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Google Flu tracker-Drudge Alert
NYTIMES ^ | November 11, 2008 | MIGUEL HELFT

Posted on 11/11/2008 12:59:25 PM PST by winoneforthegipper

SAN FRANCISCO — What if Google knew before anyone else that a fast-spreading flu outbreak was putting you at heightened risk of getting sick? And what if it could alert you, your doctor and your local public health officials before the muscle aches and chills kicked in?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: bigbother; bigbrother; flu; google; googlecorrupt; monitortheinternet; privacyrights; snooping; stalinsttactics; terror; wiretapping
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To: oh8eleven
The viruses in the flu shot are “dead” so you can’t get the flu from a flu shot.

Perhaps. But I have had an adverse effect from tetanus, sulfa, isoniazid and indocine. I think the flu vaccine is just one more thing.

21 posted on 11/11/2008 1:32:15 PM PST by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Me too. I like the quick loading time.


22 posted on 11/11/2008 1:35:06 PM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: Glenn

EXACTLY!

I’ve had two flu shots in my life and felt like crap after each.

I said I’ll take my chances rather than get sick knowingly and willingly.


23 posted on 11/11/2008 1:36:26 PM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: winoneforthegipper

earth clinic remedies will tell you how to deal with the flu among other things. Good site.


24 posted on 11/11/2008 1:38:33 PM PST by VNam68
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To: winoneforthegipper

The big problem with the avian flu H5N1 is that nobody has any immunity to it, because they’ve never been exposed to it. However, it has been discovered that if someone gets vaccinated for a generic H5N1, twice, their immune system is much more able to cope without dangerously overreacting.

So when the real disease comes around, they may still get sick, just not as sick as they would have.

For this reason, H5N1 components should be added to the next few flu vaccines.


25 posted on 11/11/2008 1:57:23 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Glenn

If you were in bed for a week from a flu vaccine, it must have been a hospital bed due to an ana;hylactic reaction.

It couldn’t have been flu, because the flu virus is inactivated, and it’s impossible to get flu from a flu shot.

The FluMist nasal vaccine has a weakend flu virus, so it’s technically possible to get flu from it, but highly unlikely.


26 posted on 11/11/2008 2:24:19 PM PST by Born Conservative (Bohicaville: http://bohicaville.wordpress.com/)
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To: oh8eleven
The viruses in the flu shot are “dead” so you can’t get the flu from a flu shot.

Nope, you can't get the flu from a flu shot. But flu symptoms aren't caused by the virus they are the immune system's reaction. So if the body reacts to what it perceives to be the flu you can experience the symptoms.

27 posted on 11/11/2008 2:45:17 PM PST by TigersEye (I want some pie.)
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To: HollyB

http://www.scroogle.org/


28 posted on 11/11/2008 2:57:21 PM PST by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Nightshift

gnip...


29 posted on 11/11/2008 3:08:39 PM PST by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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To: winoneforthegipper
Get G-Zapper to turn off / disable Google's tracking cookie.

http://www.dummysoftware.com/gzapper.html

30 posted on 11/11/2008 3:25:21 PM PST by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
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To: Lou L

My son and I both have Mono. Wish they had a tracker for that!


31 posted on 11/11/2008 11:35:36 PM PST by Marie ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: tutstar

I developed the original concept in 2005 using Google’s own data.

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme?entry=google_gets_a_clue

Sure took a long time, guys.


32 posted on 11/12/2008 2:42:52 AM PST by shimbo
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To: winoneforthegipper

what’s next... when i search for gun, Palin, or Christian who will they report it to?

I am typing flu in google over and over when i think about it... maybe it will skew their data and they will not be looked as all knowing!

They are evil.


33 posted on 11/12/2008 4:54:39 AM PST by sbhitchc
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To: winoneforthegipper

Not cool to be made public.
Homeland Security should stop this.
Too much data for the enemies.


34 posted on 11/12/2008 2:38:27 PM PST by placebo
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Let's have fun with them.

For example, I Googled “I sneezed and crapped my pants”.

I also Googled "Obama makes me sick to my stomach".

35 posted on 11/13/2008 3:09:58 AM PST by Yankee
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