Avian Flu: Too Little, Too Late
Posted by Moonage on 02 Nov 2005 | Tagged as: Ethics
I did a piece on the politicizing and hysteria over Avian Flu. Nevermind the hysteria, the fight is over. With a death total of 0 in the US, the avian flu has won according to some:
Never miss an opportunity to bitch. If Bush had done nothing, he would have been crucified as hating black people. For doing something, he gets criticized for something beyond his control in the past.
And it just boggles my mind how stupid Hillary’s comment is. It was the LACK of stockpiling that led to the perceived shortages in three of those five years. It wasn’t the lack of communication and distribution, it was a lack of product because the makers withdrew a huge portion of their stockpile due to questions of safety.
Surely, Senator Clinton remembers that. From her website:
This amendment creates a reserve fund that would support legislation to increase participation of manufacturers in the production of influenza vaccine.
In other words, increase inventory. In simpler terms, stockpile the vaccine. She also added this to her legislaton:
The amendment would also increase research and innovation in new technologies for the development of influenza vaccine. Senator Clinton said, "We need to move away from egg-based technology, and develop mechanisms that allow us to produce additional stocks of flu vaccine quickly and efficiently."
That’s in Bush’s plan as well. Hillary08 is kinda speaking out of both sides of her mouth. Again.
But, according to some, doing anything is too little, too late. According to me, doing anything other than encouraging people to take normal flu prevention precautions is a waste of money. At LEAST until we know for sure that it can be transmitted from human to human. And, if it does, what it is in that mutation.
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on 03 Nov 2005 at 7:45 am 1.Amit k said …
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on 05 Nov 2005 at 7:45 am 2.Stormwarning
said …
Whether or not Avian Flu ever really makes a serious jump to humans (depite the 60 or so cases todate) and creates the “pandemic” flu against which GWB announced his $7 billion initiative, the bird flu could have serious economic implications, both worldwide, but also in the U.S. Especially in the poultry producing regions, an outbreak of bird flu could be devastating.