Very Sad
Yesterday here in Australia we lost a young life....an 8 year old, to the flu.
Well thats what they said at first now the News is claiming it was just a bad cold
WTF
Come on...really
I am not sure about you guys but the last I knew a cold was not a death sentence.
And on top of that, as usual they have the poor parents come on the TV to tell everyone to vaccinate their children.
I am not sure anyone should be dolling out advice after such a traumatic event.
It is like getting driving tips from someone that just survived a fatality car crash.
For all those that are thinking the Spanish Flu killed millions, you need to go and read all the reports on it.
Scientist have said that they believe it was actually Ebola, due to the way people were dying.
Remember what Prince Phillip famously said, let me remind you.
He said he wishes to come back in his next life as a virus, to wipe out millions of people. (The useless eaters).
I know this is an emotive subject.....but are vaccination the answer? Or are we being herded into our demise.
It seems that every such possible situation is used by the Pharmaceutical industry to advance their agenda.
The only thing I can say is, please people just follow your hearts.
As you alone will suffer the consequences for your actions.
Death statistics from the flu are extremely exaggerated.
"According to the National Vital Statistics System in the U.S., for example, annual flu deaths in 2010 amounted to just 500 per year -- fewer than deaths from ulcers (2,977), hernias (1,832) and pregnancy and childbirth (825), and a far cry from the big killers such as heart disease (597,689) and cancers (574,743). The story is similar in Canada, where unlikely killers likewise dwarf Statistics Canada's count of flu deaths.
Even that 500 figure for the U.S. could be too high, according to analyses in authoritative journals such as the American Journal of Public Health and the British Medical Journal. Only about 15-20 per cent of people who come down with flu-like symptoms have the influenza virus -- the other 80-85 per cent actually caught rhinovirus or other germs that are indistinguishable from the true flu without laboratory tests, which are rarely done. In 2001, a year in which death certificates listed 257 Americans as having died of flu, only 18 were positively identified as true flus. The other 239 were simply assumed to be flus and most likely had few true flus among them."
http://m.huffingtonpost.ca/lawrence-solomon/death-by-influenza_b_4661442.html
Very interesting....from what I understand one can only get the flu every 5 or so years.
Thank you for your informative response, it is truly appreciated
Another thing about the flu is that it rapidly mutants. So the vaccines are highly ineffective since the strain they developed the vaccine for has already changed by the time they are admistering the shots.
No problem, anytime :)