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With all that's happened in the last 24 hours here in Ottawa, I am wondering if the H1N1 vaccine and Borderlands are being distributed by the same firm...
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The H1N1 virus is really no different from a regular flu virus, except that it's a new strain.
In the US over 35,000 people die every year from the regular flu strains, yet when a couple hundred people die with underlying medical complications from H1N1, everyone panics.
Call me when Ebola starts spreading like this then I might get worried.
I hate the fact that the medical community cannot get their message straight and that politicians started getting involved. This is what I gather from the media:
- H1N1 is more contagious than other flus, so more people around the global will suffer from it in a short period than any flu previous.
- H1N1 is less deadly than other flu virus.
- Because H1N1 is more contagious than previous flus, then the total amount of humans on the planet that will die from this flu is potentially an order of magnitude higher than previous flus.
- Even thought H1N1 is less deadly than other flus, the people that seem to die from it are from an unexpected category: people with current robust immune system.
With all of these, no wonder people are both confused and scared. The high virulency hasn't kicked in as predicted, and since it kills less than other flus, the population currently sees this as a storm in a teacup.
If the virulence kicks in and we see the contagion numbers go up, then it's another ballgame altogether.
Our best bet for information so far seems to be Wikipedia.
I will probably get vaccinated, but it's mostly to prevent an at-large spread of the virus.
Even thought H1N1 is less deadly than other flus, the people that seem to die from it are from an unexpected category: people with current robust immune system.
Great I guess I am in trouble
I knew I should stop taking Vitamin C, Chlorella and Acai damn it!
I refuse to get vaccinated though. The one time I did get vaccinated I got sick 3 days later. Things that make you go hmmmm...
"I refuse to get vaccinated though. The one time I did get vaccinated I got sick 3 days later. Things that make you go hmmmm..."
Do you know what a vaccine for the flu is make of? Since this is the internet I'll just tell you here. The vaccine is basically just a weakened flu virus, if it makes you sick (doesn't always happen), then that means it's working.
The virus is made of dead H1N1 cells. They still make your immune system create anti-bodies and they (the anti-bodies) flush out the dead cells and are on high-alert for live cells in the future.
Therefore making it completely pointless.
"Even thought H1N1 is less deadly than other flus, the people that seem to die from it are from an unexpected category: people with current robust immune system."
I haven't heard this at all.