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p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Since yesterday I’ve had flu-like symptoms and I feel like hell.

So am I coming down with the much-touted swine-flu pandemic, as it’s being designated by the World health Organization?

A pandemic is an epidemic over a large area.

And I say ‘touted’ because every time I turn on the radio there’s another announcement about it — how health protection shots are in short supply, or are being stockpiled, how hospital staff are being ordered to have anti-A-H1N1 injections whether they like it or not, how one more person has been reported mildly ill but is recovering, how another person has died, but there were other symptoms.

Dire warnings are issued every day about Swine Flu, aka A-H1N1, which appears to have started in Mexico, and British Colombia, where I live, is apparently a swine flu ‘hotspot’.

“British Columbia continues to monitor and respond to the ongoing spread of pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza virus (or human swine flu as it was earlier called),” says the BC Centre for disease control.  “The spread of this novel strain of H1N1 flu virus in humans prompted the World Health Organization to raise its global pandemic alert to phase 6, reflecting a full-fledged pandemic of influenza.”

In BC, as of 4:40 am today, there’d been a total of nine confirmed deaths.

Nine?

During the influenza pandemic of 1918-20, “It is estimated that anywhere from 20 to 100 million people were killed worldwide, or the approximate equivalent of one third of the population of Europe, more than double the number killed in World War I,” says the Wikipedia.

In May, US health officials “raised the number of confirmed U.S. swine-flu cases to 244 in 35 states“.

But I haven’t heard of millions of people dying in America, or anywhere else in the world.

Something seems to be going around and certainly people are being affected by it, some of them even dying.

But is it a pandemic? Or did health officials misread this seriousness of ’swine flu’ and are now having to justify the expenditure of hundreds millions of dollars and wasted healthcare resources by continuing to promote it rather than admit they made a mistake?

Just asking.

Meanwhile, I may have the beginnings of a cold, or something similar, but I don’t think  I’m about to become another in the handful (relatively speaking)  of people with swine flu.

I hope.

Cheers!

Jon Newton - p2pnet

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October, 2009

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