Will you take the Swine Flu Jab?

Christo · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:27

Tefal said:
No you wont need the jab

you're going to die

*please don't take this as medical advice >.<

hawker1986 said:
No if you have the disease its too late for the jab, go to the doctors and see if you do have swine flu

Hawker

No need, I dont want to infect anyone else, Im sure Ill recover, its no worse than normal flu, just got a very bad chest in comparison.

Dolph · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:30

I'll take the vaccine, my tinfoil body suit will protect me from anything the government tries to do...

Gypo · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:31

I wouldnt give the vaccination to any of our politicians.

gc4170 · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:36

ha - just from the comments on here....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6694046.ece?FORM=ZZNR6

Gaygle · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:39

Raikiri said:
The mortality rate is less than 0.2% in the UK (17 of 9,000 reported cases, I stress reported as theres no doubt many more that go without notice). Most of the people who have died were already in ill health or had weak immune systems.

They say that hundreds of thousands of cases could be unreported.

dirtydog · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:39

scorza said:
The official advise is to not go to your GP if you think you have swine flu now. Stay at home now.

I had a normal flu jab last year at my GP's surgery, it was on a Saturday when no doctors were seeing patients and was run like a well-oiled military machine. As soon as you reported into reception you were ushered into one of many rooms, each with a nurse in it armed with the vaccine. I was in an out in less than 2 minutes. I guess they were practising for this eventuality.

But if you need Tamiflu presumably the only way to get it, is to go out to the doctor's surgery - they won't bring it to you will they.

philjohn · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:42

dirtydog said:
But if you need Tamiflu presumably the only way to get it, is to go out to the doctor's surgery - they won't bring it to you will they.

you nominate a "flu buddy" who picks it up from a distribution centre on your beahlf.

platypus · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:43

Nope.

lofz · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:45

no chance of me having a swine flu jab, I'm 27 years old I think my body can cope with a little bit of flu.

bam0 · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:45

dirtydog said:
But if you need Tamiflu presumably the only way to get it, is to go out to the doctor's surgery - they won't bring it to you will they.

They'll provide a prescription that a designated friend/family member can collect.

dirtydog · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:47

bam0 said:
They'll provide a prescription that a designated friend/family member can collect.

Who will? Where is my distribution centre? God knows. Nobody's told me anything.

It is reasonable to assume that some people will go to the GP's surgery despite the official advice for them not to do so.

bam0 · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:51

dirtydog said:
Who will? Where is my distribution centre? God knows. Nobody's told me anything.

It is reasonable to assume that some people will go to the GP's surgery despite the official advice for them not to do so.

Probably, I haven't a clue about the details of the answers to your questions, I've moved house recently and haven't bothered to register with a GP yet, being as they insist on me taking time off work to book an appointment and see them, oh and bring a sample of urine but didn't provide anything to put it in.
Going off topic, but surely they can get my records from my previous GP, why do I need to see them before they'll register me.

dirtydog · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:53

^ seems a bit silly I agree.

dirtydog · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:55

One of the comments from the Times' website:

A survey of 274 studies conducted by researchers from the internationally prestigious Cochrane Vaccine Field in Italy, and published in the British Medical Journal on October 28, 2006 stated that flu vaccines have not been shown to be effective or safe. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the National Vaccine Information Center is calling on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to stop recommending annual flu immunization.

Gaye, Brisbane, Australia

Is that true?

afraser2k · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:56

I wouldn't take the jab as I'd like the two weeks or so off work.

simpletom · 14 Jul 2009 at 12:00

scorza said:
I'll beg, borrow and steal to get the swine flu jab if I have to. There's a lot we aren't being told about this new disease.

Like?

edscdk said:
would be a tough call considering swine flu is so new that there cannot have been clinical trials of the jab.. I'll see how many health workers die from the jab and how many other die from swine flu...

call me paranoid but I can see Mr Terrorist thinking what good idea it would be if he could get something bad into some batches of the jab considering how many people will get it...

You what?

Raikiri said:
The mortality rate is less than 0.2% in the UK (17 of 9,000 reported cases, I stress reported as theres no doubt many more that go without notice). Most of the people who have died were already in ill health or had weak immune systems.

You mean, like 'normal 'flu?

oli collett · 14 Jul 2009 at 12:00

Christo said:
No need, I dont want to infect anyone else, Im sure Ill recover, its no worse than normal flu, just got a very bad chest in comparison.

How long have you had it? Have you had the flu before?

bam0 · 14 Jul 2009 at 12:06

dirtydog said:
One of the comments from the Times' website:

Is that true?

I think the article referenced is here; http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7574/912

It questions the efficacy in relation to the populations targetted by the vaccincation policies and says that the study data for safety is very small.

Klo · 14 Jul 2009 at 12:09

I don't quite understand why nobody wants to get the jab? :confused:

If the virus does mutate, and least it should help a little, and it makes your body just as immune to the virus as catching it does.

dirtydog · 14 Jul 2009 at 12:10

bam0 said:
I think the article referenced is here; http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7574/912

It questions the efficacy in relation to the populations targetted by the vaccincation policies and says that the study data for safety is very small.

Interesting to see that there ARE dissenting voices among experts in this field and it isn't just 'tin-foil hat wearers' who are sceptical about vaccination.