Posted on 05/01/2009 2:15:05 PM PDT by tatown
Virtually no place in the world is more than about 18 hours away these days.
Yes and the Obama Admin has passed a bill to emergency save us all.
I’ve only ever had one flu shot when I was married to a nurse. NEVER AGAIN.
That's not accurate. Tamiflu and Relenza are effective, but only when taken within 48 hrs of infection. This can be problematic as the initial symptoms (especially within the first 48hrs) aren't necessarily that severe, and probably aren't severe enough to warrant a trip to the doctor.
But, the fact of the matter is anti-virals like Tamiflu are hopefully one of the reasons that we won't see another flu pandemic like 1918 - at least not in the developed world.
I pretty much don't take medicine. My medicine intake consists of 1 aspirin daily, and that's only because I had a heart attack several years ago.
“Absolutely. I will be getting my human/pig/bird flu mutant flu vaccination as soon as it is available!”
Be sure to ask for it as the MAN-BEAR-PIG-PIG-PIG shot. Code name MBP3 vaccine.
Excellent point....we would likely have a vaccine by then.
>>In fairness though, the flu victims were susceptible to secondary infections because their immune system’s response to the virus had destroyed the lining of their lungs.<<
And the best breeding ground was soldiers from WWI, who were both malnourished and stressed to the max.
Seriously, with the sanitary conditions, the lack of indoor plumbing and general ignorance of what caused this (the doctors may have known but people fell to quack treatments), the people in that time cannot be compared with people today.
Exactly and had a person with a flu as powerful as the 1918 been in a major airport like JFK, O’Hare, Atlanta, LAX, Heathrow, Orly or Tokyo it would have been a pandemic within 12 hours.
Mexico City is one of the most densely populated cities in the world and much of it is slums with substandard sanitation, the fact that it’s not even spreading that quickly there should have put an end to a lot of the panic.
When a true deadly pandemic hits, who will believe them anymore ----- it's like crying wolf once too often.
That is what concerns me, not that I believe the media anyway, but I wish they would save their hyperventilation --- but they just can't it.
Me too!
I’ve had two.
Both gave me injection site pain (as did my hubby’s)
Both had me sick as a dog within two days (as did my hubby’s)
Both had me sick for nearly a month (as did my hubby’s)
FReepers jump on me yelling “No live virus, so that’s impossible!”
I say, no more flu shots.
Some will rip you for anything.
Didn’t the last swine flu vaccine cause terrible side effects and prove ineffective anyway?
Its still early days. I’m concerned, but still went shopping last night sans mask.
The Black Death wiped out huge portions of Europe in the mid-14th Century, today it can be easily treated with antibiotics. Using ANY epidemic that occurred prior to the development of modern medicine as a model for predicting and fighting current epidemics is pointless because ignores reality.
>>Didn’t the last swine flu vaccine cause terrible side effects and prove ineffective anyway?<<
Yes!!!!
It’s tempting when there’s something out there that’s different to go nuts with how you report it.
of course obama doesn’t want people to panic...when all cases of this flu has stopped then I will believe it..
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