Comments on: Fear of Fluing—Revisited http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2010/01/fear-of-fluing%e2%80%94revisited/ Cultivating a community through the exploration of magical living and spiritual evolution. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:01:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: lada http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2010/01/fear-of-fluing%e2%80%94revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6783 lada Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:04:59 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1652#comment-6783 that said, the Medscape discussion involving the vaccine was one of the longest (at 475 posts) and rancorous in my experience. there is no consensus on proper approach. that said, the Medscape discussion involving the vaccine was one of the longest (at 475 posts) and rancorous in my experience. there is no consensus on proper approach.

]]> By: lada http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2010/01/fear-of-fluing%e2%80%94revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6782 lada Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:58:36 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1652#comment-6782 on other boards i frequent, populated by workers like me in the trenches, the most shaken were those practicing in the Rio Grande valley and Applachia. Related with tears the pregnant mothers lost, the kindergarteners struck down. here I saw only one hale and healthy teenager, intubated with bacterial superinfection. did not lose that one. the numbers are small, the lives behind that, and years of promise lost, are what shakes even the most jaded and cynical of us. on other boards i frequent, populated by workers like me in the trenches, the most shaken were those practicing in the Rio Grande valley and Applachia. Related with tears the pregnant mothers lost, the kindergarteners struck down. here I saw only one hale and healthy teenager, intubated with bacterial superinfection. did not lose that one.
the numbers are small, the lives behind that, and years of promise lost, are what shakes even the most jaded and cynical of us.

]]> By: Victor http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2010/01/fear-of-fluing%e2%80%94revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6760 Victor Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:50:28 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1652#comment-6760 At the risk of sounding like a Pete Carroll fan, life is chaotic! Maybe the pandemic didn't erupt because it simply didn't. (Personally, I think it was all the hand sanitizer. We were saved by the hand sanitizer. Yup. What a marvelous age we live in!) ;-) At the risk of sounding like a Pete Carroll fan, life is chaotic! Maybe the pandemic didn’t erupt because it simply didn’t.

(Personally, I think it was all the hand sanitizer. We were saved by the hand sanitizer. Yup. What a marvelous age we live in!) ;-)

]]> By: Donald Michael Kraig http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2010/01/fear-of-fluing%e2%80%94revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6759 Donald Michael Kraig Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:25:34 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1652#comment-6759 Perhaps the low amount of deaths is due to the participation of the CDC. However, that doesn't explain the lack of a pandemic-level death toll around the world. It would also imply that if the CDC more strongly emphasized prevention of the flu at other times, the death toll from the yearly flu strain would be much lower. Perhaps the low amount of deaths is due to the participation of the CDC. However, that doesn’t explain the lack of a pandemic-level death toll around the world. It would also imply that if the CDC more strongly emphasized prevention of the flu at other times, the death toll from the yearly flu strain would be much lower.

]]> By: Wreck http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2010/01/fear-of-fluing%e2%80%94revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6758 Wreck Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:08:18 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1652#comment-6758 They can flip the coin and say the reason numbers didn't materialize is the great effort CDC put out in a) educating people on not catching and spreading flu b) enforcing corporations (like where I work) to send employees home if sick and to remain out of the office at least 3 days after a fever lifts. C) the vacine. You say it might be about money... And it was never going to be big.... But they can say it never got big because of gov envolvement. Who's right? Considering the deaths south of the US border and the few deaths within the US.... Looks like it night be about the CDC's envolvment that changed things. They can flip the coin and say the reason numbers didn’t materialize is the great effort CDC put out in a) educating people on not catching and spreading flu b) enforcing corporations (like where I work) to send employees home if sick and to remain out of the office at least 3 days after a fever lifts. C) the vacine.

You say it might be about money… And it was never going to be big…. But they can say it never got big because of gov envolvement.

Who’s right? Considering the deaths south of the US border and the few deaths within the US…. Looks like it night be about the CDC’s envolvment that changed things.

]]> By: Old man http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2010/01/fear-of-fluing%e2%80%94revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6757 Old man Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:57:19 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1652#comment-6757 I don't think it's about money this time, at least not in the beginning. I think it's knee jerk reactionalism to what happened in Mexico. That's were the fear started ... The deaths of "average adults" from a flu strain. The facts remain that people did fie there and it was terrible. However why did they die? From the flu or bad medicine? Granted I agree that people in the U.S. claim to have h1n1 when they just appear to have a normal flu - nothing like what was described in Mexico..... But what if the CDC didn't sound the alarms they did? Then countless others and perhaps yourself would complain we didn't utilize the media to get word out sooner. I mean what can you do? In this case they retired on the side of safety... Which is prob the best solution. I don’t think it’s about money this time, at least not in the beginning. I think it’s knee jerk reactionalism to what happened in Mexico. That’s were the fear started … The deaths of “average adults” from a flu strain. The facts remain that people did fie there and it was terrible. However why did they die? From the flu or bad medicine? Granted I agree that people in the U.S. claim to have h1n1 when they just appear to have a normal flu – nothing like what was described in Mexico…..

But what if the CDC didn’t sound the alarms they did? Then countless others and perhaps yourself would complain we didn’t utilize the media to get word out sooner.

I mean what can you do? In this case they retired on the side of safety… Which is prob the best solution.

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