Comments on: Swine Flu: Stop Worrying

By: Chris.

Chris. — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:41:16 +0000

“When winter comes this flu will spread like wild fire”

it’s winter in the southern hemisphere. where’s the wildfire? it’s normal flu season stuff down there.

By: Thi

Thi — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:32:42 +0000

Weak post that is prompting even weaker discussion. Writing every day and upping your hits is just a vanity metric.

I’d rather read one of your old posts again than constantly have to sift through this new drivel. Check out this article on falling victim to the “new” craze:

http://www.philalawyer.net/archives/the_fierce_idio.phtml

Perfection is not adding more on, but when there is nothing left to take away.

By: Shnugi

Shnugi — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:33:32 +0000

Swine flu is definitely effect people more than the normal hyped up pandemic. I had swine flu; it sucked. I don’t think that I’ve ever had normal flu before, so swine flu was a pretty different experience.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:16:35 +0000

How many people have died from regular flu in the last month or more?? I guarantee you its more than 100. I am glad that the hysteria has at least died down a little over the past few weeks…

By: Scarfo

Scarfo — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:55:50 +0000

So swine flu is good because it stops people from eating meat??? That kind of holier-than-thou posturing is why people, rightly or wrongly, hold such a negative opinion of vegans.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:41:55 +0000

I don’t care about the swine flu, thus I know nothing about it. It really isn’t worth the trouble. The point of this post is to not worry about it. It might be a problem but it’s not worth stressing over. Recently a recruit died in basic training in the air force from a flu. Not related to the swine flu, it’s actually ‘adenovirus 14′.

Adenovirus are common during military bootcamp, should I be scared? No. The ratio is probably near the same as the swine flu. It’s just not worth worrying about. The chances of catching it isn’t worth the stress so simply put “It’s not that big of a deal”

By: amer

amer — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:47:17 +0000

You are right, about stats but it doesn’t mean that we should not stop the spread of swine flu. Some basic hygiene practices can help slowing down spread of swine flu. Yes panicking will not make general public any safer, but drug companies need to make vaccine before flu season. And public needs to be informed that this flu season, young and healthy should get flu shots too.

By: Required Names are Retarded

Required Names are Retarded — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:23:39 +0000

You are sort of way off your mark here. First, if h1n1 jumps to a new strain, literally, no one will be leaving their house, and a lot of people will die there.

If anything, the media us under covering this. Just because there are not a lot of deaths, and you can find stats that more people die in a hour form farting too hard, does not mean that the potential for this to outbreak is not there.

I suggest you read the article by the scientist who first discovered h1n1.

This is not about where it is now, and all about what it could turn into, and how completely underprepared we are for it if it does.

We know little to nothing about it, and there are blog posts like this, that spit out a cut feeling based on logic to them, but not logic within the scientific community.

I have a friend who works close to this at the CDC, I am told, he can not tell me anything specific, but that this is not something to just brush off, and the CDC is not happy at all about the news coverage.

Tobacco deaths and car accidents are not contagious. The bird flu is a good example, where we were prepared and helped to stop it’s spread, this is a case where the opposite is going as, as we do not know how to vaccinate for it.

All fires start out small. I thought you were all about research, all about your spend the day to figure out how to do accounting, immerse yourself into it, and here you are, posting a blog post that in reality, you should delete, and write again after you stop being like the rest of the news stations out there.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:02:06 +0000

This is simply an easy payout for the media. It really shouldn’t be anything to scare like the media portrays it to be. I heard that at the peek of the media frenzy that the best selling items on amazon was face masks.

The media is scaring everybody just so they can make money.

By: tetra

tetra — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:17:32 +0000

It is true that the media needs to hype the danger, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a danger. After all 63000 people die annually from seasonal flu in the US alone. So even if swine flu is no worse than regular flu when the fall season comes, it would still kill an awful lot of people. This is particularly worrisome when you consider that swine flu seems to hit young people much harder than regular flu. As far as Avian flu goes, the danger is that it has a high fatality rate, so if it does jump the deaths could be orders of magnitude above seasonal flu. So considering the other dangers being hyped in the news, like the latest toxin scare, or birdstrikes on planes, swine flu is downright legitimate.