highwaystar101 said:
I think you will find that it was a pandemic, in fact here is the press release from the WHO stating that it was upgraded to pandemic. In fact it was a level 6 pandemic, the highest level of risk a pandemic can reach. There is no natural immunity to Swine flu in humans, if you come into contact with it, it is very likely you will get infected (in other words it spreads like wild fire, so you certainly don't want it to mutate otherwise you are looking at a death toll well in to the tens of millions). Let me use a (quasi) analogy. It is like when Spanish explorers travelled to south America and disease suddenly killed most of the natives. The reason was that the Spanish had introduced European diseases that the natives had never encountered before and so they had no natural immunity. What was a harmless disease to the Spanish wiped out whole civilisations because their immune system weren't capable of handling the new disease and so it spread like wild fire throughout them. Swine flu is just the same, except the whole Earth doesn't have a natural immunity. If swine flu mutated so it could kill people then we would be looking at a death toll the like have never been seen before. You can understand why governments wanted to try and prevent this. Now you know I'm the first person to call out media hype, and yes swine flu was used by the media to sell papers. However, the threat from Swine flu was very real, even when you discount media hype. I refer you to the video I posted. |
That's BS. OLD people were resistant to the Swine Flu because it had been out before and some people have super strong immune systems and never get sick.
