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I haven’t checked too deeply but I think fedora dropped the affected system between kernels 6.6 and 6.12 somewhere. 6.12+ appear to not have the modules.
Not too surprising given the system has been deprecated for a long time.

uptime should be handled by the kernel, so a kexec “soft-reboot” would still reset the uptime.

Flu and corona are both “common cold type” viruses defeating resistance in some way. For coronaviruses that method is stopping the body from building effective resistance by all means possible, so that is why vaccines tend to not work too well.
For the flu it’s the many variations and its tendency to change further and need new antibodies.
So I don’t think a specific flu strain is hard to make a very effective vaccine for, but ofc this doesn’t yet solve the flu problem.
The immense speed at which mRNA vaccines can be developed might improve that in the future, where this here could be one of many steps to get regulatory approval for blanket mrna and actually be permitted to change them at that pace.

In principle mRNA should let you crank you vaccines for new diseases/flu-strains in under a week. If this can fully stop the flu?.. I doubt it. Whatever does solve it will probably make use of this tech though.

It’s also completely fine under all international law.
Following copyright law is more like a trade agreement, so if you feel wronged enough as a nation it’s completely uncontroversial to suspend all or all international copyright law and deal with the consequences (mainly the us being very salty about it).

The EU contingency for a US attack on Greenland for example is among other steps to suspend all US copyrights recognition and starve the US service industry.