re: #462 vxbush

Morning, everyone. Before I head off to my first meeting of the day, I wanted to share this link: As usual, Junk Food Science hits it out of the park.

Flu Fears

Completely agree with this assessment. Current estimates are that the flu is all over Mexico; cases probably run well into the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, already. The death rate shrinks into insignificance as a result. Even the death rate is extremely questionable; few, if any, of these cases have a definitive confirmation as having been caused by the flu. Although discretion may be the better part of valor in such cases, it also leads to wildly inflated mortality rates.

Real numbers will emerge over the next week or two, and there is every indication that the threat of this latest strain will actually be minute.