Originally posted by Helen:
Joseph, I don't think the disease is fabricated. Not at all. Please don't misunderstand me!
The title of the thread is: SARS, the fake and maufactured epidemic. I think I see the confusion now. So sorry.
I think the hype is fabricated, or may be. The panic is, I bet, being aided and abetted by profiteers.[/QUOTE]
Anything could be aided and abetted by profiteers. Lehaye and Lyndsey tell us the world is coming to an end and they sell their books and movies, etc...
Creationist YECs tell us to fear the evolutionists and sell their books, videos, Bible Studies, ect...
Democrats tell us that Republicans are gonna starve our children and sell their candidate.
However, just because there is panic or fear involved, does not make it a fraud or a scandal. My preacher told me once that without Jesus, I would go to Hell, and I became a Christian.
There are many things which are killing people all over the world. And by the way, AIDS has in NO way been 'contained'![/QUOTE]
I did not say the disease itself had been contained. Through medicines, its effects have been contained. People are living longer and with less pain today.
Allow me also to say that what you are referring to as 'common flu' that you get 'all the time' is NOT flu! I think you are mistaking stomach upsets for flu. Stomach and intestinal upsets are often as simple as minor cases of food poisoning.[/QUOTE]
I didn't realize you were a medical doctor. Where di you go to medical school? My doctor went to UAMS.
I have had real flu twice in my life. It hits with suddenness and severity that leaves you absolutely as weak and helpless as a newborn. Getting up and going to the bathroom requires, literally, every ounce of energy in your body. It lasts a week or two at the minimum and can easily become pneumonia if you do not get enough rest and liquids and can become pneumonia anyway in some. My 'short' case was two weeks down about 20 years ago. My 'long' case resulted in 'walking pneumonia' and from the onset of the flu itself (May 1, 1987 -- the day we moved into this house and I ended up lying on the floor while the movers moved things in around me!) to my ability to get up and run my own house again was almost two months -- because I tried to get up and work too early; there were boxes to be unpacked and such![/QUOTE]
And yet, you did survive. Amazing.
And you know where they look to find out which flu will be worst in any given season? The Orient! They seem to get it before the West. [/QUOTE]
Again, can you possibly give me a link to a credible source where you learned this? Please, no Oliver Stone links.
And I don't care if Ransom is from Mars and dropped out of school in kindergarten. He is making some solid points and asking some good questions.[/QUOTE]
Did he drop out in Kindergarten? OK, you say he makes some good and solid points. What are they? I didn't really see any. BTW, are you two friends by any chance? I notice that he is also a person who writes about YEC, and I know that seems to be your thing. So I am wondering if there is a reason you are promoting and defending this guys silliness so ardently.
Flu kills. It kills primarily the older, the already sick, and the very young.
Is SARS simply another strain of flu? [/QUOTE]
I don't know. Are there any Medical Doctors out there that can answer Helen's questions?
Joseph Botwinick