I'm a big fan of modern medicine. It's like ammunition; not always perfect, but the best we have available.
A person would have to be an idiot or crazy to not take advantage of something most of the planet wishes they had.
FWIW, the biggest killer of flu isn't flu, it's pneumonia. The flu lays the person out, and then the pneumonia drowns them in their own juices.
Not to be harsh, but while I fully support educating Americans and supporting them with access to preventative medicine such as vaccinations, I'm also supportive of letting stupid people kill themselves with their stupidity. Seriously. Let them die. They're fucking everything up.
Enough is enough. The big problem is how to limit the number of smart people that the stupid people take down with them.
https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/pneumonia/what-is-the-connection
Influenza is a common cause of pneumonia, especially among younger children, the elderly, pregnant women, or those with certain chronic health conditions or who live in a nursing home. Most cases of flu never lead to pneumonia, but those that do tend to be more severe and deadly. In fact, flu and pneumonia were the eighth leading cause of death in the United States in 2016.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
Number of deaths for leading causes of death
- Heart disease: 696,962
- Cancer: 602,350
- COVID-19: 350,831
- Accidents (unintentional injuries): 200,955
- Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 160,264
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 152,657
- Alzheimer’s disease: 134,242
- Diabetes: 102,188
- Influenza and pneumonia: 53,544
- Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 52,547