tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613208088679850968.post9217228157302152656..comments2010-06-18T10:20:30.235-07:00Comments on Dynamic Equilibrium: Public Healthmisskathylinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10905964267127834096noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613208088679850968.post-45695529347314393652009-05-06T09:02:00.000-07:002009-05-06T09:02:00.000-07:00speaking of making this more political than health...speaking of making this more political than health related...egypt killed all of its pigs. yes, all 300000 or so of them. to help stop swine flu. (not because it's a muslim country and the pig farmers are the minority christian group that they really don't like.)<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/health/01egypt.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=egypt%20pigs&st=cseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613208088679850968.post-56715912366337808692009-05-04T20:25:00.000-07:002009-05-04T20:25:00.000-07:00As a student who studies Chicano/Latino students a...As a student who studies Chicano/Latino students and immigration, my concern is the new prejudice associated with Swine Flu. You know, because pplz are all likes, Oh my GODDDD he's mexicannn! He toootaally has swine flu!!!!<br /><br />*Faceplam*devika!https://www.blogger.com/profile/05000323375573740361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613208088679850968.post-12568043648128158452009-05-03T10:27:00.000-07:002009-05-03T10:27:00.000-07:00There shouldn't be a search for middle ground as t...There shouldn't be a search for middle ground as the two extremes are mere ways to conserve/waste what's needed to solve greater problems. I don't think spending this much money and manpower to solve a simple flu is the best way to use any kind of limited resources. There are plenty of other diseases that are much more deadly, and by far more common than this one. 15 hundred people die from the simple flu every year in Australia alone, tell Novartis, Sanofi, or any other big drug company to release their stockpile of flu shots at less than hundred bucks a pop to that little continent alone would save more lives in real time than telling airports around the world to void of function for weeks on end. I think Austin is got a point, except that it is not just 150 people, since in the states alone 36 thousand people die from complications of the simple flu in a year's time (taken from CDC, although I don't usually trust government statistics, but this one sounds like something they really have no reason to hide). Instead of having people worry about things that's out of the ordinary, government should turn people's attention to what's everyday, and solve issues from the ground level and at the origin. That said, I don't think greed is curable, so we are all doomed anyway.<br /><br />bacon love fah realz.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07324802136446913979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613208088679850968.post-13106280199486577062009-05-02T20:10:00.000-07:002009-05-02T20:10:00.000-07:00we fear what we're told to fear. does anyone care...we fear what we're told to fear. does anyone care about terrorists? dirty bombs, shoe bombs? no one even remembers that were in a damn reccession.<br /><br />what about the ordinary influenza virus that kills about 150 ppl every year? but "plain old flu" isn't as catchy or as cool sounding as "swine flu."<br /><br />also, i like bacon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com