Of course and it was tragic for them and their families, but on the other hand we were exposed to scare mongering about the potential of this virus at an official level and so far it seems to have been wrong.
There were a number of deaths attributed to swine flu in this country (and many others), at least one of whom had NO underlying symptoms.
Thanks, you beat me to it. It seems that some WHO advisers were paid by the drug companies for work in areas related to the "pandemic" and "... The industry made billions of euros during the height of the swine flu “crisis”, with the sale of antiviral drugs such as Roche’s Tamiflu and and GSK’s Relenza."... In yesterdays times...
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I find it slightly offensive that people are posting that we overreacted to the Swine Flu threat, justifying this by flippantly commenting they did not know anybody who contracted it. This anecdotal 'evidence' of overreaction means nothing. People died after contracting Swine Flu, usually people who had undrlying health problems. I myself was undertaking medical treatment and was glad to avail of the vaccine. My son contracted Swine Flu adn was debilitated by it for three weeks during which time he could not visit me in hospital which upset him greatly. Im for one, am glad that we 'overreacted' to this threat.
And if they don't take the next one seriously and it gets out of hand people like you will whinge about them not doing their jobs properly.
You are twisting words to suit your arguments. I never said swine flu didn't exist. I never said it should have been 'dismissed' (as of inconsequence due to it was no more dangerous than normal flu (whatever that is!)?) quoting a social network 'doctor' as evidence of the medical profession's attitude to Swine Flu is hardly good enough to convince people that the pronmotion of Swine Flu vaccination was OTT. If anything, people who are influenced by on-line 'doctors' are the gullible ones! Saying that sick people who took the vaccine on the advice of the medical profession of this country are gullible and running scared is a bit much. By all means be annoyed by the 'scare-mongering' but at the end of the day, it probably saved lives. Understating a health threat certainly would not.I don't think anyone is saying swine flu didn't exist or should have been dismissde (although the medical evidence showed it was actually less dangerous than normal flu); we are saying the warnings were completely OTT.
What annoyed me most about the scare mongering were the number of professionals (doctors, etc.) who ridiculed anyone who questioned what the WHO were saying. For example, there was a thread on boards.ie where a user who claims to be a doctor in Australia was very viciously attacking anyone who questioned how many people were going to die from swine flu. I saw similar nonsense on BBC news.
It seems many people - no matter how educated or intelligent - are completely gullible.
There will be another hyped up disease in 3 or 4 years and no doubt anyone who questions it will be called an idiot.
You are twisting words to suit your arguments. I never said swine flu didn't exist. I never said it should have been 'dismissed' (as of inconsequence due to it was no more dangerous than normal flu (whatever that is!)?) quoting a social network 'doctor' as evidence of the medical profession's attitude to Swine Flu is hardly good enough to convince people that the pronmotion of Swine Flu vaccination was OTT. If anything, people who are influenced by on-line 'doctors' are the gullible ones! Saying that sick people who took the vaccine on the advice of the medical profession of this country are gullible and running scared is a bit much. By all means be annoyed by the 'scare-mongering' but at the end of the day, it probably saved lives. Understating a health threat certainly would not.
I think you're taking what we're saying personally and in fact are the one twisting our words.
...and neither did I so there is nothing to drop!No one has said people who were already sick shouldn't have taken the vaccine. So you can drop that right now.
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