[IP] Re: Google map of H1N1 Swine Flu

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Date: April 27, 2009 8:51:22 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Cc: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Google map of H1N1 Swine Flu


David, for IP list, if you wish.

The current swine flu does look like the replay of events in 1976:

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1894129,00.html

It is different virus, but the tactics being pushed is the same.  The
offical over-reaction to the swine flu back then caused way more damage
than the flu itself (any person familiar with history of public health
initiatives won't fail to see that it fits with the overall pattern).

To put the swine flu in perspective, the garden-variety influenza on
average causes about 40000 deaths in US anually.  For some reason I  
don't
see people permanently runing scared with faces covered by masks and
barricading themselves in their homes.

--vadim





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