[netmilsmom]

Would someone please explain to me why when I was a child no one got a flu shot and in a class of 42 children, not a one was hospitalized with flu???

Now kids are dropping like flies if you listen to the news! Thank God Sheppard Smith reported two more deaths of children THEN added that these kids had other complications!!

[CyberCowboy777]

The Huddled masses have always had deaths due to the flu, they are generally un healthy with other complications or illnesses that cause death.

Millions have died of the Flu over the centuries, but always the huddled masses get hit the worse.

Live clean, live outside the teaming masses, eat right - you won't get sick.

[tacticalogic]

Would someone please explain to me why when I was a child no one got a flu shot and in a class of 42 children, not a one was hospitalized with flu???

I think part of the problem is that we've gone overboard making everything "sanitary" for our children, and leaving them with their immune systems compromised from disuse.

You read about people who live in the city getting deathly ill from e. coli they got in a burger, but never about anyone who lives on a ranch or cattle farm getting ill from it, and they're exposed to it every day.

[RightWhale]

Now kids are dropping like flies

Plenty of kids used to get sick in the old days. The difference now is that the news media is all over everything--like flies on . . ..

[lelio]

Would someone please explain to me why when I was a child no one got a flu shot and in a class of 42 children, not a one was hospitalized with flu???

And while FReepers are at it: someone explain to me why if you say the word "peanut" at least one person keels over.

[Domestic Church]

"Would someone please explain to me why when I was a child no one got a flu shot and in a class of 42 children, not a one was hospitalized with flu???"

There wasn't an epidemic of pediatric asthma back then.

[familyop]

"Would someone please explain to me why when I was a child no one got a flu shot and in a class of 42 children, not a one was hospitalized with flu???"

...day care, school, both parents have a chance to get the flu at work instead of just one, day care, then the whole family's exhausted when they arrive home.

[luckystarmom]

Well, the flu has always been the biggest killer of kids and the elderly. It's just now they report about it more.

Roughly 30,000 people die of the flu each year in the USA.

[leu25iso]

THEN added that these kids had other complications!!

Many children without underlying conditions have died. Secondary infections are not necessarily due to underlying conditions. The flu just makes you more susceptible to other infections, some of which can prove to be fatal.