The fear mongers and the conspiracy theorists have done a good job. I heard about 50% of people polled actually aren't considering getting the vaccination.

Good for that 50% then; nice to know at least half our population are not lemmings! The "fear mongers" could just as easily be the pharmaceutical companies who benefit financially from the vaccine, and the media for spreading the snowballing nonsense about H1N1. It has killed fewer people than seasonal flu does every year.

I prefer to leave my immune system to work like it's supposed to...catch a few things here and there and build up the antibodies to fight them. To listen to the media these days we may as well shut down the world and cover it in a blanket of anti-bacterial lotion. No thanks, life goes on, and people die every day from illness; H1N1 is just one of those unfortunate things that kills some people and most not.

These massive line-ups for vaccines is wagging-the-dog at its finest from our governments...when was the last time anybody in the media complained about the economy, Afghanistan, etc?

my question is this: will the vaccine give the long term resistance to other similar flu strains in the future (as we are seeing with older people exposed to the swine flu in the '50's)?

"To listen to the media these days we may as well shut down the world and cover it in a blanket of anti-bacterial lotion."

I don't know which is worse, the media or the conspiracy theorists telling us that the government is injecting us with unknown material, maybe it's a big mind control thing. Hold on while I adjust my tinfoil hat.

I'm passing on the vaccine. Not because of conspiracy theories but because I am healthy & I also feel the piggy sniffles threat is being completely blown out of proportion.
Each to their own though. If it makes you feel better, get it.

The flu is already here. So lets get all the sick people to line up in one building and share germs with those who aren't, while waiting for the poke. Sound kinda silly to me.
Baaaaaaa.....

The simple fact is H1N1 is less deadly then the seasonal flu. Maybe MrPG and rest of the ignorant sheep should do some research before getting poked. Do any of you have any idea what you’re putting in your body?

http://vaccinationeducation.com/

The simple fact is H1N1 is less deadly then the seasonal flu. Maybe MrPG and rest of the ignorant sheep should do some research before getting poked. Do any of you have any idea what you’re putting in your body?

http://vaccinationeducation.com/

Yes, I'm aware there is a website for everything.

Here's a couple for you...

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/index-eng.php

http://www.cdc.gov/

By the way, that's a great disclaimer on the vaccination education website. LOL...

I guess in MrPG's world anybody who questions the Canadian government is a "conspiracy theorist" or a "fear monger". He assumes that NOTHING the government would fill our veins with could possibly be bad for you...after all this is CANADA!!! Just the country that gave us the tainted blood scandal, a nuclear safety scandal, a deadly water scandal in Walkerton, etc. Clearly MrPG is right that us non-believers in the vaccine should just step right up to the plate and let this more-than-competent government do its thing...LOL!

The cdc will NEVER admit that vaccines are negative in anyway. There is way too much money at stake. Vaccination is their baby, if they every let that go they would be ruined.

I am tired of watching children getting punctured on TV. I'm sick of all the hype. People died from the flu in the early 1600's and will continue to do so forever. All the cash spent on this vaccine will probably make no difference to the percentage of people dying from the flu. The media turned this into a pandemic. Thousands of kids get the flu, always have, and the great majority of them do not die nor did they need a flu shot to remain living. It's a scam.

50% of us are right, and 50% are wrong...can you guess which one is right?

50% of us are right, and 50% are wrong...can you guess which one is right?

There is right, and there is right. There is also BS. Lots of it here. H1N1 is far more deadly to young people than typical flu. Most mortality in both cases involved people with compromised immune systems. However, H1N1 does kill a disproportunate number of young healthy people.
To suggest that vaccination programs are a scam to make money is assinine. Travism even extends this logic to vaccines in general. Given the role vaccinations have played and continue to play in the reduction or even eradication of a wide variety of diseases such a post is rediculous. Polio anyone? Hepatitus?
Supertech, you r remark about how folks have been dieing to flu for centuries is just as silly. They have also been dieing of infection, heart disease, cancer, etc. The whole of medical science is based on preventing death from disease. Are you selective in your live and let die attitude or will you be turning down your medical treatment at sometime in the future on the grounds that 'people have been dieing to this disease for centuries'.
If you folks are going to be taken seriously, then your conspriacy theory need to make sense. The govt. ordered the vaccine due to perceptions of the vocal public and media that canadians had a right to be vaccinated against this bug. If it had not done so, there would have been a huge uproar. There was/is no other incentive for the govt. to spend all that money and further worsen its debt numbers. If you want to talk about sheeple, then at least correctly identify the shepherd. In this case, scientists, the media and the public are the 'them' that orchestrated the vaccination effort. The govt played along.