Government scare-meister says FLU PANDEMIC! RUN for your lives!

[PretzelWarrior]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Flu/story?id=1274419


Ahh yes. The department of Health and Human Services. The same folks who paid for "propaganda" news items and didn't admit it at first.

[JJackFlash]

1. Just because the Bush Junta is addressing Bird Flu

doesn't mean it isn't real and won't KILL YOU.

[rwheeler31]

3. I am loving this

a great excuse to stay home, and quit buying crap.

[PretzelWarrior]

4. so we need to prepare for massive troops deployed

and shutting down highways, airports, quarantines in large sectors around key cities?

ummm...yeah. I read reports in WHO. that is a bunch of bull.

[JJackFlash]

5. I know the Pentagon is Chimpy's favorite branch of govt

but mandatory quarantine won't work against the flu.

[slay]

2. GOP Dictated "news" - All fear, all the time

Keeps the masses scared and beat down. :(

[JJackFlash]

6. The masses are gonna be thinned out

Read up on The Black Death or the Spanish Flu of 1918 if you think pandemics are just make-believe.

[JJackFlash]

7. oh, ye of little faith

"Several leftish bloggers have published their doubts that the alleged avian flu menace is anything more than another Bushevik distraction – and just in time to draw our attention away from Plamegate and the "Scooter" Libby indictments."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/crisis/05/035_ep.html

[niallmac]

8. On the other hand...

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051101/LOCAL/51101021/1078/news

I'm just panicked out.

[JJackFlash]

9. Sounds like this guy is making a living nay-saying H5N1

"It is very inefficient, but it does manage (to infect)," Butcher said.
The avian flu of 1918-1919 wasn't so inefficient, was it, Dr. Butcher?

[niallmac]

16. It was pretty efficient. Too bad I am left to wonder to whom

I should depend on about this story. I guess if Butcher drops dead of the flu before I do
I will shift to other experts. Really, I am fear factored out and confused about what sources
I should trust.

[rwheeler31]

10. I am sure there will be

brave men with guns shooting birds on all boarders. Not to worry.

[PretzelWarrior]

11. LOL. maybe he'll outlaw turkey before this thanksgiving.

YEEEHAAWWW!!! (except for the plastic variety, of course)

[JJackFlash]

12. that's "borders"

And I'm not saying you should worry.
I'm just saying a Perfect Storm is brewing to end civilization as we know it, that's all.

[rwheeler31]

13. Who is Jackfash and why is he trying to scare us?

Hallowen was the 31st right?

[MercutioATC]

14. Those nuts at the WHO and the CDC are using the same scare tactics.

:eyes:

Just try looking into this instead of making knee-jerk reactions to everything this administration says. While it's certainly not a "the sky is falling" scenario yet, there are a lot of experts who are concerned about this particular flu strain.

[PretzelWarrior]

15. true. read my post on GD too. lots of good comment about WHO

and their recommendations. BUsheviks are going at it all wrong. and will capitalize on the FEAR around it. DOn't you see? That is the problem.

People are really blowing themselves up to incite terror...but that doesn't mean an entire country should be mobilized in fear to fight them.

Same with so many other "bogeymen" the political insiders create to mess with the political outsiders (99% of the population).