Latest Swine Flu Warning

Just an attention grabbing headline - it worked for you, right?

"The WHO says most H1N1 cases are mild, with many people recovering unaided."

"She stressed that the overwhelming majority of patients experienced mild symptoms and made a full recovery within a week, often in the absence of any form of medical treatment"

In other news, THAT DOES NOT GET THE ATTENTION IT DESERVES, and is FULLY "STOPPABLE", is that 30,000 people die EACH DAY due to starvation.

http://www.starvation.net/

...are you more prone to swine flu if you eat/drink/behave like a pig?

Probably. For comparison, not far short of 3000 people are killed on the UK's roads each year, and that's not newsworthy.

Horse... stable door.
China is trying to stop it getting in, sensible.
We let people come in and out of Mexico and sent their little darlings to school back here...now we wring our hands in horror.
Bonkers, either shut up and accept it, or do something about it.
At the moment we are doing neither...except handing out Tamiflu to hypochondics over the phone.
(OK I know the packets won't go down the line...ooooh there's a telecom 'packet' joke coming next...warden let me out now please...)
Del

The real reason why politicans make such a big deal out of H1N1 when it's no more lethal than normal seasonal flu (unlike say H5N1) is because it's commonly known as swine flu and the politicians are afraid it will affect them since they are all swines .

We just have to hope that H1N1 anf H5N1 viruses don't manage to combine - or else the only things that will save us will be flying pigs!

"We just have to hope that H1N1 and H5N1 viruses don't manage to combine - or else the only things that will save us will be flying pigs!"

Then like it or not, politicians will have to become honest, because the day you get honest politicians, pigs will fly !

Does that mean were safe or are we all doomed?

Doomed of course. Ever met an honest politician before? Or for that matter, a politician who's intelligent enough to turn over a new leaf and be honest if his life depends on it?

The "media machine" has hyped out "global warming" and "climate change", so it figures to mix things up a bit with the "deadly swine flu" scare.

Bottom line:

The US-CDC estimates that 36,000 people in the United States die from the seasonal influenza EACH YEAR.

And the WHO estimates that the seasonal influenza kills between 350,000 and 500,000 people each year. Yes that's half a million people each year.

How many times have you heard those statistics reported in the media during this whole swine flu hype???

For comparison purposes:

The CDC reports that (as of July 30), a total of 353 people in the United States have died of the "swine flu"; and

The WHO reports that (as of July 31), a total of 1,154 people have died worldwide from the "swine flu".

Unstoppable???

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Just my $0.02...

How many times have you heard those statistics reported in the media during this whole swine flu hype???

Quite a few actually - but then I listen to BBC Radio 4 . Any station that broadcasts The Archers in unlikely to over-react (except when the Princess of Wales died, but it wasn't alone).

Ah well Keep Calm and Carry On. Pip pip!

English Rose,

All I can say is it sounds like BBC Radio is vastly superior to the radio venues in the US.

Amen! Is BBC 4 available on short-wave? I'll get out the old inverted Vee, find a cat's whisker (say, Del, c'mere a minute) and listen in.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

You can listen to, too.

Which BBC is this? Can any of yinz guys point a colonial at a good explanation of the different stations?

Just here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/

Not to be confused with BBC 4, the TV channel.