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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Even the person administering it to me said she thought the danger of the flu was overhyped.
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Yeah--and I don't disagree, only in the sense that seasonal flu is also very dangerous (and yes, we should all get the seasonal vaccine too)--and if we're talking global epidemiology, malaria kills over a million people a year, and infects nearly half a billion.
But it just doesn't follow that we shouldn't get the vaccine. If we can eliminate even a small risk of serious illness or death, why wouldn't we do it? If we can help others who are more vulnerable by creating herd immunity to an illness that can be deadly.... why wouldn't we do it?
To me, the worst case scenario is we prevent a few thousand deaths. Who wants to tell me that isn't worth it?