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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
I fail to understand how others can not comprehend the base concerns and worries health organizations had, forget about media hype.
It is real damn simple. We understand the normal flu types. They are predictable and very stable viruses. We also have vaccines for them. This was a fairly newly spread flu type, one that is not known. Which also means we have no idea if it will remain stable or further mutate.
If for instance it picked up same mortality rate as normal flu, though off season - it would then actually be killing more people than regular flu, due to lack of vaccine for the elderly, children, compromised immune systems etc.
Then again it does not take much of an issue to make most everyone go full on retard.
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As it is "off season" it will have less of a chance to spread as fewer people are cooped up in doors in close proximity. Also, in the winter, at least in the average American home, the air is incredibly dry. With heaters running and no humidifiers, homes in the winter get as dry as the Sahara even in damper areas of the country. With people breathing very dry air, their sinuses and throats become dessicated, which adversely affects their health and makes the more susceptible to cold and flu viruses.
I think the flu vaccines are a mixed blessing vis-a-vis the "regular" flu strains as they often make people sick (if not as sick) in some cases, and in others it acts as a crutch to the immune system. I think healthy people shouldn't get them, only people like the elderly and small children who would be at serious risk. Just my $.02