Bird Flu Bollocks

[Shadows]

Its all scaremongering by Pfizer (was it) to sell shitloads of Tamiflu and make their shareholders rich.

[Flatcap]

yeah its all well and good saying ill care when it happens
what if you or your family get it first?
then youd feel like an idiot huh?
can i print your post onto your tombstone

Why would I feel like and idiot? You can still get the flu even if you buy bottled water and canned food. The simple fact is that if there is a huge epidemic (very unlikely) there is bugger all you can do about it.

This mailout of info is another Nanny State inspired waste of taxpayer money

[MisterD]

This mailout of info is another Nanny State inspired waste of taxpayer money

Yup. Just spending our money, so when it happens (may it be ten thousand years) they can say "We told you so, don't come crying to us now!"

[Sparky Mark]

Why would I feel like and idiot? You can still get the flu even if you buy bottled water and canned food. The simple fact is that if there is a huge epidemic (very unlikely) there is bugger all you can do about it.

This mailout of info is another Nanny State inspired waste of taxpayer money

I disagree. The normal flu doesn't KILL you unless you are elderly or very young, even then the risk is low. Therefore the impact of having it is normally acceptable for a healthy person.
Contracting bird flu makes that risk of you dying from it significantly higher. This now increases the impact on society in general to an unacceptable level.

If one of your family contracted bird flu and was at risk of dying, also because of this the rest of your family including yourself was also at risk of dying, what would you do? Sit there and accept it? or quarantine that person, ensure they have least contact as possible with the unit and follow the guidlines of the government, who have research evidence which these are based on?

I know what I'd do. I don't think this is a waste of Taxpayers money because if nothing else it's promoting debate in society and raising awareness. I'd much rather, if it came, that people knew what it was and had at least something they could to to try and stem it!

[Goblin]

Its all scaremongering by Pfizer (was it) to sell shitloads of Tamiflu and make their shareholders rich.

Totally agree! Aids kills more people than birdflu so I wonder how Durex shareholders are doing.

With the world getting so over-populated it might be just natures way of culling.

[Flatcap]

The normal flu doesn't KILL you unless you are elderly or very young, even then the risk is low. Therefore the impact of having it is normally acceptable for a healthy person.
Contracting bird flu makes that risk of you dying from it significantly higher. This now increases the impact on society in general to an unacceptable level.

If one of your family contracted bird flu and was at risk of dying, also because of this the rest of your family including yourself was also at risk of dying, what would you do? Sit there and accept it? or quarantine that person, ensure they have least contact as possible with the unit and follow the guidlines of the government, who have research evidence which these are based on?

I know what I'd do. I don't think this is a waste of Taxpayers money because if nothing else it's promoting debate in society and raising awareness. I'd much rather, if it came, that people knew what it was and had at least something they could to to try and stem it!

At present the risk of dying from bird flu in NZ = zero.

If it is as bad as the scaremongers would have you believe, then our ability to contain it will also be zero.

I will believe it when I see it

[Stroker Girl]

I watched THE PLAGUE on the History channel the other day. That was scary. Hate to imagine what would happen here if a simular plague hit. Viruologists say a major plague is not if but when. Been saying that for a long time....................but when is how far into the future??

Skyryder

Talking of the plague, I was watching a show about a month ago called 'Body Snatchers' and a husband and wife in America got admitted to hospital and were diagnosed with Bubonic Plague! Aparently they caught the plague from rats which live in the desert where they go hiking The wife made a full recovery but the husband is pretty messed up.

Pretty scarey stuff really.

[Sparky Mark]

Totally agree! Aids kills more people than birdflu...

I totally agree, that is CURRENTLY the case. However bird flu IS killing people albeit a small number - Fact.
It IS spreading - Fact.
If it begins spreading between humans, we are all possibly in the shit - Tamiflu or not!

[Lou Girardin]

18,000,000 people died in 1918 of spanish flu, and they're telling us that we're just as helpless to fight a pandemic as they were?
It's just more sensationalist hype. Remember how AIDS was going to kill us all?

[Ixion]

Y'all dead of SARS yet. You're supposed to be.

Repent - it's the end of the world !

[hunt]

check out the World Health Organisation web site on bird flu, there's more happening out there than whats getting reported by the media, soon as 1 case happens in n.z there will be wide spread panic, i'd imagine utter kaos
at the supermarkets with people trying to stock up, i hope it wont happen,
theres no harm in having a little stock pile of supplies.

[idb]

It's getting so expensive to worry about these things.

I'm going to have to go down into my fallout shelter and clear a shelf of my Y2K and Sars emergency packs so that I can fit all of my Tamiflu and tissues.

By the way, I don't remember any "All Clear" announcements from the Government from nuclear winters, Y2K chaos or SARS epidemics.
I'm not chucking anything out until then but the shelter is getting a bit full.

[sunhuntin]

bollocks if ya ask me. any chance it does come here, and i do get it...im gettin on my bike buck naked and riding straight into something like a wall.

i dont listen to this kinda stuff....same with meningitis stuff....i was 20 when they started wanting to vaccinate us all....i decided against it. every winter mum and dad get the flu shots, they both get sick as a dog. i never have one, i get a cold here and there, but never anything worth taking time off for.

[Finn]

My god, it's here!!!

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