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June 17, 2009 at 4:14 PM #417637June 17, 2009 at 4:23 PM #416916
Arraya
Participant[quote=DWCAP]Plus I think the media is harping it alot. It is akin to the murder stats.
Crime is down sharply in the past 30 years, but REPORTING about the crime is up way more. People are safer, but feel less safe because they know more about it.
Unless the spanish flu outbreak is relived, you are far more likly to die in a car accident, or some other reality of daily life (slipping and falling, drinking too much….) than the swine flu. But that isnt a good story. We do a terrible job of dealing with the big everyday risks than we do the random scary ones. [/quote]
No it’s not a big deal now. It becomes a big deal in the winter regardless of the mortality rate because everybody and their mother will be running to the ER with the sniffles. If it turns more virulent then we will have a serious healthcare facilities problem and possibly global trade problem as countries try to protect themselves.
June 17, 2009 at 4:23 PM #417152Participant[quote=DWCAP]Plus I think the media is harping it alot. It is akin to the murder stats.
Crime is down sharply in the past 30 years, but REPORTING about the crime is up way more. People are safer, but feel less safe because they know more about it.
Unless the spanish flu outbreak is relived, you are far more likly to die in a car accident, or some other reality of daily life (slipping and falling, drinking too much….) than the swine flu. But that isnt a good story. We do a terrible job of dealing with the big everyday risks than we do the random scary ones. [/quote]
No it’s not a big deal now. It becomes a big deal in the winter regardless of the mortality rate because everybody and their mother will be running to the ER with the sniffles. If it turns more virulent then we will have a serious healthcare facilities problem and possibly global trade problem as countries try to protect themselves.
June 17, 2009 at 4:23 PM #417415Participant[quote=DWCAP]Plus I think the media is harping it alot. It is akin to the murder stats.
Crime is down sharply in the past 30 years, but REPORTING about the crime is up way more. People are safer, but feel less safe because they know more about it.
Unless the spanish flu outbreak is relived, you are far more likly to die in a car accident, or some other reality of daily life (slipping and falling, drinking too much….) than the swine flu. But that isnt a good story. We do a terrible job of dealing with the big everyday risks than we do the random scary ones. [/quote]
No it’s not a big deal now. It becomes a big deal in the winter regardless of the mortality rate because everybody and their mother will be running to the ER with the sniffles. If it turns more virulent then we will have a serious healthcare facilities problem and possibly global trade problem as countries try to protect themselves.
June 17, 2009 at 4:23 PM #417481Participant[quote=DWCAP]Plus I think the media is harping it alot. It is akin to the murder stats.
Crime is down sharply in the past 30 years, but REPORTING about the crime is up way more. People are safer, but feel less safe because they know more about it.
Unless the spanish flu outbreak is relived, you are far more likly to die in a car accident, or some other reality of daily life (slipping and falling, drinking too much….) than the swine flu. But that isnt a good story. We do a terrible job of dealing with the big everyday risks than we do the random scary ones. [/quote]
No it’s not a big deal now. It becomes a big deal in the winter regardless of the mortality rate because everybody and their mother will be running to the ER with the sniffles. If it turns more virulent then we will have a serious healthcare facilities problem and possibly global trade problem as countries try to protect themselves.
June 17, 2009 at 4:23 PM #417642Participant[quote=DWCAP]Plus I think the media is harping it alot. It is akin to the murder stats.
Crime is down sharply in the past 30 years, but REPORTING about the crime is up way more. People are safer, but feel less safe because they know more about it.
Unless the spanish flu outbreak is relived, you are far more likly to die in a car accident, or some other reality of daily life (slipping and falling, drinking too much….) than the swine flu. But that isnt a good story. We do a terrible job of dealing with the big everyday risks than we do the random scary ones. [/quote]
No it’s not a big deal now. It becomes a big deal in the winter regardless of the mortality rate because everybody and their mother will be running to the ER with the sniffles. If it turns more virulent then we will have a serious healthcare facilities problem and possibly global trade problem as countries try to protect themselves.
June 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM #416931DWCAP
Participantwow, ok, behind the times, it is 340 dead. But the statement that this isnt that bad (yet) still stands.
and arraya, please dont take this as me disagreeing with you. It is something society needs to work on, and the similarity to the 1918 outbreak is chilling. But having the populace so scared that the run to the hospitals every time they sneeze isnt gonna help control a pandemic.
Plus this time we have anti-virals and they work on this bug. What scares me is when a disease that is resistant to our meds hits.
June 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM #417167Participantwow, ok, behind the times, it is 340 dead. But the statement that this isnt that bad (yet) still stands.
and arraya, please dont take this as me disagreeing with you. It is something society needs to work on, and the similarity to the 1918 outbreak is chilling. But having the populace so scared that the run to the hospitals every time they sneeze isnt gonna help control a pandemic.
Plus this time we have anti-virals and they work on this bug. What scares me is when a disease that is resistant to our meds hits.
June 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM #417428Participantwow, ok, behind the times, it is 340 dead. But the statement that this isnt that bad (yet) still stands.
and arraya, please dont take this as me disagreeing with you. It is something society needs to work on, and the similarity to the 1918 outbreak is chilling. But having the populace so scared that the run to the hospitals every time they sneeze isnt gonna help control a pandemic.
Plus this time we have anti-virals and they work on this bug. What scares me is when a disease that is resistant to our meds hits.
June 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM #417495Participantwow, ok, behind the times, it is 340 dead. But the statement that this isnt that bad (yet) still stands.
and arraya, please dont take this as me disagreeing with you. It is something society needs to work on, and the similarity to the 1918 outbreak is chilling. But having the populace so scared that the run to the hospitals every time they sneeze isnt gonna help control a pandemic.
Plus this time we have anti-virals and they work on this bug. What scares me is when a disease that is resistant to our meds hits.
June 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM #417657Participantwow, ok, behind the times, it is 340 dead. But the statement that this isnt that bad (yet) still stands.
and arraya, please dont take this as me disagreeing with you. It is something society needs to work on, and the similarity to the 1918 outbreak is chilling. But having the populace so scared that the run to the hospitals every time they sneeze isnt gonna help control a pandemic.
Plus this time we have anti-virals and they work on this bug. What scares me is when a disease that is resistant to our meds hits.
June 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM #416936sd_bear
Participant[quote=DWCAP]The thing that has the ‘experts’ worried (other than a repeat of the spanish flu) is that it is killing young people. We have had what, 9 people die of swine flu in the USA? We usually have something like 35000 people die each year of the normal flu, seems kinda off right?
Well the problem is that the ‘normal’ flu kills or sickens the most vunerable. The very young, very old, or the very sick. This one is killing the healthy people, the 20 year olds who very rarely die of something like the flu. [/quote]
I don’t necessarily buy this. The vast majority of the swine flu deaths have been the very young and the very old. Every single death I’ve read about (in the US) that was someone of normal/healthy age there was an underlying medical condition involved, with the exception this new 20 year old. Though very limited information has been released so far and I would be surprised if there wasn’t some other medical condition present.
June 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM #417172Participant[quote=DWCAP]The thing that has the ‘experts’ worried (other than a repeat of the spanish flu) is that it is killing young people. We have had what, 9 people die of swine flu in the USA? We usually have something like 35000 people die each year of the normal flu, seems kinda off right?
Well the problem is that the ‘normal’ flu kills or sickens the most vunerable. The very young, very old, or the very sick. This one is killing the healthy people, the 20 year olds who very rarely die of something like the flu. [/quote]
I don’t necessarily buy this. The vast majority of the swine flu deaths have been the very young and the very old. Every single death I’ve read about (in the US) that was someone of normal/healthy age there was an underlying medical condition involved, with the exception this new 20 year old. Though very limited information has been released so far and I would be surprised if there wasn’t some other medical condition present.
June 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM #417434Participant[quote=DWCAP]The thing that has the ‘experts’ worried (other than a repeat of the spanish flu) is that it is killing young people. We have had what, 9 people die of swine flu in the USA? We usually have something like 35000 people die each year of the normal flu, seems kinda off right?
Well the problem is that the ‘normal’ flu kills or sickens the most vunerable. The very young, very old, or the very sick. This one is killing the healthy people, the 20 year olds who very rarely die of something like the flu. [/quote]
I don’t necessarily buy this. The vast majority of the swine flu deaths have been the very young and the very old. Every single death I’ve read about (in the US) that was someone of normal/healthy age there was an underlying medical condition involved, with the exception this new 20 year old. Though very limited information has been released so far and I would be surprised if there wasn’t some other medical condition present.
June 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM #417500Participant[quote=DWCAP]The thing that has the ‘experts’ worried (other than a repeat of the spanish flu) is that it is killing young people. We have had what, 9 people die of swine flu in the USA? We usually have something like 35000 people die each year of the normal flu, seems kinda off right?
Well the problem is that the ‘normal’ flu kills or sickens the most vunerable. The very young, very old, or the very sick. This one is killing the healthy people, the 20 year olds who very rarely die of something like the flu. [/quote]
I don’t necessarily buy this. The vast majority of the swine flu deaths have been the very young and the very old. Every single death I’ve read about (in the US) that was someone of normal/healthy age there was an underlying medical condition involved, with the exception this new 20 year old. Though very limited information has been released so far and I would be surprised if there wasn’t some other medical condition present.
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