I suspect that those who dismiss the government's actions do not work and live among thousands of, for example, people in their late teens and early '20s.  So the dismissers did not see how the flu swept through that group last fall, felling them all around us.

And for those of us who have health conditions that could be seriously compromised by coming down with that flu, who are prone to serious problems from its complications, well, I was not the only one who was very grateful for the major effort to get the vaccines to us and to the youngsters, although too many of them dismissed it as well.  So they were the ones who were most likely to fall so far behind in classes that they flunked, to lose jobs so they could not return to school, etc. . . . no matter how much we tried, and we did across the country, to help them.

It was a h*llish fall for that reason for teachers, essentially having to teach dozens and even hundreds of students one by one to catch them up.  It would have been far worse without the warnings and the extent of vaccination that did occur.  And what we learned, what the leftover supply tells us, is what we saw with the delays in getting the supply out there (as some of you apparently do not recall):  The government needed to act even sooner.