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The whole thing is just a prelude. We’re not really gonna all die until 2012.
When people talk about pigs flying it’s just code for combined swine/avian flu. It’ll take ’em about 3 years to get the mix just right. This is just the beta test.
I remember the ’76 swine flu scare. The TV News at the time said we were all going to die (I was a kid at the time, so details are fuzzy). This time in our country’s history is repeating in many ways: Dem. as Pres.; tanking econ.; the new, fully mature, Evil Empire (terrorists) plotting to replace our Christian Capitalist Democracy, with Islamo Dictatorship. Blaa blaa.
Isn’t that Norm from Cheers at the beginning of the second ad?
Let’s forget the Nixon era GOP crime wave.
Also, Pres Ford promised energy independence – “will not sit by and watch Congress and special interest groups continue to talk about an energy crisis and then do nothing about it.
Ford proposed an energy program that will give us energy independence by 1985.
How things never change ! Thank goodness for President Obama.
appearently #4 is delirious from the swine flu as his comments dont fit the topic at hand..
When an official begins a news conference with, “There’s no need to panic”, that’s when you need to panic. I tired to order a bio level 4 suit, but they don’t come in my size. ;). FEMA will take care of getting the vital supplies out. Meanwhile your local hospital has just finished laying off 15% or more of critical staff due to the economy. The world made me a pessimist, I wasn’t born this way.
da other white meat
Science is a dialectic process.
bobbo said, “Science is a dialectic process.”
Yes for the soft, social sciences; reasoning is often based on the exchange of arguments, counter-arguments and advocating
For the hard sciences, there is less advocating and more model building that fits the observations or evidence the best. Hard science modeling it typically mathematical.
Hard science model acceptance testing is it’s ability to predict outcomes based on known inputs and it’s repeatability among different labs.
This flue seems to be about normal. Something a little less than 1/1000 of the people that catch it die. As long as the ones that die aren’t anyone you care about…Depending on how many people get it that could still be a rather large number.
“Ford proposed an energy program that will give us energy independence by 1985.”
His program might have worked if adopted.
Obama seems to go for magic numbers more than I like. He must have a cornucopia from which all good things magically flow at no cost without any negative consequences.
According to the CDC, at least 13,000 people have died of the “regular” flu since this year began and about 36,000 people die of the flu in the U.S. annually.