My "tinfoil hat" flu theory

[LiberalEsto]

Perhaps the thugs want us "healthy adults" to forgo shots so that a lot of us will be very sick with flu in January -- too sick to deal with anything they might do to stop the inauguration of JFK and possibly declare martial law.

Or am I being a teensy bit paranoid?

Those nice folks in the B*sh administration would never dream of doing anything nasty like that, would they?


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[Dookus]

1. umm....

I doubt any significant portion of the electorate gets a debilitating flu at any given time.

[tridim]

5. Unless they unleash a super strain

Just kidding.. Sort of.

[depakid]

17. Don't even think that

it's not funny.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2004_10_04/en/

[Debi]

2. no...no..NO

See, we won't go to the polls on Nov. 2nd because of the concern over an outbreak in the polling lines!!

This story is the shark attack story, don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain (or the war in Iraq/economy/your lack of health care....)

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Not likely

Even a major flu outbreak, like the one in 1918, would only get a relatively small percentage of the adults. And it would hit Democrats and Republicans alike.

Exact numbers can probably be found at the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) website. (Sorry, I don't have the URL.)

For flu to even get close to becoming pandemic, you need lots of cold, hungry, weak, and otherwise-ill people. This is possible in some parts of Asia, but not in North America.

--bkl

[Debi]

7. The Republicans will get the shot.

Only Democrats will be left to fend for themselves!!! :puke:

[lectrobyte]

9. In the US, the pandemic of 1918 killed 700,000 people, and infected

30% of the population. Superflu is no joke, and it would not only be an issue for cold, hungry, weak, and otherwise-ill people...

[Dogmudgeon]

14. You're right -- I was too low on the number.

I had Influenza A back in 1990. I was a strapping young buck of 32, and it nearly sent me to The Promised Land. I can't easily imagine 30% of the country being sick with that kind of illness.

My grandmother remembers 1918 well. She was five years old and had the flu herself. She remembers watching the horse-drawn hearses picking up bodies wrapped in dirty sheets, sometimes a dozen or more bodies on a cart.

But the "cold, hungry, weak, and otherwise-ill people" I spoke of would get it first, be hit hardest, and die in the highest numbers by far. It would be a terrible way to speed up Natural Selection.

For comparison, in the average year, about 30,000 Americans die of the flu.

CDC's Influenza Home Page: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/index.htm

--bkl

[oscar111]

10. 50 % of population was the top number of "usually x to 50%" get flu

i dont recall x , but i think it was something like thirty percent.
A very small chance i misrecalled this, so doublecheck before taking this as god's own truth.....
all was in an online mainstream news article. Buttressing my recollection , is that is EPIDEMIC every year {tho not pandemic}. The very definition of epidemic is a noteworthy percentage,... i forget exactly what, but it is not the small level alluded to in the posts above.

Most get over it ok, only a relatively few die. Last year the kid deaths were seventeen, IIRC.

BOTH repubs and dems would get it, but with repubs richer, i warrant that fewer of them would get the flu... better access to shots {during this week we had before the gov stepped in and directed shipments.. ponder WHY they waited a week} ,
=== more repubs in bossman offices alone, ...riding in their own car, not busses... better diet, sleep sounder due to no worries, maid to do errands to grocer where crowds mingle, and so forth.

BOTTOM LINES:
Fear of vote lines..It seems to help the GOP. But Backlash would hurt GOP. Another possibility, is osama fiddled with the eggs in england.

PS look into absentee and vote by mail. Carry a small battery fan, to blow air away from any suspect guy near you. Dimestores and Taylor gift type of catalogs have them.

[neomonkey]

4. I like tin foil theories

But I think I prefer the ones with less twists. I think this theory contains a few too many what-ifs and divergent possibilities.

Keep up the good work though ! :) :tinfoilhat:

[candy]

6. Why would a healthy adult want to be bothered with a flu shot?

I never had one until I was 66,and wouldn't worry too much if I couldn't get it now.

[Bridget Burke]

13. Because I'd rather not be sick as a dog for a week or 2....

I don't have live-in nursing; it would be quite unpleasant. And I'd rather not miss work.

Free shots at work? Wait in line for 10 minutes? No problem. But there are others who need them more this year.

Note to self: Lay in supply of Ramen & canned fruit. And cat food (no, not for me).

[MsAnthropy]

8. Nothing is tinfoil anymore

when we've fallen down the rabbit hole as far as we have. I would not put anything past these thugs.

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. My tinfoil theory is that this is proof that we cannot trust

imported drugs. Therefore, yada yada yada....

How did the vaccine get contaminated?

[oscar111]

12. Nationalize EVERY corner of health, to fix this.

Medicare bill back in sixties failed to nation'ze Big Pill, and look at us now.. seniors going without medicine.

Nationalize every corner of health to end the sick ripoffs that will thrive in any corner left to greedhead control.

Healthcare should be run by compassion, not greed.

[Freddie Stubbs]

15. This would require British authorities to be in on it

as they are the ones who shut down the plant that was making the vaccine.

[LiberalEsto]

18. The company is American-owned

by a firm based in California.

(Theme from "The Twilight Zone" begins playing..."

[Freddie Stubbs]

20. So you think that the firm sabotaged its product on purpose?

I guess they are not affected by the profit motive.

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. I was thinking more in line with

"Soylent Green." Kill off the elderly to save some $$$$.

Hopefully we won't be eating them. :puke:

[Snivi Yllom]

19. that pretty out there

[TrustingDog]

21. one can never be too rich, too thin, or too paranoid...

in these interesting times. :)

forget who the originator of this quote is, Maybe the Duchess of Windsor...?