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Dartful Dodger:
I remember thinking how funny it was to see people get all worked up over the bird flu. Photos of Asians in suits wearing surgical masks while they hailed a cab.
I still think it's funny and I'll probably be laughing when I see some white teenager in gangster gear wearing a surgical mask at Wal-Mart next week.
What's a little frightening isn't how this thing has become a "pandemic" so quickly, but how quickly Walgreens is prepared for it. It's like they have a "incase of pandemic" chapter in their company hand book.
They didn't skip a beat, all the Easter stuff is now gone and the seasonal isles is now divided into two sections. Fun summer beach supplies and end of the world epidemic supplies.
They're selling masks and rubber gloves by the bulk, along with soaps and cleaning disinfectants.
Am I missing something? I know it kills young, old and pregnant people, but so does any flu, is temporary diarrhea and vomiting really this new and terrifying?
pinballwizard79:
Capitalism fuels medicine in the USA.
Thats why we are handling this better than Mexico.
I think we should spend the bucks to prepare, immunize & etc.
2600:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on April 29, 2009, 06:19:00 pm ---
Am I missing something? I know it kills young, old and pregnant people, but so does any flu, is temporary diarrhea and vomiting really this new and terrifying?
--- End quote ---
Depends if you know your history or not. We are a bit overdue for a flu pandemic. Also, the flu kills more then just those people, the ones you mentioned are just the more venerable and therefore have higher death rates.
Dartful Dodger:
All I'm seeing are kids and babies dying from this. I read a news report about the first documented case was a Mexican child, who is now back to normal. The first(only) American death was a kid who was really sick before he even got this flu.
The plagues that wiped out millions, killed more than just sickly children.
This sounds more like Darwin's survival of the fittest, than it then it does a pandemic.
Honestly, I don't know whose dying from this pig cold. With all the hype you'd think they'd give us some actual information.
Yeah I get it, we might get sick. How sick, is what I want to know.
crashwg:
--- Quote from: 2600 on April 29, 2009, 08:58:19 pm ---the flu kills more then just those people, the ones you mentioned are just the more venerable and therefore have higher death rates.
--- End quote ---
I'm confused about what deserving to be venerated has to do with the flu... :dunno
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