The Point: As Flu Spreads, Some Panic

Please tell us, EXACTLY, what is a lie about this, oh wise virologist. Or are you a climatologist? Or just an expert about everything, and nothing?

kloel...Rock on! No repukes or democraps just American Citizens who know the truth.

Toooshay!

You are so right on about the swine flu being a media witch hunt it hurts. This swine flu crap is such a bogus claim that the people who keep it circulating ought to be taken out and shot. It must be the pharmaceutical companies that keep this flu in the news. I live in the New York metropolitan area and I've yet to meet one person (including senior citizens) with the flu or even having any symptoms. The people that are running scared must be some pin-headed hypochondriacs. There is no swine flu endangering millions of people. It's all media BS. People catch colds all the time. It's a natural thing in life. I hope a lot of you idiot sheeple go and line up for your shots so you can become a guinea pig for the drug industry. I repeat, there is no swine flu or people dying by the millions or even hundreds except in some country where they have no food to eat. More soldiers are dying in Afghanistan from wayward bullets than Americans are dying from the flu. Such nonsense the news media is spreading just to sell newspapers. The news media just loves to spread fear.

kloel -

For the millionth time - it isn't global WARMING. It's global climate change.

Who knows, if the swine flu turns out to be as bad as the 1918 Pandemic after all, looks like the complacency of some will contribute towards a little "natural selection". Only time will tell...

even hours ago, I asked for a specific instance of how this is a "lie". A what did I get? Well, the usual batch of negative ratings from those who can't stand being asked for facts, and a few vehement replications of the same paranoid charges, and then the Below Avg Boy comments, who prefers to believe his own disease surveillance facts based on the anecdotal evidence of his own trivial life. No one is saying there are people dying by the millions, or that there is any risk of that. Again, I challenge you to show me otherwise. In fact, the CDC has said REPEATEDLY, and once again today, that this is a relatively mild flu strain for most people, but it is one that very few people under the age of 55 have any prior immunity to, so it therefore appears to affect young people morethan older people. And because almost no one is immmune to this novel strain, it requires a new vaccination to protect yourself, your family, and the rest of the population. We really don't want it to spread any more than it has, do we? And the chance of mutuation into something not so mild, but with a population similarly non-immune, is definitly real. Ask any virologist or epidemiologist. Where is the fear tactics in this? The real fearmongers are those paranoids who think the government is trying to perform some grotesque biological genocide on the American people. Would you PLEASE try, just a little, to make use of facts. They're really not so hard to find.

Jhoop, it's people like you in our government that are keeping anything from getting done. You should look in the mirror once in a while dude, because you strike me as genuine jackass. How about you stop repeating the 'talking points' from Faux News like a parrot, and start remembering that when Republicans were in power, things certainly weren't any better. Not saying Obama is some amazing guy who is going to fix everything in this screwed up country, but it's people like you who haven't even given the guy a chance that deserve to get shipped off to Cuba. Get out of your box and smell the bullshit, jhoop. That would be Rush Limbaugh.

Since you asked let me educate you.

To make a flu shot... any flu shot... you need the virus to work with. To cultivate the virus you typically infect a chicken egg yolk and then must very carefully incubate the egg. Too hot or too cold and the virus is ruined, killed or mutated into an unusable strain. The H1N1 virus in particular is very difficult to cultivate, with a margin of error of only 0.2%. Normal flu is much easier to cultivate, where the temperature can be off by more than a degree and the flu remains intact.

Now Washington based their initial prospects on the amount of vaccine that can be produced by normal means. As a result, the amount available is much less than initially promised.

Personally, I'm not worried about dying from the disease. I'm worried about catching it and spreading it to my classes. If I catch it I can easily infect 150 eighth graders, who can easily infect their friends. They're much more vulnerable to this disease than I am.

where did you hear it was made in china? It is made here in the USA at three different manufacturing plants.

You are an idiot! Everything is Obama's fault! Were are you when the last president was sending our son's off to die in a foreign land that did nothing against us!!! More die in war the the flu!! Stop the war and more lives will be saved!!!

Most of these comments sound like what Bush/Cheney did when they were in office. Used fear to control the American Public. Now that Obama is trying to clean up the mess left by them, people complain about every detail. If he tries to do something good they make it into something bad. You can't win!

To be fair, they are the children of the president. Of course they're going to get special treatment. And it's likewise lose-lose because if he didn't get Sasha and Malia vaccinated then his opponents would say 'See! It's not as bad as he says it is because his own kids aren't getting the vaccine!'

Last week, these same knee-jerk Obama haters were shreiking that the vaccine must be dangerous because Obama wasn't making his kids get it. You're right, he can't win with these guys. Best to ignore them.