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+250$mil worth of swine flu vaccine wasted - Page 2
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Sabu113
United States11075 Posts
Well I'm vaccinated :D | ||
Myles
United States5162 Posts
On July 02 2010 03:22 T0fuuu wrote: Lol? Thats what ppl said abt bird flu and now look at indonesia. The fatalities are ridiculously high cos of living conditions and the disease is still there and we are just incubating a stronger virus by not fixing it. But no1 batts an eyelid cos news doesnt see it as important. And yeah i got reccommended to buy the stocks. But i had money in coal instead  which worked out betterYou realize according to the WHO there's been less than 300 deaths worldwide attributed to bird flu right? | ||
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daz
Canada643 Posts
On July 02 2010 03:08 Coca Cola Classic wrote: definitely obama's fault. his embracing science and being an intellectual is doing more harm than good for this country. wasting 250million when we're in financial crisis!?!?! you have a problem with someone embracing science while typing a message from your computer on an internet forum? please go back to whatever cave you came from and never come out | ||
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Coca Cola Classic
266 Posts
On July 02 2010 03:32 daz wrote: you have a problem with someone embracing science while typing a message from your computer on an internet forum? please go back to whatever cave you came from and never come out /sarcasm? edit: my comment was a reflection of what i expect to be hearing over the next few days. I work for US Dept HHS. | ||
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daz
Canada643 Posts
EDIT: Sorry I misunderstood. I thought you were asking if I was being sarcastic. My apologies. Please tell those people at your office to go back to their caves for me. | ||
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MangoTango
United States3670 Posts
That's not to say that there aren't real health problems related to the influenza virus; it's just that the H1N1 swine flu was just blown totally out of proportion. That's $250m that could have been used for something useful, like helping poor people. Just kidding, I meant slaughtering innocent civilians half a world away. | ||
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AeonStrife
United States918 Posts
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On July 02 2010 03:24 CharlieMurphy wrote: fucking joke country we live in. "hey lets make tons of this worthless vaccine because someone told us this new strain of flu is dangerous (even though there are new strains every year)" but tbh, 260$ mil is nothing for a loss compared to the debt with everything else. Let's spend 700$ billions on the military, most of which is completely useless... Yeah... Wish things were handled properly... | ||
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hejakev
Sweden518 Posts
On July 02 2010 03:41 MangoTango wrote: Overhyped fake crisis met with proper skepticism, doo dah, doo dah. That's not to say that there aren't real health problems related to the influenza virus; it's just that the H1N1 swine flu was just blown totally out of proportion. That's $250m that could have been used for something useful, like helping poor people. Just kidding, I meant slaughtering innocent civilians half a world away. God, tell me about it. What a waste of money and manpower. No one I know got vaccinated, nor did I hear about anyone I know getting the virus. Only like 8,000 people on Earth have died from it. More people died from illegal firearms in the US last year than people killed by a "worldwide epidemic", sounds like the nation needs to get its priorities straight. (edit: grammar mistake) | ||
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Alou
United States3748 Posts
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Miss_Cleo
United States406 Posts
On July 02 2010 03:08 Coca Cola Classic wrote: definitely obama's fault. his embracing science and being an intellectual is doing more harm than good for this country. wasting 250million when we're in financial crisis!?!?! You sir are a deluded man. Wake up, you can't blame everything on one person, and there's more to the story than what they tell. edit: nvm read your other post, sarcasm is realllly easy to spot on the interweb | ||
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soullogik
United States1171 Posts
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ggrrg
Bulgaria2716 Posts
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On July 02 2010 03:59 hejakev wrote: God, tell me about it. What a waste of money and manpower. No one I know got vaccinated, nor did I hear about anyone I know getting the virus. Only like 8,000 people on Earth have died from it. More people died from illegal firearms in the US last year than people killed by a "worldwide epidemic", sounds like the nation needs to get its priorities straight. (edit: grammar mistake) It was arguably an overreaction in order to prevent what was regarded as a possible "pandemic". Naturally it didn't happen but did you see how scared people were. There was this insane girl in school who wore one of those blue masks ALL THE TIME, and this is nothing compared to other places. On one side, I understand why people regard this as an huge fluke - it appears to be. Millions of dollars to prevent* a crisis that never happened. Now pay attention, the money was spent to -PREVENT- a crisis. There are two possibilities: 1: It would have died off on its own without the help of the vaccine, probably killing a few more people. (Arguably the likely outcome) 2: It would have mutated and expanded and killed more people. (Unlikely in H1N1) Basically, we disarmed a bomb not knowing whether or not it was real. If it was a real bomb, it was disarmed and nobody will ever know what could have happened. If it was a fake bomb, we "wasted" that money by being cautious. When something like this happens, it's in our interest for people to be at least moderately scared so they start practicing basic hygiene and stop sneezing in my face. Next time a deadly virus pops out, should we wait for it to be dangerous before we start spending money on fixing it, or is it worth it to spend more money in trying to patch it up early even if it may turn out to be useless? I have a friend in TX who was hospitalized for a while because of this virus. He has a condition, something about his kidneys not working properly I believe. He couldn't get the vaccine because of it. His brother could have used the vaccine. Turns out, his brother got it (pull through easily) and gave it to my friend, who's immune system is garbage. He almost died. One of the reasons to get the vaccine is to avoid giving the virus to other people. Either way that's how I feel =) Cheers. scare tactics created to have us buying a vaccine that had not even been tested long term. You don't know how vaccines work x_x | ||
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Deleted User 3420
24492 Posts
Q: How many people have died from the 2009 swine flu pandemic? US: 3 March 2010 -- As of 12 February 2010, According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is estimated* that since the beginning of the pandemic, the US has had approximately 57 million cases of A-H1N1/09 Pandemic Swine Flu and approximately 11,690 resulting deaths. Based upon this, an estimate of the mortality rate in the US from the pandemic is 0.02%. In comparison, the CDC and World Health Organization (WHO) have estimated that with seasonal flu, "we see over 30 million cases in the United States. We see 200,000 hospitalizations and, on average, 36,000 deaths." (During the entire fall and winter flu season.) Based upon this, the average mortality rate of seasonal flu in the US would be 0.12 %. answers.com so, maybe it was highly contagious. but how dangerous was it actually? how did the media portray it? But, despite this - I will say there is much greater corruption and much worse things to be upset about. | ||
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
On July 02 2010 04:04 Alou wrote: People overreacted like crazy with this, but in the end it's health, so they need to overreact. just not to the point of getting a heart attack or stroke  | ||
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GoodCat1
Israel266 Posts
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GenesisX
Canada4267 Posts
 If swine flu was actually very lethal I think this would not have been enough. | ||
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Lucumo
6850 Posts
On July 02 2010 03:24 Holcan wrote: North American Governments, systematically exploiting tax payers dollars to line the inside of private investors pockets since 1776. | ||
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Chupacabra(UCSD)
Mexico225 Posts
The friends that did come ended up having the time of their lives and endearingly named the trip "Swine Time 09" haha. You know Korea stopped buying pork from Mexico cause of this??? FREAKING PORK Poor Mexican business men... :'( | ||
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