Wasn’t this flu supposed to kill off 60% of the population or something? Honestly scientists and commentators need to stop watching so many bad sci-fi movies.
For months it brought out the “sky is falling” crowd, fortunately it didn’t happen like a bunch of them predicted.
SARS -- we're all going to die!
Avian Flu - we're all going to die!
Swine Flu -- we're all going to die!
And don't get me started on the coffee's good for you/coffee's bad for you; wine is good for you/wine is bad for you; aspirins good for you/aspirins bad for you.
Enough all ready!
it was always about manufactured crisis and selling vaccines. Fortunes were made.
I'm convinced that the entire purpose of the propagation of the "swine flu" scare was to convince people that the government was the hero for discovering the problem and acting upon it in a positive fashion. This was all about persuading the public that the government is capable of running the health care system, and doing it well. It was all marketing.
In reality, the swine flu is no different than any other flu strain. It is neither stronger nor more docile. It's just the flu.
I think they were hoping for more than 60%.
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Wasn’t this flu supposed to kill off 60% of the population or something?
Honestly scientists and commentators need to stop watching so many
bad sci-fi movies.
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That’s part of the problem.
Unfortunately, the scientists probably read too much history by the MDs,
public health officers and the other folks that survived the “Spanish”
influenza while people, dispropotionately in the health ages of 20-40,
were dropping like flies.
And these public health types were totally impotent to stop it.
The media tempest that erupted last year over H1N1...probably
not necessary.
But the public health officials are paid to head off “the worst case
scenario”.
Sadly, that intesected with the journalists, too many without degrees
in biological sciences, whose job is to scare us to death and sell their
magazines, cable TV specials, end-of-life-as-we-know-it docudramas.