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[Guest]

Here we go again - list of those going to get vaccinated - NOT TEACHERS. It costs £150 A DAY to get a cover teacher - if we are all off for a fortnight each with swine flu we will cost the taxpayer a small fortune but again we don't make the list for vaccination. Barmy.

 

I pay for a regular flu jab every year in Boots as I feel double guilty phoning in sick and knowing that my kids will do NO WORK whist they are covered and will all get behind with GCSE and A level coursework. The stress of that worry makes me pay for a jab - I guess I'll be paying for a swine flu jab too.

[Space Chick]

Pengy, I work for the NHS in Wales and didn't qualify for Tamiflu as we have different rules in Wales, not enough to go around.

 

I am currently at the end of my second week off work sick after contracting Swine Flu (as picked up a secondary infection) and I am still not better. I am worried that I may not be well enough for work next week, as I am OK for a couple of hours and then need to sleep for a few hours and so on. In short still very weakened by it all.

 

The point I am making, is the line has to be drawn somewhere, and surely the first priority has to be the doctors and nurses (I'm managerial) and emergency services.

 

I think people need to take a step back and appreciate what we have in this country with having the NHS, OK I know it is not perfect by a long chalk, but ultimately we have free healthcare, which is something I for one cherish.

[PurpleTree]

Personally I don't think I'd have the Swine Flu jab if they did offer it to me, at the moment they're saying they'll be offering it to the under-5's, so we have to decide if we want our children to have it. I asked my Health Visitor about it and she said there's no way she's allowing her children to have it. Doesn't really inspire confidence.

[Clash City Rocker]

I've had over 80 appointments for Lung Function testing this week, in 4 different parts of the Midlands (Newent in Gloucester, Bromyard in Hereford & Worcester, Salford Priors in Warwickshire and central Worcester).

At each organisation that I've been to this week at least one member of staff has been absent with Swineflu. Others are at work with the symptoms, but as they don't get paid for sickness absence, they are continuing to work as "they need the money".

I guess that I won't be eligible for the Swineflu vaccine. I'll just be helping to spread it around the Midlands.

[Space Chick]

If they are able to work, its probably not swine flu. I was incapable of getting out of bed for a week, even walking the 6 steps from my bed to the en-suite toilet was a struggle for the first few days.

[ClaireG]

If they are able to work, its probably not swine flu. I was incapable of getting out of bed for a week, even walking the 6 steps from my bed to the en-suite toilet was a struggle for the first few days.

 

I agree with you Debs. The only time i was getting out of bed was to try and get to the downstairs bathroom. The stairs were agony.

[Cinnamon]

I thought that some peoples symptoms were pretty mild, & some so mild that they didn't even know they had had it?

I know someone who has had it, been tested & everything,but she was pretty much fine & said it was like a cold really

 

Thats what makes it so hard to diagnose & contain, if people are still going about their lives as normal,but are still contagious.

[bluekarin]

I also won't be letting my kids have the flu vaccination. Hubby has been doing some background research into the vaccine. It contains something called Squalene Adjuvent which is naturally produced in your body and in things like olive oil (this is where he first heard of it after reading about a woman who was 118 I think and she put it down to using olive oil on her face every day and eating it everyday and as always one link leads to another . . . .) But if its introduced artifically, say, in a vaccine as an accelerant, then your body acts as if its an infection and fights off the squalene. But not only that it then fights the natural squalene in your body. This can then cause complications with your auto immune system later on in life. There is lots of info on this on the tinternet. I am now seeing if my kids have already had this squalene adjuvent in the MMR

[Happy chickens!]

Understand your frustration 100%, penguinmad, very tricky one.

 

Wish I had more of a handle on how serious it could be in the Autumn - I wass very ill with complications from flu 8 years ago, so I usually get the normal flu vaccine - the nurses always tut tut at me, so probably wouldn't get the new one

 

The method of developping these vaccines seems tried and tested, but not sure I would want a young child to have another vaccine as there are so many.

 

I do think they should offer it to more people and allow informed choice.

[Guest]

I'm not talking about the Tamiflu but the vaccine - when it becomes available we again will only be qualifying for it if there is enough left over. Schools are VERY fertile breeding grounds - they keep saying its going to go crazy when the kids go back to school.

 

If I take 2 weeks off then my GCSE and A level classes learn nothing for 2 weeks - making my job extra hard when I get back. If I am there I will be losing the 3 free periods a week to cover for colleagues who are off - my school is like that. Its going to be an extremely difficult time the Autumn term is always hard, this year we have a VERY long stretch to the first holidays, in our school Ofsted is expected before Christmas too so its going to be hard enough without raging swine flu. I forsee a LOT of kids being in oversized classes watching DVD's as teachers will be in short supply.

 

Sensible schools will close, parents will have to put up with it. Our school never closes - even when they had no mains water for the last day of term they kept the school open and just started closing the toilets when the tanks ran dry.

[Happy-Mama]

Did that mean there were no toilets available for part of the day

[Guest]

No they didn't close all of them - some were serviced by different tanks and at lunchtime the water went back on. Most schools would have closed first thing though - it was the last day of term so wouldn't have disrupted any learning!

[Blackrocksrock]

I for one will also NOT be having the injection - they dont know enough about it at the moment and what it does to your body yet and when when I asked re normal flu jag years ago - I needed to sign a disclaimer as I did not fall into the vulnerable group - result I dont have it at all either.

[craftyhunnypie]

Personally, I won't have flu jabs or swine flu jab. I believe in your body fighting whatever it can. Me & hubby don't take paracetamol, anti biotics etc unless we desperately have to & we believe that all vitamins, minerals etc - you can get from your food.

 

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