January 3 President Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act, better known as the "fiscal cliff" legislation. There seems to be a difference of opinion as to whether or not we went over the Cliff. I jumped off December 31 and landed in a little paradise called Fiscal Cliff, AZ. On January 10 I made a bad mistake. I turned on the Today Show and watched Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker, Natalie Morales and Carl Quintanilla get their flu shots. Breaking News was Outbreaking News. And why wouldn’t those people we wake up with every morning and get advice from have waited until January 10 to get their Flu Shots. WHO do they thing they are? Or maybe they think they’re WHO.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, is trusted by WHO the Emmy®-award winning chief medical correspondent for the Health, Medical & Wellness unit at CNN, who (or rather whom) I believe, says it takes about two weeks for the influenza vaccine to become effective and it’s only 60% effective. That must mean that four out of ten people who rushed out to get the shot got the shaft.
Apparently Facebook has a new app, the Flu app. This is what the Net says: Facebook has developed a new app that lets you find out who could have given you the flu. It uses keywords, like "sick," "ill," or any other flu-related phrases in your friends' posts to generate a list of possible culprits.(Be careful if you go to Facebook to get the rest of the story. Your computer may get a Virus. At the very least we might learn who the ineffective 40% are so we can give them special attention.
I imagine someone is working on an app that will enable you to get even with the person who gave you the flu. And another app to send apologetic e-bouquets when you figure out they weren't responsible at all - it was your little incubators darling grandchildren.
The good news according to the good Dr.
Gupta is you can’t get the Flu from the shot.
More good news.Congress is not in charge of the new Pandemic. Bad news: Vice President Biden is too busy with guns and cliffs to head the new US Commission on WHO and the FLU. But not to worry, even though you have a better chance of dying from the new Flu than winning the Lottery. The so-called “potential” is 50,000 deaths in the USA.
WHO is the top decision-making body at the World Health
Organization, which has been in business for 63 years.
WHO ran a $300-million deficit in 2010.
WHO hasn’t been too effective with FLU. Looks like WHO needs a shot in the arm. Here’s the record. But remember WHO got the job in 1950.
WHO hasn’t been too effective with FLU. Looks like WHO needs a shot in the arm. Here’s the record. But remember WHO got the job in 1950.
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Flu pandemics since records
have been kept:
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Name of pandemic
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Date
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Deaths
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Subtype involved
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1889–1890
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1 million
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1918–1920
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50 million
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1957–1958
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1.5 to 2 million
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H2N2
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1968–1969
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1 million
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H3N2
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1977–1978
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no accurate count
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H1N1
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2009–2010
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over
18,209
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Remembering
well how I stood in line in 2009 at Costco for two hours to get a flu shot to
ward off the Swine Flu. There was a vaccine shortage and Costco, in its
inimitable style had it. Margaret and I met a lot of very nice fellow members
standing in the sun in the cue.
I
remembered the name of the company that produced the tainted vaccine that had
to be dumped, causing the shortage. I checked to see if Baxter International
was still in business and found the following:
WHO
Gives Baxter Swine Flu Vaccine Contract!
Baxter International Vaccines
Tainted With Avian Flu Virus A Plot To Start A Pandemic?
Where Is US Dept of Health? WHAT EXACTLY IS THE US DEPT OF HEALTH DOING?? WHAT IS THE CONGRESSIONAL OVERSITE COMMITTEE DOING? WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY?? SCREW THE WHO...THEY ARE GIVING A CONTRACT TO A COMPANY THEY ARE CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING FOR SPREADING H5N1!! THAT IS COMPLETELY BEYOND COMPARE!! Baxter To Develop Swine Flu Vaccine Despite Bird Flu Scandal. The fox has been given the duty of guarding the henhouse.
Where Is US Dept of Health? WHAT EXACTLY IS THE US DEPT OF HEALTH DOING?? WHAT IS THE CONGRESSIONAL OVERSITE COMMITTEE DOING? WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY?? SCREW THE WHO...THEY ARE GIVING A CONTRACT TO A COMPANY THEY ARE CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING FOR SPREADING H5N1!! THAT IS COMPLETELY BEYOND COMPARE!! Baxter To Develop Swine Flu Vaccine Despite Bird Flu Scandal. The fox has been given the duty of guarding the henhouse.
I was sick
and tired of Flu news and turned off the TV. Then I sat down at my computer to
write this FLUG and turned on CNN. This is what I learned from Breakout News on
America’s #1 News Source:
1. The spread of the flu seems to be subsiding.
2. 113 million Americans have been vaccinated.
3. California, Hawaii and Mississippi haven’t yet been hit.
4. There is enough influenza vaccine available. You just have to find it.
5. Don’t call WHO. Just click on CBC.gov.
6. Two major transmitters of the FLU are doorknobs and computer keyboards.
Before I finished reading that sentence, I fled my keyboard, washed my hands, drank a whole lot of water and went to bed. It was 11:30 AM.
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