WTF does this have to do with Obama?
Besides that you are sounding completely uneducated here. I have studied virology and microbiology. Because two old people die from the flu doesn’t mean that its the same for every flu. As it is obvious that you do not know but not every Flu is the same and not every Type will have the same strain. Because this is type A it doesn’t mean it’s the same seasonal type A that hits us every year. What concerns everybody is the fact that the young and healthy died, like what happened during the 1918 Spanish Flu and the 1976 outbreak.
The elderly die from the regular flu because of secondary infections. THe young die from Flu’s like the Spanish flu due to a systematic over-reaction by the immune system causing the symptoms to be deadly. The elderly don’t die because their immune systems aren’t strong enough to over-react.
Ummm .... Aft_lizard, why don't you breathe into a paper bag and re-read my post and re-read (or read for the first time .... I also plead "Guilty" to sometimes reading only the headline of a thread) the text of the vanity thread we are both replying to.
The post was not solely addressed to you. It was addressed as follows:
"Polybius to aft_lizard; Cringing Negativism Network; Cicero"
WTF does this have to do with Obama?
Read the original vanity posted by Cringing Negativism Network:
"I suspect, this is all an elaborate ruse. To cover up our "dear leader's" (Obama's) plummeting approval numbers."
The Obama comment had nothing to do with you. The Obama comment directly addressed the major point of this vanity thread: "This is all a ruse to cover up Obama's plummeting approval numbers."
Besides that you are sounding completely uneducated here. I have studied virology and microbiology. Because two old people die from the flu doesn’t mean that its the same for every flu.
I have studied virology and microbiology too. If I hadn't, I would not have an M.D. hanging on my office wall. If you re-read my post, you will realize that I was fully agreeing with what you wrote.
I did not challege your position, I fully agreed with your position.
What concerns everybody is the fact that the young and healthy died, like what happened during the 1918 Spanish Flu and the 1976 outbreak.
Yes, I know. I pointed that out.
"When 86 year old Mrs. Bernstein dies of a particular flu strain, that's just The Natural Order of Things. ..... When two healthy 27 year old medical interns die in the same hospital of a particular flu strain, you have a very nasty, newly-mutated bug." ...... 29 posted on Saturday, April 25, 2009 6:07:38 PM by Polybius