Well, duh! CBS investigates to discover that dogs still bite and governments still lie through their sharp, pointy, cannibalistic teeth.
(CBS) If you’ve been diagnosed “probable” or “presumed” 2009 H1N1 or “swine flu” in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn’t have H1N1 flu.
In fact, you probably didn’t have flu at all. That’s according to state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News investigation…
…In late July, the CDC abruptly advised states to stop testing for H1N1 flu, and stopped counting individual cases. The rationale given for the CDC guidance to forego testing and tracking individual cases was: why waste resources testing for H1N1 flu when the government has already confirmed there’s an epidemic?
Anyone who’s been following the blatant pattern of mendacious effluent issuing from government orifices concerning swine flu is unsurprised by this. My severe cold this week actually met most of the clinical diagnostic criteria for flu, but seeking a doctor’s help, perhaps resulting in a Tamiflu prescription to do what nasal rinses and gargling with salt water could do just about as well, was just silly. The course of the thing–whatever it was–would run about the same no matter what: sick for about a week and then recovery. Well, recovery’s started, although it seems I’ll need some serious but slow reconditioning to regain some stamina. Par for the course, though.
So? Was it “swine flu”? Who flippin’ cares? I was (still am a bit) sick and I’ll either recover or not. Either way is pretty much fine by me.
Oh, thanks for letting me know about this post, David – I haven’t been surfing the blogs much recently, so I missed this [pout]