The flu kills 40,000 people every year. Most of those who succumb are in a weakened or compromised situation before contracting the flu. Scare mongering tactics will be employed to put the public in a delusional state of hysteria. This accomplishes the government’s goal of the individual placing his fate and individual liberties in the government’s hands; the last person you should rely on for help with a flu bug is a government bureaucrat.
The death toll from the pandemic of 1919 was the result of special circumstances. I was lucky enough to have spoken to my grandmother about the 1919 pandemic. She told me that the soldiers returning from the trenches were in a weakened condition; they were all thin and very hungry; the flu seemed to kill the biggest strongest men.
We have to remember these men lived in the trenches for two years: in proximity to disease and in a state of hygiene that would have killed most us. They came home in a weakened condition, their immune systems were challenged and the bigger men probably suffered more because their nutritional requirements were greater while in the trenches.
Those of us that are overweight, physically unfit, with poor dietary habits and pre-existing respiratory problems will be more vulnerable, just like any other year’s flu epidemic.
Frankly, the government has no interest in your individual health: but controlling the business of health care and the money it generates is very appealing. The government will whip up this hysteria to a frenzy until you are sure the only way you will live through the winter is to call on Obama to pay your mortgage and put fuel in your tank. Don’t be a fool for Obama’s Death Care Pimps.
