Comments on: Flu Pandemic This Way Cometh?

By: Paul Gordon

Paul Gordon — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:22:09 +0000

Found this at Instapundit. SHANNON LOVE: Swine Flu Shows How We Live In Good Times "Being able to fret about just one serious communicable disease is a luxury beyond price." -

By: Artruen

Artruen — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:30:23 +0000

The CDC finally updated their site yesterday. It isn’t alarming but it does show a growing problem.

By: Evil Monk

Evil Monk — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:21:36 +0000

I’m just not sure that the handful of people who have contracted and subsequently died from this illness is really cause for widespread concern at this point. It certainly deserves to be on the “radar” so to speak, but is it truly time to plastic the house and stockpile supplies?

I use hyperbole in a joking fashion here, but I guess ultimately I’m just not that much of an alarmist. I’d be interested in the opinion of an Epidemiologist concerning this compared to other lesser known causes of widespread death in the US and surrounding countries.

Off the top of one’s head you could conjure up much more likely ways to “go”…

By: Artruen

Artruen — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:34:11 +0000

If you go to the CDC website, they report very different numbers and “facts” from Reuters. They report just a few confirmed cases. And they report it as an old, known virus. The truth, I suspect, lies somewhere in between.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:05:21 +0000

Did the CDC ever reveal the type of flu that seemed to be prevalent in Feb-March in the Midwest?

I’m in my 70′s and I was slipping into pneumonia with it — and the cough did linger and linger and linger. However, it may not be the type killing people in Mexico now.