Column By Mike Bibb
“This season’s vaccines were around 25% to 30% effective in preventing adults from getting sick enough from the flu that they had to go to a doctor’s office, clinic, or hospital, according to a CDC report this week.” — Newsmax Health, March 17, 2026
Normally, I’m not overly concerned with the effectiveness of annual flu shots. Especially, since the mandated craziness of the COVID debacle and President Joe Biden’s repeated claims that multiple shots and boosters would prevent spreading the contagion and protect those who were vaccinated.
If I recall correctly, I believe he had at least two, maybe three bouts of the virus, while vaccinated and boosted to the max.
Of course, telling the truth never seemed to be one of Joe’s more admirable traits.
If he said it was “Wednesday, 2:37 in the afternoon,” I’d look at a calendar and check my watch — just to be sure.
Guess his own political party bosses had similar thoughts, since they removed him from seeking reelection and inserted his even more incompetent vice president.
Luckily, Joe’s gone home to write his memoirs and try out a new beach chair. Jill can assist by continually reminding Joe that the Atlantic Ocean is not the Delaware River with white caps.
So, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this year’s batch of flu vaccines had been about 70-75% ineffective in preventing people from seeing a doctor or spending a few days in a hospital, Joe Biden probably couldn’t tell the difference — his COVID inoculations didn’t work either.
Yet, I imagine pharmaceutical companies pocketed billions of dollars in the process. Unfortunately, their products failed to perform as expected.
Equally unfortunate is the added expenses incurred by people expecting at least a 50% chance of avoiding influenza by receiving the shots, only to be disappointed and infected because of the vaccine’s inadequacy.
Suppose 50-50 odds of winning are pretty good — if you’re betting against the house in Las Vegas.
Not too sure it’s a very smart play when anticipating better results from a medical jab that is advertised as the way to go to avoid or dramatically reduce the discomforts of flu.
Apparently, lining up and getting poked to “Flatten the curve” by “Following the science” turned out to be just another load of crap promoted by the geniuses in charge of this nonsense.
But, when those odds drop to only 25-30%, what’s the point of being immunized when there’s a 70-75% chance it won’t work?
Unless, of course, you just like being punctured with needles, or are a firm believer in whatever government officials tell you.
If we learned anything from the COVID madness — other than the fact our government’s reaction to it nearly wrecked the economy, dramatically altered social, religious, educational systems and fraud skyrocketed — it should have been obvious an intentionally produced pathogen, when globally dispensed, could be used as an excuse for forces of government to impose rules and restrictions they would not normally foist upon the people.
Even more corrupt, to surreptitiously circulate this deception under the guise of a health scare and declare an emergency of the highest order is diabolical.
Purveyors of this scam, no matter who they are, should be indicted and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
However, good old Joe Biden — on his way out of the White House — pardoned several of these characters before they could be rounded up and brought to trial.
Especially concerning is the behavior of the slippery eels who intentionally benefited from the creation of experimental drugs as valid remedies to a disease that — we’ve been informed — was fabricated in a Chinese laboratory.
On a lesser scale, the making, marketing, and profiting from flu vaccines that only claim about a 40-60% success rate doesn’t seem much better than taking your chances with a non-FDA-approved concoction simply because the government recommends it.
Would you fly in an airplane that only has a 40-60% chance of staying in the air? Buy a new car that has a 40-60% likelihood of making it to Walmart and back? Visit a dentist who insists he may have to pull 40-60% of your teeth to fix a cavity? Inform your employer that there’s a 40-60% probability you won’t make it into work tomorrow. Swear to tell the truth 40-60% of the time when on the witness stand? Tell your mother-in-law that you can only stomach her cooking 40-60% of the time? Admit to the priest during confession, there’s a 40-60% possibility he won’t be hearing the whole story?
Then why take a drug company’s vaccine that insists it’s 40-60% reliable?
Only this year, it’s not even that much.
Realistically, the 4.5% alcohol found in a can of Bud Light may be as effective at fighting flu bugs as a syringe full of some kind of chemicals.
At least, the follow-up boosters won’t hurt as much!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the author.
