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England's National Health Service is urging parents to get their children vaccinated for the flu ahead of the holiday season to protect grandparents and other vulnerable relatives:
Flu vaccines administered through a nasal spray rather than an injection have been rolled out this autumn for two and three-year-olds, and children in reception class and years one to four in primary school. Children are super-spreaders because of the greater likelihood of them contracting flu at nursery or school, where germs are passed on at a rapid rate. But only 18% of school-age children have had the nasal spray immunisation, according to the latest figures.
Prof Keith Willett, NHS England's medical director for acute care, said: "Flu can be spread more easily by children, especially to vulnerable relatives such as older grandparents, those with heart or lung conditions and pregnant family members. Last year, millions of people missed out on their free vaccination and yet it's one simple, common sense step to help us all stay healthy this winter."
With less than a month until Christmas, the NHS is urging parents to book their children in for the free vaccination to help curb infection over the festive season, when family get-togethers can spread the infection.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror (a tabloid) claims that Russian agents are spreading anti-vaccination propaganda in the UK in an effort to destabilize the country:
Russian cyber units are spreading false information about flu and measles jabs in the UK, experts warn. [Ed's Note: The current flu immunisation is applied via a nasal spray - there are no 'jabs' involved.] Vladimir Putin is believed to want to erode trust in US and European governments. The state-sponsored units are spreading the lies on social media to destabilise Britain, it is claimed. The Kremlin has previously been accused of attempting to influence Brexit and Scottish independence. Now, it is feared it is trying to create distrust over flu jabs and the MMR measles vaccine.
[...] Security services are so concerned over the threat to public health and security that Government departments have been ordered to monitor social media and flag up risky articles. Health chiefs have had emergency meetings over the spread "fake news" over vaccination campaigns. [...] We can reveal public health officials are investigating whether an outbreak of measles last week in Liverpool and Leeds was fuelled by parents not vaccinating children due to "false information read on the internet".
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 28 2017, @03:14PM (4 children)
So what? Spending it on hedonism means they don't have it anymore and the wealth has moved on to someone else.
I see a considerable lack of relevance to inequality here. Let us keep in mind that a fair number of people and organizations don't use their own wealth for this purpose, but other peoples' wealth, such as financial institutions or government agencies. CalPERS (pension fund for California public employees) or the CIA don't come about due to extremely wealth people and hence wouldn't be affected by attempts to reduce or eliminate inequality.
I disagree. It's not very impressive as a weapon. And if someone wants to build an expensive altar to money and grovel before some pieces of shiny paper, let them do it. There are actual problem in the world that we probably should concern ourselves with instead.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday November 29 2017, @03:46PM (3 children)
So what? Spending it on hedonism means they don't have it anymore and the wealth has moved on to someone else.
I don't think he was complaining about that one.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 29 2017, @03:52PM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday November 29 2017, @04:10PM (1 child)
No, I think you're misunderstanding. Right after he listed that point, he mentioned the ones like Musk with Tesla/SpaceX, and it was clear he thought that was a positive. *Then* he got to the stuff he didn't like: Soros/Kochs/etc., and then after that the tech billionaires who screw over their employees. It's pretty clear to me that he thought the hedonist spending was somewhat neutral. He was complaining about the Clintons and Kochs, not the hedonists and obviously not the Musks.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 29 2017, @08:59PM