You’d be pretty stupid to dismiss this one. Just go to the CDC site and track the CONFIRMED cases on a daily basis.
Very much a trailing indicator.
None of us, unless we’re freaks, have any resistance to this combination of flu. We don’t normally react to swine flu. But as this thing hits somebody with the normal seasonal flu, those two viruses will recombine into something which is spread even more easily.
Unlike some of the previous bird flu scares, this one is already showing it can be transmitted easily between humans, and to people who haven’t had any contact with pigs or people from Mexico. It’s loose.
It’s sounds really smart to downplay this. Probably just the opposite.
The Spanish Flu was a swine/human/bird recombinant virus.
If I had to guess, this will shift more to the southern hemisphere as their winter approaches, and will come back here this fall more contagious than ever as it takes advantage of the favorable recombination. A summer flu season is rare. But so is this combination of genes on a virus.
This thing probably won’t kill you. The Spanish Flu didn’t kill 97.5% of the people who caught it.
It’s just when you calculate what 2.5% of the population is that you apppreciate the threat.
“This thing probably wont kill you. The Spanish Flu didnt kill 97.5% of the people who caught it.”
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Speaking as one who just barely survived the 1968 version of the flu I can assure anyone interested that possible death is not the only reason to fear the flu. I endured at least 48 hours of some of the most exquisite torture imaginable and took quite some time to regain normal strength. Surviving that kind of flu will make a believer of anyone. If I knew I had to endure that again I might start casting lingering glances at my shotgun.