Posted on 07/28/2009 11:58:34 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
Elderly should be low priority for antivirals, says scientist
That is idiotic.
The U.S. will have multiple human trials and testing before officially releasing it.
It will be fast still, but the flu shot itself is a pretty fast release.
As for those who say the shots don’t protect you from the flu, that a load of crap.
I get one every year and have never gotten the flu, and I have a weak immune system.
And no, I haven’t gotten the flu from the shot like I am SURE somebody will reply to me saying they did and have never gotten a shot after blah blah.
i didn’t have the choice to pass back in the 70’s...all us military types were ordered to take the shot....i think i will pass this go around myself....
That snake oil sure works well, doesn’t it. :)
How do these idiots keep saying this crap without any rebuttal?
it was when i was in back in the 70’s....
When my daughter was an asthmatic teenager, she was given two flu shots in separate years. Both made her very sick and she had to stay home from school, something she rarely did, even with asthma. So I refuse to take them and she won’t now either.
Interestingly the smallpox vaccine was made from the much less deadly cousin cowpox.
Neither smallpox or polio however are the quick-multistrain (it’s why flu is seasonal) flu virus; I generally don’t get flu shots, I generally don’t get sick either, so I’m not sure how helpful the flu vaccine is... especially when your vaccines are invalidated so quickly.
Vaccines are the snake oil of modern medicine? Let me tell you that when I started as a RN back in the late 1980’s, we would typically see several cases of HiB Meningitis. Within several years, the HiB vaccine was given routinely, and now it’s rarely if ever seen. Vaccines DO work. That being said, I would, however, be leary of a vaccine that is being pushed out this quickly on such a widespread basis without being tested.
>OTOH, if ACORN makes it mandatory for all community organizers, then I’ll be first in line!
King Obama has decreed that they must go; there is no way he can allow someone to ‘organize’ against him. ;)
>Here’s something you might want to read...
hm, brings this to mind:
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/P3A-194
>> Vaccines are the snake oil of modern medicine? Let me tell you that when I started as a RN back in the late 1980’s, we would typically see several cases of HiB Meningitis. Within several years, the HiB vaccine was given routinely, and now it’s rarely if ever seen. Vaccines DO work. That being said, I would, however, be leary of a vaccine that is being pushed out this quickly on such a widespread basis without being tested. <<
I agree with you vaccines are miracle of modern medicine, but like we have learned with antibiotics and bacterial infections, sometimes they are abused.
I will take a vaccine from my GP, but if the government wants to force me take rush-job vaccine form something I may have already had. HELL NO.
I’m gonna wait a while, till a few million others have taken it.
Right you are. I’ve never had a flu shot and never had the flu in all my life. If I get it at age 75, well you gotta die from something.
One of the most ridiculous things ever posted on FR.
A complete lie. I just volunteered to be a test subject here in the Seattle area, where the vaccine is being tested through the healthcare company I work for.
In addition, the first two of three phases of testing were done in India. The phase I volunteered for is efficacy.
Geeze, how can people believe this crap???
23 and counting.
I hate this but here is how we do it
Btw, I worked in vaccine development for a major pharm company and am completely comfortable with the one being tested in the link I posted.
I work for a healthcare co-op which carefully scrutinizes data before allowing the use of anything. In fact, most of the drugs which have come out in the last few years with scandals, they never allowed in-house from the get-go.
Since they are the ones involved in testing this vaccine, I am completely at ease, in fact I would say eager to participate. I will have immunity long before the general population. And I hope to get my 14 yo daughter into the clinical trial as well.
If this baby takes off in the fall, and our July season has been phenomenally staggering considering we never have flu in July, the vaccine will be worth pure gold. Especially for me, being exposed to sick people at work.
Thanks for the link, though.
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