Mostly useless
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge (Bertrand Russell)
So now it’s clear to everybody: the swine flu, aka H1N1, was just a joke. It was slated as a dangerous pandemic that could kill many people and therefore deserved urgent large-scale vaccination. Of course, following a suggestion that came directly from World Health Organization (no less) all industrialized nations ordered massive amounts of vaccine doses. The small club of producers (Novartis, Glaxosmith and Baxter), collected a huge amount of money. Was it worthwhile? Was it rational? Read the rest of this entry »
