Swineflu hysteria

Mood: TOPS!!  XD
Listening to: Sweeney Todd – A Little Priest

Yes, I am at the course, but it doesn’t stop me voicing my opinion.
On October 23rd the Norwegian population was urged to get vaccinated against swine flu.
I still don’t think I’ll get vaccinated. There are numerous reasons why… Shall I? *hand gesture*
1. In Norway between 1000-1500 (yes, there are more people than that in Norway) people die of your regular, garden variety flu every year.
2. I hardly ever, or I have never, to my knowledge, been sick with the flu. Heavy colds, yes, but I hardly get those either.
3. I HATE NEEDLES!!!!!
4. The chances of me getting swine flu are slim at best.
Usually young people get ill. This is usually because they hug, kiss, drink from ach others bottles etc. They all huddle in herds and the illness flourish like mad in these small groups. Which is also why illnesses have such massive outbreaks in kindergartens etc.

The thing is with those who have died… Some of them were oldish and some were young… some had underlining illnesses that didn’t get better by getting swine flu… and those who had seemingly no underlining illnesses… well… Usually the Norwegian press don’t put things like this in their articles. And it’s sad because it only adds to the hysteria. I believe that all of them had some kind of underlining illness.. something they might not even have known about.
And no, I’m not saying that I’m the perfect picture of health, far from it… but I refuse to join in on the bandwagon, joining the hysteria, getting sick from the vaccine and maybe dying from IT instead of surviving swine flu. Because that’s the thing… If you get swine flu, it doesn’t mean you’re doomed. It doesn’t mean you’ll even stay in bed, sick, for 14 days. Who knows.. maybe I’ve already had it and it didn’t let me know.

Of course it’s all up to you, but I’m taking all this hysteria with a grain of salt.
In my eyes it’s basically paying to die.
And of course not everyone dies from getting the injection of vaccine. But you might get ill from it… Even more so than from the flu itself…

Lene