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2009-09-20 -Lurid Crime Tales-

FLASH - STOP THE PRESS - UN says Swine flu 'could kill millions unless rich nations give £900m'

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Posted by Slolunter Phinemp9189 2009-09-20 11:59|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 We have put around $2 billion into the development of a vaccine.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-09-20 13:17|| 2009-09-20 13:17|| Front Page Top

#2 The virus-carrying African mosquito is going to kill us all anyway and there's no vaccine for that.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-09-20 13:25|| 2009-09-20 13:25|| Front Page Top

#3 "The swine flu pandemic could kill millions and cause anarchy in the world's poorest nations unless £900m can be raised from rich countries to pay for ~~vaccines and antiviral medicines~~ fully equipped Toyota Land Cruisers (in white, please...and don't forget the upgrade package) and plenty of overnight stays in 5-star hotels, says a UN report leaked to the Observer".

There. Fixed it.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2009-09-20 13:28|| 2009-09-20 13:28|| Front Page Top

#4 I know I'm an evil warped vindictive person, but it tickles me that Islam sees these Vaccinations as EEEEEVVVVIIILLL, and refuse to take them.
DIE YOU MURDERING MORONS

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-09-20 13:40|| 2009-09-20 13:40|| Front Page Top

#5 So here's the issue.

Set aside white Land Cruisers and 5 star hotels for the moment. Yes, the UN is not exactly the most attractive or credible source, especially when they are trying to guilt us into paying into their schemes.

That said, consider what the best H1N1 epidemic models say, especially the one I've mentioned here before that was highly accurate in its predictions of where/when/how many cases we'd see in the Spring.

Those models demonstrate that, if the virus mutates into a virulent more lethal form, there are only two ways to prevent a repeat of the 1918 lethal pandemic, here in the US as well as elsewhere.

One way is to somehow know ahead of time where that mutation will occur and block all humans and foodstuffs coming out of that area, for a year or so. Of course, it is quite possible it will mutate in multiple places at once and in any case it's impossible to detect the instant it mutates.

The other way is to vaccinate those people who are a) most likely to catch it early or b) especially susceptible to it.

No one knows who might be in category a). We can hypothesize that it might be the poor whose nutrition, sanitation and health care make them vulnerable to disease in general, but that's just a guess.

Category b) seems to include people under 24 or so and pregnant women, in the current non-lethal strain. FWIW those are the same population groups that were most susceptible to the 1918 strain.

I haven't a clue if this mutation will occur. But if it does, we will wish those vaccinations had occurred earlier because it will affect us in direct ways.

Posted by lotp 2009-09-20 14:59|| 2009-09-20 14:59|| Front Page Top

#6 that's fine - vaccinate here first.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-09-20 15:00|| 2009-09-20 15:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Agreed, Frank - and there's a big push to do that, hoping that the vaccine we are generating for the current strain will be sufficiently close to any mutated virus that it will prevent the spread of a more deadly form.

Posted by lotp 2009-09-20 15:02|| 2009-09-20 15:02|| Front Page Top

#8 S.P.I.D.E.R. (Secret People's International Directorate for Extralegal Revenue) = United Nations

Posted by Blinky Uluns9485 2009-09-20 15:09|| 2009-09-20 15:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Lotp's 2-pronged scenario makes the assumption that an H1N1 vaccine will function as desired.
AFAIK, there is no vaccine being used at this moment to stop H1N1. One has just been approved but we can't know if it will work -- until it's too late.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-09-20 17:02|| 2009-09-20 17:02|| Front Page Top

#10 $1,459,928,754 total (rounded off to the nearest dollar).

$1,135,420,015 on antiviral drugs and vaccines to protect health care workers and other essential personnel as well as cover those suffering from severe illness.

$238,470,123 for vaccine campaigns, improve communications, monitor levels of illness and improve laboratory capacity in 61 countries.

$85,979,205 to pay for WHO and other UN-related organizations administrative costs, as well as an emergency fund for additional antiviral medicines.

Posted by Pappy 2009-09-20 17:27|| 2009-09-20 17:27|| Front Page Top

#11 I already bought a lot of the people I work with cranberry juice, figuring it ought to be a good countermeasure for viruses in general.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-09-20 17:55|| 2009-09-20 17:55|| Front Page Top

#12 That's a good idea, Thing.

We could help the downtrodden of the world AND our cranberry farmers by exporting lots of cranberry juice to them. Win-win for everyone ~~except the UN kleptocrats~~!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-20 18:07|| 2009-09-20 18:07|| Front Page Top

#13 rope-a-dope 101 by the United Basket Cases.

Posted by HammerHead 2009-09-20 18:28|| 2009-09-20 18:28|| Front Page Top

#14 I absolutely love cranberry juice.
We even get fresh cranberries from the U.S. now

Posted by European Conservative 2009-09-20 18:31|| 2009-09-20 18:31|| Front Page Top

#15 I'm surprised someone isn't growing cranberries in Europe, EC. I think y'all have the right climate for it in much of northern Europe.

Have you tried Craisins? (Like raisins, but made with dried sweetened cranberries.)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-20 18:36|| 2009-09-20 18:36|| Front Page Top

#16 BTW, except for the fact that the Useless Nitwits are always scheming to get their hands on more of our money, I'm surprised they want to combat swine flu or any other disease that they think will kill millions. They're greenie leftist gerbil worming believers, and greenie leftist gerbil worming believers think there are too many people on the planet and that's what's ruining it, so why don't they want those millions killed for the sake of Mother Gaia?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-20 18:41|| 2009-09-20 18:41|| Front Page Top

#17 The Euro-Asian variety of the cranberry is calles Moosbeere in German and actually grows here, but is not grown commercially. Don't know exactly why but in Scandinavia other berries are preferred.

(Cludberries which are heavenly delicious grow in the wild and are harvested by anyone who wants them, fetching good prices).

Only North America has mass production of cranberries and I suppose it's cheaper to import the (more robust) North American variety.

Yes we have Ocean Spray craisins here, too, but few people know them (yet)

Posted by European Conservative 2009-09-20 19:03|| 2009-09-20 19:03|| Front Page Top

#18 So much more is available, on both sides of the pond, than when I lived there almost two decades ago, European Conservative. It almost seems like globalization is a good thing. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2009-09-20 19:11|| 2009-09-20 19:11|| Front Page Top

#19 Definitely.
But don't tell the Greens.

Posted by European Conservative 2009-09-20 19:24|| 2009-09-20 19:24|| Front Page Top

#20 I've got a better deal.Give me a dollar and I wont give you Swine Flu. Deal?

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-09-20 21:04|| 2009-09-20 21:04|| Front Page Top

#21 I got a chuckle that you put this under lurid crime tales. Maybe a graphic of Uncle Sam's pockets being picked. But then, Sam's pocket is empty. Maybe of crooks stealing his identity and running up his credit cards, taking out a mortgage with poor Sam working on the chain gang to pay it all back. haha. be funny if it wasn't true.

Posted by Jumbo Slinerong5015 2009-09-20 22:52|| 2009-09-20 22:52|| Front Page Top

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