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nightsurge on 08 April 2010
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Rath said:
nightsurge said:
Rath said:
nightsurge said:
Lol no kidding right? So much for Swine Flu and the millions of dollars our government wasted on buying vaccines for it. What was the death toll in the US? No higher than the death toll for standard Flu each year?

I didn't get a flu shot of any kind and I never have. I was sick with flu like symptoms for 2 days and then fine again.

I hate how people look back on potential catastrophes.

If the swine flu had mutated into a very dangerous virus (which was and still is possible) then everyone would be accusing the government and media of not doing enough, however because it hasn't it's been overblown and money wasted. Not every potential disaster is going to turn out, be prepared for them all just so you can catch the ones that do.

But it wasn't even a real potential disaster.  The Swine Flu even happened before and it posed no threat then.  They make flu shots based on a guess of existing flu, so had the flu mutated it would have still been a major, major waste since the current vaccine would not help.  Even from the beginning though, every Swine Flu victim experienced normal flu like symptoms and got over them.  The only people that died were ones with other health complications or weaker immune systems (such as old people, very young kids, pregnant women) or lived in a highly poverty ridden area like Mexico.

It was the government and the media that blew up this small normal mutation of existing flu with no harsher side effects than standard flu and purposely tried to make a panic out of it in order for us to get shots.

You are wrong on oh so many counts.

1) Last pandemic of swine flu was the spanish flu. 50-100 Million were killed by that one. Yeah, it posed no threat.

And that was in a time when medicine was no where near as advanced and human immune systems were much weaker.

2) Like the Spanish flu this flu was notable for not only infecting the weak, it also infected those with strong immune systems.

Yet when Swine Flu infected anyone of normal/strong immune system, it acted just the same as the normal flu.  This is fact.

3) If a flu mutates so that it becomes more dangerous it does not neccesarily make the vaccine useless.

This is true, but you never really know either way what the old vaccine would do.  It may have adverse affects rather than good ones.

4) It was a fucking pandemic, those things only occur about once in every 30 years. The World Health Organisation doesn't yell pandemic just to get people to take shots.

It wasn't a pandemic though.  That's why it was blown way out of proportion.  I understand how pandemics can be dangerous, but in order for it to be a pandemic, doesn't it have to be worse than the normal seasonal flu death rate by a large extent?  The Swine Flu wasn't.  And yes, the World Health Organization as well as governments in general love to yell pandemic to have people spend more money.  Sad part is it works.

 

@highway. Didn't know thunderfoot had a swine flu video. o.O

 

The swine flu had the potential to be a huge disaster, it still does actually. All it takes is a little bit of mutation and people will be popping their clogs all over the world.

The Swine Flu itself occured back in the 1980's I believe (may have been 70's) to the same government and media enduced panic.  It had a very low death rate, and the result of the vaccine was that many people were permanently damaged/handicapped by adverse affects or even killed by the vaccine.  As many as 30,000 people.