Originally Posted by
vashti
I don't really have a problem with otherwise-healthy people opting out of the flu virus, but people who are at elevated risk of death from flu should get it, in my opinion. there is some squaking from a small number of health care workers who don't want to take the vaccines, but they are at elevated risk of contracting it, and they care for people who are already sick, and can pass it along before even showing symptoms.
All medications come with risk, but the risk of death from flu is much greater than the risk of death from a vaccine.