Is This The Care We Want?

The Obama Administration has been quite eager to take over the Health Care System. They also jumped at the chance to declare the Swine Flu a national emergency and insist that everyone get vaccinated against it.

So, the delivery of the vaccine was promised in September, then October, and now November. HHS Secretary has been out in the media simultaneously urging compliance and explaining why compliance was impossible.

They failed their first test. Do we dare trust this system with our heart attacks, cancer treatments, premature babies, and other medical emergencies? When will the bureacrats allow the time, money, and creativity for continuing the medical innovations that now place the US at the forefront of medical care in the world?

We need to scrap all attempts to take over health care by the government and substitute no cost, free market type solutions.

Swine Flu Hoax?

This week, “news” outlets all over the country have frightened us with scary stories about the impending Swine Flu pandemic. They continue to make dire predictions of hundreds of thousands of deaths from it during the next two years and to issue priority lists of vaccine recipients.

Meanwhile, the CDC website expects no more flu victims than in other years. Usually 5% to 20% of the US population or 15,000,000 to 60,000,000 people succumb to the virus each year. So far, according the CDC again, 1,000,000 people in the States have been diagnosed with Swine Flu and 302 deaths have occurred. That’s an extremely mild .03 death rate.

Frankly, I’m more frightened of a vaccine rushed into production and distribution than I am of the flu itself. I can still remember the tragic results from the 1976 scare when many people suffered dire results from the VACCINE.

If you’re interested in reading more in depth about today’s scare tactics, read it at Investor’s Business Daily. If you would like to review a “60 Minutes” interview with then President Ford about the seventies tragedy, go here.

Nanny Knows Best?

On May 6, the Washington Post reported the Obama administration is considering promoting two flu shots all Americans next fall. One will combat the usual winter flu outbreak and the other one will fight swine flu. Public Health officials' main concern appears to be whether drug companies can produce enough vaccines in time.

Other health providers question the effectiveness of flu shots in general and some believe them to be detrimental in the long term.

To Be or Not To Be Frightened of The Flu

It is difficult to discern what to make of the current Swine Flu crisis. On the one hand the WHO declares it a Level 5 Pandemic, Biden and Pelosi offer frightening precautions for their own families, and the news media regurgitate warnings and dire predictions at every opportunity. On the other hand, there is a growing distrust of the news media and the public health officials who seem to perennially cry that the sky is falling.

Yesterday, The San Antonio Lightning paper published a leaked private email from a New Braufels ER doctor warning his family that everything is much worse than the public realizes, despite that fact that the number of deaths has not risen as dramatically as expected. According to the physician, this strain of flu is particularly pernicious because the virus is infectious for about two days before the person experiences any symptoms and for about seven days after onset. He also states that there are 10 to 25 cases of swine flu for every case actually reported due to the delay in confirmation from health authorities.

Since supplies of Tamiflu and Relenza are short, he makes the practical suggestion that families stock up on homeopathic and natural remedies such as oscillococinum or N-Acetyl-Cysteine and take ordinary precautions like washing hands with soap frequently and avoiding crowded places.