>>If I was some health director in charge of warning the public about risks and clearly lied about ["misstated"] the information I had to share, I'd deserved to be fired if not imprisoned. That shit is serious.<<

Does this sentiment extend to your commander in chief (or ex-C-i-C.) Should politicians that deliberatly lied to the public be criminally liable?

Uh oh... I know where this thread's going... X(

The Brits will probably indict everybody anyhow, from the Pope to Clinton

*gets a hooded mask and a sharp axe*

We're sorry, we are currently assisting in the death of those in line before you.  If you please wait one of our executioners will be with you shortly.

so, do i hear flint saying he doesn't need a vaccin if a real pandemic shows up sometime?

this one was under the "better safe than sorry" category, and i think if it's about human lifes, that's one of the better categories to be in.

I think H1N1 was never a major threat. The danger was always of two things:
1 - It would mutate to a more dangerous form
2 - It would combine with normal flu

I bet h1n1 was a mutation from h5n1, and this h5n1 could mutate again any time.

Why are people suggesting that getting an education and using one's intellect to not waste taxpayer money is somehow a gamble?

You had federal health officials misusing the word pandemic on national TV. It didn't take a genius to realize that it was a huge waste of resources. If you're too dumb to realize this, that's your problem.

"> xeno syndicated wrote:

> The bigger concern is h5n1 (bird flu) mutating to be transmissible from humans to humans.  Researchers have found that a mutation of just two fewer proteins could result in huma-human transmission.

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/aug1007mutant.html

To date there have been 486 cases in 15 countries.   287 or 59% of the cases have been fatal."

The only way they could have found that out was by actually messing with the chromosone sequances, and causing the mutations in a lab.  Are you saying these jerk wads actually started messing with a pandemic virus and started mussing up it's original format?

"Researchers have found that a mutation of just two fewer proteins...."

They can't have known that unless they actually done it.  To unilaterally tell people that a slight shift would cause it to turn into a human to human transmittable virus is sensationalistic journalism at it's worst.  And scientific megalimania to start messing around with a germ to see what WOULD it look like in a human to human case.  That's just...wrong.  For one it brings up "The Stand" by Stephen King and human error.  And the "12 Monkeys". 

That crap isn't funny.  I can put up with lots of news articles and political discussion.  Rampant disease RNA/DNA lego building is NOT something I like to read about.