The professional scare mongers just don’t learn. As each of their panics is exposed as such and nothing much happens despite their dire warnings of impending doom, destruction and death, they come back for more.
Governments should launch a vaccination programme now to guard against a possible H2N2 flu pandemic, according to an article in the journal Nature.
The US authors say immunity to the H2N2 flu strain is very low in people under the age of 50
They are worried about a pandemic. Much like the bird flu pandemic and the pig flu pandemic. Their solution is to vaccinate us all. I wonder if this time they will try harder for enforced vaccination? It was discussed last time – even when it was obvious that there was no pandemic.
Dr Gary Nabel and colleagues from the Vaccine Research Centre in the US say H2N2 has the ability to cause a pandemic in the same way that H1N1 did in 2009.
Except, of course, for the inconvenient little fact that it didn’t.
Between 1957 and 1968, the strain is thought to have caused up to 4 million deaths in a global outbreak, during which time a vaccine was developed.
Er, that’s what, 363,000 roughly worldwide per annum over the period mentioned. Hardly a pandemic given that the population was around three billion.
Flu happens. Most of us have a bad couple of weeks and get over it. Some will die. Death is a part of life. Some may choose vaccination, so fair enough. But a massive campaign of vaccination is over the top. I’ll do what I did when exhorted to get the swine flu jab; ignore it.
“H2N2 has the ability to cause a pandemic in the same way that H1N1 did in 2009”
Sure, there was no H1N1 pandemic, but that’s not to say that we could absolutely rule it out 100%, we could only rule it out about 99.9%.
That’ll do for me.
But we’re all going to die … won’t somebody think of the children?
Well, what should we expect the Vaccine Research Centre to say?
If you ask Ronald McDonald, he’ll tell you to eat more burgers.
I’m happy to get my immunity the same way the older generation did; the natural way – my body dealing with the illness if and when I catch it.
XX The US authors say immunity to the H2N2 flu strain is very low in people under the age of 50…XX
Under 50?
What does THAT tell us?