Re: Blatant CDC lie (pharma shill)

From: Bob LeChevalier (lojbab_at_lojban.org)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:03:24 -0400

cmlinderquist@hotmail.com (JudeH) wrote:
>"Gymmy Bob" <nospamming@bite.me> wrote in message news:<6qCdnbKITIXd7OzcRVn-gQ@golden.net>...
>> They get the 6 a pop and still have their plates full of of victims.
>>
>> Maybe if we let our children get controlled childhood diseases we wouldn't
>> have a planet full of suckholes.
>
>If you look at the data >90% of the deaths are for the elderly.

Probably true, but a cite for this claim would be in order, since this
whole thread has resulted from people improperly taking factoids out
of context and misinterpreting them

>Does this
>justify the media bombardment of 30,000 dead for the general
>population?

I dunno. The media does what the media will do, in order to sell
newspapers, and whatever they are advertising. The 36,000 is put out
from the CDC, but not in a bombardy sort of way. And it doesn't
mention either "general population" or "elderly". The JAMA article
may have had that information, though, without it having been
publicized.

>Also , whose to say that those very ill patients who died of the Flu
>wouldn't have died in a year of something else anyway? Sure, make a
>recommendation
>for those at risk but don't use it as an excuse to create hysteria.

The people who create hysteria are those who don't want to be sick and
miserable for two weeks when a cheap shot will keep it away. They
aren't worried about dying, just about feeling sick and miserable.

>Secondly what are the side effects of the vaccine? If 1 in 1000 kids
>are at risk for the flu, why expose the other 999 to the risk, such
>inreased risk of asthma for flumist.

Why don't you look up the data and find out rather than guess? It's
on the net.

>Regarding economics, there are 6 billion people in the world. If only
>3 billion got vaccinated at $3 that's still a 10 billion market, more
>than enough reason for vaccine makers to push the media to make sure
>and get everyone vaccinated.

2 billion of them can't afford $3 for a shot.

lojbab 

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