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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 3518953, member: 1609"] People who diss the flu either to minimize it or maximize this virus are pretty ignorant . Yes It Usually kills 30,000 with conservative reporting and a vaccine. 50% are vaccinated but the % is much higher in high risk groups . You Probably know the flu killed 600,000 Americans ,(including my 32 grandfather,in 1918-19 ) with a US pop of about 95,000,000 But you probably didn’t know the 1957 flu epidemic killed 150,000 in population of 160,000,000. Even the 1968 Flu killed 100,000 My wife.who just became a mother was deathly sick in that one We’ve also had a few more that killed numbers around what this virus will. Make no mistake the flu especially new strains can be extremely deadly. Even in alleged benign years like the 1990’s when it was considered a weak year . I missed two weeks of work lost 15 lbs and at its worst prayed for death. Ignorance of the flu comes from the many labeling their last cold erroneously or getting extremely light cases . This disease like the flu probably has infected 10 times the number who actually had reported it. They estimate 60,000,000 Americans got H1N1 in 2009 I won’t be surprised if this epidemic won’t approach those numbers. The good and bad news was 90% were either asymptotic or symptoms equivalent to the common cold. The problem arises from from the 10% and the facts were are just learning about this strain. I’m not hanging my hat on a vaccine as the medical professionals have never successfully created one for any Corona virus including SARS or the one Corona variety of the common cold in 100 years of trying. Testing , better treatment, and herd immunity are a safer bet. [/QUOTE]

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