All you need to do is to be rich and gullible.

Yeah, and don't tell me you're using an Apple one-button mouse and that I'm an insensitive clod.

Select text, right click, select "Search DuckDuckGo for $Text".

Enter.

You're welcome.

So, if some really, really bored bad guy who was aiming to create mayhem and havoc (but not make any money) got all arsed, he or she could shut down a couple of mom and pop gas stations in the hinterlands for a couple of hours until mom and pop sobered up.

Truly scary. I'm gonna go unplug everyth*(*RKfkffghdf

You like nausea, vomiting, cold chills and sweats?

Why not just go visit /b/?

Sounds like Neuromancer .....

More importantly, this should really get the anti vaccers in a major huffy.

This is why the CDC-type folks are running scared. Unlike Ebola and HIV which take a fair amount of work and / or bad luck to get, Measles is airborne and very, very contagious.

Yes, it usually is a relatively mild, self limited illness but once you get lots of cases, you start getting into the 1-2% of folks that get serious complications. It's very ugly.

And, of course, totally unnecessary but that's human stupidity for you.

You really want someone to spend the time to take apart the lunatic ravings of some random doc who ralfed about vaccines in 1896?

You might be crazier than he was.

That's an interestingly absurd policy since the facemasks lose their effectiveness after about 30 -45 minutes (when they get moist). I suppose they have minders running around timing when you change your masks out?

Make more sense to have you swallow Tamiflu all winter (not a whole lot of sense, mind you, but more than your current policy).

Don't get too snarky here. You are incorrect. Pneumonia - a state in the lungs with certain types of tissue damage and characteristic clinical findings - can be caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, chemicals and the 'ol immune system all by its haywire self.

Hemophilus is a genus of bacteria that loves to infect the lungs AFTER a viral infection. Fortunately, there is a good vaccine for this and most Slashdot posters probably haven't even heard of a case of Hemophilus sepsis or encephalitis (truly awful diseases). Further, I think the poster you are replying to is referring to an 'allergy shot' (likely a strong dose of a general steroid to stomp on the immune system) caused his (?) immune system to weaken to the point where he got another infection. Possible, not terribly likely but possible.

You might be smart, but that doesn't stop you from being ignorant.

Use your supposed smarts to look up the details of how influenza vaccines work and don't work.

TL;DR - It's complicated.

Those are implants.

I'm surprised they didn't put you on a special 'call this guy - he's kinda fun' list.

I would have....

Great. Just what some PTSD-addled Vietnam vet needs to hear.....

Tachometers are useful diagnostic devices on an automatic, especially a truck under load. So I'm glad I have one, but I hardly ever glance at it unless something seems wrong.