[OldFriend]

We've gone from West Nile Virus, to Mad Cow Disease, to Bird Flu.

Anyone get the feeling that this hysteria is contrived?

[Esther Ruth]

Anyone get the feeling that this hysteria is contrived?
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It's more then a feeling, it's a fact, this is so contrived. Question is Why? Could the answer just be simply there is money to be made with all the drugs, vaccines or is there more to it, a way to control something.

[glasseye]

Anyone get the feeling that this hysteria is contrived?

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken

[Myrddin]

We've gone from West Nile Virus, to Mad Cow Disease, to Bird Flu.

West Nile went from a few birds in a New Jersey marsh to a endemic coast to coast in North America in 2 years. It is now an ongoing cost to horse owners in my area.

The jury is still out on mad cow. How many parties have been diagnosed and cured thus far?

The current H5N1 avian flu was confined to southeast asia last year. It has spread across asia and south to africa. There is no reason to believe that it won't spread as easily across north america. It's unlikely that we can do anything about it. Watch. Wait. Measure the real economic impact. Anything else is speculation. Enjoy your chicken while it's cheap and available.