Why the panic over something as trivial as Swine Flu?, page 1

Why the sudden concerns and general sense of panic when something as trivial as Swine Flu starts to hit the headlines? Are people really that uneducated and close-minded to the world they live in?

Lets take a quick look at whats happening around us right now.

AIDS is killing around 3.1 million per year. Source
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recorded in 2006 36,828 new cases of AID's for the US alone.
World wide, The Yale AIDS Watch has a figure of 5.1 million new cases of AIDS per year.

People are dying in their millions from AIDS yet life goes on as normal around us.


Lets look at cancer.

According to WHO( World Heath Organisation)

* Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide: it accounted for 7.4 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths) in 2004.
* Lung, stomach, colorectal, liver, and breast cancer cause the most cancer deaths each year.
* The most frequent types of cancer differ between men and women.
* More than 30% of cancer deaths can be prevented.
* Tobacco use is the single most important risk factor for cancer.
* Cancer arises from a change in one single cell. The change may be started by external agents and inherited genetic factors.

So Tobacco use is killing 100'000's of people a year and is still generally sociably acceptable in main-stream society. Do we see people wearing face masks when they pass a group of people smoking?.


For 2005, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recorded the following catergories of Deaths in the US

Number of deaths for leading causes of death

* Heart disease: 652,091
* Cancer: 559,312
* Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 143,579
* Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 130,933
* Accidents (unintentional injuries): 117,809
* Diabetes: 75,119
* Alzheimer's disease: 71,599
* Influenza/Pneumonia: 63,001
* Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 43,901
* Septicemia: 34,136

Kinda makes this Swine Flu seem pretty small eh?

New flu-like diseases and strains are being discovered all the time, the ones we have known about for decades are still killing people in the 100,000's world-wide dispite medicines being freely available than ever before.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 35 to 50 million Americans come down with the flu during each flu season, which typically lasts from November to March. Children are two to three times more likely than adults to get sick with the flu, and children frequently spread the virus to others. Although most people recover from the illness, CDC estimates that in the United States more than 100,000 people are hospitalized and more than 20,000 people die from the flu and its complications every year.

Source

Just because its 'new', does'nt automatically mean its deadly.

reply to post by Layla

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If this 'new' flu starts killing say, 20,000 people of your country a year would you be worried for yourself and family? Would you take extra precautions to prevent catching this?

CDC reports an average 20,000 US citizens die from 'normal' flu each year, so I would be more worried about catching the common cold than this new flu. Its all about proportions and scale.

Until this new flu reaches the top 10 of likely cause of death I see no cause for worry.

reply to post by Freelancer

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I'm actually not concerend about it at all. I was just trying to give an answer to the question posed. Why are people panicing? This could be why.

Personally, I'm not concerend. I live in San Diego, near the border. All of my kdis are in school today, I'm at work. My head and throat hurt and my co-worker who just flew backf rom Houston is sitting at her desk coughing and sniffling, yet, we're joking about growing snouts.

I agree that the panic is much, my point was to show the difference between the diseases posted in the OP and why this flu was being looked at differently by some.

reply to post by Freelancer

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Yes, but this flu is attacking young healthy people in higher numbers. Most people who die from the flu in the USA are the very young the very old, and the sick.

reply to post by Freelancer

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also some in the WHO are saying that this virus is in it's infant stages and they believe it could could kill between 110-120 million people if it mutates into a full blown powerful disease similar to the 1918 Spanish Flu..

also what was funny is..last night on sky news they had a little breaking news flash at the bottom and it clearly said "Sources says usual vaccine is useless against this strain" then 2 minutes later it was gone and nothing mentioned about it.

reply to post by Layla

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Not concerned with population contol freaks & cold-blooded SWINES being in power that will do whatever it takes to get a NWO via a NAU? If there is an outbreak, it will be the perfect escuse for martial law in Mexico, the US & Canada...

I CAN'T STAND THE APATHY AND DENIAL ANYMORE!!

reply to post by Time=Now

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Yeah, that's EXACTLY what I said...

reply to post by Time=Now

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Yeah, I feel ya. It's Martial Law that I'm worried of the most.
I'd rather croak from the virus to be honest.....

And I don't think people are "freaking out."
If anything, we're concerned!! Nothing wrong with that...


IMO, this virus is genetically modified.

Where is/are this "Swine(s)" that the virus originated from??
THEN it hybrids to/with different strains such as Avian, and mutates to human virus, attacking the immune system.....of "young healthy people."

Something's fishy, and I don't see any tuna.

Or swine for that matter.

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