Wil's Rant

I have long had the opinion that this expert is now extolling. Essentially, that is that the flu shot really has very marginal value. This was backed up by a study that I read about some time ago which stated that after doing a blind study using nurses at a given hospital, they were able to conclude that there was only a three percent difference in the rates of flu infection between those given a placebo and those given a real flu shot. Hardly a significant number considering the huge cost of the whole flu shot program. This might have a lot to do with the fact that any given shot is based on last years flu. I would think that most people would have already been exposed to last year's influenza and developed their own immunities. Perhaps a better approach would be to boost people's immunities as a whole instead of retroactively trying to immense. I might go so far as to say that the declining immunity of the population as a whole might be related to environmental toxins and the use of growth hormones in cattle as well as the massive use of antibiotics in the same. As most of us know, the result of the use of growth hormones in humans results in a modern person resembling something more Neanderthal in nature. It's time to re-examine our approach to many of modern societies problems. This is only one of them.