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Originally Posted by Mr. Billy
I understand stickyfingerz feeling and desire to assert his freedom as an American citizen. As a general rule, I'm not for allowing anybody to force me to put chemicals in my body if I don't believe there is good reason.
I don't know all of the circumstances behind the appearance of this particular flu bug that has newly surfaced and is making the rounds. The biggest problem people face with this is the credibility issue. We feel manipulated by the auto industry, the petroleum industry, the banking industry and now conveniently we have a new flu and several pharmaceutical companies that certainly stand to make large profits from vaccinations and medications used to treat it.
Added to that is the fact that polio and smallpox were around for years, allowing vaccines to be researched and tested over a broad period of time. This flu just got here thus any vaccine will be developed and administered quickly, leaving doubt in people's minds about safety and side effects.
The problem is that we cannot be certain that this will be as serious in nature as previous pandemic flu's have been.
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Chances of this flu being as serious as some of the worst previous ones are pretty low.
But if it does follow the pattern of, say, the 1918 Spanish flu, then it could easily kill half a billion people. And while this probably isn't "the one", it's all but certain that a pandemic like that will happen again. The problem is that by the time you're certain, it will already be too late.
Call me cynical, but I don't think the anti-vaccination crowd will say "we made our choice, now we have to deal with it" when that happens
(for the record, though: this thread was actually more about the anti-vaccination crowd in general, specifically the people who oppose the MMR and HPV vaccines)