Quote Originally Posted by Psychonaut View Post
I never really got the point, normal influenza evolves every year or so into a different strain so you have to be immunised regularly. Additionally normal influenza isn't overly damaging to a healthy individual. If a stronger strain evolves (Spanish Influenza Mk.II) how useful is an immunisation to an older strain going to be?

In any-case they incubate the immunisation in eggs, I'm intolerant to them so I can't get it anyway, unless I want to get sick, heh, the irony.
It's speculated that an earlier "normal" flu pandemic did give partial immunity to the Spanish flu. One of the reason older people survived it way better than normal. So older strain immunisation has some uses.
Still, the general hysteria was a bit odd. From govermental viewpoint, it's probably best to see it as a practice round.