Public Service Announcement for those considering Swine Flu Vaccine

[ZLTFUL]

A public service announcement (PSA) or community service announcement (CSA) is a non-commercial advertisement broadcast on radio or television, for the public interest. PSAs are intended to modify public attitudes by raising awareness about specific issues. The most common topics of PSAs are health and safety. A typical PSA is part of a public awareness campaign to inform or educate the public about an issue.

The words in bold are key here. The thread title is very misleading considering the source. Instead, the content of the original post serves to MISinform and attempt to frighten rather than informing and educating.

Perhpas the thread title should be re-evaluated and then changed to "Public Scare Tactic Announcement for those who are misinformed about the Swine Flu Vaccine"

[Betty Rage]

you know, really, you are reading too much into that stupid title. It was not meant to mean that I consider myself an expert on the swine flu. All I was trying to do was inform others of a different side of the vaccine.

There is no scare tactics or attempts to misinform. I know i would want to know a potential bad side effect if I was planning on getting this, or any other vaccine for that matter.

[Desmostro]

<----------has never had a flu shot, or the flu

which isnt to say i am anti vaccine....it was just to say...

pregnant dog. I'm just getting over the swine flu. Been coughing since mid-Aug. 
Give me your blood.  I must have your power for my own.

[ZLTFUL]

You know...they told me the potential side effects of certain meds I would have to take after the last surgery I had. But the death that was a side effect of not taking it outweighed the 0.00002% chance that I would develop cancer.

Too often, people miss the context of an article on medicine. They base decisons off of emotion rather than cold hard facts and frankly, emotion has to take a back burner role determining what is true or just made up information to try and scare people away from or towards something.

Disclaimers also have to exist for the purpose of minimizing frivolous lawsuits. I know, I know...frivolous lawsuits in the US you say??!! But it's true.  

[cyrus buelton]

That article is clearly there to deter people from getting the vaccine.

I agree with Ryan: scare tactic.

[Betty Rage]

This thread was never as useful as I had hoped.

it's done.