Posted on 01/10/2013 7:51:01 AM PST by chessplayer
An agressive flu strain is spreading quickly across the country. Hospitals from coast to coast are being forced to divert patients from their overcrowded emergency rooms.
"I can't say it enough," Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said. "Please all of everyone out there, get to the health centers where you can get you flu shot."
This winter has had the earliest and worst outbreak of deadly flu virus in a decade.
Positive cases of influenza in the U.S. rose 60 percent during the last week of December.
In the week ending on Dec. 29, 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported there were 2,961 positive influenza test results out of 9,363 specimens nationwide, or 31.6 percent. Near the Great Lakes, the hardest-hit region, reports nearly 60 percent of those who were checked tested positive for the flu.
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“Vacination don’t really work”
The guy is a quack. It doesn’t take much technical or historic research to see all of the diseases vaccination has prevented.
>> “A conspiracy nut might think that this is an effort to build support for Obamacare.” <<
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By “conspiracy nut” I assume you mean intelligent, logical thinking individual?
By intelligent, logical thinking individual, I assume you mean those who think everything is a commie plot?
I wonder how these strains of flu disease get into the nation. Probably from the same source as the bedbugs and the head lice.
I wonder how these strains of flu disease get into the nation. Probably from the same source as the bedbugs and the head lice.
Something that pops up on the opposite side of the world can be transported here in a matter of hours by plane. All it takes is an infected person getting on the plane.
In the future land of Obamacare, will flu shots be mandatory ? How would we ever know if there was a potential problem with the flu shot ? No one can ever question the government (Benghazi). The government can do no wrong (Fast and Furious). Islamic individuals are up standing members of society and there is no problem employing them (Fort Hood shooting). Theoretically speaking, how many people would have to die from the flu before anyone in the MSM investigates possible malfeasance.
>> “ those who think everything is a commie plot?” <<
Have you discovered anything that isn’t?
Think hard now!
There’s a woman across the street and down at the corner from us that is 102.
She smokes lightly, drinks wine, and is a ‘meat and potatoes’ gal. Claims that she hasn’t ever been to a doctor, or taken any ‘store bought’ medicine.
She may out-live both of us (I’m 68)
I’ve heard the flu shot lasts only two, maybe three months. I don’t take mine until late Dec. I didn’t take one this yr though
His answer was to my specific inquiry about protection from the bird flu.
He did say that the shot mostly protects against the three strains that were likely to breakout. He also said that some of those had been around for years and some were from breakouts last year.
The CDC site says:
What is the flu shot? The flu shot is an inactivated vaccine (containing killed virus) that is given with a needle, usually in the arm. It contains three seasonal influenza viruses that are grown in eggs. The seasonal flu vaccine protects against three influenza viruses that research indicates will be most common during the upcoming season.
http://www.cdc.gov/FLU/about/qa/flushot.htm
Neither the CDC site nor the doctor indicated there was any currency in creating the vaccine, only likelihood of occurrence and history of breakouts.
So if they don’t have insurance or money, what should they do?
There is only *talk* of investigations. Pontificating before the cameras, blah, blah, blah...the 15 minutes of face time and the sheeple of short attention span theatre have moved on. The politicians and media know this and simply move the sheeple along with further adventures of some Hollywood chick with her baby bump. I better stop as I’m getting angry as I type. :-)
True... the H1N1 was definitely created there.. and oops, released. Think of the Billions of dollars created by the release of a flu.
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