[AnotherUnixGeek]

Where once we were a people of relative heartiness, confidence, and sanity

We now take flu shots and therefore aren't hearty, confident and sane? This may be the most idiotic post I've ever seen. Flu shots work - they aren't perfect and the strain we got inoculated against may have mutated, lessening the effectiveness of the vaccine. But countless lives have been saved due to flu shots.

Bet that you'll live through the flu and you'll most likely win - most healthy people get through the flu with nothing more serious than a couple of days in bed. But the risk goes up for the very young, the very old and for those with other health issues. In the worst case, death is a real possibility - last week the CDC reports that 7 infants died due to the flu.

[firebrand]

It’s possible there is a slow pandemic, rather than a fast one like in 1918. That is, the flu is mutating faster than we can keep up with it. The “symptoms” are the low efficacy percentages (people who get it even after being vaccinated) and what seems to be a greater severity of the flu itself once you get it, vaccinated or not.

It’s not a scam, except in the sense that they are now trying to cover the fact that they missed the strain. Again. That may not be anyone’s fault but just the wily flu’s growing ability to mutate.

The more people who don’t get the vaccine, the greater the opportunity for mutation.

[firebrand]

It’s possible there is a slow pandemic, rather than a fast one like in 1918. That is, the flu is mutating faster than we can keep up with it. The “symptoms” are the low efficacy percentages (people who get it even after being vaccinated) and what seems to be a greater severity of the flu itself once you get it, vaccinated or not.

It’s not a scam, except in the sense that they are now trying to cover the fact that they missed the strain. Again. That may not be anyone’s fault but just the wily flu’s growing ability to mutate.

The more people who don’t get the vaccine, the greater the opportunity for mutation.