Comments on: Swine Flu Panic Is Epidemic

By: soundwash

soundwash — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:06:03 +0000

if you wish to bypass all the media crap
and learn exactly what strain, it’s genealogy and resistances etc is being found and where,
go here:

http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/FLU/SwineFlu.html

note: this is geeky stuff. any virologists in the crowd may find it more useful than the average joe.

it is the place to go to find the “real data” data on confirmed cases though.

-s

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:57:13 +0000

#24, ‘dro.

Exactly !!! The White House, CDC, WHO, and other organizations have been playing it down to prevent a panic.

By: J

Fri, 01 May 2009 14:13:19 +0000

Just like I predicted 2 days ago the disscusion of the over hype would begin. What we really need to worry about is this fall when it returns stronger.

By: pedro

pedro — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:13:02 +0000

#22 said: “We panic because the Bush Administration practiced it for almost eight years as the way to control the population.”

Aaaahh, I love it when you bring more proof of the change the new admin brings.

By: jimbo

jimbo — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:02:48 +0000

#4,#7 – That’s the T-Virus

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:57:15 +0000

We panic because the Bush Administration practiced it for almost eight years as the way to control the population.

How many people forgot about watching your neighbor for suspicious activity? Or being afraid to receive your mail? Or dark skinned, unknown people carrying cameras? Or Alert Colors? Or only non Americans don’t wear lapel Flag pins?

So tell me, how else should the media have responded?

By: Improbus

Improbus — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:31:34 +0000

I will have some of what Nimby is smoking.

By: Nimby

Nimby — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:05:37 +0000

As a physician, I strongly urge all of you to … PANIC!

RUN, you idiots, RUN, RUN, RUN!!!
Don’t take the beer. You can’t drink it through a mask… RUN!

heh,heh,heh, Free Beer!

By: bring out your dead

bring out your dead — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:46:01 +0000

The media makes a big noise out of this because they have to talk about something they don’t really care what just that you will keep watching.

if your Fox blame the Dems for everything, if your MSNBC blame the GOP, if your CNBC try to put a market spin on it, if your CNN ad a lot on silly tech stuff, If your NPR cover it with a long rational and sympathetic story that will be sure to put the listener to sleep.

The CDC keeps an eye on this pig (the H1N1 Flu) because its their job its what we pay them for- -The media loves the CDC they always have some thing to scare the statistically challenged sheep.

The Obama reacts and lets hope its over reacting because if it turns out to be a Black Death and he did nothing or did to little to late he’d be “Katrined”. Better to be overly cautious concerned than condemned for mismanagement and lack of leadership.

Why aren’t you panicking? My guidebook tells me not to right on the cover.

By: natefrog

natefrog — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:16:29 +0000

#7, Alfred;

I hear Stephen Colbert has a bridge to sell you.

By: Me

Me — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:45:39 +0000

I guess some of us became enlightened years ago, hence cynical about anything the MSM puts forth. As altruistic as they try to seem, they are still a profit/ratings driven business, that will do anything to gain viewership.

By: Me

Me — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:40:35 +0000

By: Olo Baggins of Bywater

Olo Baggins of Bywater — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:05:06 +0000

Mexico city will be an undesirable place to visit for another 30 days.

Did you really mean years?

By: pcsmith

pcsmith — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:25:58 +0000

I predict that in less than a week the flu scare will be over. Mexico city will be an undesirable place to visit for another 30 days.

Off topic:

On the plus side, I found a few pounds of morels today. Thought the recent heat wave in NE USA would doom this years crop, but there is hope for more with the recent rains.

By: Mark T.

Mark T. — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:23:57 +0000

It seems like every year the news reporting on flu bugs gets more sensational. Remember how last year (or was it the year before) there was a panic when there was a shortage of the nation’s flu vaccine? People were panicking trying to get a shot before the vaccine ran out. After weeks and months of calls of pending disaster, it was the mildest flu season in years.

I think this hysteria is a combination of things.

1. The 24 hour cable news channels have something new to talk about besides the crappy economy.
2. It is a means to distract the public from the really important issues that are being done behind closed doors in Congress.
3. Justification for more government hand-holding.
4. Homeland Security and Center for Disease Control trying to show they are actually relevant and deserve more funding.
5. Prepping the public for the impending call for the nationalization of the health care system.
6. The continuing pussification of the nation.
7. Oh, and if it bleeds, it leads. Or, in this case, someone somewhere dies.

Its all crap. Get on with you lives and maybe pick up some flu medicine when you are at the grocery store, just in case.