If this an experiment? Is it the 1% being magnanimous? Is this that he doesn't want his employees to get the flu?
Nevertheless a nice gesture - though there may be more effective ways to spend the $$$ on the public good.
Nevertheless a nice gesture - though there may be more effective ways to spend the $$$ on the public good.
Google already provides free on-site flu vaccines for Googlers, and vouchers for Googler family members.
The flu makes society horribly unproductive (and cranky) so it's a public good.
Ah here it is http://www.google.org/flutrends/
You are right, it will be interesting to see if this makes a difference statistically.
Unfortunately their tracker doesn't go down to metro areas, only state.
Oh wait, there are a few cities, here is SF http://www.google.org/flutrends/us/#1014221
Don't take this too far; the data is very noisy and maybe it was there and we just didn't see it. Flu vaccines do seem to work in labs and in small community experiments.
The class warfare rhetoric is B.S.
(Hell, a good thing is a good thing even if it's done for completely insane reasons, too.)