On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 02:58:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/5/2018 7:00 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
In any case, I still will not get one and probably won't until
I'm in a nursing home and they make me :)
You can get the flu and not show symptoms, and infect the
people you're around. The elderly can die from the fule. The
shot is free and a pinprick, I see no upside to avoiding it.
Yes, in Australia recently, we had a large number of elderly
people in nursing homes die from the flu.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-12/flu-deaths-rise-as-treatment-medication-runs-dry/8895230
A flu shot can mean the difference between life and death for
many of these people.
Our government is introducing legislation that makes it
compulsory for workers in aged-care, to get a flu shot. (although
not compulsory for those just visiting ??)
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ministers/publishing.nsf/Content/health-mediarel-yr2017-hunt090.htm
I think that air-borne viruses are the biggest threat to
humanity, and will probably be the thing that wipes us out.
