dilloduck
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In 1918, we had a pandemic with a virus very similiar to this one. It killed thousands of people in this nation. So, with that experiance, we are just to wait until half the population is infected, and see how many die, before we move on it?
In many ways this is the stupidest thread I have yet seen.
Polio
a severe, debilitating form called paralytic polio (this occurs in 0.1% to 2% of cases)
In 1952 there were 60,000 known cases of polio. 3000 children died. Many thousands more had permenent disabilities because of polio. Yet this occurs in only 0.1% to 2% of the cases, so why bother with vacines when your chances are that good?
But, thank God, we did bother with vaccines, and in only 6 years after vaccinations started in 1955, there were only 161 cases of polio in the US. By 1979, there were no cases of 'wild' polio.
Given the history of the predessor of the Swine Flu virus, not to have put out a national effort at vaccination would have been criminal.
C'mon--look at the upside----less people creating carbon footprints and less people needing healthcare.