Where do you stand on the Swine Flu vaccination?

I do not plan to get a swine flu shot. One was enough for me. I was in law school during the 1976-77 swine flu crisis that never materialized.

The government and the university were strongly urging all students to have the shot. I drove two of my girlfriends to the gym where the shots were given. No one said anything about a possible reaction.

Minutes after having the shot, I felt so bad that I barely made it back to the car. I just collapsed in the back seat, and my friends drove me home. I have no recollection of how I made it upstairs to my apartment or what happened the rest of the day.

I was lucky compared to most who had reactions to those shots because I felt better the next day. Unfortunately, some died and others developed very serious, life-threatening diseases. This round of swine flu shots is not supposed to produce the kinds of reactions that we saw in the 70's.

But I still think I'll pass.

I guess I see it differently than everyone else. If the vaccine is available I'll get it for myself and for my 5 year old daughter, especially for her. It's bad enough when she gets the regular flu, and with things so easily caught at school I'd just rather get the vaccine.

I certainly don't want to be the parent who decides not to and spreads something around to everyone who doesn't get the vaccine. However, if there is a limited supply of the vaccines, I will not get it for myself. I think it's far more important for those more at risk to be able to get the vaccines (ie children and the elderly).

As a healthy 30 something, I can't remember the last time I had the regular flu or even a cold so I probably won't need the vaccine. Even when my daughter has the flu or something I don't catch it. It should be a choice though.

I would just hate for people to not get the vaccine simply because they view it as some kind of government conspiracy or to not allow their children to get it because they "don't want anyone controlling them". At the end of the day it's about being healthy and keeping our loved ones healthy and we should keep that in mind.

I unfortunately had the swine flu back in June, my mom and I were both diagnosed with a new strand. It is very nasty had a 104.9 temp. At one point.

However since the shots will be the active virus it most likely will make a lot of people ill. Only those with outstanding health MAY be able to skate by without feeling ill. So it's up to everyone what they personally want to do who knows a new strand can start tomorrow...get your shot Monday but there is a whole new strand on Thursday....then what good did it do you?

Since I had the flu already I'm not bothering...but like I said...chose for yourself...don't let the government control you anymore then they already are.

I will refuse it. They can practice on someone else. It will take 20 years of use to be able to study all of the side effect of this vaccine.

Boy oh boy are people scared of the flu shot! Yabba. I have rarely seen so much panic and fear in humans since the invention of fire.

I encourage everyone to research and read reputable sources and their information about vaccines. Any website that touts "never trust the government" is purposely trying to mislead and scare you: The government isn't making this vaccine, and they aren't benefiting from it. Be anti-government if you want, but being anti-vaccine is a different state of mind altogether.

Yes, I will be getting vaccinated if they are available. Vaccinations are important precautions with minimal risks compared to severe strains of flu. The shots are made with killed viruses in the same way that seasonal flu shots are prepared.

I get those shots every year. So far, no government mind control. I think.No, I do not believe that the government should require people to get the vaccination.

If people are too afraid of their own shadows to get the vaccine, then that is their choice. I hope they don't get sick (or worse), but they're willing to roll the dice. I'm taking care of myself and embracing the best medical science has to offer.

My family makes its living off of science, so I have a general trust of science. Plus I educate myself. And I don't pay attention to chain letter emails.

From newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/10/12/09... : "In fact, the new H1N1 virus is similar to seasonal flu in its severity. In the United States, influenza regularly ranks among the ten leading causes of death, infecting up to twenty per cent of the population. It kills roughly thirty-five thousand Americans every year and sends hundreds of thousands to the hospital.

Even relatively mild pandemics, like those of 1957 and 1968, have been health-care disasters: the first killed two million people and the second a million. We are more fortunate than our predecessors, though. Scientists produced a vaccine rapidly; it will be available within weeks.

And, though this H1N1 virus is novel, the vaccine is not. It was made and tested in exactly the same way that flu vaccines are always made and tested. Had this strain of flu emerged just a few months earlier, there would not have been any need for two vaccines this year; 2009 H1N1 would simply have been included as one of the components in the annual vaccine.

Meanwhile, the virus has now appeared in a hundred and ninety-one countries. It has killed almost four thousand people and infected millions of others. The risks are clear and so are the facts.

But, while scientists and public-health officials have dealt effectively with the disease, they increasingly confront a different kind of contagion: the spurious alarms spread by those who would make us fear vaccines more than the illnesses they prevent" In short, if you harbor suspicions about the H1N1 vaccine and not the seasonal flu vaccine, just put on your tinfoil hat and go back to your bunker already.

I take medications that supresses my immune system so...no, I most definitely will not be getting one. I struggled over this decision for days before coming to this conclusion.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.