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I look to US politics with an eye to how they will effect Canada and the policies we institute and the direction we go as a nation. I am heartened to see that Alan Grayson is speaking out for what the people want, as a opposed to what elite consensus is.
The best part is that Grayson takes on the establishment media and wins with the simple facts of the matter. The funny part is all the commentary on the lack of civility… that really blew my irony meter as the Republicans are renown for engaging in uncivil discourse and tactics.
The last major flu epidemic killed 20 -40 million people. It was the so called Spanish Flu Epidemic. It spread rapidly throughout the population, we really did not know what hit us.
The Swine Flu has given us a many warning signs and clues to how it is going to run its course through our populations.
Children will be effected as well as adults. As always children are a particularly good transmitting and amplifying a virus as their general standards of hygiene are lower. Children are also packed together in schools and day-care facilities aiding in ease of transmission.
We have to start the planning now, as many governments have done including the Canadian government. Unfortunately this planning has revealed how critically understaffed and underfunded our system healthcare system is. The logistical requirements of merely giving a flu shot to millions of people will seriously tax our system’s resources. It must be done though as caring for all the cases of influenza will be worse if we do not vaccinate.
The CBC has an updated story on progress of the swine flu, find it here.
“A key component of health-care reform—and saving our ass from going bankrupt and sick from spending too much on lousy treatments—is establishing comparative effectiveness measures, otherwise known as ‘actually knowing WTF works and what doesn’t.'” – David Dobbs on Neuron Culture
Talk about a shot across t he bow of all the practitioners of woo and assorted gobbledygook. Nothing like an Orac rant, but succinct and to the point.
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