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POPSInstead of calling it swine flu, maybe they should call it WHO flu Why would the WHO call H1N1 a pandemic? It obviously has not come anywhere near to being as wide-spread as predicted. Is it politically motivated? Anyone have any ideas? I don’t generally go in for conspiracy theories except to muddy the waters, but I’m thinking this could have been a test to see how many people get behind what the government tells us to do. Or, the government will say that the pandemic was stopped because so many people took the vaccine. Whatever. Now, a real conspiracy theorist would say that the vaccine was an excuse to inject a tracking device in us. :)
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POPS"Risk from swine flu vaccine 'greater than catching virus"
Showing World Health Organisation (WHO) graphs about the rise and fall of the H1NI virus around the world, he told his audience that staying informed was the most important thing anyone could do regarding potentially risky infectious diseases. He suggested there may be a lot of under-reporting of the H1N1 virus now in cases where the symptoms are relatively mild. “It seems that a lot more people have had the virus undetected than the WHO thinks and if this is the case, we won’t see a second wave of the H1N1 virus because so many people will have developed the antibodies against it.” He also questioned the potential effectiveness of a vaccine based on the current strain of the H1N1 virus if a more virulent form of the virus develops. “The real risk is if the virus is transferred back to pigs and from them back to humans again. The current strain has probably been circulating in pigs for 10-17 years, according to a paper in Nature Biotechnology,” said Dr Verkerk.
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POPSH1N1: Sorry, we don't have a line item for That. Creating ways for healthful lifestyle habits to be the natural first choice for Americans is the goal of a $650 million initiative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be used to increase physical activity, improve nutrition, decrease obesity, and decrease smoking in U.S. communities. And then, on the same day Dr. Frieden was doing his best Oliver Twist before Congress: $120 Million for States Made Available as Part of Recovery Act Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative Now, the H1N1 is one of the more anticipated, slow-moving ‘pandemics’ in history. It hasn’t even really hit and it seems like old news. Surely, some of that $650 million in grants for ’healthy choices’ could have been used to, you know, actually keep people healthy.
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POPSLearn to Relax Let's face it, we all get anxious. It is hard to imagine living a normal life in this day and age without some kind of anxiety provoking situation popping up. It is all about what we do with it vs. if we will have it, right? What do you do to relax? Does it matter if you are introverted or extraverted? Does how much money you have help or hinder? Share by clicking the comments link or tweet us at http://www.twitter.com/thirstyfishinfo
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POPSClimate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security “We will pay for this one way or another,” Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, a retired Marine and the former head of the Central Command, wrote recently in a report he prepared as a member of a military advisory board on energy and climate at CNA, a private group that does research for the Navy. “We will pay to reduce greenhouse gas emissions today, and we’ll have to take an economic hit of some kind. “Or we will pay the price later in military terms,” he warned. “And that will involve human lives.”
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POPS9 reasons to REworry about H1N1 flu – and 7 things to do about it More: This virus doesn't like to grow in a dish…defies our attempts to mass-produce…we're not likely to have the kind of dead-virus amounts we usually have for both research and vaccine development… The H1N1 threat has made nations aware of the perils of having all vaccine development centered in only a few countries… H1N1 covered the globe in a record pace… containment of H1N1 is only a dim fantasy. It has so saturated our population that 6-8% of Americans are believed to be already infected. This flu season, somewhere between one-in-ten and one-in-four Americans are expected to get it. Although the numbers are controversial - both in terms of being both too high and too low, current estimates predict that 5 out of every 1,000 infected people will die from it… The numbers are going up, here and abroad. Click through for the "what to do".
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POPSGonzo Gastronomy: How the Food Industry Has Made Bacon a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Rolling Stone paints a grim picture of what goes on inside a hog CAFO: "Sows are artificially inseminated and fed and delivered of their piglets in cages so small they cannot turn around. Forty fully grown 250-pound male hogs often occupy a pen the size of a tiny apartment. They trample each other to death. There is no sunlight, straw, fresh air or earth. The floors are slatted to allow excrement to fall into a catchment pit under the pens, but many things besides excrement can wind up in the pits: afterbirths, piglets accidentally crushed by their mothers, old batteries, broken bottles of insecticide, antibiotic syringes, stillborn pigs …" Manufacturing Pandemics Factory farms are a hot spot for new infectious diseases. According to a former chief of the Centers for Disease Control's Special Pathogens Branch, "Intensive agricultural methods often mean that a single, genetically homogeneous species is raised in a limited area, creating a perfect target for emerging diseases, whic
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POPSPandemics - What We Can Learn from WoW "Dr. Fefferman’s 2007 study, published in the prestigious The Lancet Infectious Diseases medical journal, reports that while these healers prolonged the life of their virtual patients, the longer life of the patients kept them infectious for a longer time, thereby passing on the disease to more players. The study also reported that the healers themselves became infected, and they, too, passed on the disease to more players. I asked Dr. Fefferman if her study can shed any light on our current swine flu scare. She told me, “One of the most significant findings we saw in the WoW study is that people panic before information is known. This isn’t surprising in a general context, but in the context of an epidemic, the extent of panic can shape the severity of the outbreak…"
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POPS Pork Flu Sterling at Wired links to CDC’s helpful household anti-swine flu hints, and adds reassuring perspective: People freak out over “pandemics,” even though we’ve got one of the worst pandemics in history, AIDS, raging through the carcass of the body-politic right now. AIDS is an extremely fearsome disease, practically 100% lethal, yet it’s hard work to get people to remain properly afraid of it. http://www.wired.com/sterling/2009/04/practical-tips.html That Schwein of a flu sure is going to stink up Obama’s big 100 Days speech. Speaking of which, here are some thoughts on that. Malkin, nice flyby! http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/28/heckuva-job-louie-and-barry/
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POPS Flu pandemic and caution learn how to protect yourselves from the ill effects of flu pandemic that might hit the world anytime. Learn how to prevent its occurrence.
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POPSMajor Homeland Security Bill for Nat'l Emergency Centers
This will merge Homeland Security into Military (Defense Dept) sites, and designate them by FEMA zones. This is a marriage of military and domestic policing, all of course under the new threats of "terrorism", "pandemics", even though all these things have happened historically and these facilities were never before seen as "necessary" as the plea is now. This is rush legislation (updates due in 120 days from passage) like a freight train being pushed that will likely get few objections, but it should! In other words, the fear-driven and irrational panic legislative agenda is still being pushed 7 years after 9/11, and now under the Obama administration. Who will "change" this madness and dangerous plan for national police state government operations? Tell your Congressmen that we do not need this, and that the merger of military and domestic "emergency" centers is a dangerous mix and too much power is granted to Secretary of Homeland Security(4) in this bill.
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POPSPandemics Threaten Millions The world is composed of one race. Although we are quite diverse, it is necessary to unify in our diversity to fight the pandemics that are especially serious in Africa. It's important to realize there are threats other than HIV/AIDS.
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POPSSuprise - Wonder Drug Touted as Protection - Isn't! Drug companies are all about profit and often promise much more than they can deliver. Tamiflu is not the wonder drug is was touted as and it's a good thing that governments did not buy millions of doses. Learn two things: 1. Drug company greed is main reason health care is so expensive. 2. They will be of little or no help in combating the outbreak of the next pandemic.
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POPSThe Truth About Rick Warren in Africa Team Obama likes to cite Warren’s work on AIDS in Africa to combat criticism about the controversial pastor. But how does burning condoms in the name of Jesus save lives?
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POPSMake Those Chicken Nuggets Extra Well Done! Greed and corruption may facilitate the spread of the next flu pandemic that could kill millions. Does KFC or your local Thai restaurant use chicken nuggets from Thailand - make 'em extra crispy to be sure the flu is dead. Danger from cooked birds is slight actually but it illustrates how hard it is for governments to protect against the worst that pandemics can bring us.
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POPSWorld Killing Flu Closer Than Most Think Pandemics don't just happen; humans play a strong role in their development. When a billion or so people all want to buy live poultry (ducks, geese and chickens) to celebrate Lunar New Year each February, they also create the conditions needed to "grow" a new form of flu and with a 60% probability, pandemic "killing" flu. New thinking is needed but governments are staying with rerunning the past and not getting out of the box to new solutions.
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