What @akareilly says.

This year it's H5N5, and a strain you do not have antibodies for:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/21/health/washington-bird-flu-death

I had a real flu only once in my life, and I was a strong and fit 15 year old. I did survive, but it did not feel like that for a full two weeks, and it took another four weeks to recover after that.

It is not an experience I want to repeat.

Get both Covid and Flu shots, in time for them to be useful.

Mask the fuck up. In the train, in the bus and on the fucking congress.

And it will also prevent unauthorized photos.

“The Washington health department also recommends flu shots for anyone who may come into contact with domestic or wild birds. Although the regular influenza vaccine can’t protect against bird flu, it reduces the slight chance that someone could get sick with both viruses at once and cause the bird flu virus to mutate into something that would spread easily among humans.”