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THIS IS JUST PLAIN WRONG!!

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 According to the Center for Disease Control, thirty six thousand Americans die each and every year from..

 

Flu.

How can this be? We are the most medically advanced country in the world and 36,000 Americans die from flu.

I am deeply upset and shocked at this. This is the United States for gods sake. Flu?

How did we let this great country to fall in such a state of high medical insurance? When did we let something as simple as health slip away from us? Who is responsible for this?

We are fat, sick, more pills are prescribed each year in America than any other country on the planet. Why?

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply By: MasonMPosted: Monday, November 13, 2006
When you compare it to the total population, it's actually a pretty small percentage. People die. Such is life. At least it isn't on the order of the black plague. Folks should wash their hands more and stay the hell home when they feel sick.

I know it is a small% of population, I was just suprised that in 2006 so many people still die from something as common as flu.

Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply By: BlueDevPosted: Monday, November 13, 2006
I guess I don't get why you seem so surprised about this. Influenza spreads a TON faster and easier than HIV or Hepatitis. It can easily spread like wildfire and often does. Every year its multiple strands of RNA recombine, mix and match to form new antigenic types of the virus. Hell, the type that infects you can likely be different than the type you pass on.

With this shifting and recombining what should really shock you is how few people die, not how many. Your outrage just doesn't make any sense when you consider how virulent it is and how fast and frequent the virus changes.

I am not outraged, just was taken completely off guard and suprised.

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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
As pointed out by numerous folk here and something I've confirmed with a contact in Infectious Diseases at the hospital where I work, most of those who die from influenza are usually the very elderly, very young and those with immune system deficiencies. Often times, the flu turns into pneumonia and furthers complications.

Stay well, Elie.
Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
In the immortal words of Archie Bunker:

Would it make you feel better if they died jumping out windows?


;~D
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
(Citizen)dynamasoNovember 14, 2006 20:47:35


As pointed out by numerous folk here and something I've confirmed with a contact in Infectious Diseases at the hospital where I work, most of those who die from influenza are usually the very elderly, very young and those with immune system deficiencies. Often times, the flu turns into pneumonia and furthers complications.

Stay well, Elie.


you know how sometimes you hear something common, yet for some reason on that day it strikes a deep cord inside? That is what happened to me.
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top
(Citizen)ParaTed2kNovember 14, 2006 21:12:43


In the immortal words of Archie Bunker:

Would it make you feel better if they died jumping out windows?


In the immortal words of Edith Bunker..

Ohhhhhhhhh awchieeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!