Here it comes

bulgron said:
"What we need is a vaccine that is effective across strains because the virus can be different each year."

Right now, given the way we create flu vaccines, we cannot prepare drugs ahead of time because our current drugs are targeted to specific strains. But it is theoretically possible (judging by this statement from someone heavily involved in the problem) to create flu vaccines that cross strains.
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That would indeed be nice if science can discover how to accomplish that goal. (We are also seriously close to major breakthroughs in cancer treatment.)

In fact, isn't that exactly what tamiflu is?
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No. It does not create artificial resistance to infection, like a vaccine. It reduces the severity of symptoms -- in some people who take it.
 
Temper said:
You have your thoughts on the matter and I have mine, with 25% of the population gone, its going to be a big breather for the survivors.

Just another example of evolution, nothing more.
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Population control?:D
 
Trust me, it would never work. People would start to kill their kids in about a week. Husbands and wives would be strangling one another in about two weeks."



In New Orleans by the third day they were resorting to cannibalism( the mainstream media said it, so it must be true), so maybe you're right.
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braddy said:
Trust me, it would never work. People would start to kill their kids in about a week. Husbands and wives would be strangling one another in about two weeks."



In New Orleans by the third day they were resorting to cannibalism( the mainstream media said it, so it must be true), so maybe you're right.
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But if they were lying, which they did about most things, does that prove it "would work"?
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If you live in earthquake country, as I do, you'd better already have food and water and all the other necessary supplies anyway.

Water for 14 days and food for 3 months seems to be about the limit for what people can store and be able to maintain it. If that doesn't sound like enough to you in the face of a pandemic, well, it probably isn't. But there's a limit to what anyone can prepare for in isolation from their communities.
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I point out to people that whatever triggers your interest in preparation, whether it is hurricanes, or Y2K, or terrorism, earthquakes or whatever, run with it.

Then when another situation triggers your memory, or gains your interest, use that reminder to reevaluate, and refresh your stored goods.

There will always be a need for a household to have some ability to endure if there is an interruption to our normal lives.
 
[QUOTE"Lock down every city in the United States, send the military around to throw MREs on your doorstep every couple of days, require people to stay at home, and accomplish that by providing free cable tv and high-speed internet to every household in the U.S. ][/QUOTE]


Throw in a little beer, and an annual vacation, I'll take it.
 
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