What flu? November 7, 2005
Posted by BatWeasel in : Links, News, World News , trackbackI find it very silly that people are trying to drum up mass panic about avian flu. I can see that a thorough review of epidemic procedures like quarantine, and handling large amounts of sick people, and air travel restrictions would be appropriate now. Those things are applicable to any pandemic situation and so it’s never bad to be up-to-date, especially when there’s a real concern. However, no one knows that bird flu will ever be a problem, or if it is what strain it will be, and so all this talk about stockpiling vaccine is just nutty (that is a good chunk of Bush’s 7.1 billion plan). And how in the world are they estimating monetary cost and loss of life? No one of course says what the figures are based on, probably because they’d be embarassed to say they just coughed them out their ear.
Here is a fairly temepered report on the situation, still with it’s fair share of wild speculation.
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*sigh* I guess we are all doomed again. Like with SARS. Just another epidemic-of-the-moment-until-some-other-newsworthy-tragedy scare.