I don’t know whether to get the H1N1 vaccine, and I don’t know whether to get it for The Baby.

Yesterday I went to the GP to get some blood tests (Hi, ridiculously low iron levels!  How are we doing now?) and a flu shot (which they ran out of, so I ended up getting it at the drugstore anyway).  The lovely GP also put me on the list for the pig flu vaccine because The Baby is just shy of 6 months. I was really excited about this because I’ve been wanting that sucker since May.

Now, Wizard is completely and utterly against Baby getting vaccinated for H1N1, even though he is pro-vaccine otherwise.  And he is a scientist person, so while he isn’t a medical doctor he is good with medical journals and such.  As am I, because if you can read Derrida you sure as hell can read medical statistics. Anyway, he doesn’t think any of us should take the vaccine because, in his view, it hasn’t been tested extensively enough. I am of a mind that it is just a flu shot, so who cares?

That is, until my mom’s GP told her that he wasn’t taking it and didn’t want her getting the shot, either.  And he is generally pro-vaccine as well. He says it needs more testing, especially for kids.

Now I don’t know what to do.  What are you guys doing?  Are you taking it? Getting it for your kids?

ETA: Not that y’all don’t know this, but I work at a university and Baby is in daycare.  Exposure.  We has it.

WTF, WordPress?  I just wrote this whole post about my reasons for and against getting a Facebook account, inspired by this Slate article.  But now the post is gone!  Kerpoof!  I’m not rewriting that whole darned thing, so do me a favor, won’t you, and take my little poll?