Re: Bird Flu and this newsgroup

Frank White wrote: 
Stuart Grey wrote:

Frank White wrote:

I find it somewhat funny that, even as we are facing a genuine
potential disaster, a possible pandemic that might kill millions and
disrupt society - the very sort of thing many of us have worried about
- almost all of the posts on this newsgroup are about politics, and
racism, and general raving lunacy.  A lot of this is due to
cross-posting trolls, of course.  And speculation about what might
happen and plans to deal with it are being discussed elsewhere, like at
CurEvents and Flu Wiki and BirdFluDefense.  But still, you'd think the
folks here would be like kids at Christmas over the possiblity that
survivalism is about to become THE only reasonable lifestyle...

Oh well.  :(

FW 

We were told we were going to die from the flu last year. Remember how
everyone blamed Bush because there was a rush on flu vacine, and then
when they got more, no one wanted it?



A 'little' bit of hyperbole, there.   The concern wasn't that everyone
would die, it was that there wasn't enough vaccine for everyone -
especially those most at risk, the elderly and very young - and
that set off a panic.  Especially among the elderly and parents of
the very young.

Actually, that was also a warning that the production capacity
for vaccines was inadequate and should have been increased.
But nobody seems to have taken heed...

We still don't live in a command economy, thank god, so production capacity isn't any of the government's business. Who DID hear about production capacity was the free market, and what they heard was that there was far too much production for the market demand to support.

So, one company went out of the flu shot business. People are such stupid assholes that if you tell them they can't have something they never wanted but could have gotten in the past, they will greatly want it and complain bitterly if they can't get it.


 > Before that, SARS, AIDS, Ebola... all kinds of stuff.

Keep in mind that SARS was stopped by a MASSIVE effort on
the part of world health officials (helped by the fact that it had a
long incubation period and was not very contagious),

Well, this massive effort is largely a fiction being told by UN WHO in order to drum up more money.

Sort of how wildfire fire-fighters take credit for their punny efforts to put out forest fires, when the fires are really put out by cool weather and rain.

that AIDS
*is* pandemic and killing huge numbers (it's just killing them
very slowly), and Ebola... I don't know why Ebola never took off.
Apparently it just didn't have the chops.

But we were all told we were going to die from Ebola, another hyped play for money.

The problem is, UN WHO is trying to drum up money via scare tactics. 


The WHO doesn't need to drum up money, it sucks all it wants
out of the UN's teat.


Yeah, its true that bird flu could mutate so that it can be passed from
human to human. There's all kinds of crap out there that could mutate at
any time too. The planet can also get plastered with an incoming
asteroid. We could have a mega earthquake. The sun could blow up.



RE the latter:  Unless our understanding of stellar mechanics is
wrong, no, it couldn't.  Not for a few billion more years.


But, you gotta keep things in perspective. The most likely threats to
humanity right now are the terrorist: Al Qaeda and the Democrats.



(deadpan)

The greatest threat to humanity are a bunch of underfunded
religious fanatics who have to hide in the shadows or they'd
get stepped on, and politicians who are only different from
Republicians in the special interests they cater to.

The religious fanatics are far weaker now than they've been for the last 2000 years. Hell, they can't even burn a bright guy like you at the stake. Seeing how they created western civilization, your claims of their danger is greatly overstated.

On the otherhand, the Democrats destruction of the Ideology that binds western civilization together is well known and documented.



(eyeroll) RRRIIIIIIIGGGGGGHHHHTTTTT. Whatever you say.

If you knew just a smattering of Cultural anthropology, you'd know that no culture can hold together once their ideology is destroyed.

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