They Flu The Coop

News Item: Americans head to Mexico for scarce flu shot

Pardon me, but what is this sudden monumental scare created by influenza? Did someone stick us in a time machine and send us back to the Dark Ages? Methinks that the scarcity of the vaccine itself has done more to foster panic in the streets as the virus. I lived the vast majority of my (coff) forty years without once hearing about flu vaccines (or people dying from flu, for that matter). What a bunch of pussies we've become.

UPDATE: The Fat Guy is thinking the same thing.