Posted on 03/24/2010 5:42:49 PM PDT by neverdem
micro ping
It was a pandemic?? Why?
Simply because “they” said so! I wasn’t even an epidemic!
Biggest scams of the past 10 years:
Y2K
Global Warming
H1N1
Did you read the article?
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So the Mexican flu WAS the swine flu?
Last year's flu that started in Mexico is the swine flu they're talking about, not the swine flu from the 1970s.
The word pandemic has now become synonymous with hysteria.
I was read the riot act around here last year as first one public agency after another yelled fire in a theater, then FReepers went postal because nobody but them knew what they were talking about.
I tried to sound the call of reason, saying the numbers just weren’t there. I predicted that by March of 2010 there would be very few deaths, and the pandemic panderists would look like fools.
Well, they did.
Folks can cry wolf again this year, but absolutely NOBODY will be listening, except to laugh and point fingers.
Hope you don’t take offense NeverDem, but I paid my dues last year. I’m entitled...
Yep. I stand by my post.
Don’t worry they’ll try again this year. WHO was very disappointed, they kept elevating the threat chart hoping the pandemic would catch up but.... it didn’t. Better luck next time! Vitimin D if Mccain don’t push his bill thru banning all alternative over the counter vitimins.
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Swine Flu Pandemic Reincarnates 1918 Virus
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Other than the fact that MILLIONS of people died sudden gasping deaths over
a couple of years with the 1918 (Spanish) Influenza...well, I suppose
they are a whole lot alike.
(Yes, I’m being facetious)
All I know is that one of my father’s aunt told me about living through
that hideous time...and at least in terms of lethality, H1N1 has
(so far, thank G-d) been a wimpy thang in comparison to the Spanish flu.
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U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases virologist Jeffrey Taubenberger
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My post 11 was a shoot-from-the-hip comment. Tauenberger is the real deal.
The title (for the general public) should have said something more
like “molecularly” the two viruses are similar...and lets hope they
don’t end up having similar lethality.
While I won’t dispute that the elderly may have protection from H1N1 due
to earlier exposure to 1918 flu variants...it still is interesting that
Spanish flu victims were mostly “in the prime of life” (something like
age 20-40), while the young and old were relatively spared.
At least that was an observation made on the PBS “Secrets of The Dead”
segment on the Spanish influenza.
Just another way to grab taxpayer’s money. The pharmaceutical companies made beau coup bucks...lots, I’m sure, went to Obummer. In 2011 there will be another pandemic, so Obummer can get dough for his next presidential campaign, unless he gets booted out first.
Anyone consider the odds of three different flu strains naturally combining into one strain?
I still have a hunch this was a failed bio weapon attack...
That’s a number of people think, including Montoreme (screen name) the founder of the PFI forum. He’s some kind of molecular biologist or something similar. It ain’t over yet, either. The 1918 flu started before 1918 (they had worse respiratory ailments in 1916 and 1917 than usual) and wasn’t really over until 1920, and for about 10 years the regular flu season was worse than usual. It sort of died down gradually.
http://homepage.mac.com/monotreme1/PFI_Main_New_Index.html
His blog above.
http://www.singtomeohmuse.com/viewforum.php?f=1&sid=7e73bfec61a6b8b987796e8ce4bd1ee1
The Forum above.
Ping... (Thanks, neverdem!)
“I still have a hunch this was a failed bio weapon attack...”
Me too!
Thanks for the ping!
You’re welcome, Alamo-Girl!
I don’t need Biden to whisper into my ear just how big this H1N1 is. It came perilously close to killing me in 4 days.
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