Posted on 04/27/2009 9:01:55 PM PDT by FreedomFighter1013
If this thing spreads like crazy but the “kill rate” is not materially worse than any other flu, then the questions becomes... so what? I think the virus is too unstable to do national damage. Plus, people are just plain healthier than they were in 1918. Most lived with outhouses on farms in those days and diets were primarily eat what you grow or kill. Now, Americans, while obese, are very healthy people in general. I hope I’m right. Because if I’m wrong, I’m going to look like a major fool, myself...
Good question.
how can 3 strains of a virus co-exist to create a manufactured pandemic?
Than may be, but evolutionary evidence (from the Apollo 11 mission) tells us that Earth's creation happened about four thousand five hundred million years ago.
Go figure.
Just because you say it doesn’t make it so.
More scary than Climate Control. I feel bad about the sick fols but just a few weeks ago the MSM and other stations were promotomg the new BIO CHIPS mark of the beast justification?
Try Cap & Trade...
Or the movie “Outbreak”
A town tried that in 1918. Got it through the mail.
You have to shutdown everything - mail, food, water, electricity, gas distribution… in order for everyone staying at home working by completely isolating themselves from contact with others or with the outside.
Sorry, meant to address my #50 to you.
Sounds like it was engineered. Escaped from a lab or was it released on purpose?
Nor is it any less so just because you declaim it.
I think the whole origins debate has consumed WAY too much time and energy that those involved could have more beneficially contributed elsewhere in society.
Within the realm of Christian life [as differentiated from simply christian life] the debate on what happened 6000 or 4.5 billion years ago has really sucked a great deal of wind out of the Great Commission. But, then, I suppose that’s to be expected since the prevalence of cessationism has left much of Christendom bereft of tangible, present-day proofs of the existence of this Almighty God.
Absent some truly evident and undeniable miracles, we’re left with little more than the pursuit of intellectualized arguments hopped up with a bit of theological lingo to make them palatable on a Sunday morning. So, off to the crevo wars we go, as another generation pitches over the edge of the Abyss.
Had Darwin predated Wesley, Wesley STILL would not have needed to argue the topic; the power of God evident in his preaching was testament to the veracity of his message. When John Wesley took to the field to preach, the power of the Spirit of YHVH would so move upon his hearers that on at least one occasion, when he had concluded, there were more than 1,800 people lying on the ground utterly unconscious; rocked to the very core of their being by a personal encounter with The VERY real and VERY living God.
I guarantee when THAT kind of thing happens to a man, it makes NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL what he personally believes about the origins of the universe and mankind, nor ought the Church care; it becomes an insignificant issue compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ.
The 1918 flu had a kill rate of around 1% in US I believe.
For Mexico this flu as been around 6%.
Who knows...
He will no doubt try to take advantage of flu any way he can—a crisis is such a good thing to waste :(
Simply because the death rate is so high of the people infected. In Mexico the death rate of those infected has been around 6%. That’s extremely high. If that death rate were to remain constant and the virus is highly transmittable which it appears to be that’s bad. Real bad. But only if both those things hold true.
The 1918 flu pandemic that killed perhaps 100 million people worldwide had a death rate of something like 1% in the US in comparison.
What you believe about origins matters, even in the public sphere. If you believe we’re a nothing but a product of nature and not of nature’s God, just about anything goes.
Fortunately we live in a country that was founded by those who understood that we were created in God’s image, and that therefore the rights to life, liberty and private property that He gave us are in justice unalienable by mere men.
If it’s not the kill rate, then it must be the transmission rate?
I keep hearing the similarity with the Spanish Flu is it killing strong people - their young strong immune systems end up killing them in response to the virus.
Does this characteristic correlate with transmission rate?
If this does become a big killer, it's probably going to hit a lot harder in the Islamic world and Latin America than in developed countries.
I know what you mean, and I'm not certain that there's any tinfoil involved. They clearly admit to loving distractions, and their saps on the Hill are set to nationalize 17 percent of the economy on Wednesday, Oh, I mean "overhaul health care."
Even the viral publicity of this thing is enough to weird me out.
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