Posted on 03/02/2010 12:27:02 PM PST by jazusamo
I'm convinced that the entire purpose of the propagation of the "swine flu" scare was to convince people that the government was the hero for discovering the problem and acting upon it in a positive fashion. This was all about persuading the public that the government is capable of running the health care system, and doing it well. It was all marketing.
In reality, the swine flu is no different than any other flu strain. It is neither stronger nor more docile. It's just the flu.
I think they were hoping for more than 60%.
There was no regular flu shot available for my 6 year old. She never received one this year. I told the nurse “when Bush was President she always had a flu shot”. They wanted me to go to a welfare clinic to get one. I refused.
Very simple answer. As in so many things, guvmint doesn’t know what it is talking about.
I still hear the frantic warnings on the radio to get your H1Ni shot NOW before its too late. It came through here pretty early in the fall and hasn’t been back. Those of us who have been taking sunshine-in-a-gelcap i.e. vitamin D-3 have missed out on the whole flu and cold season.
Flu and colds are winter phenomena because in winter people don’t get sunshine and don’t get their maintenance dose of vitamin D thereby. You can get vitamin D-3 5000 iu gelcaps at WalMart. My wife is a schoolteacher and for thirty years has brought home whatever flu and colds were going around at school. We have both taken the D-3 10,000 iu(what you get in an hour or so of summer sun) a day since early September this year. Mrs. did not bring home any maladies including the H1N1 which laid all the kids out in October.
Exactly! Follow the money.
There’s no shortage of vaccine now like there was for months and a lot of it is going to go unused, bad for them financially.
The flu hasn’t hit in this area anywhere’s near like they were predicting.
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Wasn’t this flu supposed to kill off 60% of the population or something?
Honestly scientists and commentators need to stop watching so many
bad sci-fi movies.
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That’s part of the problem.
Unfortunately, the scientists probably read too much history by the MDs,
public health officers and the other folks that survived the “Spanish”
influenza while people, dispropotionately in the health ages of 20-40,
were dropping like flies.
And these public health types were totally impotent to stop it.
The media tempest that erupted last year over H1N1...probably
not necessary.
But the public health officials are paid to head off “the worst case
scenario”.
Sadly, that intesected with the journalists, too many without degrees
in biological sciences, whose job is to scare us to death and sell their
magazines, cable TV specials, end-of-life-as-we-know-it docudramas.
I do have some D with my Calcium. I will check out a larger dose!
The D you take with calcium is sufficient to enhance the calcium. It is only a miniscule portion of what your body needs and does not get in the winter or any time if you work at night as I do.
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