Greetings ATS,

My hospital recently received the first 400 doses of Novel H1N1 Type A vaccine in our community. As healthcare workers we are the first to be offered the vaccine.

This is the intranasal version without preservatives, so hold your horses on the thimerosol crap.

ATS is about DENYING IGNORANCE.

A lot of folks have been showing their ignorance, dreaming up fanciful conspiracies about H1N1 vaccine, the NWO, the WWE and the antichrist.

Well folks, I'm here to tell you - It's ignorance of the highest magnitude.

So, I offer a smackdown challenge.

I will chronicle my swine flu vaccine experience in the name of denying ignorance, and ignoring denial. I predict that I will not get the flu, nor GB syndrome, nor mercury poisoning, but if I do then you all will have the good (and ironic) fortune of witnessing the awesome destructive power of the megalomaniacal big-pharma.

So, sit back and enjoy the ride.

PS - Why am I doing this you ask? BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO GET THE DAMNED FLU FROM DIRTY PATIENTS WHO REFUSED TO GET THE VACCINE, and I don't want to bring that crap home to my kids.

Game on

Hello. I am sure that this vaccine scare is out of any proportions - but a stupid question: were you vaccinated last year too for seasonal flu? And if not - why you think you have to do it now??

I have no intention of trying to talk you out of it because the tone of your post tells me that you would firstly bite my head off and secondly you won't be talked out of taking the vaccine anyway.

However I must say to you that did read somewhere that the nasal version of the vaccine could be dangerous as it happens to contain live H1N1 virus, whereas the the needle shot contains antibodies (among other things).

Best of luck and I hope I am talking rubbish and that you will be OK.

Good Luck & Godspeed. My Immune system is healthy, so I'll take my chances.
But seriously , I hope It's all BS and you end up fine.

Originally posted by ZeroKnowledge
Hello. I am sure that this vaccine scare is out of any proportions - but a stupid question: were you vaccinated last year too for seasonal flu? And if not - why you think you have to do it now??

I usually get a flu shot but I have a crappy immune system.

The flu shot from last year inoculates against the H5N1 Influenzae variant and is ineffective against swine flu.

Why do you people type in all caps when making an emphasis.

Let me tell you something..You are not getting the vaccine because sick patients, you are getting the vaccine because you're mandated to because you work in the health industry.

This goes back to what we were talking about earlier. A paid blogger.

Game on? Game on for taking poison? WOW. I give you the idiocracy award of the day.

Last week I got the H1N1 vaccine in my left arm and the Pneumovax second fively yearly shot in my right arm.

I have had a yearly flu shot for the past 12 years. Whatever, I got them and that's that, you all can do what ya want. I am middle aged anyway with chronic respiratory condition so if I die I die. Haven't had any side effects from any darn vaccine yet and as I said if I do I do, my choice.

Originally posted by FredMcWoozy
Why do you people type in all caps when making an emphasis.

Let me tell you something..You are not getting the vaccine because sick patients, you are getting the vaccine because you're mandated to because you work in the health industry.

This goes back to what we were talking about earlier. A paid blogger.

Game on? Game on for taking poison? WOW. I give you the idiocracy award of the day.

I'm not mandated to get it. That was the People's Republic of New York.

I'm choosing to get it.

I wanted to get a little 666 handstamp to give out but my boss wouldn't let me. It IS a Catholic hospital after all.

Just to clarify -- I want to be humorous and informative with this experience.

I am approaching it in a lighthearted manner, and I hope it alleviates anxiety for other people.

I am still not ready to give this vaccine to my children until further research has happened.

Besides -- I am hoping this will be the 'Smoking Gun' to prove Alex Jones is either the Antichrist or a Disinfo NWO Tool.

:-)

The spray contains no Adjuvants (none of the US vaccines do), the spray also contains NO mercury (preservative).

My concern with the spray is that it is a live virus, and if you have a weakend immune system, there is a chance you could get the flu from it.

There is also about 7 days after receiving a live virus vaccine that you can possibly infect other people with weakened immune systems.

The shots are a 'dead' virus (inactivated as viruses are techniquley not 'alive'), and the multi-dose vials contain 24-25mcg of mercury per dose.

The single use (pre-filled) injections contain either none or less than 1mcg of mercury depending on the manufacturer.

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