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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 09:36 AM
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Bird flu sure got put on the back burner all of a sudden like
Edited on Wed Dec-21-05 09:57 AM by NNN0LHI
I haven't seen any stock videotape of chickens flapping around with some guy wearing a mask trying to catch them in a long time. All them chickens recover or something?

The newsreaders are all smiling and happy again too. No more grim faces to go along with the chickens video and the you all be afraid of the bird flu music or nothing? WTF?

The Tamiflu market must have played out? Wonder how long the stuff is good until the expiration date comes and everyone will have to purchase a new supply? Maybe the cable news shows will all drag out the crazy chickens video and accompanying scary bird flu music when that happens? I can't wait.

Don
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MrModerate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 09:37 AM
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1. What, me worry?
I mean, it hasn't happened yet.
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 09:38 AM
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2. It didn't poll well
so it disappeared.

what a medical miracle !!!
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 09:39 AM
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3. When you're fighting for your political life, you'll try anything.
Now they are spending all their time trying to justify spying illegally on AMERICANS.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 09:48 AM
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4. Big news today is a school bus accident and the small plane that crashed..
Edited on Wed Dec-21-05 09:49 AM by NNN0LHI
...several days ago. Very little reporting on spying on Americans. That appears to be going the way of the bird flu to the media. Coming up on CNN is an expose about Asian women who want surgery to make their eyes rounder. Now that is some important stuff there!

Don
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 09:59 AM
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5. the free money has been handed out to big pharm.
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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 10:01 AM
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6. along with SARS, West Nile Virus, Shark Attacks, lyme disease...
it happens every summer.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 10:05 AM
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7. Will a young blonde step forward
and be kidnapped or seduce her student, please? These senate matters are so...boring.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 10:08 AM
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8. Mission Accomplished. We have won the war on the flu
And, I'm sure you know the next steps in the process:

"The war on the flu is still going, and it will be a long, indefinate process. No one ever said it would be fast or easy"

"The war on the flu is, well... I don't think you can win it"

"When I spoke of the victory over the war on the bird flu, I was speaking specifically about that strain, and not about the War on Disease in general"

"It is disturbing that my opponents are so invested in defeat, that they now say that we can't win the war on the flu. We need to stay the course"
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 10:13 AM
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9. Fighting bird flus over there so we don't have to fight them over here?
Its all becoming clear to me now.

Don
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 12:24 PM
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10. And this surprises you? It was the end of the year smoke screen...n/t
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 05:06 PM
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11. I am shocked! Shocked I tell you n/t
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 05:13 PM
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12. And yet, from a couple of days ago
'Bird flu' kills boy in Indonesia

and today:

Bird flu victims die after drug resistance
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 05:19 PM
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13. So whats that make 70 deaths from bird flu since it was identified in 1959?
Be afraid. Be very afraid. And buy more Tamiflu too. Rumsfeld needs the money.

Don
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 05:51 PM
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15. But not on the back burner, is it?
And there was also the news that some mutations in the H5N1 virus mean it looks more likely to become transmissible between humans: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/19/content_3940875.htm
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 06:07 PM
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16. Yes back burner
The cable news channels have went from non-stop saturation bird flu coverage to school bus accidents. And if it ain't on cable TV it ain't happening. Simple as that.

Don
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Nothing Without Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 05:25 PM
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14. ***See this thread - here's what has just happened***
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5654741
thread title (12/21 GD): NYT: Frist slips broad legal shield for vaccine makers into military bill

Please read the replies too. This is a sorry situation, no surprise.
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