H1N1

It’s the flu. There, I’ve just summarized all the horrors of swine flu. It is just the flu.

What is unique about it? It’s off season so it is a little weird I’ll give it that.

But people have died! People die every year from the flu and it is almost always, and the same goes here as well, when they have underlying health problems.

But more people have died. Because it’s off season and there’s no vaccinations. duhhhhh

I finally shout this out because I’m sick of all this H1N1 hullabaloo and today was the last straw. We find this new strain of the flu that rises up off season and all of a sudden it’s the Bubonic plague. A pandemic they’re calling it. Ask any doctor and they will tell you that while you should get vaccinated (because they always tell you that) it is essentially no less or more deadly than the flu because that’s what it is. Every year we get a new strand and this is no different.

But it makes for such good news material! First it was Swine Flu, then Pandemic, now it’s H1N1 Virus because the official name sounds really scary and not like it’s just the flu. Call it whatever you want, the Godzilla Flu if you may, it won’t change anything. Yet when I was in NY I must have read about at least 5 schools shutting down because a few students got sick. They don’t do that w/ the flu because that would be ridiculous. But w/ H1N1, oh boy don’t mess.

I finally vent about this because of what I saw on the news this morning. In MA they are trying to get a bill passed that would allow way to much power to the Gov-t. Basically in the event that the governor declares a state of emergency, people will still retain the right to refuse vaccinations, but the state will have the authority to forcefully enter houses and detain and quarantine those who are sick and deemed health threats. Those who refuse to comply can actually be fined and put in jail.

Now I read the bill (S. 2028) and I believe it’s preposterous. Who gets to decide who’s a ‘health threat’ and who isn’t? A politician? All this for the flu? This is the most absurd thing ever. What a poor excuse for absolute idiocy. At least it is being done in a legal and democratic way; as in it is being passed through the state senate (it got a unanimous vote!) and w/ enough resistance can be shot down. What scares me is that this come at a time when the Obama administration is trying to pass their healthcare bill which has already shoed in some shady stuff (like the ability to peer into private IRS tax records. What does that have to do w/ healthcare?). What if in the name of the ‘H1N1 Pandemic’ the Federal Gov-t decided to adopt the same practice? Do you know what that would mean? They could turn this whole silly Swine Flu hysteria into a means to have absolute control on society.

I’m sick of this flu business (no pun intended).