Bird Flu, OMG the world is ending!

[Sceadwian]

Harvey if you want to know why it spreads so fast there's one reason. Airports =)

 

[Mikebits]

Harvey if you want to know why it spreads so fast there's one reason. Airports =)

I thought it was due to the internet.

 

[Sceadwian]

Did you get my attachment?

 

[Mikebits]

Did you get my attachment?

Haha, thanks Mcafee

 

[HarveyH42]

I went through the CDC website and copied down the daily numbers since they started reporting on April 23rd. Today's cases are nearly double of yesterday. This is just the US numbers...

May 1st: 19 states, 141 confirmed cases, 1 death

May 7th: 41 states, 846 confirmed cases, 2 deaths
May 8th: 43 states, 1639 confirmed cases, 2 deaths

Figure it will be over 10,000 cases before the end of next week. Wish they would have waited a little longer, before letting it run it's course. Wonder how long it takes for a patient to feel normal again, after being infected. I don't remember being sick for more than a couple of days.

 

[mramos1]

In SE Florida, they are saying it is just another flu. And now it is not even really on the news, like it went away.

No one I know has is, some people have a cold down here. Guess working from home for four days is out.. Thought I might get some work done over this.

 

[Sceadwian]

Mortality rate, .122 percent. Typical flu outbreaks are around .1 percent.
Not panicking yet! =) Just the same as any other flu outbreak so far. Wasn't the world supposed to end with a whimper by now?

 

[mramos1]

Sceadwian, you are in NY. You better get on a bus and get the heck out of there.

 

[tcmtech]

Years ago when I went to college right out of high school my next door neighbor in the dorms had a rather interesting professor for his statistics class.
One week he was watching TV and writing down stuff during the commercials. I ask him what he was working on. He said his statistics professor gave the class an assignment to collect statistical data from the news and commercials and compare the human mortality rate they come up with against the mean life expectancy known to be at around 74 years for a typical human life span.
What they had to do was take the estimated figures from every news story or commercial that stated how many people die from something every minute, hour, day, or whatever. Such as car crashes, smoking, murder, famine, disease, and so on. And assume no one dies while in a car crash, smoking a cigarette while suffering from a fatal disease and being famine stricken plus having a heart attack all at the same time.
Then with those numbers calculate how many people are dieing from each subject in a year and add them up and see how often the world population dies off and gets replaced by those numbers.
He did the numbers and according to the media the world population dies and gets replaced about every 3.5 - 4 years. Not every 74!
SO from that day forth I have never trusted the statistical numbers I see to anything that is on the news or in a commercial.
And to his credit I also do not trust the numbers big business or the government post related to anything they have their hands in either!
I think we all know of a few super corps that said they had billions in profit with great plans to expand when they really meant billions in losses and heading for a bankruptcy auction!

 

[Hero999]

Ever get real sick real fast?
I got Guardia poisoning two summers ago. I had to go the emergency room. $2083 to be told I was sick and probably wont die. 3 hours mostly by myself for one IV transfusion of about a gallon of water. $2083! WTF WTF WTF.

And my health insurance would not cover it because to be delared an emergency I needed to stay over 4 hours in the emergency room to get any partial coverage and overnight to get 90% coverage!

Someone makes big money off of people being sick!

Only in the US.

All other developed countries have some sort of universal heath care system making care completely free or at least heavily subsidised.

If that had happened here in the UK, you wouldn't have had to pay a penny, even if your were a tourist you probably would have been treated for nothing because it was an emergency.

I think the US needs some sort of universal healthcare programme, even if it's just free emergency care and heavily subsidised non-emergency treatment. I wouldn't be surprised if not having socialised heathcare costs your country more than it would to implement it. If healthcare were free, it would cut flu because people won't be worried about having to empty their pockets when they receive treatment. More healthy people, means less time spent off work, more profit for companies and more tax for the government.

 

[Sceadwian]

I'm not in New York city =)
Rochester is about 330 miles west of NY city. I live about 15 miles outside of Rochester 'proper' too. I'm less than worried.

 

[Sceadwian]

Latest update

As of the latest CDC statistics.
3 deaths, 3009 lab confirmed cases in 44 states in the US (the CDC reports 45, but this includes DC)

Anyone panicking yet? Come on, be patriotic, run out into the street screaming now! It's for your own good!
Everything on the CDC website screams 'wolf' 'wolf'
https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/

The real world has already moved on. If they keep doing stuff like this if 'the real killer' ever hits it's not gonna matter what they say. The CDC should be banished completely and a simple warning put in it's place (If you don't feel well, avoid people, wash your hands more frequently and don't sneeze on people)

 

[tcmtech]

The CDC should be banished completely and a simple warning put in it's place (If you don't feel well, avoid people, wash your hands more frequently and don't sneeze on people)
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My Great Grandma used and gave advice like that.
Big problem with it though. No one makes money off of common sense!
I think thats why its been abolished!

 

[Sceadwian]

The CDC itself can't however control disease. Ironic.

 

[HarveyH42]

The CDC itself can't however control disease. Ironic.

Nope, but the can alert us when one is spreading, educate us on how to avoid catching it, and what to do if we come in contact with it. Also teach us what symptoms to look for, so we know to get help if needed. Seems like they are doing just fine. They did raise public awareness, and although this flu is still spreading, not as bad as if people were left in the dark about it. Hopefully sick people will continue to stay home, rather than sharing...