The Great Achoo

I read a book a few years ago called The Great Influenza, about the flu pandemic that struck the world at the beginning of the 20th century.

Good book, and after reading it, I knew that flu vaccines were a sham. Like bad music, influenza mutates from year to year, place to place, and there's no way to make a reliable vaccine against it.

Here's a line from the AP:

This year, a Type A H3N2 Brisbane strain not in the vaccine has been responsible for most of the illnesses. A Type B Florida strain, also absent from the vaccine, has also been causing illness. Marshfield data showed that the vaccine didn't work at all against the Type B virus, and was 58 percent effective against the Brisbane virus.

Without knowing what "effective" means (people got sick but didn't die? People didn't get sick at all?) you can safely say that the vaccine didn't do squat.