What you see is that marketing rules the response to influenza, and scientific evidence comes fourth or fifth. Vaccines may have a role, but they appear to have a modest effect. The best strategy to prevent the illness is to wash your hands.


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That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feeling...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil s...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, ...
JEFFERSON BETHKE
There exists indeed an opposition to it [building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college] by the...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our instit...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good gener...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbeliev...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work Plato's R...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by renderi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nati...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of m...
THOMAS JEFFERSON