Reply #19: Sigh. We always get one of these posts when avian flu comes up.... [View All]

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As far as the swine flu "scare" goes, Ford needed something to make himself look presidential, so he jumped out there with a typical GOP scare tactic that we should all be familiar with at this point in time. It backfired, big-time, and he looked like a horse's butt. It didn't help Ford that he had pardoned Tricky Dick earlier, either.

Hey, Ford was very good at developing fictional stories...just look at his work for the Warren Commission!

Legionnaire's Disease was never discussed in terms of an epidemic, much less a pandemic.

You don't come even close to "been there, done that". You haven't "been there, done that" unless you caught the flu in 1918 and survived. I had a great-uncle who survived the 1918 Pandemic...he was in a US Army camp getting set to be shipped over to Europe when the Pandemic hit the US...so he definitely qualified for "been there, done that". You don't.

Oh, by the way, the 1918 Pandemic had a lethality rate of less than 5%, but it killed 50 million people worldwide. That means that it had to have infected close to 1 billion people before it simply mutated and moved on to who knows where.

The Avian Flu is killing 70-75% of the people it infects. And since we seem to have encountered the same unwillingness to self-report in Vietnam as we encountered with SARS in China, we don't know where the disease has spread, and we don't know how many may be carrying the disease even as we speak. Since it has a 10-day limit before symptoms begin to present, we have no idea how many people have been exposed to the CURRENT mutation of the virus. Just wait until the virus mutates into something that speads more easily from human to human.