Elderly (born before 1957?) at relatively low risk!People like me from the 60's gen went thru lots of sex partners, drug use, Vietnam Genocide vets, boat people, Civil Rights, police beatings, etc. We developed immunity from 'hard work'. We the baddest generation of all. Don't mess with us elderly of the 60's gen. We'll kick your tadpole ass !
Someone who has had it wrote:
On the bad end, I am a HS Teacher/Coach. One freshman at my school did pass away from it. He was a perfectly healthy 14 yr old. He was at school on Wednesday and died on Saturday.
Halfman wrote:
How do you know he was "perfectly healthy"? Do you have a copy of his medical file? People who "die" from the flu don't actually die from the flu. They die from complications caused by the flu. They almost always have some sort of other health problem or a compromised immune system. You can't tell if someone is healthy just by looking at them.
Look, the guy was saying: that as best as one could tell, the kid had no underlying health problems. Also, they often do autopsies to determine if there were other health problems contributing. So far, as I earlier stated, 1/3 of the children who have died from swine flu so far had NO underlying health problems that contributed to their deaths. And to further demonstrate that this flu (in a somewhat similar manner, albeit on a much smaller scale so far, to the 1918 "Spanish Flu") can harm not just old people with weak immune systems, the CDC reported today that over 1/2 of the people hospitalized with h1n1 flu are under age 25 and under, and 90% of those who have died are under age 65. This is entirely different than normal flu stats.
And here is a story that shows that dumb it is for Bill Maher or Rush Limbaugh to tell pregnant women not to get vaccinated:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/health/20pregnant.html?emSLA - do you work in the medical field or in the pharmaceutical industry?
I find it ironic that a conspiracy theorist such as you could so whole heartedly embrace Big Pharma's vaccinations. Do you ever worry that the science that you so warmly embrace is almost entirely funded/supported by the pharmaceutical industry. Do you even care that the other side of the study rarely sees the light of day? This type of investigative journalism seems right up your alley but you choose to ignore it…hmmmmmmmm.
There must be something more to your background than just as a concerned citizen.
The big problems with vaccinations are the adjuncts and preservatives which can be described as a “witch’s brew” and mercury respectively. To blindly pooh pooh the downside of vaccinations as hysterical and unfounded is either profoundly ignorant or conflicted on your part.
Sir Lance-alot wrote:
Look, the guy was saying: that as best as one could tell, the kid had no underlying health problems. Also, they often do autopsies to determine if there were other health problems contributing. So far, as I earlier stated, 1/3 of the children who have died from swine flu so far had NO underlying health problems that contributed to their deaths.
Please cite your sources.
Greg wrote:
Elderly (born before 1957?)holy crap, i better order a coffin in a few years
There appears to be immunity for (a non-trivial) portion of the population from a 1950s strain similar to this one.
Some of the data are consistent with there being a transmission barrier provided by some immunity for a many people. This could be that there are a lot of sub-clinical cases (and were in the spring/summer) with immunity and with those cases not in the 'count'. As someone stated, there are substantial risks for pregnant women.
My wife had it
Its just regular flu with marketing -
Of course you feel shite and get a temperature.Most people call a bad cold flu - when you get real flu you know all about it - but its no different to what has always happened every few years
ukathleticscoach wrote:
My wife had it
Its just regular flu with marketing -
Of course you feel shite and get a temperature.Most people call a bad cold flu - when you get real flu you know all about it - but its no different to what has always happened every few years
Not very good at understanding that there is a lot of variation in severity. Did your wife do 3 weeks in the hospital on a respirator? Because some have mild versions does not mean this flu is no big deal. On the other hand, just because this flu spreads in a manner that meets some of WHO's guidelines does not mean that it meets the severity test - pandemic planning for the Avian flu-like severity does not imply using all of those plans for a flu that is widespread (because of limited immunity), but generally low-severity (with significant variations) variety.
im not from here wrote:
I'm sure the world wouldn't mind a few less Americans...
Which is why we should nuke the world and dump nuclear toxic waste and carbon all over it and kill humanity.
America will take the world down with it. yee haw!
Bump
-Uncico Coleman 😘
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A lot of very stupid people in the world
Been there and left wrote:
Rush Limbaugh and Beck are urging Americans not to get the H1N1 flu shot. WTF? Are they crazy or are they willing to see millions of Americans die just to make Obama look bad? Some weird shit.
H1N1 was manufactured in a lab. The vaccine will mess you up in other ways. The term "culling the herd" is very popular these days among the 1%. CDC gave themselves authority to quarantine and relocate entire cities. Relocate to where? Well, there are all those FEMA camps sitting empty. It will be a variation of what happened in Germany.
and then there was ebola. What's next?
random6 wrote:
and then there was ebola. What's next?
The CDC claimed Ebola would kill something like 100 million people world wide during the last outbreak unless they had massive increases in research funding. Makes you wonder about the fake news the mainstream media puts out there.
TheScience wrote:
The CDC claimed Ebola would kill something like 100 million people world wide during the last outbreak unless they had massive increases in research funding. Makes you wonder about the fake news the mainstream media puts out there.
Bird flu 2025. Another drumbeat of "pandemic", "outbreak", "make the jump from animals", "not prepared". Blah Blah Blah.
At least now RFK is there to inject some common sense into a debate started by irrational fear mongers and the profiteers of the medical industrial complex.
Odd thread bump from 8 years ago.
Charles Atlas fell wrote:
I've never had a flu shot! Hey you either got the survival genes or you do'nt! If your weak the planet will clear you for the strong!Lo0ok at those who have died thus far they are already compromised, weakened, disabled people!
Silly rabbit shots are for kids!
Ok now do that with shoes
im not from here wrote:
I'm sure the world wouldn't mind a few less Americans...
Is God trying to send Americans a message? Hurricanes, Fires, planes falling from the sky, pandemic…
At this point he must be saying: “is anybody listening to me?”
Earth Quake next
Followed by volcanic eruption.
Sorry, he tried the eruption thing in the first term: In 2018, Kīlauea experienced the largest lower East Rift Zone eruption and summit collapse in at least 200 years
…and he also tried the pandemic thing in 2019/2020 (COVID)
nobody listened
He must be getting real mad
This thread was from the H1N1 in fall of 2009. I remember some top state cross country people got sick from it right around districts/regionals and didn't qualify for state. Rough timing.