Let me know in November when the economy really shows what has happened if you feel the same way.
This flu is no more contagious, no more lethal and no more serious than last year's flu, or any of the other flu strains we've had in the last 20 years. So why all this silly scare mongering?
This is just senseless and stupid. If you don't want to get sick, protect yourself. I have to. I'm betting my immune system is at least as compromised as anyone else on here. So I won't be going to concerts or things like that. But to shut down virtually everything is absolutely ignorant.
My kids girlfriend is from Italy. Her dad HAD the flu. Took 3 days and he was over it. They were miserable, but he said no worse than any other flu he has had.
Italy has a population (native population that is) that isn't even reproducing at replacement rates. Two world wars bled them white. Much like France. So, they are an older population. And, thanks to socialized health care, they have had issues. That has no bearing on what happens here.
This idea that the government must do for people what they can do for themselves is nothing less than tyranny. You shouldn't need the government to tell you to stay away from large crowds if the flu is out there.
It is rediculous.
Much like the bird flu, SARS, H1N1 and the stupid Y2K horse crap that was being hype up back then, this too will be a minor inconvenience made much more devastating by the government getting way out of its lane.
BTW, is it not strange that the democrats and the media hate the guts of "big pharma" and constantly threaten them with price controls and every other draconian measure the Marxist mind can envision, and yet, the US government just gave these criminals and pharmaceutical degenerates a check for EIGHT POINT FIVE BILLION DOLLARS? That doesn't seem strange to anyone?
It's called a payola. Or, if you like George Washington Plunkett, you can call it what he did..."honest graft". That's all that was. A payola to big pharma.
All just stupid, silly little measures that in the end, will do little to make anything better.
