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Originally Posted by BawmKackio
Meanwhile if any of you have actually looked at the stats, as The Boy touched on - the regular strand of the flu virus and pneumonia together with which we are ALL familiar killed 24,000 people in North America from 2008 - 2009 alone. As of July 2009 the Swine flu death toll was hovering around a reported 700 worldwide,
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Sure your point has validity if you ignore the wider picture. Flu is constantly going around, the normal standard streams aren't very contagious because, well, they're constantly going around. Most peoples bodies are already immune to it meaning those at risk at generally the very old with already weak immune systems. Hence "normal" flu as standard has this death count because it's everywhere and it's always there. H1N1 is a new virus. Peoples bodies are not adjusted to capture and contain it naturally because it's not been around for very long. It spreads like wildfire. Yes, it's just normal flu in how much it affects you but it opens the way up for worse things such as pneumonia and even if you do have a decent immune system, because it's a new virus that you won't be prepared for there's a much higher chance that you'll catch it. The reason the death toll hasn't been higher for H1N1 is because Governments, doctors and WHO have done their job properly and contained it (you know, with travel warnings and vaccine) before it got out of hand. You should be thanking them, instead your moronic minds are haring off up the hill creating idiot conspiracy theories. What is wrong with you people?!
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Originally Posted by BawmKackio
with many of the cases carrying "undetermined factors" as contributors to the deaths.. MEANING that many of those people may have already been ill or dying from another illness, terminal or other when they contracted the flu and their systems could not fight it.
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Well that and people who are generally perfectly healthy who caught the flu which opened the way up to worse things. Very rarely do people die from the flu, they lie in bed for a week feeling miserable while their body fights it off. The risk factor of flu is that while your body is busy dealing with it something worse sneaks in while you're immune system is too exhausted to cope with both. Again, the reason H1N1 is more scary is because you're more likely to catch it if you come into contact with it, not because in itself it's intrinsically worse.