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I don't consider this a joke, especially since it is spreading all around the world at a quick pace.
I am young and healthy and was a sickly child, so I have a strong immune system and not that worried. But flus do typically hit the young and elderly harder and if this spreads, then we can expect more deaths even if the death-to-infection ratio is low. I don't know why people find this funny. Perhaps, some people have a morbid sense of humor.
I don't consider this a joke, especially since it is spreading all around the world at a quick pace.
I am young and healthy and was a sickly child, so I have a strong immune system and not that worried. But flus do typically hit the young and elderly harder and if this spreads, then we can expect more deaths even if the death-to-infection ratio is low. I don't know why people find this funny. Perhaps, some people have a morbid sense of humor.
Your moniker is "I like taxes" and you think WE have a morbid sense of humor?
I'm very pleased with the WHO and the CDC response because they're acting just like they should when something like this crops up. This could turn out to be a terrible pandemic, or not. Better to be prepared with a full response.
But the media is another story. They don't care what sort of panic they're causing as long as people are tuning in for the next update. That's irresponsible.
does anyone buy into this whole 'swine flu' paranoia? anyone thinking of getting vaccinated? anyone thinking about heading for the hills?
Frankly I find nothing funny about those poor people who have died from this granted yes they are mainly in Mexico probably from inatiquate medical attention, but epidemics are not a funny thing when people die from it......
It is all over and people better wake up and hope that something like the black plague does not move world wide like this has so quick.
Is the Swine Flu a good reason to close the border?
The Swine Flu is rapidly becoming a pandemic, and may be responsible now for 2 deaths in LA. Reports are coming in from countries all over the world of people being sickened while visiting Mexico. Is it time to close the border until we can get a handle on this?
Really? I didn't know that. How juvenile your post was. I don't take vaccinations. I took one a few years back and I was sicker than all get out from it. No more from then on. Don't you dare try to say they are always safe. You should check what happened to people in 1976 when the government gave vaccinations. Some of those peope are now paralyzed. You should research before posting about something you seem to know so little about.
Vaccinations are often promoted by the drug companies. In 1986 an act of Congress set up a special court that protects pharmaceutical companies from injuries caused by vaccines. I'm not sure if all vaccine are covered under the Vaccine Law. Good old Ronald Reagan was in power ... always on the side of big business.
More recently, Gov Perry in Texas mandated that young girls get vaccinated for HPV, a virus that could lead to cervical cancer and the Texas Legislature overturned it, thank goodness. Gov Perry had received donations from Merck, the drug company who makes the vaccine. He said it was a coincidence. (love that word) Now I see lots of ads on TV for a vaccination for Meningitis in teenagers. The rate of children with autism skyrocketed after introducing a new schedule of vaccinations. It's hard to really know when a vaccine is for our health and protection or primarily to promote business for the drug companies. (or use us as guinea pigs)
Well, I just read that there won't be a swine flu vaccination for quite a while, so we'll all have to learn how to hold our breath when we leave the house.
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I'm going to read the creepy King book that freaked me out last time I had the sniffles.
Which one is that? The Stand?
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The media loves this stuff. They haven't had a "we could all die from!!!" subject since the Soviet Union went belly up in the nineties and the spectacle of MAD inspired immolation went away. That's why they latched on Global Waming so hard.
you're forgetting mad cows, killer bees, sars, the 'drug epidemic'!
The media is saying that it's a mixture of swine and avian flu that mutated to humans. Very unlikely scenario, no?
Very [unlikely] unnatural scenario, no?
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Is the Swine Flu a good reason to close the border?
