The difference is that regular flu tends to kill frail elderly people.
This flu tends to kill healthy young people.
It's like communist Russia out there. Propaganda and long lineups.
You referenced SARS, but there was also bird flu and west nile before that. It's not coincidence and it's not just media hype that make these pandemics seem serious. The fundamental nature of these pathogens are changing. Global travel and trade sparked it, vaccinations and hand sanitizer are fueling it. Viruses are able to spread and mutate in ways that weren't possible even two decades ago.
At a certain point we have to bite the bullet as a society. A super bug is coming. Like global warming it's doomsday-ish and damn near impossible to prove. But if the media, the health care system, and the public in general don't change their ways then it's just a matter of time before "the next" pandemic becomes "the" pandemic.
That's running a fair stretch from your original topic of vaccination shots. I don't feel like responding to your argument directly since it's already such a tired old argument. For a real good time google "MRSA". Now that's scary.
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