Horace Heffner wrote:
I think the priorities for distribution are wrong. It should go first to food handlers and cashiers . . .
No, it should go to children, young people, pregnant women and health care workers first, first, first. This is vitally important. As I said, this variety is unusually dangerous for them.
These groups are not usually targeted first so emphatically. At least, not in Japan. Most of the news about H1N1 I have hearing in the last month is from Japan. The epidemic appears to be spreading faster there than in the U.S. It is coming under control now that vaccines are becoming available.
Healthy middle aged people who live in areas where there are severe shortages should refrain from getting a shot for now, as a public service. That's what they say in Japan and I agree. You should get one as soon as they become more widely available.
Anyone with cancer or some other serious illness should get one as soon as possible.
- Jed
