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Originally Posted by kevman
How does it feel for most of you to live your life in constant fear?
Buy winter tires or you will die!
Get a flue shot or you will die!
Text message while driving and you will die!
It gets old really...
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Its not about fear, its about doing your best with non-perfect information and acting on it. And finally not worrying anymore and getting on with life, because you did the best you could given the information you had.
So you are healthy and probably will survive the H1N1 if you come down with it. The chances of dying from it are very very slim. Odds are such that we shouldn't fear and especially not panic from it.
The question is, will your co-workers, their young kids or their new borns without much more than a sniff of an imune system, their pregnant wives and the hockey teams you or they coach be strong enough to overcome what you directly or indirectly pass on to them when you are an unknowing transmitter of the virus the first day or two you get it? Most will, fact is some of them won't.
Or will the fragile economy be strong enough to weather the slew of un-vaccinated sick days...
Its called the herding effect. If enough people are vaccinated, the damn thing goes away because it is too hard for it to jump from host to host. If enough people are not vacinated, it spreads and potentially evolves into something worth panicking about.
How is AB health care going to save you? The only thing they can offer is ventilation. At any normal time in this province, do you know how many free ventilators there are? Not many, probably less than a hundred.
Here's the stats for New York:
"Officials calculated that 18,000 additional New Yorkers would require ventilators in the peak week of a flu outbreak as deadly as the 1918 pandemic. Only a thousand machines would be available, the officials estimated. The state’s acute care hospitals in 2005 had about 6,000 ventilators, 85 percent of which were normally in use. A moderately severe pandemic would have resulted in a shortfall of 1,256 ventilators, health officials found."
http://www.propublica.org/article/fl...m-some-pat-923
Yeah, I'm fine, I don't need a flu shot, I'll just barge my way in to emerg if I need too and they'll take great care of me. Good luck with that.
What gets old is people without common sense. If enough people had it, there wouldn't be a need for this kind of annoying banter.