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Originally Posted by pr0
yea, i have no clue why the canadian govt thinks its a good idea to allow such a large migration of chinese
i guess the asian mafia already has juice
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All you need is one bird to eat grain from the hand of one person who's been to china. Vectors can be very narrow for the spread of such diseases.
Fortunately (much to the chagrin of bird farmers in BC) they took the wiser "scorched earth" policy. We may well have been spared some serious fallout as a result.
And as for H5N1, I've procured a week's worth of Tamiflu for the entire family. Fortunately where I am, I'll have several layers of 'canaries' to alert me when it's coming for me:
- I live in Halifax. In all likelihood, H5N1 will show up in Vancouver and Toronto before it gets here, giving me time to prepare.
- My kids go to school. In all likelihood, one of them will show symptoms before I would, giving me time to dose.
If you're conspiracy minded, think about this: Oseltamivir/Tamiflu can be taken prophylacticly. That is, you can take a partial dose daily and have a seriously reduced chance of developing flu at all. Unfortunately, at the price of the pills ($5 a day for canucks, more if you're in the US) it's fairly expensive to keep a family in the stuff... unless you have some coin behind you. $150/month per family member would be economic death to your average $50k-a-year-before-tax household with a couple and 2 kids (600/mo... it'd be like another mortgage). So this flu may represent little threat to rich people who can stock up on tamiflu, but sucks to be you if you're poor.
Of course, if you believe there's limited stocks of Oseltamivir BECAUSE of that, well, let me know so I can go put some more money into tin/aluminum futures.
