Believe it or not, the flu will always be with us

I am sort of amazed by the establishment view that's crystallized around this. Everyone is supposed to cut corners to whip out various runs of vaccines.
It's amazing how quickly people forget that influenza has always been with us - a more holistic view is that it basically co-evolves with humans in such a way to not be very lethal, over the centuries. It is such a simple bug, it only has 16 genes. It is basically a spiky ball that can crack into a variety of avian and mammal cells, much more of a cross-species bug than most.
In our industrialized reality, somehow we are supposed to believe it can be 'beaten,' and furthermore that filling up the population with half-tested flu goo will somehow never cause any shift or mutation in its genome, let alone spawn a more dangerous strain.
How many bad vials will there be?? How many cases of auto-immune disorders like Guillain-Barre syndrome or nervous disorders (Gulf War style) from the toxic adjuvant squalene? Why should we believe that any of this makes a lick of sense?
And furthermore, how many nasty new varieties of flu are companies like Baxter permitted to create in their lab and send around? Everyone is supposed to blame these nasty Mexican pig lagoons, which is perhaps reasonable, but nature can only remix these bugs at a limited frequency.
Baxter et al have a huge business interest in creating every possible genetic flu combination, having them on hand in case they appear in the wild, to generate vaccines against. Who weighs the public health threat from this business practice?! (let alone the comic book villain style create-release-sell-vaccine conspiracy option :-)
[From an Agonist thread... sorry I don't have many linx yet]

Comments

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

Obama has been tackled

Obama has been tackled issues on health care during his health care speech.Obama appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman” several times during his campaign, and I am glad to see that he doesn’t consider himself above Letterman’s show now that he’s been elected.Things are changing in society. Short term loans are more common, workplaces are more casual and relaxed, people use the Internet to communicate more and they realize that some traditions hinder progress instead of helping. I think President Obama’s appearance on “Letterman” shows that he is in touch with this new generation.A lot of the clips out there will only show you the jokes from the Obama on Letterman video. However, Obama did share a lot of interesting insights and messages about the economy, racism, health care and the situation in Afghanistan.Perhaps the most talked about segment of the Obama on Letterman video is the part in which Obama addressed whether cries of racism against him are valid.

This Is A Test Comment

This is a TEST Comment
Salman Khan
Salman Khan
http://www.google.com/

Tags for Believe it or not, the flu will always be with us