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It seems like every time we turn around, some actor-turned-health-expert is going on Oprah saying everybody needs to get the H1N1 vaccine. With swine flu pigging around the world, we know there's a risk, but aren't flu shots for girl babies and old people? Let's weigh the pros and cons.

Pro: Getting vaccinated greatly reduces your chances of being so horribly ill you projectile vomit across friends and family whenever they approach.

Con: If you've watched any horror movies, you're aware that a botched vaccine could very well make you patient zero in the upcoming zombie pandemic.

Pro: The vaccine will give you antibodies for the rest of your life, ensuring dirty H1N1 will have no hold over you.*

Con: Mutant virus strains care not for your pathetic human vaccine and will ravage you regardless, so why waste the afternoon going to the clinic?

Pro: Vaccination ensures you stay healthy so you don't miss work, or fun. If a busload of bikini models desperately in need of showers breaks down in front of your home, you don't want to be sick.

Con: Not getting vaccinated could mean that busload of germ-encrusted bikini models is just as toxic as licking a Petri dish, turning what should be a beautiful experience into your death rattle.

Pro: When you're out in public and some stranger is hacking up a lung, you can look just as disgusted as your friends but be confident that those filthy germs aren't going to cripple you.

Con: If that person hacking up a lung has a different illness or virus strain, you're still pretty much screwed.

So what's the takeaway? Will you be getting shot up with pig germs?

*Dr. Ken, Asylum's in-house internist, notes that we don't know for sure how long the protection from the vaccine would last; could be on the order of months, years or decades. This is partly because, while some do, not all vaccines confer lifetime or even long-term protection. Another consideration is that viruses have the potential to undergo genetic changes that, over time, could lessen or even eliminate any protection.