I have never gotten a flu shot and I don't think I will now. I'm sure the H1N1 is a more virulent strain then normal but i'm also sure that the media is as usual blowing things way out of proportion to get more viewers it's what they do.
Governments have to tell people that getting a flu shot is a good idea because when you analyze the numbers the flu shot prevents a lot of strain on the health care system because they do lower the amount of sick by a large number and flu shots also saves companies countless amounts of money in lost revenue that they would loose with lots of sick employees.
There is always going to be a very few who get an adverse reaction because your basically injecting a diluted form of potentially deadly virus into yourself but vaccines have saved far far far more people then they have ever harmed so overall they are a good idea when looking at it from a government point of view.
And you have to remember that at one point in time the spanish flu wiped out a very large portion of the human population and nobody wants that to happen again so they have to look at the flu and a more dangerous version like the H1N1 in worst case scenarios.
Governments have to tell people that getting a flu shot is a good idea because when you analyze the numbers the flu shot prevents a lot of strain on the health care system because they do lower the amount of sick by a large number and flu shots also saves companies countless amounts of money in lost revenue that they would loose with lots of sick employees.
There is always going to be a very few who get an adverse reaction because your basically injecting a diluted form of potentially deadly virus into yourself but vaccines have saved far far far more people then they have ever harmed so overall they are a good idea when looking at it from a government point of view.
And you have to remember that at one point in time the spanish flu wiped out a very large portion of the human population and nobody wants that to happen again so they have to look at the flu and a more dangerous version like the H1N1 in worst case scenarios.




