60 Minutes on H1N1

[Anonymous]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/16/60minutes/main5390519.shtml

(CBS) If you're confused about the 2009 H1N1 "swine flu" virus, no wonder. There's a lot of conflicting information. The Centers for Disease Control tells us that the way this virus is spreading is unprecedented.

The CDC opened its doors to give 60 Minutes and correspondent Scott Pelley a look at the extraordinary federal response. It turns out, in many respects, that the 2009 H1N1 virus is no worse than the everyday flu.

Ninety-nine percent of the people who get it suffer just a few miserable days at home. But it is also true that for something less than one percent, H1N1 can be fatal. And many of them are the last people you'd expect to see rushing to an emergency room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/16/60minutes/main5390519.shtml

(CBS) If you're confused about the 2009 H1N1 "swine flu" virus, no wonder. There's a lot of conflicting information. The Centers for Disease Control tells us that the way this virus is spreading is unprecedented.

The CDC opened its doors to give 60 Minutes and correspondent Scott Pelley a look at the extraordinary federal response. It turns out, in many respects, that the 2009 H1N1 virus is no worse than the everyday flu.

Ninety-nine percent of the people who get it suffer just a few miserable days at home. But it is also true that for something less than one percent, H1N1 can be fatal. And many of them are the last people you'd expect to see rushing to an emergency room.

Don't post this drivel! People don't want to hear it. They want SENSATION, disaster, playing in traffic!!!!! Need more negativity to stir the anxiety pot. Please exit with your sensibilities, we only want the most fearful and terrified of posters.

[Anonymous]

Don't post this drivel! People don't want to hear it. They want SENSATION, disaster, playing in traffic!!!!! Need more negativity to stir the anxiety pot. Please exit with your sensibilities, we only want the most fearful and terrified of posters.

Would you shut up already?! You've made your point multiple times. You don't think H1N1 is a big deal. Good for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Don't post this drivel! People don't want to hear it. They want SENSATION, disaster, playing in traffic!!!!! Need more negativity to stir the anxiety pot. Please exit with your sensibilities, we only want the most fearful and terrified of posters.

Would you shut up already?! You've made your point multiple times. You don't think H1N1 is a big deal. Good for you.

I told you they did not want to hear it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Don't post this drivel! People don't want to hear it. They want SENSATION, disaster, playing in traffic!!!!! Need more negativity to stir the anxiety pot. Please exit with your sensibilities, we only want the most fearful and terrified of posters.

Would you shut up already?! You've made your point multiple times. You don't think H1N1 is a big deal. Good for you.

There are multiple posters with this point of view. (I'm one of them, but I am not the PP above -- for example....)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Don't post this drivel! People don't want to hear it. They want SENSATION, disaster, playing in traffic!!!!! Need more negativity to stir the anxiety pot. Please exit with your sensibilities, we only want the most fearful and terrified of posters.

Would you shut up already?! You've made your point multiple times. You don't think H1N1 is a big deal. Good for you.

I told you they did not want to hear it.

New Poster here. It's not that some of us "don't want to hear it." It's that, as a mom, I'm going to focus on that 1%. It's not 0% or even if 0.1%. It's one percent. Somebody's kids are dying and I don't want mine to be one of them.

Is that okay with you?

Fine if you don't want the shot for your kid, but I do.

[Anonymous]

30,000 coffins can't be OK. Especially if half of them turn out to be little ones.

[Anonymous]

The thing is that for many people the regular flu is not a small matter either. The Washington DC area has one of the highest rates of asthma and other respiratory illnesses in the country. For someone with respiratory illness, the flu can be a serious issue. I myself have asthma and have had the flu turn into pneumonia. I'm a healthy adult. I exercise regularly. For the most part I have a good, strong immune system. I can't necessarily say the same for my infant daughter, even if she is breastfed. And, I'm not willing to risk her health and well-being if a vaccine can help prevent an illness -- especially since she did have some respiratory illness earlier this year. For those of you who have had H1N1 and found it to be no big deal, that's great for you. But, I think it is irresponsible and beyond annoying for you to go on and on about how those of us who are opting for the vaccine are giving in to sensationalism and being unnecessarily anxious. Seriously, give it a rest already. We're all parents who love our children and are just trying to do what we think is best for them. What good does insulting each other serve?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/16/60minutes/main5390519.shtml

(CBS) If you're confused about the 2009 H1N1 "swine flu" virus, no wonder. There's a lot of conflicting information. The Centers for Disease Control tells us that the way this virus is spreading is unprecedented.

The CDC opened its doors to give 60 Minutes and correspondent Scott Pelley a look at the extraordinary federal response. It turns out, in many respects, that the 2009 H1N1 virus is no worse than the everyday flu.

Ninety-nine percent of the people who get it suffer just a few miserable days at home. But it is also true that for something less than one percent, H1N1 can be fatal. And many of them are the last people you'd expect to see rushing to an emergency room.

Don't post this drivel! People don't want to hear it. They want SENSATION, disaster, playing in traffic!!!!! Need more negativity to stir the anxiety pot. Please exit with your sensibilities, we only want the most fearful and terrified of posters.

It's great how you totally blew past the rest of the paragraph.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The thing is that for many people the regular flu is not a small matter either. The Washington DC area has one of the highest rates of asthma and other respiratory illnesses in the country. For someone with respiratory illness, the flu can be a serious issue. I myself have asthma and have had the flu turn into pneumonia. I'm a healthy adult. I exercise regularly. For the most part I have a good, strong immune system. I can't necessarily say the same for my infant daughter, even if she is breastfed. And, I'm not willing to risk her health and well-being if a vaccine can help prevent an illness -- especially since she did have some respiratory illness earlier this year. For those of you who have had H1N1 and found it to be no big deal, that's great for you. But, I think it is irresponsible and beyond annoying for you to go on and on about how those of us who are opting for the vaccine are giving in to sensationalism and being unnecessarily anxious. Seriously, give it a rest already. We're all parents who love our children and are just trying to do what we think is best for them. What good does insulting each other serve?

This. I didn't start getting flu shots until my infant was hospitalized for breathing difficulties resulting from croup and bronchiolitis. He's been hospitalized four times since. Flu shots are our friend.

[Anonymous]

Why does everyone forget that someone has to be the "one". I've been the one in 50,000 before, my DD has an incurable syndrome, I'm giving my kids the vaccine. There is no cure for death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The thing is that for many people the regular flu is not a small matter either. The Washington DC area has one of the highest rates of asthma and other respiratory illnesses in the country. For someone with respiratory illness, the flu can be a serious issue. I myself have asthma and have had the flu turn into pneumonia. I'm a healthy adult. I exercise regularly. For the most part I have a good, strong immune system. I can't necessarily say the same for my infant daughter, even if she is breastfed. And, I'm not willing to risk her health and well-being if a vaccine can help prevent an illness -- especially since she did have some respiratory illness earlier this year. For those of you who have had H1N1 and found it to be no big deal, that's great for you. But, I think it is irresponsible and beyond annoying for you to go on and on about how those of us who are opting for the vaccine are giving in to sensationalism and being unnecessarily anxious. Seriously, give it a rest already. We're all parents who love our children and are just trying to do what we think is best for them. What good does insulting each other serve?

It makes sense to me that if you or your child has some sort of risk like asthma you'd get the vaccine, I just don't know whether it makes sense for me to get one if I'm healthy. Weighing the risks and what not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:30,000 coffins can't be OK. Especially if half of them turn out to be little ones.

idiot

[Anonymous]

What I don't get is why the moms on this board who have decided not to vaccinate are just condesending and rude to the moms who are vaccinating. The CDC is recommending the vaccine--are you all so high and mighty about ignoring this advice because you all conducted some independent DCUM frau study that I'm not aware of?

[Anonymous]

Yep, I've been the one in 10,000 as a mom to a baby with a rare chromosomal defect (random mutation). To me, 1:100 is not very comforting.

I can't focus on that, or I'd drive myself crazy, but know that not everyone who hears 1:100 thinks like you, that it's a low percentage. At my daughter's school of 700, that means 7 students. That's huge, really.