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A Parent’s Guide to H1N1
Science activities for parents of babies, toddlers and school children.
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wow this can be a very emotive issue and I have found it really hard to find information for either side of the debate that doesn’t try to scare parents into make one choice or the other. I’ve done lots of research myself from a lot of sources and I have decided not to vaccinate – that’s what seems the right decision for us and I’m not wanting to start debate, just reinforcing that everyone will have different priorities and motivators which (hopefully coupled with information) will lead them to their own choice one way or the other
I purposely didn’t put a recommendation in, because I know everyone’s circumstances are different and different families will make different choices. It’s pretty obvious where I fall, but while I am generally in favour of vaccination this is the first time we’ve considered a flu vaccine, and we are doing it because of the evidence.
Unfortunately we seem to have lost our ability to judge risks – few of us consider that going in a car is one of the most dangerous things our kids can do, and worry about all sorts of other things that are comparatively safe. Spanish flu was dangerous and we don’t know why, so we can’t stop it happening again. If that many people are sick it will be extremely dangerous. This is one that people should be scared of.
Thanks Deb, that is some really good information. I didn’t have a lot of understanding about the swine flu and I thought that is was a bit of over reacting but the info that you have posted has certainly made me think. It makes sense to me to immunise against the swine flu…thankyou
Hi Deb, just wanted to add that in addition to the fact that there is limited space in in ICU’s and limited amounts of ventilators, there is also the issue about what happens if masses of health professionals get sick?
Also, for those working in essential services- who runs them if we have a pandemic and many of those workers get sick?
A pandemic wouldn’t just be a strain on the health industry- it would be a strain on pretty much *every* industry.
I agree, especially because I’ve just seen this: “Swine flu put hospitals ‘on edge’ last year”. I knew we had been lucky and there would have been a much higher death rate without intensive care facilities, but I didn’t realise how close we were. Some of the stats in that article are scary.
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