I sort of figure they are a good thing that maybe has gotten out of hand.
When I was in school I had a Biology teacher that was excellent. She didn't just teach the ordained version of what we're suppose to believe, she taught many different theories. Not just theories. She must have studied a lot. She knew all about new things that we would see come about in our lifetimes. Microwave ovens were one. Computers another.
Anyway there was a theory about flu shots.
Early on the flu would come around and make people sick on its own. Sometimes it would hit and kill lots of people.
Doctors or Scientist decided to make a vaccine. Now some think a vaccine just protects the one that gets it. Sometimes that is the case. Other times they can infect people around the person inoculated. I think some of it has to do with the way the target disease spreads in the first place. The flu usually spreads by airborne means.
So the theory was that the vaccine gives the patient a small case of hopefully a less virulent strain and protects them but also spreads out to those around them and gives them a case of the flu. If you do this on a regular basis it can help the general population build up immunities to any killer flu that might erupt out of the wild.
Anyway many will argue you can't get a disease from someone who's just gotten a vaccine. For some things that might be true. For an air borne illness like the flu the vaccine could get out into the wild.
So I watched.
I come to the conclusion that the flu will often hit about two weeks after the shots come out.
This year is different as they've moved the shots into the grocery stores and started in with the flu shot of the month or something. They are always pushing a new one. Also I'm thinking they've been pretty wimpy.
I hear the (Wild?)flu this year is a bad one. I don't think they've started selling the vaccine for that one here yet. Or maybe we've just been pretty lucky.
Anyway it was just a theory.
