re: FDA to require the flu vaccine prove its effectiveness at reducing the flu

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I don't recall the FDA requiring the smallpox vaccine prove its effectiveness at reducing smallpox. Probably because vaccines don't reduce diseases, they prevent them altogether.

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I know 3 people who got polio after they received the vax.

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This paper explores the safety and efficacy of three key vaccines; ACAM2000, JYNNEOS, and LC16 that are repurposed from smallpox vaccines to combat Mpox. ACAM2000, a replication-competent vaccinia virus vaccine, has shown high effectiveness but is associated with serious adverse reactions, including myocarditis and progressive vaccinia.

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12187628/

If the flu vaccine was so good, I don't think they would be handing them out for free.


But for w/e reason, you see places all over the place offering it for free.

Pretty sure it's just some kind of kickback scheme. If it happens to keep you from getting a flu that year it's just an unexpected bonus.


One of the reasons given for free or very low cost flu shots as per the internet:

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Workplace Health Reduced absenteeism: Many employers sponsor on-site or free flu vaccination clinics to keep their workforce healthy and prevent widespread sick leave during peak flu season.

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You know what else prevents getting the flu? Working remote from home. But you don't really see any jobs pushing to expand that do we? I'm talking about jobs that are obviously and easily done remote, not jobs where some physical on-site work is needed.

Yeah, proposed idea is good in theory but unworkable in practice and would be expected to a regulate a product off the market entirely.

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How do you do a randomized placebo-controlled trial on virus whose antigens you have to predict annually? By the time you have the results and approve your product, it's obsolete.

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This argument can be taken both ways.