Death rate extrapolations for USA for Flu: 63,729 per year, 5,310 per month, 1,225 per week, 174 per day, 7 per hour, 0 per minute, 0 per second. Note: this automatic extrapolation calculation uses the deaths statistic: 63,730 annual deaths for influenza and pneumonia (NVSR Sep 2001); estimated 20,000 deaths from flu (NIAID)

In 1 year all you vaccine lovers will hardly remember about the swine flu. lol Every year or two a new scare, a new epidemic that never turns out to be much of a scare at all. Sad honestly. lol

Time to break out my Peter Sarsgaard brand SARS Guard.

NaughtyVisions...there is a difference between this strain of H1N1...about one third of the deaths have been young...mostly healthy children...the other two thirds of the deaths have been...mostly healthy people under age 50...with about one third of those being in their 20's. Where as regular seasonal flu kills mostly unhealthy people of all ages...with the overwhelming majority of the deaths being among the elderly. This is what was reported to the Senate investigative committee...by the "experts"...this morning. In addition the regular flu peaks in January as past history shows and the H1N1 is already higher than the peak for regular flu and this is only October.

So yes there is a difference.

i don't recall it ever being referred to as an epidemic.

but, yes, i agree, we should all get our medical advice from gfy and a poster named stickyfingerz with a penchant for calling people who disagree with him sheeple.


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Thus far this is a relatively mild flu...and will remain so providing that it does not mutate...but it is at pandamic levels of people getting sick from it and the people dying from it is different than thoes that die from regular flu. H1N1 for reasons that are not understood is killing mostly healthy young children and mostly healthy people under fifty. Regular flu kills mostly unhealthy people with the majority being elderly.

Thus at this point that is the concern...as well as our hospitals being able to handle the 400,000 or so expected hospitalizations during this winters flu season.

theking,

My post, as indicated by the link at the top of it, was taken in its entirety from "The Best Page in the Universe." (maddox.xmission.com) For those unfamiliar with Maddox, he writes sarcastically on current events, usually ripping things a new asshole. Take for instance his article, "One thing PC owners can do that MAC owners can't.....shut the fuck up!" I just read his rant on the Swine Flu the other day, so when I saw this thread, it seemed only fitting to post Maddox's rant here. I guess the humor was missed...:(

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i'm simply going to eat them all till there is no swine flu anymore :pimp

Not a vaccine lover by any stretch.
I also still know about and remember other bugs from years before, yes they still are on the radar. Not like these just disappear. Often they either fit into what we deal with each year due to their stability, or we watch out for outbreaks and monitor them closely to prevent something very bad to happen.
Yes Sars, avian flu, west nile, and the rest are all paid attention to by government agencies, world agencies, local agencies, and even general people. I for one care.

Fiddy.
:pimp

Sig.

Fuck! I'm afraid now!
Tell me what to buy!