The one time I was hit hard with flu, I could not get out of bed never mind out of the house. IF this one mutates into something nasty, we could be in for it. The news media thrives of IF. I am amazed at the people who are running to volunteer themselves and their children to test the new vaccine. Why the hell would you expose your children to an untested drug that is actually being tested for side effects?
There was a report yesterday about putting pregnant women at the head of the list for getting the vaccine once it is tested. There is a death rate with this flu that is 13 times higher than normal flu. One of the epidemiologists was complaining that patients' doctors are the biggest obstacle to innoculation (birth defects, maybe) and how birth defects and miscarriages will be blamed on the vaccine when "maybe" it had nothing to do with it.
The vaccine fiasco in the 70s followed by no epidemic makes me wary.