More Age Discrimination With Healthcare (health care, regular, government, support)

[LauraC]

Here's who the CDC thinks should be prioritized to get the H1N1 vaccine if there isn't enough to go around:

Pregnant women

People who live with or care for children younger than 6 months of age

Health care and emergency services personnel

Persons between the ages of 6 months through 24 years of age and

People from ages 25 through 64 years who are at higher risk for novel H1N1 because of chronic health disorders or compromised immune systems.

CDC Newsroom Press Release July 29, 2009

You'll notice if you are at higher risk for H1N1 because of chronic health disorder or compromised immune systems but you are 65 (Medicare) and over, no prioritized vaccine for you!

[Ceece]

Isn't this the virus that hits the young folks the hardest and why it's considered so dangerous?

[HappyTexan]

Yes, swine flu is not hitting the normal flu age groups (very young/very old).
It's targeting young healthy adults..average age 25-30.
Pregnant women hit the hardest with highest mortality rate too.

No, they are doing exactly what they should be..targeting the age group with the most likely chance to get hit hard by this.

[checking out]

Those who work get it first. We are the ones who have proven our ability to serve others. Other lazy people sit and wait to be served, those who work come first.

[chielgirl]

I'm refusing the vaccine.
Do you know that there are untested substances used in it?

You people will argue anything without knowing anything about it, won't you?

[checking out]

Originally Posted by chielgirl

I'm refusing the vaccine.
Do you know that there are untested substances used in it?

You people will argue anything without knowing anything about it, won't you?

Yeah I change my mind. I refuse to be vacinated too. It's all government mumbo jumbo.

[shorebaby]

I am afraid you are wrong. The elderly are least affected by this virus. It is hypothesized that the over 65 population was affected by a varient of this virus many years ago and thus has a natural immunity to it.

[20yrsinBranson]

Originally Posted by LauraC

Here's who the CDC thinks should be prioritized to get the H1N1 vaccine if there isn't enough to go around:

Pregnant women

People who live with or care for children younger than 6 months of age

Health care and emergency services personnel

Persons between the ages of 6 months through 24 years of age and

People from ages 25 through 64 years who are at higher risk for novel H1N1 because of chronic health disorders or compromised immune systems.

CDC Newsroom Press Release July 29, 2009

You'll notice if you are at higher risk for H1N1 because of chronic health disorder or compromised immune systems but you are 65 (Medicare) and over, no prioritized vaccine for you!

Yeppers, the attitude being that "oh you're just going to die in a short time anyway" - mentality.

Wouldn't it be HILARIOUS if the vaccine was toxic and everybody started dropping dead? Would I laugh? You bet I would. (oh, did I say that out loud? )

Actually, STATISTICALLY speaking (based on flu pandemics of the past), younger people are hit harder because they have not built up any natural immunity to potential flu strains. If you check the records for the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918, the victims were overwhelmingly under the age of 30, and the elderly people who died usually died of a secondary infection (usually pneumonia) not the influenza directly.

20yrsinBranson

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It's also part of the fact that 3 senior citizens died in the 1974 epidemic, and were not in relation to the vaccine itself but people went berserk. The vaccine did cause a raised chance of a paralyzing illness due to an autoimmune reaction (that I couldn't spell in my best day, Guinne Barre syndrome) that ended up killing 25 people out of 40 million inoculations (about .0000625%) due to the patients not getting IVIG and supporting treatment fast enough to keep it from affecting their lungs or heart. That year it killed more then the swine flu, however 26x+ more have died so far in 2009. Still less then the 35,000 annually that are killed by the regular flu.

[Ceece]

Well I won't be getting this one. I have had flu shots in the past, after a particularly nasty one laid me up for nearly 2 weeks, but this one doesn't seem to do that so I'll take my chances.