This week, the Obama panel on swine flu said that 90,000 people would die this season from swine flu, and that 1.8 million would be hospitalized. Up to 300,000 will require intensive care which would tie up all the hospital beds. As soon as those numbers came out, my bunk detector went off. Especially when the chairman of Obama's panel said, "It's going to stress every aspect of our health system." There was no basis given for those numbers. Mr. Essie May and I decided Obama was using scare tactics to try to get his health care passed. Or that when all those people don't die, he can come back and say, "MY administration saved over 90,000 lives with OUR vaccine."
Sure enough, the next day, the CDC made a statement that they didn't think this would be any worse than a regular flu season. So who do you believe -- the politician trying to get his way and become our messiah, or the CDC?
"Half of Americans could get swine flu." The Dallas Morning News; August 25, 2009; p. 5A.
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I would be surprised if he didn't crop dusk the germ to make it happen...he's just down right scary!
What I meant was: "I wouldn't be surprised...." sorry for the typo!!
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