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Hysteria over swine flu is the real danger, some say (Ron Paul: all hysteria, no danger)
CNN ^ | April 4, 2009 | Faith Karimi

Posted on 05/05/2009 6:46:11 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts

Story Highlights

Ron Paul: "There is too much hysteria ... there hasn't been that great a danger"

"I haven't seen such a panic," says Southern California medical official

Some say there are other diseases to worry about: "Malaria is killing thousands"

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; corruption; democrats; economy; flu; hysteria; influenza; obama; obamatruthfile; ronpaul; swineflu
How many FReepers know that Ron Paul is a medical doctor? He's kind of looney re: the WOT, but he's right on re: the manufactured panic over Swine (aka Pussy Cat) Flu.
1 posted on 05/05/2009 6:46:12 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts
How many FReepers know that Ron Paul is a medical doctor?

11.

2 posted on 05/05/2009 6:47:32 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: GodGunsGuts
How many FReepers know that Ron Paul is a medical doctor?

You mean like this guy?


3 posted on 05/05/2009 6:48:02 PM PDT by exist
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To: GodGunsGuts

The government manufactures “crises” to make us afraid so it is easier to take our rights away? Who would have thought that was possible? Hope you have bought up your share of ammo already.


4 posted on 05/05/2009 6:49:26 PM PDT by MichiganConservative ($2 trillion in secret loans since late 2008. Audit the federal reserve. Support HR 1207.)
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To: Stentor; Marty; Fractal Trader; metmom; John Valentine; editor-surveyor; Mr Ramsbotham; Chode; ...

Ping!


5 posted on 05/05/2009 6:49:27 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

I know he’s an MD. So what? wRONg PAUL is right on this but wRONg on almost everything else. Loony is an understatement.


6 posted on 05/05/2009 6:49:44 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: exist

Too bad he didn’t stick to his calling!


7 posted on 05/05/2009 6:50:08 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Drango
...is right on this but wRONg on almost everything else...

Like how there was a bubble in the housing market, right?

8 posted on 05/05/2009 6:50:40 PM PDT by MichiganConservative ($2 trillion in secret loans since late 2008. Audit the federal reserve. Support HR 1207.)
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To: Drango

Just a point of trivia. Nothing to get all worked up about. Like I said, he’s looney in a number of areas, but this isn’t one of them.


9 posted on 05/05/2009 6:51:26 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Never let a good crisis go to waste.


10 posted on 05/05/2009 6:52:08 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

More fools.


11 posted on 05/05/2009 6:52:51 PM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: MichiganConservative
Dude, a thousand people, none of the doctors, knew there was a bubble in the housing market. I bet even Michael Buble did!


12 posted on 05/05/2009 6:54:52 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Glenn

Did you find even more personalities in the mirror, Glenn? Don’t be so hard on them, it’s bad for your self-esteem!


13 posted on 05/05/2009 6:55:14 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

What does it mean to believe a thing?


14 posted on 05/05/2009 6:56:37 PM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: Glenn

You mean like when you poor milk over your Darwin idols hoping that you will find favor with darwood’s brain-dead natural selection god?


15 posted on 05/05/2009 6:59:00 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Drango
There are actually two dangers: overreaction and underreaction.

It's still way too early to say whether the new influenza is going to be a major event or not, although it looks like only a minor issue in the short term.

It could emerge in a more widespread and dangerous form by the fall. That's not to say it will, but it certainly could. The smartest thing to do is use the time between now and then to make sure you're prepared for any such eventuality.

16 posted on 05/05/2009 7:00:11 PM PDT by john in springfield
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To: GodGunsGuts
You mean like when you poor milk over your Darwin idols hoping that you will find favor with darwood’s brain-dead natural selection god?

Ah. So you have concluded that I am a Darwinist based on absolutely nothing.

Interesting.

17 posted on 05/05/2009 7:00:34 PM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: Revolting cat!

OK, fine, he just got lucky with the housing bubble. I guess Ron Paul is wrong about following that US Constitution thing.

He and the Mises Institute are predicting hyperinflation. I wonder if he’s wrong about that. The Chinese seem to be preparing for the utter destruction of the dollar.


18 posted on 05/05/2009 7:01:42 PM PDT by MichiganConservative ($2 trillion in secret loans since late 2008. Audit the federal reserve. Support HR 1207.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

I disagree with Paul on a lot of things, but he’s right about this one.


19 posted on 05/05/2009 7:02:30 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (We've gone from Jefferson to the Jeffersons)
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To: john in springfield

What you say is very true. That it’s said on a wRONg PAUL thread detracts from the advice.


20 posted on 05/05/2009 7:02:31 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

The worst part about Ron Paul is not Ron Paul, but all of the freaks that attached themselves to him.


21 posted on 05/05/2009 7:03:59 PM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: Glenn

Not nothing...you have called the author of just about every article/paper I have posted challenging Darwinism a fool.


22 posted on 05/05/2009 7:05:37 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Drango

I am getting the feeling the administration wants to give Americans a sense of panic. In a week we have a worldwide panic over the flu and a flyover of Manhattan.

A financial scare, the gasoline scare and now this.

Something isn’t right.


23 posted on 05/05/2009 7:06:10 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The most powerful person in America today is Justice Kennedy.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

The media and the government created this hysteria.


24 posted on 05/05/2009 7:06:42 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: markomalley

If you are saying the freaks that attach themselves to him are freakier than he is, I won’t disagree with you. But let’s face it, Ron Paul is a basket-case on foreign policy...not to mention 911.


25 posted on 05/05/2009 7:07:46 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Yup. Dr. Paul knows what he’s talking about. Admit that I falled for the hype at first, but now realize that this “epidemic” isn’t as bad as the seasonal flus. Not even close.


26 posted on 05/05/2009 7:10:53 PM PDT by piytar (Obama = Mugabe wannabe. Wake up America.)
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To: Brilliant

You are quite right...and they do it year after year. See the following for how it works. Don’t get hung up on AIDS, just focus on how they operate. Conservatives need to wake up to their crap and start blowing the wistle:

The Medical CIA

http://www.attacreport.com/ar_archives/art_aids_spin_eis1.htm

The Hidden Agenda

http://www.attacreport.com/ar_archives/art_aids_ra_agenda.htm


27 posted on 05/05/2009 7:14:22 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Glenn

What? You think that we should be panicking over swine flu?

You really trust the media and government?


28 posted on 05/05/2009 7:16:46 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: piytar

Also see (esp. e-blast from Dr. Duesberg):

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2243900/posts?page=2#1


29 posted on 05/05/2009 7:17:53 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Drango

And note I’m not saying we should overreact either... overreaction can create unneeded chaos and economic hardship for many, with problems resulting that could be bigger than any problems from the new strain of flu.

We just need to try and get the right perspective and respond appropriately.

Everything has to be seen in context. A pandemic flu (especially if it turns worse or becomes so widespread that our health system is unable to effectively treat large numbers of people) could kill a lot of otherwise young, healthy people — like the young schoolteacher who just died in Texas, leaving a newborn and a 4-year-old behind. A million or more just in this country alone is not outside of the realm of possibility. That would be several hundred times the magnitude of 9/11.

On the other hand, the biggest killers in this country, year after year, are cardiovascular disease and cancer... and that one is a definite. Well over a million people (of course they’re usually older and so have their kids already raised) die from these diseases each year.

And a lot more have preventable health problems... huge numbers of us are literally dying from eating about twice too much, and of the wrong things.


30 posted on 05/05/2009 7:18:46 PM PDT by john in springfield
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To: EQAndyBuzz

That ain’t the half of it. See the following (don’t get hung up on AIDS, pay attention to how our socialist enemies in the Public Health Movement operate):

The Medical CIA

http://www.attacreport.com/ar_archives/art_aids_spin_eis1.htm

The Hidden Agenda

http://www.attacreport.com/ar_archives/art_aids_ra_agenda.htm


31 posted on 05/05/2009 7:19:34 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: john in springfield
A million or more just in this country alone is not outside of the realm of possibility.

(And no, I'm not predicting that, just noting that if we should experience a serious pandemic it's not outside of the realm of possibility.)

32 posted on 05/05/2009 7:21:01 PM PDT by john in springfield
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To: GodGunsGuts
But let’s face it, Ron Paul is a basket-case on foreign policy...not to mention 911.

Well...

If I understand Ron Paul's foreign policy (rather than what somebody else says about it), he is basically an isolationist and talks like one. I haven't heard fruitcake statements, like those you hear out of 9/11 truthers, come out of his mouth (or out of his pen).

And, frankly, to a limit, I will agree with him...to this limit: I have maintained for a lot of years that the pivotal mistake made by the US was not maintaining strict neutrality during World War I. Had Wilson, a progressive in the mold of Ø, minded his own business (and kept a campaign promise BTW), the world would have looked a whole lot different, and better, today. Where I disagree with Paul is that I believe that most, if not all, of the interventions we've had to make since that time can be somehow traced back to that event (I perceive that he would just hold the borders and that's that: which is a legitimate position, just one I don't agree with).

I don't claim to be any kind of expert on Ron Paul. You may be able to come up with some really flaky things that have come out of his mouth (or have been written by him). If so, I am more than willing to be corrected. Do you have a quote on him talking like a 9/11 truther? Or do you have quotes from 9/11 truthers that claim to be Ron Paul supporters.

Having said that, one thing I do like is that he does appear to want to operate according to the Constitution. And that is pretty unique in this day and time. And let me tell you, I would feel a lot more comfortable with him as a candidate than I would with a Roodie Giuliani or with a Mitt Romney, in all honesty.

33 posted on 05/05/2009 7:38:00 PM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“Something isn?t right.”

Gee, ya think?

/sorry, couldn’t resist...


34 posted on 05/05/2009 7:38:27 PM PDT by piytar (Obama = Mugabe wannabe. Wake up America.)
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To: Drango
wRONg PAUL is right on this but wRONg on almost everything else. Loony is an understatement.

For your comment it is....

35 posted on 05/05/2009 8:33:19 PM PDT by GoldStandard
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To: GodGunsGuts; LucyT

I’ve got a “Martian Death flu” right now that’s feels worse than what the swine flu reportedly is. I came down with it two weeks ago and it’s still got me flat on my back


36 posted on 05/05/2009 8:44:57 PM PDT by Polarik (Forgeries are forever)
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To: rabscuttle385; djsherin; bamahead; murphE; Extremely Extreme Extremist; Captain Kirk; Gondring; ...

Ping


37 posted on 05/06/2009 8:56:27 AM PDT by djsherin (Government is essentially the negation of liberty.)
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To: Drango
Ron Paul had the audacity to try to save this nation, perhaps in total, certainly from a generation of turmoil and you continue to ridicule him to this day.

What is it about liberty and freedom that you find threatening?

38 posted on 05/07/2009 7:57:00 PM PDT by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: elkfersupper
What is it about liberty and freedom that you find threatening?

When the message comes filtered from the twisted mind of wRONg PAUL and his demented acolytes. His message is sometimes correct, but more often than not, he's the leader of the wackadoo party. He's not a conservative, he's a losertarian,a hypocrite and a 9/11 isolationist that would deeply harm our country.

Why do you kneel before him?

39 posted on 05/07/2009 8:24:57 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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