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Originally Posted by stang
Or maybe the H1N1 isnt really going to hit as hard, so they wouldnt make any money because noone will get sick.
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True.
The thing is that they don't know how hard it is going to hit. There's a bazillion variables, and they only know 42 of them.
All they can do is study previous instances and compare the situations and make preparations; plan for a worst case scenario.
People complain about all the doom and gloom (from the media), and really what are they asking people to do, get vaccinated!? The response by some to this request is what is disproportionate, it's as if they were asking people to pay more taxes or something.
And they really are in a lose - lose situation. If they didn't try and prepare and something serious happened, they'd be hung. If they do try and prepare and nothing serious happens, they get hung.
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Originally Posted by valo403
A patient for 2 weeks is also not guaranteed to be getting the drugs manufactured by company x, so that's a factor.
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That's true, but remember this is a grand conspiracy by big pharma
If they're making up things out of thin air to generate demand for the vaccine, they can just as easily make up things out of thin air to make sure that the drugs required for a 2 week run are theirs too...
See, that's the fun of conspiracies, you can make up whatever you want, and you can't disprove it!
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Originally Posted by valo403
I don't really think there's a mass conspiracy, but I do think there's much more panic and fear mongering going on than is warranted. That's apr for the course in the world of the 24 hour news cycle.
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The media definitely takes things to the extreme, but even then it's not so much what the media says, it's more that they repeat it so much and it's so pervasive it sounds like panic and fear mongering.
EDIT: I'm ignoring my own admonition, I should give myself an infraction...