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http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/sick.htm |
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Don't bother, this guy is too much of an ignoramus to understand simple concepts and instead threatens death on my family. Its clear that you and your online GF's here dont get the simple concept of death, and that it has nothing to do with the number of people have died. Death is death, 10 people or 10,000, they are still dead. But hey, you dont care, just as long its not you. |
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Yet the internet lets you review games with an attitude of a 5 year old. |
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Can't you children quit bickering - or at least take it to PMs? [yawn]
Reading the article and some of the related stuff, sure looks bad for some people who were pushing the vaccines. As has been said then and now, the 'comon' flu kills many thousands EVERY year and yet little is done about it, compared to these "pandemics". Something seems to be up, IMO. However, some of the Government actions could have been ligitimate fear of another '1918 Spanish Flu" outbreak* which, estimates suggest, killed 50-100million people - to put that in perspective, that was around 5% of the global population. Corresponding to perhaps 15 million in America, 3 million in Britain - or globally it would be over 300 million with todays populations! *one of the reasons it was believed to have spread so quickly was the re-patriation of troops after the war, poor hygiene and lack of vaccines, etc, so a modern outbreak would spread very rapidly, especially if a long incubation period, but that would be countered by the improved living conditions, hygiene and medical knowledge. |
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What dead people, those five or six people worldwide? Don't be ridiculous. The H1N1 situation is actually very complex, as it involved a lot of media-induced panic, government pandering to the public that was shitting their pants, and subsequent deals that developed between the companies that made the vaccine and the government. To better understand this, you should read the comments I posted in April/May of that year, when the story was just developing, comments that I made against a torrent of ridicule... Yet my predictions had come true EXACTLY. Try http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...3&postcount=59 http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...2&postcount=63 http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...6&postcount=68 http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...5&postcount=91 http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...6&postcount=93 especially http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...&postcount=108 analysis (april 29 2009) http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...&postcount=114 and http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...&postcount=119 and http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...&postcount=123 thoughts on the vaccine 10/29/2009 http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...81&postcount=8 http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...3&postcount=10 information about the effectiveness of the vaccine 11/2009 http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...87&postcount=1 ... and so on and so forth. Basically, to sum it up, it was a collossal cluster**** which turned out to be crying wolf, and the govt's wound up with millions extra doses of poor vaccines for an epidemic that never happened. That being said. 1. in retrospect the efforts to vaccinate the population have been rather successful, as evidenced by this past flu season 2. there is nothing WRONG with the vaccines now, and the massive numbers of orders got the price down to $15-18/dose, even for the live vaccine, which is very cheap. 3. certainly people made money on the panic, but to be fair, government bureaucrats and their agencies made far more money for doing far less than the pharmaceutical companies |
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