<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Dave writes</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">></font><font size=3>Dealing with
this situation with wishful thinking is a recipe for disaster.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">No disrespect to you, Dave, but your
post brought up the problem I'm having with all this. None of this is directed
at you or anyone here, just my frustration with this situation.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">First, we loose tens of thousands of
people each year to the flu, but there is never a whisper of it. In
fact, many of the people that are shaking in their boots now are the same
people that parrot the 'I'm not getting a flu shot, that will just get
me sick" manta. But if they released an untested vaccine today,
they would be lining up by the millions. I hate hypocrisy. (I'm
not suggesting that you are in any way one of these people.)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Next, of course 'professionals' in the
industry will claim that this is the end of days. Just look how money
is flowing into labs without question. I can't say I blame them,
they have most likely been fighting for grants for the past decade, it
makes sense to hype it up for funding now.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Finally, the news networks (both sides)
have been driving this agenda to sell ad space. I will stand by my
guns here and say that this is nothing more than any of the other flus
that go around this time of year. If the media wasn't crying about
a falling sky, people wouldn't panic and life would be much more predictable.
They will cause more panic before this is over.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I say this as a person (almost 50) WITH
respiratory issues and I will NOT change any habit as a result of this.
But I am getting more shop time and it's awesome!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">One more final note- I have looked
in all my sofas, under all my cushions, and I didn't find ANY women to
spend time with. 8>( I guess I need to shop at better furniture
stores!</font>
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"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph
Waldo Emerson <br>
-Who is John Galt?</font>