[OpusatFR]

Does it matter, seriously?

Wasn’t it just two weeks ago that we were warned that if steps weren’t taken in a few days to mitigate carbon emissions, it would be too late?

I mean, how many hysterics are out there?

[Jack Black]

They certainly are welcome to TRY to vacinate me against my will. I suggest they bring a bunch of body bags, an ambulance and a herse or two. They will be needing them.

[Vendome]

AAAAAAh!

[silverleaf]

England seems to be surviving just fine without martial law. Ditto South America which is going through its winter flu season.

[Jim Noble]

First of all, there is no licensed vaccine and may not be one.

Secondly, there WILL be a very large number of cases. Cases may very well double every few days.

With an illness this mild - so what?

[discostu]

How would WHO know the cases are doubling every day? They stopped collecting the numbers a month ago.

It’s all fear and stupidity. It’s just the flu.

[WKUHilltopper]

They can stick me once I’m dead already. I’m not taking this poison crap.

[potlatch]

I've read that the vaccine can be dangerous. People have died from it but perhaps people have died from other flu shots??

Sure wouldn't want young children to HAVE to take it.

[little jeremiah]

Hmm - vaccines later than they said:

H1N1 flu vaccine may take months

By Peggy O’Farrell • pofarrell@enquirer.com
August 21, 2009
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20090821/NEWS01/308210033/

AVONDALE – Swine flu vaccine may not be widely available until Thanksgiving, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Friday.

In the meantime, Sebelius told students and parents at Rockdale Academy, it’s important to focus on other measures to prevent the spread of the new flu virus, including frequent hand washing and staying home from school or work if symptoms appear.

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It’s too soon to tell how many Americans will get the flu, she told one youngster, but experts estimate that as many as 1 million have already had it.

“It could be we see a couple of million people get it,” she said. “It could be there are a lot more.”

Federal health officials have already said vaccine production will be delayed.

“That means it could be between now and Thanksgiving before we have vaccine,” Sebelius said.

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When the vaccine is available, Sebelius said, “there will be plenty for everyone who wants to be protected.”

Vaccination will be “strictly voluntary,” she said, adding students who don’t get vaccinated will be allowed to attend school, just as health-care workers who don’t get vaccinated can still go to work.

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Note: It seems vaccines are not going to be voluntary for some HCW in some places.