The odds are in your favor, but to dismiss the threat outright is pretty foolish. Pandemics do happen, and some day there will likely be another deadly one. But the reality is no one knows today whether this will be a severe flu season or a fairly normal one. Everyone has to decide whether to take any out of the ordinary precautions.
Like those who hang around when a CAT 5 approaches because the last one didn't hit.
Have a question for you. Notice an upswing this year of those concerned over vaccinations and/or dismiss the threat?
I am not making a judgement on those who do have objections to vaccines on various grounds. Remember when Dan Burton almost punched out Dick Armey over thimerosal. It is a legitimate debate.
However....I've never seen so much anti-vax rhetoric before. Brings out the cynic in me. Remember a few years ago when a foreign supplier had to trash its vaccine and start over? Liberals and the media went wild. Bush was going to kill the elderly because they would not get their flu shot.
For months Obama's HHS has been telling us we would have over 100 million doses by early fall. We won't. Probably not half what the HHS claimed. What vaccine will be here will be rationed. The elderly won't get it.
Could it be that the left is ramping up the anti-vax rhetoric to obscure the fact the HSS and Obama have been derelict? Liberals certainly aren't out bemoaning the fact the elderly will not get it when they should. I've even seen leftists claim the elderly are immune (some many have some immunity but as a group they are not immune).