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"I'd argue that we have shown a baseline level of competence...Take the H1N1 flu for example. We jumped on that quickly...I think we averted a larger public health disaster."


I work in a hospital, the government response was nothing impressive.

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Nor am I convinced that H1N1 was a significant health risk to the public at large. I must have a different definition of "disaster."

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H1N1 was a tool to unite the sheeple into giving the government more power.

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Maybe in a populated, under equipped, uneducated country (couple of asian ones come to mind) it could have been a disaster, but in most western worlds it probably wasnt.


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darksiege wrote:
H1N1 was a tool to unite the sheeple into giving the government more power.


It was a tool, all right, but not for anything to do with "more power".

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Thread Title = Oxymoron

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