Comments on: Vaccines and Priorities http://www.technoearthmama.com/2009/11/vaccines-and-priorities/ A Web 2.0 mom working toward a sustainable lifestyle Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:26:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Wendy http://www.technoearthmama.com/2009/11/vaccines-and-priorities/comment-page-1/#comment-1472 Wendy Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:42:40 +0000 http://www.technoearthmama.com/?p=1047#comment-1472 "when kids HAVE the flu", obviously. Oops! “when kids HAVE the flu”, obviously. Oops!

]]> By: Wendy http://www.technoearthmama.com/2009/11/vaccines-and-priorities/comment-page-1/#comment-1471 Wendy Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:41:18 +0000 http://www.technoearthmama.com/?p=1047#comment-1471 I don't really see the government trying to spread panic here. Some of the news media, sure, individual people, sure. But I also don't have a huge problem with flu-shot-as-way-to-prevent-economic-collapse. If I look at it on a micro level--let's say a family can't afford for a parent to miss work, whether because of their own flu or having to stay home when kids of the flu. It'd make the best economic sense to get the vaccine, right, even aside from health concerns? I see any government effort along these lines as a macro version of the same thing. (I know little about economic theory and probably totally misused the words micro and macro, though.) We worry about the health effects of the flu, sure--about people getting sick and dying and so on. But working in a hospital, it's a concern on a broader level; our hospital is being overtaxed by people with flu (and it isn't even particularly widespread here yet), which leaves fewer nurses, lab techs, and support personnel to take care of the people with non-preventable illnesses like cancer and pneumonia. .-= Wendy´s last blog ..<a href="http://sixboxesofbooks.blogspot.com/2009/11/scholastic-censors-luv-ya-bunches.html" rel="nofollow">Scholastic censors Luv Ya Bunches</a> =-. I don’t really see the government trying to spread panic here. Some of the news media, sure, individual people, sure. But I also don’t have a huge problem with flu-shot-as-way-to-prevent-economic-collapse. If I look at it on a micro level–let’s say a family can’t afford for a parent to miss work, whether because of their own flu or having to stay home when kids of the flu. It’d make the best economic sense to get the vaccine, right, even aside from health concerns? I see any government effort along these lines as a macro version of the same thing. (I know little about economic theory and probably totally misused the words micro and macro, though.)

We worry about the health effects of the flu, sure–about people getting sick and dying and so on. But working in a hospital, it’s a concern on a broader level; our hospital is being overtaxed by people with flu (and it isn’t even particularly widespread here yet), which leaves fewer nurses, lab techs, and support personnel to take care of the people with non-preventable illnesses like cancer and pneumonia.
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