If this strain is so deadly that it kills otherwise healthy people in the prime age of immunization... then out all the people who've caught it (Enough for the WHO to call it a pandemic, and enough for them to stop keeping count): why have so few been noted to have died from it? Either you are over-exaggerating... or the Wiki is hugely under-exaggerating (or perhaps both).
As of the 6th of August... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Influe...hmic-2.png there had been at least 250,000 cases. In the same time frame there had been at least 1,500 deaths. The two appear to have a similar trend, so I am going to make an educated guess as to how many have probably contracted the H1N1_2009 strain by now. About 16,000 cases per every one death... there has been ~6,255 deaths as of this date... So about 100,080,000 people have caught the virus (assuming trends continued since august 6). Out of those... about 6,255 have been reported to have died.
I am not saying anything about the makers of this vaccine getting rich (Why should I care at all?)... and I intend to get the vaccine when I have the next opportunity. I do not see how I have a death wish by leaving a vaccine open to those who would have a higher chance of both contracting.. and dying from this virus? (I was under the impression that there was a limited supply?)
As of the 6th of August... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Influe...hmic-2.png there had been at least 250,000 cases. In the same time frame there had been at least 1,500 deaths. The two appear to have a similar trend, so I am going to make an educated guess as to how many have probably contracted the H1N1_2009 strain by now. About 16,000 cases per every one death... there has been ~6,255 deaths as of this date... So about 100,080,000 people have caught the virus (assuming trends continued since august 6). Out of those... about 6,255 have been reported to have died.
I am not saying anything about the makers of this vaccine getting rich (Why should I care at all?)... and I intend to get the vaccine when I have the next opportunity. I do not see how I have a death wish by leaving a vaccine open to those who would have a higher chance of both contracting.. and dying from this virus? (I was under the impression that there was a limited supply?)
Quote:Oh well, survival of the fittest I guess. Evolution does like to weed out stupid people form the population...It isn't so much survival of the fittest... as it is survival of the lucky. Being fit may tilt the odds in one's favor a bit more (or even a lot more, and sometimes not at all)... but so much more is dependent on where one is, and when. Evolution is a very random process... because it isn't some sort of entity with a goal in mind
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
