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H1N1 Vacine. Not availiable to all? By: The Students Voice
When seen on the news this floored me. “The H1N1 vacine is availibale but not to all.” Is this a monopoly to who lives and who dies? Who has the right to make this decision? It seems the the world is coming to the end and an individual choses who lives and who dies. Oh, but wait, it gets better, jail inmates have recieved it before college students have. This makes totoal sense to me. NOT! Oh and again, I was required to get shots before coming to college, but they don’t even offer the swine flu shot. Do not worry, it is just a epidemic swarming the area, you don’t really need the shot. Also, another mind blowing thing, us college kids come in more contact with one another than any other group of people on the planet. If one of us gets sick, we all usually go down. Sure I understand this decision of not being to offer it to all, there is not enough for the genral public so we will give it to the military and the people that need it most. Wait, the military? Beleive me, I have the most respect for them and believe they do derserve things first, but arnt they in areas that the general public does not come in contact with? Does the swine flu even exist overseas? Just confusing if you ask me. This problem is definatly a social conflict of power. Someone decided who was getting the treatment. Who can decide that? Does not seem to democratic to me. AND, again to in the headline “YOUNG ADULTS ARE AMONG THOSE AT THE GREATEST RISK TO BE INFECTED.” a.k.a. college kids, but supplies are limited.
4. November 2009 at 23:24
For one, the entire military is not over seas. Another thing, getting the swine flu vaccination is not a matter of life and death for most people. I would also like to point out that viruses mutate and the H1N1 vaccination that was made 5 or so months ago for the original virus, probably will not work for the mutated one.
7. November 2009 at 04:00
The news has made this whole H1N1 into something that its not. I agree with Sarah.. getting the vaccination is not a matter of life or death, nor is it an epidemic. The flu effects those who are young and old the most..Besides the death rate for the regular flu is worse then what the H1N1 has produced. There are plenty of places offing the vaccination. There are at least 3 school in Cape Coral that I have seen advertisements offering it.
Where is your proof that college students come in contact with each other more often then people in the over populated jails? This whole blog seems like nothing but your uneducated opinion.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/04/swine.flu.main/index.html
by. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
“WASHINGTON (CNN) — The swine flu virus that has sparked fear and precautions worldwide appears to be no more dangerous than the regular flu virus that makes its rounds each year, U.S. officials said Monday.
What the epidemiologists are seeing now with this particular strain of U.N. is that the severity of the disease, the severity of the flu — how sick you get — is not stronger than regular seasonal flu,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday as the worldwide number of confirmed cases of swine flu — technically known as 2009 H1N1 virus — topped 1,080.
The flu has been blamed for 26 deaths: 25 in Mexico and one in the United States, according to the World Health Organization.
Still, Napolitano noted, the seasonal flu results in “hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations” and roughly 35,000 fatalities each year in the United States. There are still concerns that the virus could return in the fall, in the typical flu season, as a stronger strain.”
8. November 2009 at 03:07
I agree with most of what Sarah is saying, except the N1H1 has not mutated, so the vaccine will work. Granted, mutation was and remains a concern.
8. November 2009 at 18:10
As far as inmates go, they are in a much closer proximity to each other than are college students and the military, regardless of where they are wouldn’t be very effective if they were all down at the same time.
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