The FDA knowing approved a vaccine for the wrong Flu strain!

[Drake Tungsten]

Why Drake Tungsten is not a doctor or even medical student.

How do you know?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Why Drake Tungsten is not a doctor or even medical student.

How do you know?

Exhibit A:

...but most of them are computer geeks, who are the equivalent of kids and geriatrics

[Drake Tungsten]

Ah yes, facetious comments taken out of context always make good evidence...

[Dis]

no reason to be scared.

Good health is all in the mind. Some people can beat cancer through will alone.

I believe I won't get sick, and I won't.

I haven't had a cold in almost 10 years. *knocks on wood just in case*

[Provost Harrison]

It's all about risk. The FDA are not going to approve a vaccine if the potential hazards outweigh the potential benefits. In this case of using the dog kidney, there are just too many unknowns. And believe me, the FDA do not like taking any risks, let alone unnecessary ones.

[Provost Harrison]

...the chances are that the FDA have told them to go away and gather more information and evidence regarding this method of manufacture for further assessment.

[Ned]

Provost, I am not an expert here. But their best expert said the risk was only remote, but that making the wrong vaccine was certain to cause harm. This controversy smacks of the extreme risk adversion of some countries concerning genetically altered (improved) corn and the like.

[mrmitchell]

That's odd, I never noticed the flu "ravaging the country". This is an example of irresponsible journalism (though I've tuned it out), folks, that plus the hypochondriacs are working double time this year.

Flu happens. Every winter it comes back around, and there's never exactly a time where the health departments are just drowning in vaccines, either. And every time, there's a group (this year larger than normal) of raging panic artists and a few irresponsible journalists that take a normal illness and turn it into the end of humanity.

But their best expert said the risk was only remote,

And the other 17 ones apparently said it wasn't remote. You know what? If they DID approve that, and millions of people got infected by some disastrous failure because of it, people (the same hypochondriacs) would be whining about that too. You can't make everyone happy, and you can't make some people happy at all.

This controversy smacks of the extreme risk adversion of some countries concerning genetically altered (improved) corn

Remember that company that said it developed genetically altered corn that made men sterile? THAT's why people fear GM foods. Now, do you know how disastrous it would be if that corn got crossbred with regular corn? The panic artists would start whining about that too. It's either "They won't let us improve corn" or "They let us **** up humanity", there's no way to please them.

[Dis]

I never heard of corn that caused men to be sterile. link?

[mrmitchell]

Well, this was the closest thing I could come up with.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate/Story/0,2763,549002,00.html

[Dis]

uggh, scary article. As if they have the right to stop people from overpopulating. Which is not happening to any great extent anyways. In fact, some population are in danger of underpopulation.

[Timexwatch]

It's the damn flu, you sissies. I'm finally shaking it off after a week. Yeah, it sucks, but it's not the end of the world.

[Dis]

unless you are a child

[KrazyHorse]

Who cares?

****ing pansies with their ****ing flu shots.

[KrazyHorse]

Only old people got flu shots in Canada. It seems like everybody here gets one.