For a bunch of bloggers who seem to eschew what the mainstream media tells us, as well as lies perpetrated by politicians, it baffles me how easily the main writers seemed to have swallowed the whole H1N1 Flu Vaccine Kool Aid.
With the chance that I may sound crazy, I really believe this is just more of a scare tactic brought on by vaccine manufacturers. I subscribe to a daily newsletter from Dr. Mercola, and while I take what he has to say with a grain of salt, I think he's got some pretty good points when it comes to vaccination:
Swine Flu - One of the Most Massive Cover Ups in American History
It is especially critical of pregnant women being affected by the virus:
Our media is inundating the public with scare stories of the danger this virus poses to pregnant women. Most of us visualize the pregnant woman as being healthy, young and without underlying medical diseases. The study is quite revealing, but omits some very important factors.
We are told that pregnant women are 6x more likely to end up in the hospital than the general population. This figure is derived from the fact that it was estimated that pregnant women had a 7% greater chance of requiring hospital admission than did the general public at 1% (Even this is a far higher number than their own studies indicate -- actually it is a very small fraction of 1%).
Dr. Michael Bronze, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, writing for emedicine medscape.com (WebMD), states that the risk of a pregnant women being hospitalized with the H1N1 infection is 0.32 per 100,000 pregnant women (which is 1 in 300,000 pregnant women).17 One can safely say, based on the Australian/New Zealand experience (at the peak of their flu season) and the American data somewhere in the middle of their flu season, that pregnant women have about a 99.97% chance they will not become so sick as to require hospital care at any level.
The death rate of pregnant women who were admitted to the ICU was 7.7%, a fairly low figure for infectious ICU patients. Remember, most patients admitted to the hospital are admitted for hydration and are not that ill in terms of the infection itself.