The World Health Organization Listens, and Changes the Name of Swine Flu

By admin • April 30th, 2009

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The World Health Organization (WHO) Thursday decided to heed the advice of many, many people, including us here at Cheap Texas Electric Rates.  They decided to change the name of the so called “Swine FLu” virus. They decided to call it by it’s real name. H1N1 A Virus. My very last blog called for this change. Thank you for listening, but it falls short. Let me explain.

GENEVA: WHO spokesman Dick Thompson said that the agriculture industry and the U.N. food agency had expressed concerns that the term “swine flu” was misleading consumers and needlessly causing countries to ban pork products and order the slaughter of pigs.

Well, I don’t think they have fixed the problem. You see, the problem is that humans, all over the world think this virus is a “swine flu” virus, when it is clearly mostly not. If the Virus were 8 parts — say, 1 part would be bird flu, 2 parts would be swine flu and 5 parts would be regular old human virus.

No normal humans, (i.e. non clinical people) will call it the H1N1 A Virus, so this great name change, will in fact mean NOTHING. Maybe this name change was decided by a committee, because it is well known –  nothing good comes out of a committee. Just bad plans — because they don’t focus on just the main problem. They have lots of problems to solve, like not wanting to call it the Mexican Flu, which is probably the only possibility to save the slaughter of pigs.

So, they will be accurate, and not really rename it, but call it by it’s clinical name. And in the end, accomplish nothing. I have the feeling that the FLU is not a killer, and the news organizations are just tired of talking about President Obama, and want a change. But, News is worthless unless you get viewers, and believe me, they know how to turn the screws on fear, which they have been doing, and now we have a lot of over reactions that will cost us money in lowered business, etc.

Think about it, every flu season people are asked to get flu shots. Why? Because the weak, the very young and the very old aren’t strong enough for the flu. They end up with pneumonia, and sometimes die. The statistics for this flu are probably very similar to any other flu that comes out in a season. So, I think we are over reacting. As Dr. Dean Edell said earlier this week on the radio …”Unless something has happened that I don’t know about, I wouldn’t worry about this flu…you probably have a much higher risk of death driving to El Paso than simply being there.”

mulesmurf

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