As of this writing, the death toll from this version of the flu bug is between 650-700 in the U.S.
Folks should take this flu seriously, especially the elderly with underlying health issues, usually, with weakened immune systems, and mostly in nursing homes and hospices.
However, even with the H1N1 (From April 12, 2009, to April 10, 2010) flu pandemic, our country was not shut down, even though there were 12,469 deaths, and 274,000 hospitalizations.
There is another "pandemic", so to speak, and that is the number of people that die each year from -- medical mistakes!
How many?
The following is from an article that was presented on NPR (not my favorite choice for conservative news!) by Marshall Allen of ProPublica...
"It seems that every time researchers estimate how often a medical mistake contributes to a hospital patient's death, the numbers come out worse.
"In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published the famous "To Err Is Human" report, which dropped a bombshell on the medical community by reporting that up to 98,000 people a year die because of mistakes in hospitals. The number was initially disputed, but is now widely accepted by doctors and hospital officials — and quoted ubiquitously in the media.
"In 2010, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services said that bad hospital care contributed to the deaths of 180,000 patients in Medicare alone in a given year.
"Now comes a study in the current issue of the Journal of Patient Safety that says the numbers may be much higher — between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death.
"That would make medical errors the third-leading cause of death in America, behind heart disease, which is the first, and cancer, which is second."
My comment: Why aren't the hospitals shut down? Obviously they're not, and shouldn't be. So, why is the country being brought to a standstill over a flu bug that is far less of a pandemic than previous pandemics? What about the real pandemic of abortion, killing nearly 3,000 pre-born babies each and every day?
Is it possible that there is an agenda here to cripple the world's greatest economy, and a country that had the most freedoms for its citizens, for better or worse? Will the stagnant economy revive? Will those freedoms survive? And will, we, as a nation finally realize the true source of our legitimate freedoms: the good God that made us?
Pray for our nation that we turn to the source of all life: God almighty...
Viva Cristo Rey! Fr. Miguel Pro, pray for us...
Gene DeLalla
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