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I feel bad for government officials and healthcare workers who have to get the shots or lose their jobs.

If you need it you need it. It's as simple as that. I don't avoid medication that I need to live on the basis that it was most likely shoved in a bunny's eye sockets or some other such cruel act. We live to the best of our ability within the society we live in. We can advocate for change, but we can't advocate if we're not around. That's just my view on that whole can 'o worms.

However. I do feel that the vaccine is over sold, and that's a problem for me, because people that don't need the vaccine are being given the vaccine which is truly unfortunate. I don't need the vaccine, I don't take it. But it was pushed on me as a 'precaution'.

Isn't H1N1 not even dangerous? Wasn't it just the scare that made it seem so awful? Wasn't it just the suddenness of it that made it look like disaster, plus the fact that the 1918 pandemic was basically similar to the 2009 pandemic?
Besides, most of the deaths were in Mexico, where the healthcare is crap anyway, so they won't get treatment.

I don't see how people can get worked up over something like this, even if the pandemic has died down. More people die in car crashes every year.

(My mom told me all this stuff months ago... I don't know if its actually accurate... but her professor said all this stuff so I believe it)

Least I don't need a vaccine. Had H1N1 supposedly and it really wasn't as bad as a regular flu, or at least in my case. But we never went in for tests or anything so it wasn't really confirmed.

Also the vaccine has mercury in it, doesn't it? I think I heard that on the news one night.

As I understand it, H1N1 can be dangerous for some people (elderly, babies, people with compromised immune systems), but it is not dangerous for most people.

But yeah, there seemed to be some scare tactics (possibly to give the drug company who made the vaccine more money?). And since people weren't really familiar with H1N1 they sort of freaked out.

And yes, I believe most of the vaccines have mercury, but I did hear of mercury-free versions too. I think those were mainly for pregnant women if I remember correctly. According to the CDC the mercury level in the vaccine is safe (for everyone other than unborn babies I guess). But I thought no level of mercury was really safe. So I don't know what to think about that.

I'm not sure if the regular flu vaccine contains chicken eggs or not. And I'm not sure if other vaccines do either. I'm curious now what other vaccines have in them.

On a similar note, I went to the doctor last week, and they tried to push the HPV vaccine on me. The HPV vaccine seems a lot like the H1N1 vaccine in that most people aren't going to die from it and really could do without it anyway, yet people are pushing it on people like they're going to die tomorrow if they don't get it.

I actually had H1N1 in November, I believe, and it wasn't any worse then the flu. I see no point in getting the shot now anyway, and this knowledge has further pushed my decision against getting it.
I've also avoided the HPV shot because I've heard that it's super painful (I'm a wimp, haha) and that a lot of girls got sick after getting the second injection. Nooo thank you.