Posted on 05/08/2009 12:04:10 PM PDT by TaraP
The ongoing outbreak of novel influenza A (H1N1) continues to expand in the United States. CDC expects that more cases, more hospitalizations and more deaths from this outbreak will occur over the coming days and weeks.
CDC continues to take aggressive action to respond to the expanding outbreak. CDC’s response goals are to reduce spread and illness severity, and provide information to help health care providers, public health officials and the public address the challenges posed by this emergency.
CDC is issuing updated interim guidance daily in response to the rapidly evolving situation.
Who cares?
We’re trying to keep a good panic going.
Evidently. :-)
I just flew into Tokyo last night. Every person had to fill out a health questionnaire prior to entry. The health inspectors came on board with their “moon suits” and masks on. They had a thermal imaging camera as well. They would not deplane the 747 until they personally interviewed every person and viewed them with the infrared camera for fever. It took about one hour of sitting at the gate prior to deplaning. You definitely didn’t want to sneeze at the time!
I was assured by many on FR that this was merely a shellgame being played on us by Leftwingtard conspirators.
If it's up to 3200 cases tomorrow, and 6400 Sunday, and 12,800 Monday (a regular geometric progression) I want some of those folks who told us to "not worry" to come crawling in a bed of broken glass to apologize.
Come on guys, we've gotta' show we'are better than Mexico at containing this.
Jimmy Dean. Hormel, Farmer John, ......................
IMO..We do not know the truth..That is why we need to keep our eyes and ears open, so that we are no left in a lurch or possibly expose ourselves and families to this virus.
If the deaths start progressing like that then we'll start worrying.
The 1600+ figure is total cases. How many of those have already recovered?
For now, I would be more concerned if the death toll jumped.
Keep in mind, that in late summer through fall, there is a chance there will be a much more vicious second wave as the flu season in the Southern Hemisphere is under way.
The virus will have had ample opportunity for reassortment by then, and the weather will be more favorable for a serious outbreak.
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Exactly. Moreover, how does this differ from how any other flu virus propogates? Can we even tell, given that most flu cases (at least in normal times) are not scrutinized the way this one has been.
Usually, you get flu-like symptoms that are gone within a few days. Sometimes, you see the doctor and sometimes you don't. Occasionally, someone dies from the flu or from secondary infections or other health-related issues that make them more vulnerable.
One other thing to recall about the death rate is that it lags the infection rate.
Excellent advice. We must always remember that even if the Leftwingtards are in a major conspiracy to “use” the virus to scare people the virus is not itself in that conspiracy and doesn’t particularly care who dies.
Cumulative deaths remain low, relatively speaking, and so far seem to be confined to mostly people with underlying medical problems.
I am more worried about a flu variant which has the apparent communicability of this strain with more lethal results, which could occur in a subsequent wave. The last four pandemic flu variants started with a mild wave in the spring followed by a much more serious one in the late summer or fall.
With that pattern in mind, I would reccommend stocking the pantry and the medicine chest with a couple to a few week's extra, and acquiring some degree of being able to deal with interruptions in essential services, be that loss of electrical power, central heat, etc. this fall.
These are good things to have, anyway, and stocking up on what you feel is necessary can be done ahead of the rush (taking advantage of sales). If you get things you will use anyway, it will not go to waste. YMMV.
Our current 'on demand' inventory system cannot handle surges in demand well (witness the scarcity of many calibers of ammunition, even now) and ordinarily commmonplace items might be very difficult to come by in a pinch.
And no, I do not sell 'survival" items, literature, 'kits', nor do I have a website, so I am not reccommending doing this for personal gain of any sort.
The more people who are in a position to not panic, the less power the Obamites will have over us all if there is a major problem. While they might be masters at exploiting a crisis, I have little faith in their ability to actually deal with one.
There were no .22 caliber pistols ~ only rifles. There were stacks of clay pigeons but no 20 gauge shotgun shells ~ some 12 gauge.
Pretty thin pickings on everything else.
On the other hand they had plenty of pump pellet guns AND, best part, stacks of crossbows, and racks decked with huge heaping clumps of slingshots.
Part of the logic of any weapon is that it should be useful in the face of societal collapse ~ either from war, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, or whatever. The big weapons with the pallet loads of ammo have their purpose, of course, but so does a slingshot. It's silent and doesn't run out of ammo. It will feed you when the other more sophisticated weapons will scare away the game.
A good baseball bat can help you "move up the food chain" too ~ enabling you to acquire better weapons and more ammunition as you migrate out of the area of the disaster.
I'm jus' sayin'.
'Stealth heaven!'
Part of surviving is being able to supplement the larder without calling attention to yourself.
Using something noisy when you could be very quiet makes no sense--it might scare off other game, it might bring in the scavengers, and something effective against marauders which maintains your element of surprise is never to be underrated...
My son (age 11) has the flu. Is it THE flu? We don't know yet, but whatever it is, it is really rough. (High fever, sore throat, body aches and vomiting.)
His Doc wants him to come in tomorrow to be checked out, tonight if he gets worse.
MOgirl
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