Report: Closing Schools Wouldn't Ward Off Virus

ap ^ | Aug 25, 2009 5:21 am US/Pacific

[glide625]

Since they don’t really care how many are infected; the truth is that they really only care to ensure that the maximum number of parents are scared into gettng their kids vaccinated. Then, when the vaccine doesn’t work and the kids are infected because the schools won’t take the proper precautions, the maximum number of child bearing age adults will be sickened and die. And that’s precisely what they want to happen.

[netmilsmom]

The question that makes sense is this.

“Is the H1N1 flu ravishing the population there?”

2% is ravishing? I found this

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/07060901/H1N1_Argentina_Explosion.html

You’re talking about 60 deaths, with no reporting on economic condition, preexisting conditions or health care. They are reporting 4000 cases in total.

I’m not seeing 90,000 deaths.

[netmilsmom]

Not all of the Southern hemisphere is tropical.

[mysterio]

There’s not much that I can add to my post 29. I certainly hope that the 90k number ends up being a vast overestimation of the number of dead this flu season.

[NELSON111]

You’re talking about 60 deaths, with no reporting on economic condition, preexisting conditions or health care. They are reporting 4000 cases in total.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/05/argentina-swine-flu-deaths-double

A couple things of note. The had restrictions...closed schools...social isolation. Also...they stopped testing after a certain point...actual number of cases/deaths are much higher (just as actual cases in US is higher...because we ahve stopped testing by and large).

[netmilsmom]

Cases are not deaths.

The flu happens.

[codercpc]

I know of someone that was just released from the ICU due to pneumonia and swine flu. She was in her 7th month of her pregnancy, they delivered the baby, (who is still in the hospital) and things were very touch and go for a while. Thankfully both Mother and daughter seem to be almost ready to go.

With the exception of being pregnant, this was a very healthy 30ish year old woman.

[NELSON111]

Cases are not deaths.

Nobody says they are. But when you have more cases than normal...even when the mortality rate is the same...that means the total number is more.

Nobody is saying the world is coming to an end either...but 90K deaths...when the % of the population getting the flu increases 2-3X...it only follows that the death rate will too. Kinda logical.

[SandWMan]

It seems many who have died from this were in places like Indonesia or other third world cesspools, where people die from hangnails and scraped knees.

I am not the least bit worried about Swine flu. Neither am I worried about any other flu. The news media, already insane over the flu anyway (you have to get your flu shot! You have to get your flu shot! You have to get your flu shot!), have latched onto the Swine flu so they will have something to sensationalize, and they’re riding it for all it’s worth. They did the same with Bird Flu, SARS, and they even tried it with MRSA, but they haven’t been as successful with that one as with the others.

[Charles Martel]

Since when is quarantine not an effective response to infectious disease?

Since idiot parents bring their bored kids to the mall, movie theater, etc., where said kids interact with their peers and defeat the purpose of the school closures.