H1N1 lies, damn lies, and misinformation
For months, the Mainstream Media has been telling me that production of the H1N1 vaccine was going along smoothly. This month they tell me there is a shortage. The media pass along various excuses, (harder to grow then they thought, the trouble to to create two vaccines in one season, etc), but fail to explain the sudden 180° turn from the ministry of information.
A month ago, I was told that one shot of the vaccine was enough, now I’m being told that some people are going to need two.
Today, I was told that if one opts for the nasal spray, one can’t take both the seasonal vaccine and the H1N1 vaccine spray within a certain amount of time. Where they utterly fail at “due diligence” here is that they don’t mention that the nasal mist is 1) fairly new on the market and does not have years of real world testing. 2) hasn’t really proved very popular, unless there are shortages of the regular injectable vaccine, and the biggie, 3) contains actual, live, disease causing viruses.
The third point is fairly important, and the reason why the mist is reserved for only healthy adults in a certain age range. Your body has to defeat the live virus and produce antibodies against it, but it’s possible to actually come down with the flu from the mist. I’m sure the odds are abnormally long, but I’m also sure at this point that I can’t trust the data provided by the manufacturer or the federal government.
With the recent change in dosing practice for the polio vaccine (it’s no longer recommended to give kids the oral vaccine for the first dose because of a number of cases of vaccine-induced polio), I would think that informing people to the fact that the spray mist does contain live cultures would be required to comply with “informed consent”.
Since it took decades to change the recommendation against three doses of the live oral vaccine for polio, I personally think, (in my dirty, worthless, layperson option 
, that the relativity new nasal vaccine spray isn’t worth the risk at this time.
Update, 10 PM: I did some googling, and I need to cite for the record that many local news sources do indeed inform their readers that the spray mist is a live virus product, so it’s just the lamesream media, to include the local news source I use during my commute. Also noticed was that there’s a fair bit of people out there with the tinfoil on, shiny-side out. Trust me conspiracy clique, If they really wanted to spread the virus, all they’d need to do is to slip it in something from the school lunch program. Hiding it in plain sight in the fine print on the vaccine nasal spray would take entirely too much effort.
