Gxas said:
I don't believe in swine flu, bird flu, mad cow, or SARS. Living in America, I seriously believe it to just be a government hoax so people will pay for vaccines.
Sad that I think this? Sure. Will I change my mind anytime soon? Not a chance.
Actually these diseases exist, and are transmittable because of the close conditions within the original hosts and the human body. Any simple biology student can tell you how these diseases mutate from the host animal, reproduce like mad and then spread through the human population. The name change but these are just common, every day, diseases we are dealing with and don't have super-disease powers.
Now... I can't say such diseases are not intentionally overblown though. What is a tiny, ridiculously small, risk suddenly becomes a 'pandemic' cause... well fear sells! You can either believe this overblown risk is spread as propaganda by the government that is catering to the pharmaceutical companies, or like myself a fear-based media that runs through a 'ratings via fear' system, but in either way it is overblown.
Swine flu was less lethal then the average human flu but it sure as hell made someone rich....
Squid flu, if even possible, would be even less lethal but, damn, with a name like that it will make a fortune!
PS: For those pointing out 'free vaccinations' I need to say what my friend will say to that: There is no such thing as a free lunch. Tax payer money went into buying those vaccinations, massive amounts of it. Given how little the threat was I can't help but say this was yet another example of corporatism. Good old US of A, where the talk about health care for the poor is to be shunned like the... pun not intended... plague. Yet any chance to throw money into the black hole that is already massive profit driven industry... well they all jump all over that idea as if the politicians are whores bought and sold by those same industries.
Which, gasp, they are!
