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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
It doesn't have to be more dangerous to cause serious implications. That half your hockey team was sick with the flu only proves that this is NOT a 'dud'. It is a very contagious flu that (a) can be spread to those that are high risk, (b) put strain on already crowded emergency rooms and pulling doctors away from scheduled surgeries and (c) cause work place shortages.
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And yet there are people all over the country who know nobody who has it or had it. Why do you think your experience is the norm necessarily? Every flu season, if you looked hard enough, you could find teams, offices/workplaces, schools... whatever, that get decimated by the flu.
The same thing happened in Austrailia back in spring and summer when they had their flu season. The dire predictions ended up not surmounting to much of anything. The sad thing is, you can only cry wolf so many times before people start to not take it seriously... and one day, that could bite us in the ass big time.