Let me start this thread differently. I am as overwhelmed with all this Swine Flu stuff as all the rest of our memebers but I believe we have to stay
vigalent in our efforts to stay as well informed as possible. Please know upfront, this article is really long but I promise you that you will take
away a lot of great information once you get through it as I did and please know that I would never post something like this if I didn't think we
needed to hear this. So here we go...
Source Link:
www.lewrockwell.com...
The latest in the barrage of media reports on swine flu is a Bloomberg news report (August 25, 2009) that it might hospitalize 1.8 million
patients in the US and over-burden hospital intensive care units.
This comes from a planning scenario released by the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology The Bloomberg story cites some
theatrical numbers:
Half of the US population infected (that is, over 150 million people)
300,000 people in hospital intensive care units
30–90,000 people dead
By-pass surgery emergency operations disrupted
But hidden in paragraph 5 of the Bloomberg piece is the most pertinent
part: