I am going by the information DVD mom posted from CDC’s own website regarding regular swine flu tests. You may know more than the CDC’s own website.
What about the other b.s. this guy is foisting on the public - that of him testing all his patinets for swine flu when that is not true.
You don’t have to be so hostile.
P.T. Barnum axiom at work.
Sarah, I’m not sure what the CDC’s game is. They claim 30 thousand then 36 thousand influenza deaths per year, then make other misleading claims that few die. The idea that we only have 2000 deaths per year is pretty easily trashed, because we have thousands of hospitals in the U.S. and not even one would be dying in each of them if that were true.
That doesn’t even take into consideration the elderly who die in nursing homes or even at home.
Our hospital count alone would go up by 100 patients per day for months at a time due to influenza. People died. Nowadays fewer people are admitted to the hospitals during the influenza season, but they get home health care. People still die.
Imagine a hospital bed count elevated by 100 patients per day, that extended out for three to four months. Then imagine that less than one person on average died from influenza out of that group per year.
With the rollover in patients, this 100 patients per day would work out to thousands of patients, all ill enough to be hospitalized with acute problems, but according to some people none of them were dying. That’s just not true.
The reason I am hostile, is that we have a government propaganda machine operating out of the White House. That propaganda machine isn’t being run without purpose. They want to manipulate public opinion to their own ends.
If we convince people that 2000 died from the influenza, what happens when we have 42,000 die this year? Obama comes along and says that with government health care, that wouldn’t have happened. “Why if we had everyone covered with health care, this wouldn’t have been possible.”
If this turns into an also ran influenza season with a bit different demographic, then his ability to game the system is reduced. I don’t want to see our people help push folks over that edge.
I’ve pretty much said all this before. I know that it was dismissed last time. Hey, that’s okay. Folks can do what they want. I just don’t think it’s smart to play into this.
We now have tents set up outside hospitals. We have people flocking to doctors offices in large numbers. We have our resources stretched.
The people who normally get the sniffles and go about their lives, are now getting the sniffles and rushing to a doctor’s office, only to find out they’re going to be just fine in a few days.
Yesterday I read an article about how this flu season is going to impact the internet. Why it’s resources would be pushed to the limit because we were going to have many people working from home.
Think about that. Work is necessary. Political awareness forums are not. Do you begin to see where they could go with this?
Of course nobody ever had the flu and worked from home in previous years right? These folks don’t miss a trick, and I think we play a very dangerous role, if we help to support the idea this is going to be a pandemic year when all bets are off.
That’s just my take on it. If you folks want to think I’m all wet, okay, think I’m all wet. I can see where this could lead and I don’t want to be a party to it. And I will try to explain to others why they shouldn’t be either.
I was grumpy last night, so I’m sorry I was rude.
Take care.