Risk aversion or risk assumption ?

Looking at the title, someone might guess its about the wealth management or stock market .. typically it would… but its something totally different… It’s something that mattered to a whole lots of us though… At least my mind for last few months… one of the highly talked about topics of this year… The Swine flu and H1N1 Vaccine… Now you would think, I belong to one of those high risk group who should be worried about this believed to be worst pandemic outbreak of the century ….To the contrary, I don’t.. Currently my state of health seems to be in best of shape. … Besides I am not the type who falls for mass hysteria that easily but sometimes my parenting techniques conflict with that..... And ,I have a long oversees trip coming up shortly and I have twin toddlers who I need to worry about more than anything.. Based on these facts, my quest to get my boys vaccinated began about 2 months ago. Not to mention, the few months before that all the research I did to figure out all about this vaccines. Now for that matter, I am not in medical profession. So I rely heavily on mighty internet to obtain and absorb all the info I can to make an educational judgment. I knew all about precautions to take, about adjuvant squalene type of vaccine and problem of autoimmune disorder and what not ( see I can be very dork and studious if need be ).. I was almost so worried about getting my boys vaccinated that a thought almost crossed my mind to drop the idea altogether… Then I made it to India abruptly and all that I saw on the airport was unnerving.. All the masked up airport personnel made me feel so outcast… Gash… I do not have enough resources to deal with hospitalizations and quarantines and all that entails.. so better safe than sorry… I am back to getting vaccinated again… What followed was the quest to get the actual vaccine. As it’s the case, there is not enough vaccine yet for everyone who needs it. So last few months my pediatrician’s office got a call every other day… no avail there.. Now I am calling all the county health hotlines… finally after a hunt of about 2 months, I got an appointment… lucky me … a week before we start our trip, I landed a spot to get the vaccine. I was praying that I don’t have to wait in line for hours, in 20+ degree cold weather. All my lucky stars had to be in line properly…… and I thought living in the most powerful and most prosperous nation on the earth was enough !! Seriously, something needs to be said about this … why the system is so broke that you can’t manage the simple task of vaccinating all the high risk people better ? why do all those pregnant women and senior citizens and young children had to stand line in cold for hours to get vaccinated? Media blames officials, officials blame media.. who takes the responsibility of the failure? .. and the actual chaos at the facility was so bad that all my questions remain un answered… squalene /no squalene, hygiene/no hygiene… At the end, all it mattered was vaccinated / non vaccinated… Now I wonder, was taking that vaccine and more importantly giving to my young boys was really risk taking or risk aversing? I am not convinced either way… but until next year, I can rest easy!