Got my high-dose "Old Geezer" flu shot today.

[Ms. Toad]

50. Providing accurate information, from the CDC itself discouraging.

Nice.

So - if your doctor thinks radiation is good for you, and is afraid you might refuse it if you had full information, is it right for her to withhold the information that even though radiation makes the kind of cancer you have less likely to return, a small percentage of people who have radiation develop a cancer later that is - essentially - a death sentence?

That is essentially what you are suggesting. You are afraid people won't get vaccinated - so you believe disclosing information that might lead some people to make a decision you personally would not make to be "wrong."

All decisions should be based on full information. The reality that the influenza's effectiveness has not exceeded 60% since 2004, and has only exceeded 50% three times since 2004, that overall last year's vaccine effectiveness was 29% - and only 12% among my age range - and, effectively 0% for the late season influenza is information. Pure and simple. What the recipient does with the information is their business.