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WHO Raises Swine Flu Threat Level
Solarch writes "Late in the afternoon on Wednesday, the WHO raised the pandemic threat level for H1N1 "swine flu" to 5. Global media outlets(such as CNN, Fox News, and the BBC) preempted normal broadcast coverage and immediately published stories on their websites. To clarify, the WHO's elevation is mainly a sign to governments that the virus is spreading quickly and that steps should be taken on a governmental level to stage supplies and medicines to combat a possible pandemic. Unfortunately, broadcast coverage focused on phrases like 'pandemic imminent' (CNN marquee).
In other news, patient zero, the medical term for the initial human vector of a disease, has been tentatively identified in Mexico."
The U.S. didn't stop it, it just never materialized. Like the bird flu scare they were trying to sell just recently. ISTR the CDC says 36,000 people die in the U.S. yearly from ordinary flu, and so far one person in the U.S. has died from this "swine flu" -- and that was a two year old Mexican national in Texas. But surely this scare is working out well for the health care industry...
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Fox News counts as global?
I thought only the redneck subset of America watched it.
You can't deny entry to people or quarntine them - that would be DISCRIMINATION. Somehow, the idea of discrmination has crept into the public conciousness such that it is no longer proper to pass judgement in any form. To discrminate therefore is wrong - such as to "discriminate" against people that are sick and will infect others.
So to avoid all this discrmination, we suspect all judgement and wave everyone on through.
Of course it is a suicide pact. How could it be anything else?
Cytokine storms are "theorized" as the cause of death from the flu.. any flu... not just "this" flu. We aren't even talking about a fact, we are talking about Doctors saying "We have no evidence but this is our best guess."
fucking doomsaying bullshit is all this is. For fucks sake you people are quoting Wikipedia instead of the CDC; you can't even quote wiki for a damn highschool essay but you'll trust your life to that shit? I wonder if its really spreading in mexico because they DONT have as good an immune system as we do, they don't go to the doctor as often as we do, and they don't take medicine for every sniffle like we do. No, no that doesn't make any sense at all...
Sycraft, get a shovel, we can bury these people in vaults if we can just get wiki to tell them its healthy for them...
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