Swine Flu Update, Oct 2009

There swine flu has been sweeping through one of our local university campuses. There have been about 700 reported cases, and one fatality.

As I too was having flu-like symptoms I thought this would be a reasonable time to revisit the topic of the swine flu pandemic.

The real problem is there is so much of the virus now out in the population. Mutations are expected, and its unclear in what direction they will take the flu.

While the chances of someone dying from the current swine flu are on the order of 1 in 3000 (thats assuming that a pandemic typically infects 1 person in 3 and that one person in a thousand who gets the virus will die- ball park figures) that still put the expected death toll for the US alone at about 100 000. Thats about 30 times the death toll of 9/11.

However the amazing thing is that it looks like the flu shots conspiracies videos outnumber those with any academic credibility by about 10 to 1. In this sense I will be focusing on geerup (that the new venomfangx) for the subject of why do people laugh at creationists part 31.

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[AcanLord]

""There are no viruses, they have never been isolated. Pastuer and Koch were total frauds. ""

You`re a moron. Viruses can be viewed using electron microscopes, there genomes have been sequenced and they have been shown irrefutably to have a demonstrable effect on the health of living Cells.

""Technology is not the same as science."" Care to site a source for this claim? All technologies everywhere are the product of a scientific understanding of the functioning of the universe.

[colourmegone]

The hook is in RP's saying "The government shouldn't be in the medical BUSINESS". Never forget that in the US it's the medical BUSINESS that's in charge (play on words pun-intentional) of people's health. People might ask, "If you can give people government funded swine flu vaccinations then why not other treatments?" This would be bad news for the medical business.

And I'm disappointed that you agree with anyone of RP's ilk considering who he represents.

[roccobaroccoSC]

I basically agree with you that paying careful attention to the hygiene is a reasonable thing to do, however, injecting untested substances into tens of millions of people is irresponsible.

[roccobaroccoSC]

How can you tell that the flu shot is going to help people and not harm them in the long run? If they created the shots for 6 months, how are you sure that the shots won't cause cancer in large masses of people even if the virus is not that harmful?

How can you evaluate which has more benefits and which bears more risks without a comprehensive clinical study?

[Evilfisher]

praise the state more

[ray4ix]

@zetanato are you fucking serious? :D

[ramp2tramp]

@LarsJanZeeuw do you want to be anymore ambiguous?

[LarsJanZeeuw]

@ramp2tramp

Prove it.

[havee3333333]

Also, at 3:26 you said H1N5, not H5N1.

[havee3333333]

Those weren't people playing Russian rulet, that was a scene from a Vietnam movie. The Vietnamese gave them an option on weather to shoot themselves or be killed by a harsh punishment.

[Wallebille]

@zetanato DAMN! You scared me there! After reading the first half of your highly rated comment I was thinking really depressing thoughts! :P In a way, you can say that the unicorn illuminati, son of Uber Jesus and the omnipotent popsicle, saved my day! ALL HAIL THE UNICORN, SAVIOUR OF WORLDS!

[Jebusrulez]

Remember bird flu people? Yeah you don't, same thing over-hype by the media.