Turns out anti-vaccine bullshit from a close friend pisses me off more than the same from a random idiot on the internet.
@Reinderdijkhuis I can relate.. it's annoying if that happens in your circle of friends!
@distelfliege I think part of it comes from the naturalistic fallacy - that because so many people get the flu, we should accept that the flu even exists. Meanwhile I wonder how much of a foothold new epidemics would even get if the shot was universal and mandatory, with strictly-vetted medical exceptions only.
@distelfliege I know it's not that easy to eradicate a fast-mutating RNA virus but why aren't we even trying? What would happen if we declared influenza, a killer disease (specifically, a killer of people like me), Worldwide Public Enemy Number 1 and threw everything we could at it for a generation?
flu shots and epidemics and death Afficher plus
@Reinderdijkhuis argh, I hope you're not getting pneumonia.
I read that the current flu wave is (at least in germany) hitting really hard because the virus type is not included in the flu shot that public health insurance covers, the "better" flu shot which is more expensive would protect against it.. but how many people can afford it?
@distelfliege See I didn't even know there was a 'better' shot. I'd have been happy to pay for that.
@distelfliege I mean I was just venting on my worry about catching pneumonia on day 6 of the flu and finding out that the things you can do to prevent it are all things you need to do before catching flu, including getting the flu shot and a specific pneumonia vaccination I've qualified for all my life that I didn't know existed. The LAST thing I wanted to hear was that someone's doctor believes the flu shot is crap.