[Mediterranean Madman]

What's all the brouhaha on this flu vaccine thing. I didn't even know they existed till like a year ago when there was some more whining going on that brought it to my life. We get the flu, we vomit, we have the runs, we are better the next day. This whining and complaining about a flu vaccine makes us look weak in the world's eyes. My wife and 3 kids have never had them either, but somehow we all survived, even when we have had the flu.

[Mount Athos]

The flu kills about 35,000 people a year in the United States.
Mostly elderly and people with weak immune systems, but hey it'd be nice if those folks could spend a few more christmas dinners with their families.

[FITZ]

I think we're supposed to be getting convinced that we need the government to take over health care and take good care of us all. SARS and West Nile didn't get us convinced because hardly anyone died from those --- so now we're being told we're all going to die from the flu.

[philman_36]

What's all the brouhaha on this flu vaccine thing.
It's all just a hyped up scenario to me with nothing actually to it in the long run.
I'm just sick of hearing about it when there is nothing, IMO, to it!

[Rakkasan1]

yep. I guess the draft scare and sosh security scare aren't working well so they needed a new one.

...all the news that's fit to print.

“This is a Time Bomb”
Mike Davis on the Looming Threat of a Deadly Flu Pandemic
by Alan Maass
www.dissidentvoice.org
October 22, 2004
First Published in Socialist Worker