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Originally Posted by Rerun
The impact of large numbers of people being admitted to hospitals because of serious flu symptons, could be catastrophic to our health care system. If you think lineups are long in hospital Emergency departments now, wait till you have hundreds of people with serious flu symptoms clogging the hospital Emergency departments.
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Don't forget the impact of large numbers of people cramming into hospital and doctor waiting rooms, panicked because all of the fear-mongering has convinced them that the tickle in their throat or slight fever is H1N1 and they're going to die. This is the impact that is going to be most crushing on our healthcare system.
I have yet to read an article in any paper with the headline, "Thousands upon thousands with H1N1 recover after staying home for a week". Sensationalism sells papers... fear sells papers... death sells papers. What the media has done has been irresponsible and incredibly biased. In addition, their reporting/fear-mongering has led to a large number of low-risk people feeling like they need to get shots ahead of the high-risk people.
It's the flu!! We've probably all had it at some point in our lives. We all had a chance of dying from it - in fact, we had the same chance of dying from it that we do if we get H1N1. It's not the Black Plague. There are too many people that I talk to that think there's a good chance they're going to die if they don't get the shot and it's simply not true.