Fake columns would be a little much at this time. The faux patriot multiple-flags ruse might be the better option.
Posted on 04/29/2009 3:44:50 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - A government official confirmed the first U.S. death from the new H1N1 swine flu on Wednesday, a 23-month-old child who died in Texas.
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Your chances of dying from this flu seem to be ONLY 1 in 14.
But you know what — that REALLY sucks if it's you or someone you love...
My great aunt died in that outbreak, was married on a Saturday, went to Chicago for honey moon, was buried the next Saturday by the same preacher that performed the wedding.....She had just finished college with honors. Her husband was a doctor, no one could help her. Her sisters never got over it.
Well, 54 million children dying (with his approval) doesn’t seem to bother him.
It was Disney World (Orlando) and they’re still denying it.
:-).. Disney Land/Disney World. They all look the same to me!
Agreed. But it's not the national "crisis" the media and Obambi are making it out to be.
There's probably just as many or more who travel by bus to and from Mexico every day. They are boxed in with each other for many more hours than on planes. You see them all the time on I35 going N and S, and on I10 going E and W. You really have to be careful around lunch and dinner time because they'll pull over onto the side of the highway and open the doors. A few dozen Mexicans will pile out and run across the grassy divide to the frontage road where there's a parked lunch wagon. Sometimes they'll pile out at convenience stores and you don't want to be anywhere near there at the time.
Oh my gosh, you are absolutely right. I had completely forgotten about the buses they use. We have a line that runs down I-25.
This reminded me of a lecture I heard by a Home Land Security guy who taught municipalities on preparing. Folks who have done contingency planning on this are worried less about a flu that is very deadly than one that is mildly deadly but is very contagious.
If it is very deadly, the assumption is it would be contained much quicker and although many may die, the infrastructural elements in our society would stay in tact. However, a flu that is less deadly will have a chance to spread more rapidly and the resultant absences from critical support services- military, medical, local police, fire, ambulance, water, communications etc will open us to all sorts ancillary disasters. Fires that cannot be put out, doctors unable to perform surgery, telephone companies unable to mend wires.
My mom was one of 11 - even when she was a child people were shocked at someone having that many kids.
I think the hysteria is mostly media driven. However, the concern is because the 36,000 deaths from the flu each year is based upon the seasonal flu, for which vaccines are widely distributed. Vaccines protect a good percentage of people from contracting and spreading the virus.
With this flu, there is no vaccine, so there is not a protected population. That will mean more deaths. Also, in Mexico, those who are dying from this flu are those between the ages of 25-47, which is atypical. The flu in the US does not appear as virulent...yet. However, the flu mutates very quickly and could become more virulent here, just as it did in Mexico.
It is too early to tell what will happen. This flu will evolve as there are more cases. It should definately be taken seriously, as should all flus. CDC is good. I work with them some, and I have always been impressed. They are experts in this area, and I would advise that everyone follow their instructions. They have information and expertise that the general population just doesn’t have.
It says he’s from Brownsville, TX
Fake columns would be a little much at this time. The faux patriot multiple-flags ruse might be the better option.
“While there may be deaths associated with the flu yearly in the US, it is primarily the elderly who is hit the hardest by it.”
Actually it’s both those over 70 and those under 5 that are the hardest hit normally.
Also includes those with compromised immunities such as cancer/chemotherapy patients, AIDS patients and so on.
Yeah Privacy! That is a joke. I was in ER the other night and a they left the computer screen up with everyone’s info.
@#^^*^$%^@#*&%#$@# BS!
Yes, the toddler who died was Mexican and from Brownsville. Brownsville is on the Texas/Mexican border right on that bottom tip of the state. It's 350+ miles from there to Houston. If they drove, they would have stopped for gas, food, and potty breaks along the way so most likely spread the disease especially if the child had dirty diapers. This could very well have been a family who lived somewhere in central Mexico but came across the border for medical treatment and again, who knows how many they infected along the way.
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