Swine flu - Are we doomed?

[ladyboyluva]

It's just the WHO being puppets for Big-Pharma who want IP control and hence government protected monopolies. China got it a couple of years ago, now it's Mexico's turn.

In the last month at least 50,000 people around the world died from influenza. About 20 died of this one particular strain. Do the math! I think it's 36,000 die each year in the US alone from influenza. It's not only a beat up, it's criminal.

[Snick]

(Torurot @ May 05 2009,16:13) Dishing out Tamiflue to people who are showing NO sign of any flue.  That just breads antibiotic resistance and is a WAY overreaction, and dangerous to boot.  

Swine Flu is a virus and tamiflu is not an antibiotic.

[Torurot]

Why is Tamiflue been dished out, so called "prophylacticly"? Especially to people who are showing symptoms of nothing. How is that helping?? Surely it will only cause drug resistance?

Pandemic scare raises Tamiflu resistance fear
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng....0&ty=st

[Tomcat]

Well you may think its overhyped ... Do you think that a virus will never ever mutate again to kill say 50 million people. Of course it will

It is only a matter of time that some kind of unholy monster spore is unleashed, even if its not swine flu ..The dangerous period for this shit will be around this winter time when it will be easier to spread .

A Virus is also not alive , well not life as we think we know it anyway.

[jadeite]

Even if everyone gets (which they won't) then well over 97% would survive it. Too many people on the earth anyway. Clearing a little 3% out would be nice, but this thing is just hype. Not going to happen.

[sev7en]

First case in Sweden. Scary.

[koykaeng]

Don't know if this is just a coincidence but....

2007 - Chinese year of the Chicken - Bird Flu Pandemic devastates parts of Asia.

2008 - Chinese year of the Horse - Equine Influenza decimates Australia's horse racing industry.

2009 - Chinese year of the Pig - Swine Flu Pandemic kills hundreds of people & pigs around the globe.

Has any one else noticed this?

It gets worse........

next year......

2010 - Chinese year of the Cock............what could possibly go wrong?

Cheers
Koykaeng

[geosight]

I'm off to see a Chinese fortune teller! the cock is starting to get paranoid

[Socrates999]

(Torurot @ May 05 2009,16:13) Given the number of people that have caught it, died, it is overhyped.  A number confirmed to have it, that are already well is very large.  Containment is one thing, shutting down Mexico, Killing pigs in countries that don't even HAVE it.  Yep well overhyped.  Dishing out Tamiflue to people who are showing NO sign of any flue.  That just breads antibiotic resistance and is a WAY overreaction, and dangerous to boot.  

Given the Spanish flue (Avian?) happened at the end of four years of war, where *huge* sections of the population where undernourished and unwell, that knowledge of germs, and antibiotics were at their infancy, had it happened today, how many would have died?  

Clue one (first one's free): You don't treat flu with antibiotics.

Clue 2 (free also): the kill rate for this thing was over 25% initially. That is like bad movie super scary style kill rate. Granted, the sample size was really too small to be meaningful.

However, it is now around 4500 CONFIRMED cases. Calculating deaths/infections over the last few days, the kill rate has dropped to 1.1-1.2%. Not so bad, you say? That is still over 10 times the kill rate for seasonal flu. And it's the middle, healthier group that is dying most, not the youngest and oldest.

Checkout the film "Boys in the Band", if you want to do some Monday morning quarterbacking and get a feel for how a less benign outcome can sneak up and bitch-slap you before you know it.

Spanish Flu today, how many would die? Probably hundreds of millions. It was the mass troop movements that were helping its spread. But now, airplanes take care of that for us.

Be aware that, without constant, sustained medical breakthroughs, the question is not "if", it is "when".

[PanzerPorn]

First two cases in Italy.

[Torurot]

The Swine Flu Panic That Wasn't
Mass hysteria fails to materialize. Again.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/133525.html

Jesse Walker | May 18, 2009

[Tomcat]

I think Socrates was spot on. It can be around 4 -5 months before the shit hits the fan in any event..Its not like a train timetable...

Strangely enough the flu has hit London pretty bad and a realtive of mine was taken in last Sunday as a precaution. I was on deaths door last week and whatever shit is going around here is still pretty awfull

It is only a matter of time and theres nought we can do about it.