Every case is reported in the local news, every death is reported, its amazing how this is being hyped. I think someone wants people to freak out about this. Imagine if they reported deaths from regular flu on a daily basis? People would be running around like it was the end of the world.

It's getting hyped because people think it's so much worse than a regular flu epedemic. "It's a new name.... RUN!"
When people don't understand, they turn to someone who'll let them believe they understand, the MSM, and the MSM knows that what people don't know, sells papers and tops ratings. End of story.

The best thing you can do, is treating your body well, during both winter and summer. Just like you would to combat a regular flu.
FYI... In Denmark they already expect to have enough vacacine to combat next winters cases. There will be no mass scale pandemic that kills x mill. amount of people. This will go down in history as another scare, that kept people on their toes.

Two words: False flag.

The worry is not what it currently is, but what has the potential to become. And while I think it's been over-hyped to a degree (especially on this board), I think it's also not wise to just dismiss it. If it were to take that low chance path of mutating into something nastier, during flu season, it has the potential to cause a lot of illness and death.

Of course, there is a low chance for this, but the fact that there is no good defense for this thing, makes it a real threat. No sense getting in a complete panic, nor even overreacting and putting yourself in a bunker for 8 months, but also not wise to just dismiss it like it's the regular flu.. as it's not.

The "rates" of flu deaths in the US are a statistical extrapolation- there is no annual "flu death rate" that is accurate, put forth by the CDC. Flu is NOT a reportable illness in the US. So each year, the CDC gathers up the hospital admission rates, extrapolate whether a pneumonia death, for example, they THINK was caused by flu, and generate a number for the country based on those numbers. It is as unscientific as possible. Everyone throws around this 36,000 number of seasonal flu deaths in the US- we have absolutely NO IDEA how many do or do not die from flu each year.- it's made up- like TV ratings for the country made from 5,000 phone calls to homes, and then made to fit a general statistical structure based on a VERY small N group.

The reason this is being charted is becasue for the first time in decades people are tracking a novel strain of influenza, our of flu seaason, and one to which none of us has novel immunity- one that is highly contagious, and, unfotunately, is lethal. We're somewhere around, what, 170-200 deaths globally, right? Those are REPORTED numbers- they are tested by WHO or CDC, with repeatable PCR, and published. Can you imagine how many people are dead or dying, or in danger, from this bug whom we don't know about?

I find it unconscionable- unfathomable- insane- that the "world" is not making a bigger deal of this than we are. It's 95 degrees in most of the US; nowhere near flu season, and people are catching this like bronchitis going through a freshman college dorm. If people want to ignore it, or to laugh at those of us who choose not to do so, that is their prerogative. I would advise them, though, to look around you- because the world will be very different next year. New laws will be written (as they have in Massachusets and Australia- and probably all of the US and UK- perhaps the EU; China, etc.); many, many people will be ill this fall- the economy will be effected drastically, and if this continues to burn as it is doing, be certain that you will know someone who is hospitalized, or dead, or permanently damaged from this virus, and/or the anti-virals or vaccine attempted to halt it.

On a planet of nearly 7 billion people, if the mortality rate of this strain is only 1%--and if everyone catches it, 70 MILLION people could die. Will everyone catch it? No. Is it POSSIBLE? Yes.

It's estimated that the 1918 strain killed between 50-80 million people. It's an inconceivable number- it will effect the very fabric of society.

I'm not trying to be a doosday, fearmonger. I'm trying to create some perspective. The numbers of reports worldwide, the hopitalizations and the deaths from this flu are rising- quickly- and at a time when flu ought not to be epidemic in the Norht. The Southern Hemisphere is proving the paradigm of pandemic flu- mutations, increased hospitalizations, etc. I want to know wht people aren't making a bigger deal of this than they are.

When a young, healthy child, or a teenager takes ill and dies in 48 hours, why AREN'T people going to general quarters? This is going to change reality in front of our eyes. Even if you think the earth is self-correcting- that we're too populated (we are) and there are not enough resources (there aren't) it's still a terrible event to behold in our lifetimes.

[edit on 24-6-2009 by CultureD]

[edit on 24-6-2009 by CultureD]

Even though I get attacked every time I've posted in this forum...

CT has started updating cases weekly, every Wednesday. Right now they have listed that only one case is in my town, when there are at least ten that I know of that have been confirmed. Even the last time they updated, the number didn't change, it's still listed as one.

So um. That's weird.