• @echo64@lemmy.world
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    161 year ago

    We don’t get news articles written and publicised at this level for a new flu variant or vaccine

    we should. you should be made aware of new things that can affect your health and well-being. we would all do better if we were informed.

    • Overzeetop
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      91 year ago

      We do; I see them every year. Whether I’m travelling or just trying not to be sick (which costs me money since I don’t get paid sick leave), knowing what is “out there” is pretty useful information. By the time flu vaccines start rolling out there’s usually a round of articles on what the tri/quadvalent covers and the severity anticipated based on worldwide transmissions.

    • @fluke@lemmy.world
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      -41 year ago

      But we do though. And we are informed. Just like there are news releases when there’s a new flu strain, or vaccine or anything.

      What I said was specifically ‘at this level’. It doesn’t need to hit the top headlines for the day.

      • @echo64@lemmy.world
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        51 year ago

        Oh, I don’t agree with that. There’s no news release for new flu strains or new flu vaccines (there’s new ones every year, you know. It’s not a once a decade thing)

        Do you actually believe it doesn’t need to hit ‘at this level’ because people would be just as informed if it wasn’t? Or do you just not want to see it anymore.

        • @fluke@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          The NHS here is always sending out press releases to the population to remind those that are vulnerable to get their seasonal vaccines (inclusive of flue, and COVID).

          There is information out there about new flu mutations and flu shots, but with those applicable going for yearly vaccinations it really is irrelevant.

          So, to go back to my original point, which people seem so adamant on willfully misreading so that they can have something to be outraged about, it’s not news worthy on the scale these articles want to suggest that they are. There are countless things that change or develop that various different subsections of society need to know about.

          • @echo64@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            if you really truly believe that any information about new flu viruses gets to “the population” then i’m sorry, you are very very very very very very very wrong.

            I know what your original point was, i don’t care. my point was countering it with “we should have more exposure of health impacting news”, you just think that it’s not needed because you think that the NHS is delivering this information to “the population”, which again, is very very very very very very very wrong.