MHO: Many Americans Unusually Are Avoiding Swine Flu Shots--Why? Alienation?
Robert Cohen
The "Why" has got to be some die-licious territory for pswado
philosophizing by hack kibbitzer
A woman interviewed on MSNBC cable tv says today, 'only 600 subjects
took place in the trials'
Whether factually true or not, that's her publicly expressed rationale
Many people are (seemingly) indicating distrust of medical
authorities, and especially of vaccination
I myself do recall getting the swine flu vaccine circa 1974, and about
the sorta horror report of "Gillian-Beret"--some paralysis--side
effect, did the victims re-cover, sue, or vat?
My rush to judgment is that many people are semi-alienated or
suspicious, which they weren't (openly as much) in past decades
Including celebrity David Letterman who said this week he also doesn't
get regular flu vaccination annually
He did not say about what option for his young son he would take or
risk
And my point is: No wonder Obama is having trouble persuading--people
are more generally alienated than
ever
Why? Well, lookie here
Bret Cahill
> Why? Well, lookie here
> http://wcbstv.com/topstories/swine.flu.h1n1.2.1216352.html
Flu shots don't guarantee you won't get sick so it's more of an
epidemiological - cost -benefit - risk analysis - collectivist kind of
thing. If Americans were any good at that sort of reasoning BushCo
and the media would never have been able to hype 9/11 and get the U.
S. into 2 ultra moronic quagmires.
I just got a free bone density scan, mu = 0.53, which is much more
induhvidualist. _I_ decide whether to drink more milk and die of
prostate or whatever cancer you get from drinking milk.
I can avoid public transportation "vectors" simply by cycling.
Bret Cahill
Robert Cohen
I am not taking a position, as I already had an apparently very
similar vaccine in the 1970s,
and this is supposed to be about philosophy, not directly home
economics subjects
here is what all must worry with--death of a young teenager
family
they are very expensive, in the USA.
In the USA it is, and always was, medicine for profit.
Robert Cohen
The county public health dept--perhaps difficult to get there and/or
meet the
catch 22 qualifications--should be telephoned if one can't afford
others, as CVS
drug stores and Kroger
The CVS innoculation nurse takes some insurance(s)