One Response to ““A Plan that Would Require Americans to Get Not One, Not Two, But Three Flu Shots” – “Trust the Scientists” – “Massive Public Education Campaign””
I did a little research on swine flu immunity. Older people (those born before 1957) are more likely to display immunity to this strain of H1N1. Supposedly this is because they are more likely to have been exposed to a similar strain.
Before the 1918 strain of H1N1 did its damage it was preceded by a less lethal strain and those who caught that had increased resistance to the nastier strain that followed soon after. In the first wave the elderly did not fare well but they fared better than the young when the nastier second wave arrived. This was due to both the resistance acquired by exposure to the weaker form and ‘cytokine storms’: the strong immune response of healthy young people against the more lethal later variant were the actual cause of death.
Looks to me like the best way of saving lives in the long run would be to let the current, rather innocuous, strain spread far and wide. Trying to prevent a generation from being exposed to this variant could well leave them more vulnerable to more virulent strains.
I don’t know what the article above means for the future but if I were paranoid I’d consider the possibility that all the uproar about containing Mexican/swine flu is about keeping the public from acquiring resistance to the related virus the powers that be intend to use as a depopulation/social destabilisation tool.
Defense.gov News Photo 110426-A-7597S-183: U.S. Special Operations service members with Special Operations Task Force South board two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters following a clearing operation in Panjwa'i district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2011. Source: Wikimedia.
I did a little research on swine flu immunity. Older people (those born before 1957) are more likely to display immunity to this strain of H1N1. Supposedly this is because they are more likely to have been exposed to a similar strain.
Before the 1918 strain of H1N1 did its damage it was preceded by a less lethal strain and those who caught that had increased resistance to the nastier strain that followed soon after. In the first wave the elderly did not fare well but they fared better than the young when the nastier second wave arrived. This was due to both the resistance acquired by exposure to the weaker form and ‘cytokine storms’: the strong immune response of healthy young people against the more lethal later variant were the actual cause of death.
Looks to me like the best way of saving lives in the long run would be to let the current, rather innocuous, strain spread far and wide. Trying to prevent a generation from being exposed to this variant could well leave them more vulnerable to more virulent strains.
I don’t know what the article above means for the future but if I were paranoid I’d consider the possibility that all the uproar about containing Mexican/swine flu is about keeping the public from acquiring resistance to the related virus the powers that be intend to use as a depopulation/social destabilisation tool.