I was so ticked when I heard this. What a crock. SCARE TACTIC. Then I read Dick Armey predicted Bambi would hype this.
This prediction comes from his “Science Team”. Fire them all.
Ginning up another are we? The One wee weed up his present plans needs a new crisis to help him get out of the bind.
Gov. Sebelius Can’t Be Trusted On Her Own Taxes, But Wants to Run 16% of Economy
As Secretary of the HHS, Gov. Sebelius will be tasked with implementing Obama’s massive health care changes. Someone so indebted to the abortion industry that she vetoes common-sense provisions is incapable of administering any meaningful change or reform in the health care sector.
Gov. Sebelius is unable to manage her own affairs or the affairs of her state. It is ironic that the same woman who pledged in a confirmation hearing to crack down on medical fraud to signal that there was ‘a new sheriff in town’ would ignore our tax laws until she is nominated to the Cabinet. Obviously, she is incapable of running the HHS.”
Source: http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/02/the-bigger-tax-problems-of-kathleen-sebelius/
About 30,000 to 40,000 deaths occur due to the regular flu each year in the United States. That number could equate to 300,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide.1 The majority of flu-related deaths occur in people over the age of 65.2
• About five to twenty percent of the US population gets the flu each year.
• About 92 children die each year from the flu
http://organizedwisdom.com/How_Many_People_Die_From_the_Flu_Each_Year
When the Swine Flu was headline news early last Spring, we already had over 17,000 deaths from the regular flu, and at the time just a couple of probable cases of Swine Flu deaths, which never did go up much beyond a handful.
My prediction: The deaths worldwide from all kinds of flu this Winter will be about average. But the media will do a Katrina on us.
Oh their hoping!
Around 37,00 die annually from various flu outbreaks.
The 90,000 doesn’t seem like much of a ‘pandemic’ when compared to the 1918 Spanish Flu which killed some 675,000 Americans.
I just got a letter from the school (actually from Gov. Phil Bredensen) stating that if my child(ren) come down with an illness or fever at or above 100 accompanied by cough and or sore throat, unless I KNOW it’s not the flu, I’m supposed to keep them home for 7 days or however long past that when they are completely recovered.
Bird Flu is second only to Swine Flue when it comes to over hype and demagoguery. This looks more like the plot to a Peanuts column every day.
The sheeple are being set up for something - I can’t quite figure out what. We had a suspected case of swine flu at my work and management is going nuts.
Never mind that the sick person missed half a day Friday and her doc said she could return today. She has to go back to the Dr and get a written release.
GM says crap like, “Now, we don’t want you to panic, but, I’m reading that 1 out of 3 people WILL contract this.”
He’s called two meetings about this since Friday. Insane.
Scare tactics. Wonder when the government is going to test the vaccine to make sure people don’t have the same reaction as they did in the 1976 swine flu panic.
HIV is a much bigger problem that isn’t even speculative.
They’re hoping more old folks die. It will solve the social security problem.