03-04-2010 at 10:14 AM
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Was the H1N1 virus as big of a deal as people made it?
As winter winds down, what do you think about the H1N1 virus?
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03-04-2010 at 10:15 AM
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As winter winds down, what do you think about the H1N1 virus?
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It was nothing, as I said from the beginning.
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03-04-2010 at 10:27 AM
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from my expert medical knowledge I know that...
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03-04-2010 at 10:49 AM
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A huge joke and a money grab. I think of it as a bail out for pharmaceutical companies.
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03-04-2010 at 02:10 PM
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It was an example of SARS 2.0, which I also said from the beginning.
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03-04-2010 at 02:19 PM
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It's funny that signs are all over buses telling people to get a shot if they haven't because the virus is supposed to come back around in the spring. I'd be nervous too if I had god knows how many unused shots and nothing to do with them. Soon they'll be vaccinating peoples pets just to use them up.
Of course the government could always say the breakout wasn't as large as they thought since a lot of people got shots...
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03-04-2010 at 04:23 PM
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It was a good test to see how quickly vaccines could be spread out and how seriously people take immediate health issues seriously; unfortunately it may have turned out to be a 'cry wolf' scenario which could make people less likely to get their shot the next time a possible pandemic crisis comes up.
Health Canada also knows a little more about how vunerable they are (supply, efficiency of vaccine production, etc).
Did the vaccine make a difference in the end? Who knows.
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03-04-2010 at 04:33 PM
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A huge fraken joke, like I said from day one.
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Mathematically it makes about as much sense as (pineapple)$$*cucumbe r*.
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03-04-2010 at 05:34 PM
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I don't know. I believed that it was similar to the SARS incident, but at the same time, if as many people didn't get the vaccine, we can't really assume how bad it might have been.
They did what they did to prevent a possible health threat to the nation, so I won't begrudge them for it.
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03-04-2010 at 05:59 PM
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Quote:
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I think of it as a bail out for pharmaceutical companies.
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Seems plausible doesn't it? |
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