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Yeah, on;y not so much. It's true the panic over swine flu is ridiculous, but if you're a paramedic you should be vaccinated against all current flu strains.

Rubbish. What has being a health worker got to do with compulsory innoculation? Health workers have every right to refuse, and are generally in a better position to understand why to refuse.

If you work in constant close proximity/contact with people that are ill it is to everyone's benefit for you to avoid illness.

Um, I'm gonna stick with the CDC on this one.

Maybe. But seeing as how our immune systems do their adaptations by receiving pathogens and defeating them, I don't see the logic in claiming that vaccines are weakening the immune response by introducing pathogens and having our systems defeat them. That's the sort of thing that'd need to be proven rather than disproven.

People don't evolve. Species..es evolve, on a level concerning the gradual and eventual change of entire species..es (seriously, what is the plural?) You aren't going to be doing any evolving whatsoever to adapt to the flue if you catch it; you'll either fight it off or die, but you certainly aren't evolving. As far as your personal well being is concerned, evolution is entirely irrelevant.



it's the moral majority working HARD for you...

Edited, Oct 22nd 2009 10:10pm by Pensive

Agreed. But compulsory inoculation for health workers would have far less effect in keeping employees healthy than say, refusing to employ people who smoke, or who lead an unhealthy lifestyle. I don't see anyone suggesting that.

Do you?

No. Because if we fired all the heavy smoking fat fucks who work in the average healthcare establishment, you'd have an awful lot of empty parking spaces in the staff car park.

And if someone told me that my choices were inoculation, or dismissal, you would gain my parking space too.

By all means get your inoculation. It might stop you getting H1N1, (tho' thats far from proven) wich you almost definately wouldn't die from in the first place, but making it 'compulsory' is foolish and benefits no-one except perhaps the makers of the vaccine.

Get back in your cage. I swear, we need a better lock on that thing.

According to who, exactly?


(Everything I have read shows 85-90%)

No. Because being a fat smoker doesn't represent the same threat to the multitudes of people with compromised immune systems in the same manner than a health care worker infected with a virus does.

The idea isn't to be sure health care workers enjoy long and healthy lives, it's to help prevent them from becoming vectors for spreading diseases.

Smoking is not a communicable disease unless you're a totally inconsiderate **** who can't go outside. If you are sick and you have not experienced symptoms yet, but are contagious, then you are a walking plague rat.



Don't care. It's not about the health worker. Stay home and eat botulism pie washed down with a glass of ebola if you feel like it, as long as you don't leave the house. When you're going to work though, and do not inoculate yourself against a highly pervasive and communicable disease, or even try to do so, you are putting patients at risk and acting irresponsibly.