Comments on: Did We Overreact To Swine Flu Threat?

As Story Starts To Fade From The Headlines, It May Appear So. But As 1918 Example Shows, We Aren't Out Of The Woods Yet

[janieanddeb]

I dont beleive the media has over blown this . The real story behind the headlines is the large scale farming and how easily it will be to have a pandemic.
I beleive the scientist are well aware that the virus will be caused by the poor countries large scale farming.
The arguments that we are over blowing this is coming from unnamed and not important sourses.
The scientific community know this will hit and why just not when .
So no I dont think that the World Heath and CDC are trying to sell newspapers.
They are trying to warn us .
Personally I just moved out of a apartment to a rental house to seclude my self better
I have bought extra hand sanitizers and carry them with me. I wash my hands before I eat.

[lundwall9]

this all a scam the only people that died from it were small children elderly people and those in third world countries and the common cold can kill them. who cares if there is a new strand of flu out there.

[hungry1968-15]

Did We Overreact To Swine Flu Threat?





Yes - you, THE MEDIA, overreacted to "swine flu".

[iamchickaddd]

I agree, boatdocster; I don't think there's been an overreaction. If we'd underreacted, then People would be compaining louder if we'd underreacted...like New Orleans post-Katrina.

[CB_Brooklyn]

Press Release - Researchers Question Nature, Cause and Treatment of ?Swine Flu? Outbreak

http://www.checktheevidence.co.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=231&Itemid=75

[uisignorant]

Boatdocster,

I ain't buying what you are peddling.
IF you have 20 years in the health care profession, you should know better.

[boatdocster]

No, we did not over react.

I have over 20 plus years in health care and I think the government was prudent being cautious. First, it was prevalent in Mexico, right on our border and that border is very porous. Second, we did not know how potent this strain of influenza was. Third, the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic killed an estimated 70 -100 million people worldwide, when the estimated world population was about 2 billion people.

The last 1-2 weeks how reduced exposure potential, and allowed real scientists enough time to study infected patients and truly evaluate the potential lethality of this strain, which has now been proven less deadly then initially thought.

Kudo's to the government for being safe and allowing REAL SCIENCE to do it's job - information based on real facts, numbers, data. etc. Not like the POLITICAL SCIENCE was received just a few months in the past (facts be damned, just write it up the way I tell you as GWB used to say).

One can only imagine the GOP response if the government had not acted with prudence and this strain turned out to be a real killer. Shawn Hannity would have been burning effigies of President Obama tacked to little white crosses while spewing his usual hate via the Hannity television (I'm sorry, the Neonazi) show...

[erasmus111]

What I want to know is, are the mild cases being treated with antivirals?

Posted by PayGirl at 12:38 PM : May 6, 2009

In Canada, we were told not to use the antivirals unless we were really sick.

The cases have been very mild, so there really hasn't been any use for them. The over use of them can be more damaging.

[erasmus111]

Take your filthy beaner ass and get the hell out of my country.
Posted by tommynutz at 12:38 PM : May 6, 2009

Hahahaha!

[BC Kelly]

Interesting and well written article, ty

Brings to mind two of the great philosophers of our Age



Brian O'Blivion

"... whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television."



Howard Beale

"We're all you know ... You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even *think* like the tube! "



;-)