[johniegrad]

As long as it’s strictly optional, they need to be doing this to get good random statistical samples of who has already had the Beer Flu. This will finally start to show the real death rate, which is going to be far lower than the panic-monger numbers like 3% put out based on the highly biased “cases” number as the denominator. The real death rate is deaths / infections, and they still don’t really know the real infection rate since most people get no or mild symptoms from the Beer Flu and may not even realize they had it or even had a cold.

I understand the concerns we all have about government intrusion into out lives and the potential loss of freedoms.

Mistrust of government is certainly warranted.

If this is strictly a voluntary process, it makes sense. The goal would be to establish actual morbidity rates and risk in the general population rather than in selective biased samples of sick people.

As long as the process remains voluntary, I have less concern about loss of freedoms from a blood draw than I do about loss of freedoms because of biased samples making the disease seem more dangerous than it is. That has been the cause of government over regulation so far.

[Thank You Rush]

“”As long as the process remains voluntary, I have less concern about loss of freedoms from a blood draw “”

Boy - I absolutely do not/cannot understand this mentality. As long as it’s voluntary? That’s the craziest thing I’ve heard today and I’ve seen a lot of crazy things here so far and the day is only half over! I’m sure that there were Jews in the ghettos all over Europe who said, “they told me it was voluntary - we don’t have anything to be afraid of.” They PROMISED!

People are showing that they only need to say OK and the enemy takes over without a shot!