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Enough is Enough

October 31, 2009 at 11:53 am | In CKD, Family Ties, Kidney Disease | 4 Comments
Tags: facebook, H1N1, H1N1 Flu Shot, propoganda, twitter

***UPDATE***

Before reading my rant below, it should be said that this isn’t directed at the circle of friends infamously known as “da boys”. It’s targetted at a different group of people I know and everything I’ve heard from people all around me. As I’ve said to a few people already, maybe I’ve finally lost my mind. I apologize to that circle of friends for the misunderstanding, your friendship and opinions are valued and I hope I haven’t hurt anyone because of it.

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I’ve deactivated my Facebook account. I don’t understand why people feel the need to post the fact that they’re in the bathroom having their daily constitutional via Facebook Mobile. I’m getting so sick and tired of that silly site and everyone’s soapbox. The only thing worse than Facebook is Twitter and all those Twitheads who care about this crap. Really, who cares about what super expensive and ugly shoes Kim Kardashian “tweeted” about buying five seconds ago? I’m more concerned about being able to pay the bills and keeping a roof over my kids’ head when my husband will be off work for three months, post surgery. What really annoys me the most is all the alarmists out there who have heard the latest scare about H1N1 and continue to listen to, and spread the propoganda. The reliable sources (i.e., mainstream media) have said there’s no truth to the neurological problems created by the H1N1 vaccine, yet even my MIL has been harping about it, frightened that she will be “the one” that it happens to. Give me the proverbial break, you’re not that lucky. Play the lottery if you believe in odds like that. Read this: http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/swineflu/article/718829–vaccine-phobia-runs-deep. Yes, it’s not the New England Journal of Medicine, but mainstream nonetheless.

The only reason to not get the shot is if you have an allergy to eggs or metal. Zip. That’s it.

You have a greater risk of dying in an airplane crash than from receiving the H1N1 Flu shot, yet people still fly … funny isn’t it?

And thank you to all of you assholes who refuse to get the shot because of some propoganda you read in the Enquirer for putting the rest of us who haven’t received it yet at risk. Just because a story is in print, doesn’t make it the truth. Elvis does NOT live in your neighbour’s refrigerator!

I’m so fucking sick of all the drama.

There are enough real problems in the world that we have to deal with that we don’t need this bullshit on top of it.

I’m sick of “if you get the shot you’ll die/become paralysed/have your head fall off (insert flavour of the day here)”.

I’m sick of “if you get the shot, you’ll harm your kids”.

I’m sick of “if you don’t get the shot, you’ll harm your kids”.

I may not be university educated but I certainly don’t need a lecture on how to live properly from those who are or who think they are.

Can’t wait to hear the outcome of this one…

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Excellent article from Health Zone. ca. I learned a lot from it! I was going to get the shot till I read this article and read the quotes from the renowned epidemiologists.

“Epidemiologist Tom Jefferson is an outspoken critic of the evidence that purports to show that seasonal flu vaccines work. He says researchers have been fooled into thinking vaccines are more effective than the data suggest.”

“Jefferson is skeptical that an actual H1N1 pandemic exists, speculating that it’s like the much-vaunted bird-flu pandemic in 2005, which never transpired.”

“But with the H1N1 vaccine, they don’t yet exist (risk factors of H1N1), counters University of Toronto epidemiologist Bart Harvey.Yes, people should make a knowledgeable decision, “but they’re looking for 100 per cent certain pronouncements about benefits and risks and we won’t know what they are until we look back in retrospect.”

“For the record: The H1N1 vaccine – named Arepanrix by manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline… contains minute amounts of thimerisol, a mercury-containing preservative, and aluminium are in it too.”

Comment by Now Educated — November 4, 2009 #

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- The article on Healthzone.ca also indicated that the link between Autism and vaccinations (particularly the MMR vaccination) was based on very skewed data – the author of the paper manipulated the data to favour his opinion and that there may not be any link at all.
  
  Re: “for the record…” yes, that’s why I said that one of the reasons not to get the shot was if you had an allergy to metal. All vaccinations are preserved with Mercury and one school of thought is that after receiving a lifetime of vaccinations, a person can have a build up of the heavy-metal Mercury in their system.
  
  However, if you eat certain fish (i.e., Salmon), your chances of Mercury poisoning is higher than what you would get from a vaccination. Mercury is in our water system and enters the fish and since they are on the bottom of our food chain, it gets into our system too.
  
  re: “Jefferson is skeptical…”. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the CDC in the U.S. have both confirmed that we are in the middle of a Pandemic, the second wave to be exact. 90 people in Canada are currently hospitalized with the H1N1 Flu virus, many more infected but not hospitalized. The third (and hopefully final) wave is expected to hit in the Spring of 2010.
  
  Another interesting fact I heard is that if you were born prior to 1969, you may have the antibodies already as they were put into vaccinations we received as children for the first round of “Swine Flu” back in the 60’s.
  
  I’m getting my kids’ shots this afternoon. Mine too if they’ll take me, otherwise it’ll be Saturday.
  
  Comment by doodlesmom — November 4, 2009 #
  
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Do you get take all vaccines? If not what do you use to determine if you get vaccinated or not? Did you choose to get vaccinated for H1N1 because they have called this a pandemic? Because 100 of 33,000,000 Canadians have died in the last 6 months from this flu? Do you feel our immune systems are not strong enough on their own to naturally defend us?

Comment by JS — November 4, 2009 #

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- What I used to determine whether or not to get the H1N1 vaccination is the fact that I live with someone who has a compromised immune system.
  
  Got my shot earlier this afternoon. So far my head hasn’t fallen off and I’m not walking backwards.
  
  Comment by doodlesmom — November 4, 2009 #
  
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