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How do we know the money and vaccines given didn't cause H1N1 to be a flop?  Remember, gauging the effects of prevention methods is much more difficult than reactionary policies.

Two months late for what?  Timeline, perhaps?

Besides, remember that there were plenty of other safeguard programs aside from vaccines in effect (much improved warning+containment systems, thanks to the previous Avian flu scare, implemented during the Bush years)

Several thousand people died world wide caused by complications from H1N1.  I was bedridden for four day straight, and so were members of my own family.  We didn't receive a vaccination because there wasn't any to be had where I'm located.  If it turns out to become a seasonal item, those vaccines could still be needed.  Because a virus doesn't just disappear, it mutates into something new.

flint is also the 1st person to blame the gouverment if they had not bought those vaccines, should it have become a serious pandamic

You should really ignore these useless trolls he does

@Zarf

Polio vaccine for Polio.  Red Fever vaccination for Red Fever.  H1N1 vaccine for H1N1.  Though if the stupid thing mutates to H1N2, that still doesn't mean the H1N1 vaccine isn't going to have an effect.  It can still help the immune systems of the young and elderly.

@Key

Nope.  For the flu, the category defines a broad group of viruses, not a specific virus.  "H1N1" in itself doesn't point to any specific flu virus, but instead denotes a subcategory within the flu categories.  Ever notice that every year, companies have to make a new version of the flu virus?  That's because the virus does mutate every year, and each mutation renders the old virus obsolete.

Plus, even if there was some, but not a full benefit from using old vaccines to stop next year's flu outbreak, wouldn't you risk putting people into a false sense of security in that they already received a flu shot for X season (the old virus which, in your world, would be presented as being helpful), possibly risking some people believing they wouldn't need the new vaccine that would come out when the next flu comes out?

@Little Paul

How was any of what you're asserting "obvious?"

Hmm... maybe because when a virus first shows up, it doesn't start its life out by infecting 50 million people?

Yes... remember there were containment methods put into place.  How can you argue that there's no correlation between the safeguards put in place and the fact that the disease didn't spread further than you guys thought it would?

@zarf:
the extreme low death toll rate right from the start is consider a strong indicator. It wasn't "contained". It spread like a normal virus.

edit "I consider"

@Chris

remember those kids that were quarentined in China and were sent back, not being allowed into the country, because they tested positive for H1N1?

@Chris

remember those kids that were quarentined in China and were sent back, not being allowed into the country, because they tested positive for H1N1?<<

that probably SAVED HUMANITY!!!22eleven

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