Are you getting it done?
Posted by: Sally on: November 11, 2009
That was the question on everyone’s lips today at work.
An email came round offering us all the swine flu jab. We’re “front-line NHS workers”, you see.
I was surprised by just how many of my colleagues are choosing NOT to have the jab. Many were saying they just didn’t trust it, and were worried about it making them sick.
I had to chuckle to myself.
These are the same colleagues who talk about how irresponsible parents who choose not to give their kids the MMR are; colleagues who know the percentage of people that need to be innoculated against measles in order that ‘herd immunity’ be achieved, and who gently humour parents who suggest a link between the MMR and the sudden onset of autistic behaviours in their child.*
They don’t seem to realise the irony of their behaviour.
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* As everyone knows, there is thought to be no link between autism and the MMR.
7 Responses to "Are you getting it done?"
November 11, 2009 at 10:26 pm
The vaccine has not been fully tested, as admitted by the WHO. Testing regimes for vaccines last years (normally ten years after Thalidomide, to include surveys of possible long-term renal damage and passed-on genetic disorders to unborn children), include blinds, multiple test matrixes and are exhaustive.
The testing regime for Tamiflu lasted six months.
The disease was isolated at the end of last year, yet by summer this year Tamiflu was on the market. Indecently quickly.
November 11, 2009 at 10:30 pm
What about the seasonal flu jab? A new one comes out every year— they’re certainly not tested for ten years! Isn’t the swine flu jab just a variant on the normal flu jab?
November 11, 2009 at 10:43 pm
I have seen no evidence in any of the BMJ publications, nor in the WHO guidelines, nor the USFDA statements where any independent specialist has been able to categorically state that Tamiflu has completed testing. In fact, on television last week one of the ‘TV’ doctors said it had not completed testing but the risk from the vaccine was, and I quote, negligible.
Well I can make the risk even more negligible. Don’t have it.
November 11, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Negligible is pretty small. I think I will probably have it.
(BTW – Tamiflu and the jab are not the same thing … Maybe you knew that – sorry if you did and I have misinterpreted your comments!)
November 16, 2009 at 2:48 am
Totally with you on that one, Sally. If only this particular strand of flu had appeared a few months earlier, it would have been incorporated in the regular seasonal flu, and we wouldn’t hear any of this “non-thoroughly tested” argument.
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November 11, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Was offered it three months ago. Refused it then, would refuse it tomorrow if offered. Will not accept it even if paid.