is a staunch Republican, has informed me that Obama has put "mind control drugs" in it. He's a Republican, and therefore incapable of lying, scheming or being incorrect, and I am a God fearing, Reagan loving, Yankee Doodle Dandy acolyte of John Wayne and William Shatner who will henceforth follow his every directive unconditionally. Lest I fall into the ranks of the "mind-controlled" as so many of you have.

Dave

Charles · #8 12-12-2009, 11:19 AM

I've never had a flu shot, and I'm not about to break my record.

Chas

merrylander · #9 12-12-2009, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Grumpy

I thought some folks over a certain age were more resistant to this flu due to built up immunity. Not that its much of a consolation .

That assumption is based upon you having had the shot or the flu during tha previous swine flu epidemic back sometime in the 70s. I never bothered with flu shots until I came down here in 84, and I do not recall whether I had the flu during the 70s.

Boreas · #10 12-12-2009, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by merrylander

That assumption is based upon you having had the shot or the flu during tha previous swine flu epidemic back sometime in the 70s. I never bothered with flu shots until I came down here in 84, and I do not recall whether I had the flu during the 70s.

Unless they shot me up when I was in the Army I've never had one and I don't think I've ever had the flu.

John