Sick Ain't Dead

Most of the seasonal flu effort is a private sector entity. The public sector only buys about 10% of the vaccine. - CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat.

2,904 People in District of Columbia May Need To Be Hospitalized Due to H1N1, if 35 percent of Americans get sick from the H1N1 virus. This would mean 47 percent of the state's hospital beds could be filled during the height of the outbreak, based on estimates from the FluSurge model developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition, 207,142 people in District of Columbia could get sick if 35 percent of Americans get H1N1.

26,691 people in Maryland may need to be hospitalized. This would mean 143 percent of the state's hospital beds would be filled at the height of the outbreak, exceeding the state's available number of beds. In addition, 1,971,759 people in Maryland could get sick if 35 percent of Americans get H1N1, if 35 percent of Americans get sick from the H1N1 virus.

36,530 people in Virginia may need to be hospitalized. This would mean 100 percent of the state's hospital beds would be filled at the height of the outbreak, exceeding the state's available number of beds. In addition, 2,719,181 people in Virginia could get sick if 35 percent of Americans get H1N1.

When its us it doesn't matter what the number are the most important number is ours. What the figures suggests is that IF we get sick - The District of Columbia is the place to go - for now! How long that holds true is anyone's guess.

They call it sick care we call it disease care. Maybe its a copyright thing? Prevention is expensive and conceding the expensive does not necessarily mean it should be attempted. The choice is not an prohibitively expensive prevention or cost savings by allow us to die. Dying costs and death is prohibitively more expensive. An alternative to dying from an prohibitively expensive prevention program is developing or utilizing ways to not enrich the nation or our jurisdictions by our deaths. Is it cheaper to keep us or let us succumb? We can't prevent our illnesses but we can prevent our deaths.

We've been extremely critical of former Democratic VP candidate and now independent Connecticut "Senator Joseph Lieberman (who to the HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius) said during a hearing with public health officials on Wednesday - “Your departments have worked very aggressively and to the best of your ability. My concern is that this flu, the H1N1 virus, is moving very rapidly. While it seems to be affecting most people mildly, it is clearly affecting a small percentage quite seriously, so I am worried that the virus is getting ahead of the public health system’s capacity at this moment to prevent it and respond to it,” he said.

I want people who are trying hard to find seasonal flu vaccine to know there's time, we know this is frustrating. Keep looking. More vaccine is coming out every week.- CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat.

Not only can the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) not keep up with the demand for the vaccine the agency can't keep up with the demand for information. See: Novel H1N1 Flu: CDC Response - Updated: August 19, 2009. Again to quote the still unseen movie 2012: ""When they tell you not to panic that whens you run!"  See the graphic below. The real facts are alot more startling.

Again it is not our intention or mission to frighten you. We seek only to educate and inform. With the most accurate information we can make the most informed decisions about our health care and treatment.  Click on the graphic to see the real and startling infections numbers in the United States. So the next time you read and article saying that we're making "much ado about nothing." Just look at the facts. 

Here is the entire segment we've been quoting from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Read or Listen)(8:00 into the 32:26 min press conference) with Dr. Anne Schuchat who says: "Most of the seasonal flu effort is a private sector entity. The public sector only buys about 10% of the vaccine. So I'm report reporting to you where we are with that but it's not something we're directing or in the middle of just something we care deeply about and want to facilitate the uptake of. I want people who are trying hard to find seasonal flu vaccine to know there's time, we know this is frustrating. Keep looking. More vaccine is coming out every week. We know there's time to get your seasonal flu shot or flu spray. We don't usually see the seasonal flu disease increase until September to May so there is more time with that of course, virtually everything that's circulating now is the 2009 H1N1 influenza strain and that's why we're so keen to get vaccine out as quickly as we can with that."

For profit health care means if your HMO doesn't protect you - you could die. When you make your health care choices make certain that one

1. your health choice has access to all the available options and
2. that you're actually receiving the real thing.

In desperate times too many unscrupulous people are all too willing to take advantage of our fears and desperation. This is true on the web and off. How you make certain you've received what you paid for - we're not certain. It's a question we'll put to the CDC and let you know their answer. In this pandemic the government is only a ten (10) percent participant.

Lassen Medical Group of Red Bluff, CA offers flu advice according to a press release 10/21/2009:

1. "Stay at home if you are sick. 
2. Keep sick children home. 
3. Do not return to work or send children to school until fever-free for 24 hours without using fever-reducing medications..." 
4. "...Do not let your children near sick people. Keep them three feet away. 
5. Stay away from shopping malls, movie theaters and other places where there are large groups of people."

In other words - Stay at home and die just don't give it to us. We don't agree. Stay monitored and if you don't feel better in four (4) days get the vaccine. We tend to listen to the relatives of dead whom wished they'd done more than listened to their doctors or the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC which now maintains: "(V)irtually everything that's circulating now is the 2009 H1N1 influenza strain.."