The CDC only confirms 68 actual illnesses. I can't see how 68 people getting sick (out of 6 billion people) is cause for such a panic. that's not an epidemic. An epidemic requires a large majority of the population to get sick. How is 68 out of 6 billion a large majority of the population?
I could understand with the Avin Flu in 2005, because hundreds of birds were literally falling out of trees dead and people coming in contact with the dead birds were getting sick. Our beach was covered with dead sea gulls, ducks, loons, and sand pipers that year. It got so bad that our local sandpipers, than the most plentiful bird on the beach, is now a "critically endangered" species. THAT is an epidemic. 68 people out of 6 billion? that is not an epidemic.
I can't understand why no one is talking and panicking about the frogs. The frog population, that's an epidemic. 40 million frogs dead for no reason in less than 6 months in the fall of 2008, with 40% of all frog species going into extinction in the past 5 years and 80% of the remaining 60% are now on the endangered or critically endangered list and most of those being born with 3 eyes, 4 heads, 6 legs, or the oddest thing of all : tails! THAT is an epidemic! 68 out of 6 billion is not an epidemic.
And that's just frogs - the salamander population was hit far worse, with the entire species (all breeds) at risk of extinction within the next 5 years.
The black plague that was an epidemic. 1/3 of the entire population died. Millions and millions of people got sick. Millions died.
Diabetes, AIDS, lung cancer, breast cancer, obesity . . . those are epidemics killing millions world wide. How is 68 people getting Swine Flu considered an epidemic?
An epidemic means that the race is at risk of extinction due to a wide spread death that can not be controlled. Does 68 people getting Swine Flu REALLY mean that the human race is threatened with extinction? I don't think so!
you know, I've got a friend who is right now panicking like crazy over this Swine Flu thing (that's how I found out about it, no tv or radio, so no news) ... he's saying stuff like "I'm gonna die" and he's rushing around getting all kinds of herbs and vitamins and getting (yet another!) flu shot. I haven't been to a doctor in over 20 years, last time I had a vaccination was in the 1970's, and I have only been sick twice both times it was with chicken pox. He gets flu shots every 6 months, runs to the doctor panicking with every news report, and gets sick all the time . . . I think half the time he's sick just because he sat there terrified telling himself he was going to get sick! panicking weakens the immune system. I think if people didn't panic there would be a lot less people getting sick.
If more people knew what they were taking when they take meds and stuff, I think there would be a lot less hypcondriacs out there. I wish more people knew where their meds come from. Dead babies, dead cats, dead dogs, dead horses, dead bear, retired race horses & greyhound dogs, and lost cats and dogs (former pets) from shelters and pounds. . . Most vaccines aren't even officially proven to work! is so much death really worth it?
I am at a loss to understand why people are panicking over this Swine Flu thing. It seems illogical to panic or to refer to it as an epidemic (as many people are now calling it).
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