Please face the facts about the swine flu!

chapmanran — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:39:40 GMT

Wow! A biological event occurs, which may be a horrible world disaster, basically a phenomenon that has happened over and over throughout history, and it serves as a lightning rod for all the paranoid haters to air their nasty delusions about Mexico and biowarfare labs. Conspiracy theorists unite!

I'm amazed. Do these people believe that the 1918 pandemic was also the product of some biowarfare lab? People are watching way too much TV.

Folks, it's too late to close the borders or kill anybody to stop the process. Blaming people is also a waste of time. The swine flu will be pandemic in one to two days. Each country will have to work to keep the crisis from engulfing the populations, it's as simple as that.

Our country will have to mobilize health care and prevention to control this bug's spread. We'll develop a vaccine and take medication to block the virus. Some people will die, most will get sick, and finally we'll develop immunity to the thing and life will go on.

RE: Please face the facts about the swine flu!

dripbydrip — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:48:08 GMT

I have been waiting for people like you. What took you so long? Sorry people like you with all of your conspiracy talk is pure hogwash. Today with the numerous forms of communication you don't stand a chance. Nice try.

RE: Please face the facts about the swine flu!

acciah — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:19:06 GMT

I agree that this is being propagandized. I also would not discount Chemtrails. This is not the "swine flu" this is the "Bird, Swine, Human flu" according to the CDC. I'd like to know how the combination of these three naturally happened. What they aren't highlighting in their reports is that while this flu may have started in Mexico, the boy that they stay started this does not live on a farm. Rather, he lives near an American Pig Farm. When news reporters went there they were not allowed to enter the plant, nor were they allowed to see any of the pigs.

RE: Please face the facts about the swine flu!

chapmanran — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:06:03 GMT

I would discount the opinion of anyone who isn't actually investigating the outbreak in an official capacity. Viral biology is extremely difficult for lay people to understand. It's difficult for biologists to understand.

People who have limited understanding of these organisms can't imagine their complexity, or their innate ability to change and adapt to their environments. They don't need our scientific efforts to do that.

The fact is that the influenza virus constantly mutates in the wild. They shuffle their genetic makeup so they can infect their hosts, who are constantly shifting their immunity to resist them.

The avian/swine mutant suddenly developed the ability to infect not only humans when passed from pigs, but to directly pass from human to human. That's the big change that made it a new world threat.

The reason nobody is being allowed around those pigs is because we are trying NOT to spread the bug. Besides, what difference would seeing the pigs make? Samples have already been taken from the pigs, and infected humans have been tested and found to have the same viral strain. The organism has been identified and analyzed.

Now there is much work to do, and our health care system is busy trying to do that work. The question at hand is: (1) How bad is this going to get? and (2) How long will it take to develop a safe, effective vaccine, and how much Tamiflu and Relenza will the USA need to protect its population?

Does that sound like some sort of conspiracy? No government agency in its right mind would try to develop a superflu bug. Any physician will tell you that a super-influenza would be uncontrollable. Once released into the environment, it would infect humans around the globe.

The situation would be similar to the use of mustard gas in World War I, which was only effective against your enemy if the wind was blowing in the right direction.

In this case, you can't even depend on the direction of the wind. The germ would always come back and infect your own country's population, because the world population is globally mobile. A case of this flu has now been identified in Germany. It's become a world-wide phenomenon in less than a week.

Even the Bush administration wasn't dumb enough to risk the catastrophe this near-pandemic might eventually become.

RE: Please face the facts about the swine flu!

Donna aka Maya — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:45:55 GMT

Very informative. Thank you.

RE: Please face the facts about the swine flu!

dissident — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:18:19 GMT

It came down the pipe a couple days ago that this virus shows signs of obvious gene splicing and only has a 1/10% chance of happening naturally. Is it conspiracy theory, or people just so cynical that they understand not everyone in the world is a nice guy?

RE: Please face the facts about the swine flu!

jami — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:32:58 GMT

In the mean time, why should we let mexicans come in and infect innocent people? The only good I see out of this is the case at Notre Dame! Maybe this will keep O'bama away since the superintendent doesn't have the balls to tell him NO now. The school is losing millions of dollars in donations because of ones stupity, and O'bama won't change his mind, even though he knows he's not welcome there due to their pro-life stance. No decency in this guy!

RE: Please face the facts about the swine flu!

Avishai — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:21:35 GMT

Totally agree Paranoia is more dangerous than swine flue and we need to mobilize medical aid to both pandemics influenza and paranoia. problem is it is easier to imunize against the flue but not against Paranoia!

RE: Please face the facts about the swine flu!

Donna aka Maya — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:29:26 GMT

I like that answer.