Reply #7: Next time, get it in your butt. It's a bigger muscle and it hurts a lot less [View All]

[Warpy]

I had to teach the pharmy how to do it when I got mine yesterday. I don't know why their "how to stab a customer" class doesn't address this, it's a much bigger target. Huge, in fact, in my case.

People freak out over the swine flu vaccine because they've been told to by a bunch of hysterically inaccurate viral (pardon the pun) emails.

It's new, it generally requires a needle unless you pay out the wazoo, and there is a boatload of disinformation about it out there.

The human race, on the whole, is not smart. Unfortunately, ignorant people who aren't smart enough to know how to check facts are always going to be prime suckers for scare campaigns.

BTW, the Jenner vax was a real stinker, requiring muliple punctures over a blob of what was essentially pus. The person's immune system went into hyperdrive and the area developed some pretty nasty infections. However, it beat the hell out of that 30+% mortality rate for smallpox. It was just very hard for primitive souls that a needle jab and infected sore had anything at all to do with catching a disease later in life.

In fact, some of that is still at work with primitive souls, today.