Actually, the 2009 flu vaccine has been included in each year’s flu shot starting in 2010. And it is again scheduled to be included in 2015-16. There was even a supplemental single-strain vaccine available in 2009.
Funny how you say this while sitting at a computer using the internet with probably cable TV in the background and no life threatening diseases in your blood.
Visiting another time might be fun. But anything past even 30 years ago probably would not be fun for any of us to permanently live in.
Yup, that’s an interesting point, though unless you’re actually a member of said minority it may not be a major practical obstacle just in terms of fitting in. And though it was indeed tough for independent women, many did make it. Theodate Pope, for example, had become an accomplished architect even before she almost perished on the Lusititania in 1915. She survived, married, and went on to further acclaim.
I have actually tried the “living past even 30 years ago” thing and I can report that it is kind of doable. 
I dunno, there’s a boatload of fun you can have being present for landmark historical events, epic jazz, own some Van Goghs. I’d say some well chosen history books would give you lots of things to do. I agree that wealth would erase a lot of hardships, besides you won’t miss being able to email or travel 50 miles in an hour when nobody else can and you don’t have anything to gain by being able to.
I think you have to wait a few years for the flappers, though.
Can you have the time machine plop you in the middle of a pharmacy at 2am when it’s closed, and lift a lot of antibiotics and Tamiflu? Also maybe some treatments for symptoms, like something to clear your lungs, or cough medicine.
If you were vaccinated for H1N1, that should offer some protection against the Spanish flu, because the Spanish flu was an H1 as well. Couple that with doses of ramantadine, or Tamiflu (antivirals) and you have a way better chance of surviving it. You might get what feels like a bad cold, but you’ll live. Then you’ll be immune.
Synthetic sapphires. You can buy them by the kilo in back-streets markets in Asia. Your main problem is making them small enough and inconspicuous enough. Probably synthetic star sapphires would be best.
There’s also a fairly good supply of synthetic emeralds these days which carat for carat are way more valuable than diamonds. Real emeralds that is.
So much the better:
Don’t call them diamonds, say that you found a limited deposit of this gem in your travels to somewhere remote and call them Unobtainite. 
Instead of being just another diamond, you control the WORLD SUPPLY of this diamond-like gem. Look at Tanzanite. Come to think of it, maybe this is happening now! :dubious:
Similarly, any created gem such as Helenite could fuel the same process. :rolleyes:
The 2015 flu vaccination was worthless in 2015; they guessed wrong.
Also Lusitania, seeing as it’s 1915 and all.
But, being zillionaire time travellers, we could charter the 1906 RMS Mauretania for a transatlantic Dope meet (after sending it and us back to, say, 1492, to avoid 1915 torpedoes) and to scare the hell out of Christopher Columbus.
Where’s the fun in that? My way at least adds to the amount of cool shit in the world today by preserving some things that have been lost.
For my own collection I’d also buy as many jazz and blues 78s as I could back in the 20s and 30s.
Yeah, that’s why I like my own strategy of investment and also key purchases. I would really love to have a warehouse full of basically brand new very rare classic cars, as well as many other rare and cool knick·knacks, plus some prime real estate.
I was looking at this site and found some more stuff:
An initial $10k investment in Apple would also be worth around $1.7 million today. But I’d be taking around $50k in 1915 $10 bills (based on a cite by another poster above I figure that’s about as much as I could scrape together to buy) and setting things up for the long term. I’ve done some back of the envelop calculations and I think that, conservatively I’d be looking at something like $200-400 million dollars if I did it right and could hit only the highlights of optimal times to invest…and if I could leverage the investments we might be talking a billion or more at this point. PLUS all the cool stuff I’d collect along the way. 
But people/men smoked everywhere. And yes, medical science was still in its infancy, but they could do way more than pray at you. Surgery was fairly advanced. They had inoculations, antisepsis, pain-killers.
Dude- they had great couch medicine then- still with codeine.
As a slight hijack of this thread, how would you prove to someone that you HAD traveled back to 1915? How could you create convincing evidence to prove to someone that you did?
J.
Your own fingerprint on an object in the doubter’s possession from 1915, impossible for you to have touched otherwise.
If there is no such object, go back and engineer such a causation.
Or kidnap Judge Crater from a New York restaurant on West 45th Street.
And $20’s at about $150 each.
That’s the trouble with 1915. Nice to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.
Probably wouldn’t want to get any of it on your hands either, I guess.
But as for lining your pockets, I imagine that even if the occupants of 1915 weren’t the least bit freaked out by time travel, they would still appreciate you just as much as the inhabitants of any land appreciate the stranger who appears in their midst, rubbing his palms together, and thinking “now, how can I exploit this place for my own personal gain?”
Personally, I would pack as many pairs of nylon stockings / pantyhose as I could carry. Love is always worth more than money.
“Don’t hurt me man! I’m just trying to make a profit!”
They have it now - just not available over-the-counter. 
Also with hydrocodone, if you can’t take opium derivatives. :o
(Scary one, that. It tastes REALLY good, without any medicine taste. No I won’t tell you the name. :rolleyes:
How feasible would this be for someone capable of constructing a working time machine? I can’t imagine it would be any problem at all!
Assuming you’re bringing these back - you’d be arrested for fraud, since carbon-14 dating would confirm the eyeball observation and other chemical tests that these were printed last month, not aged over 70 years. You’d sell your story when you got out of jail about ho you made the world’s most accurate fakes.
So you find a safe place to store them and hope they survive in storage unmolested by human, varmit, or mold for 70 years.
The “if you spent $10,000 on this company” thing makes me wonder - what was market capitalization back then? Would $10,000 on some of these lesser companies have distorted the market? Was Target a million-dollar or more company in 1915 - since maybe more than 1% purchase would distort the market? After all, a million dollars (Think Doctor Evil) was a lot of money back then. Plus, when did they start to take off? A lot of the boom, I think, was post-WWII.
The other thing is that you want your money to work for you in 1915 if you are going back there. Investments that pay off in 2015 or 1970 don’t make much sense.
Also, remember that you want to keep a low profile. Before FBI, before fingerprint databases and fax machines, it was easier for crooks to move around. Even today we hear complaints about the hired help stealing. You live with a bunch of people, then pretty much like family, the butler or maid or gardener will walk in on you one day (or that flapper will tell them) and figure out where your gem stash or money pile is hiding. You’ll come home from that trip to Europe or Brazil to find your stash gone - if they don’t just torture the combination out of you and toss your body in the woods. Who’d report you gone. Cash in and get it into the bank ASAP. (As others mentioned, too many good bets and curious people with baseball bats will drop in to discuss your “system”.) In the good old days, there was no such thing as privacy - if you were rich, the servants saw everything, if you were poor you did not have your own room.
If you wanted a little excitement, bring a high-powered fast but quiet motorcycle, some firearms and C4 explosive, and if squeamish about hurting people, some tranquilizer dart guns. I suspect a lot of places used live guards rather than alarm systems, and after a few nighttime raids travelling quickly a long way from home you don’t have to figure out how to get 1915 money in 2015.