More evidence of a druggie culture.

Yahoo! News - Americans Going to Canada for Flu Shots

I think this whole flu shot is being blown way out of porportion.

The human race endured for thousands of years before the advent of the Flu shot.

The media indicates that x number of seniors die each year from the flu. It doesn't indicate what percentage of these seniors where vaccinated however. The evidence seems to show that vaccines don't work too well on people with poor immune systems. Of course it is the people with poor immune systems who are most likely to be killed by the flu.

VACCINE RISK AWARENESS NETWORK - "Flu Shots...Do They Really Work?"

Influenza vaccine efficacy drops to 30-40% among the elderly, this group being the main "target" for flu shots. CDC attributes lack of influenza vaccine efficacy in the elderly to their "decreased immunologic response." (6, 7)

Past studies of Type A (H3N2) influenza vaccine in nursing home patients yielded an average of only 27% efficacy, with four studies demonstrating vaccine efficacy at 0, 2, 8 and 9% (6). Poor vaccine efficacy can even occur when the vaccine virus is "essentially identical" to that causing the outbreak (5). For influenza B vaccine, studies range from 0% to 36% effective, averaging 21% (6).

It seems to me that much of the problem with the flu shot shortage stems from the centralized purchasing of vaccines by the goverment. Awarding these huge contracts limits the number of companies that can compete in this market, and as a result we are highly dependant on few vendors.