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Originally Posted by Burninator
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's basically a un-winnable situation for the governments PR team. It is impossible to see into the future. Medical experts will not be able to tell if any virus is going to turn into a world wide killer or if it will fizzle out in a couple weeks. This bout of H1N1 had the potential in their eyes. It would be silly to say that they should implement the vaccine once it reached world wide killer status (I status I just made up BTW) because it would be far too late. If they did and the flu killed many many people the government would look stupid again. What are people expecting? A Dustin Hoffman last minute cure to save everyone from that type of virus? Wouldn't count on it.
The great thing about the flu vaccine is that it can prevents the flu. Medicine works much better if it prevents the disease instead of trying to cure it. I think because no one here was alive in 1920 that they underestimate the flu and vaccines.
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Buying more than twice the number of necessary doses at a cost likely around $250 million is difficult for the PR team to spin whether the vaccination program was justified or not. The government was a little over-zealous in their response to the threat and wasted millions upon millions of dollars in the process.