in the meantime they are over manufacturing the shot we'll most likely never need and $$$ will be thrown in the trash
Sigh. Yes, you're exactly right - most likely the bird flu will be either
(1) A non-event - never making it to the point of a widely-transmissible virus, in which case the effort put into making the vaccine will be wasted, or
(2) a mutated version of the virus against which all our current vaccines will be useless.
Your tax dollars at work again, unfortunately. :-(