it's just a cold virus...the hysteria is absurd....
so, let's leave this in the hands of science, please, and not allow for ignorance fueled by media hysteria. we're going to eventually collectively realize that we have to live with this thing and look back and laugh at how stupid we all were.
the one reasonable exception is for the geriatric facilities, or general contact with the weak or elderly. and, i would have argued you should have needed a flu shot to get into an old folks home, too.