Pandemic (Swine) Flu

Originally Posted by foreverwar

Regarding earlier posts about masks, informative article on the BBC website

Originally Posted by BBC

Professor John Oxford, a virologist at leading London hospital, The Barts and the London, said: "Really, there is very little evidence that masks actually offer much protection against flu.
"I think handing them out to the public as has happened in Mexico just destroys confidence."

No! No! Lack of masks is evidence of a conspiracy to get us all infected! He's peddling their lies! He's one of THEM!

Chris your starting to worry me more then the virus go take a break .

[STONEISLAND]

Originally Posted by chaos23

I think the governments chief medical advisor knows more than you do.

Originally Posted by chaos23

Sorry but YOU stated that the masks were useless. A clear innaccuracy on your part.

Professor John Oxford, a virologist at leading London hospital, The Barts and the London, said: "Really, there is very little evidence that masks actually offer much protection against flu.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8024605.stm

HA!! Put that in your pipe and smoke it!!!!

Originally Posted by chaos23

Your still missing he point. It hase the potential to dwarf all those other illnesses. 1918? 50 million dead? Have you got it yet?

I think you're missing a much more fundamental point, which is that 'potential' and 'likelihood' are two entirely different things. The total global nuclear stockpile has the potential to cause the extinction of the human race, but the likelihood of that happening was far greater in 1962 than it is in 2009.

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Originally Posted by chaos23

It doesnt look like its passing from human to human outside of Mexico. This is weird. All the cases in the UK are from people who have travelled to Mexico.

You sound disappointed. Not just spent a pile of cash on tinned food and cheap toilet roll by any chance, have you? Maybe a job-lot of face masks?

[LondonRoad]

Worries over;

Originally Posted by chaos23

Dr says Swine Flu made in lab

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfa...h_director.php


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq8wk...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnSX_jS0STA

I thought you were big on insisting people examine the evidence properly. How come you didn't notice that your first link contains an interview in which the doctor points out his comments have been gleefully taken out of context by conspiracy nutters? In fact the doctor, when directly asked about this, states emphatically that the virus was not made in a lab:

to be honest, I didn't see how that impression had been directed. But, of course, at this point, this is something completely natural. There should be no consideration this is man-made. This is something that has happened throughout history. Swine flu isn't rare. We see it every other year in the U.S. The point was, it's a completely new virus and something not seen before anywhere -- this particular strain of swine flu."

For those needing further elucidation -- say, anyone who's never watched a television medical drama or been to a doctor -- when Carlo said the strain had been cultured in a lab, he just meant: "They took the swab off the individual infected with the illness and grew it in the lab," he says. "It's confusing, but it certainly wasn't created in a lab. I guess it seems obvious for the medical professionals. I'm working with my advisers to make it clear on the messaging. We definitely don't want to convey that it was created in the lab."

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by Chris

You sound disappointed. Not just spent a pile of cash on tinned food and cheap toilet roll by any chance, have you? Maybe a job-lot of face masks?

I've just got a few months stock of tobacco in

[icestar2]

Originally Posted by Chris

I thought you were big on insisting people examine the evidence properly. How come you didn't notice that your first link contains an interview in which the doctor points out his comments have been gleefully taken out of context by conspiracy nutters? In fact the doctor, when directly asked about this, states emphatically that the virus was not made in a lab:

Thank you some sense at last. Or maybe "They" just got to him, who knows really.

Intresting that the case in Texas was also a mexican baby to.

A Mexican toddler who came to the United States with his family on a visit has died in Texas of the swine flu, Texas officials said

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/he...tml?ref=health

[STONEISLAND]

Originally Posted by Chris

You sound disappointed. Not just spent a pile of cash on tinned food and cheap toilet roll by any chance, have you? Maybe a job-lot of face masks?

He sells FFP3 masks, that’s the only mask that will protect you from the virus. He brought a load for the

'governments chief medical advisor'

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Chris

I thought you were big on insisting people examine the evidence properly. How come you didn't notice that your first link contains an interview in which the doctor points out his comments have been gleefully taken out of context by conspiracy nutters? In fact the doctor, when directly asked about this, states emphatically that the virus was not made in a lab:

No no, you see takingn time to read the facts about a situation only slows down the build up of hysteria.

You see if everyone in the media was cool calm and considered then there'd be no story.

"oh bit of flu going around, take the usual precautions and you'll be fine"

Not nearly as sexy as the the first 45mins of Survivors, which is secretly what they wish was happening.

Originally Posted by icestar2

Thank you some sense at last. Or maybe "They" just got to him, who knows really.

Intresting that the case in Texas was also a mexican baby to.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/he...tml?ref=health

One does one's best.

Yes, I noticed that the 'American' fatality in Texas was in fact also a Mexican. So, so far, it is still only Mexicans who are dying of this. People, it seems, who have had opportunity to get lengthy exposure, or perhaps exposure closer to patient zero.

I tell you what, if this was made in a lab in order to control world population, the Illuminati should be banging on the lab door demanding a refund.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Pierre

No no, you see takingn time to read the facts about a situation only slows down the build up of hysteria.

You see if everyone in the media was cool calm and considered then there'd be no story.

"oh bit of flu going around, take the usual precautions and you'll be fine"

Not nearly as sexy as the the first 45mins of Survivors, which is secretly what they wish was happening.

If everyone in the media was cool, calm and collected about a lot of things (this included), then how would they fill the airtime on the the 24 hour new channels? They need stories like this to carry on for as long as possible to fill airtime and sell adverts..

[Sir John Luke]

At least 'their' efforts to start a global paranoia pandemic doesn't seem to be having TOO much success (at least in this thread).

[Osem]

Given all the fuss there's been about bird flu and other possible flu pandemics in the last year or two, how is that protective masks are being ordered only now?

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Originally Posted by Chris

Yes, I noticed that the 'American' fatality in Texas was in fact also a Mexican. So, so far, it is still only Mexicans who are dying of this. People, it seems, who have had opportunity to get lengthy exposure, or perhaps exposure closer to patient zero.

Perhaps they'll rename it Mexican flu then.....