[tinacart]

"The reason there is a "shortage" this year is soley because the media has wipped the masses into a panic about 11 deaths, when in fact 360000 deaths is about aveage each and every year."

Hmmm, I've been trying to figure this one out - we are reaching critical mass right now, all 50 states have now felt the effects of the flu virus, yet 20 children (+/-) have died and how many more adults? Not that much more I'm sure... So, how do we come up with the figures 36,000 per year, when we are in the crisis phase right now and haven't come anywhere close to the numbers... Something doesn't smell right here (and NO, I don't get the flu vaccines, no matter who's in office, and I'm still alive, as is my son, as are my grandsons - and - I don't know a single person that's died from the FLU - EVER!).

[Mich0127]

Good point...I've had the flu and I didn't die!
Hitlery is still a loser
This is just one more feather for her cap!

[baseballmom]

Figures for U.S. flu deaths given on the news tonight were:

1918-1919 Spanish Flu 500,000

1968-1969 Hong Kong Flu 36,000.

Perhaps that is where the 36,000 number came from