Disease in Canada? Dont tell CNN or they will make it look like the end of the world is lurking right next door!

Watching CNN you'd think that the bird flu has mutated in Canada and that immenant death to all Americans is as little as a sneeze away from wayward canadian.

Of course when the tests confirm that this strain isnt the HN51 CNN will likely forget to report that.

But as Wolf Blitzer just said.

"Canadians should be afraid, I know i am."

Sure buddy... whatever

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Originally posted by jester Everything in this country is illegal.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery…" Winston Churchill

‎"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law" - Winston Churchill

typical

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also, bird flu is happening every year, since well, basically forever lol it's just being sensatiionalized because peopel who WORK with birds and are in close contact with them are dying.

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Originally posted by DJ Robben also, bird flu is happening every year, since well, basically forever lol it's just being sensatiionalized because peopel who WORK with birds and are in close contact with them are dying.

and whats the total death count now?

90 in the last 4 years?

Oooh im scared

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Originally posted by jester Everything in this country is illegal.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery…" Winston Churchill

‎"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law" - Winston Churchill

haha while it's stll something to be worried over, that's what they said about West Nile....sars...E-coli....w eseeing a pattern?

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we are just Fukked!

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we're not fucked yet, there is still a lot of research being done

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Footballs' Comin Home....

And you guys say Americans don't know anything about Canada.

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Originally posted by DigiNut And you guys say Americans don't know anything about Canada.

we didn't say anything about Canada, just little bits at times

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Originally posted by DJ Robben haha while it's stll something to be worried over, that's what they said about West Nile....sars...E-coli....w eseeing a pattern?

Its not something to worry about unless it mutates and the possibility of that is slim. Even then i have to wonder how bad it is. Remember that the media will suddenly be reporting every flu death that occurs if it mutates whereas right now hundreds in toronto probably die daily of the flu and it goes unreported.

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Originally posted by jester Everything in this country is illegal.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery…" Winston Churchill

‎"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law" - Winston Churchill

Honestly Jay, even if CNN is blowing this out of proportion (and really, isn't that the job of every journalist?), you can't say that we didn't do anything to deserve this negative attention. Maybe the Avian flu isn't killing millions of people, but that doesn't change the fact that we'd be completely unprepared for an outbreak if it did happen.

The Canadian response to SARS would have been funny if it wasn't so tragic and infuriating. Maybe it was only 50 deaths or something like that, but that's 50 more deaths than there were in the USA and significantly more than there were in China where the outbreak actually started.

A month or so ago we couldn't even identify an outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease. It's usually a matter of hours before that's isolated from the ventilation system in a U.S. hospital.

Government-controlled health care needs to die, and frankly, I think the more negative attention Canada's health care system gets, the better off we'll be in the end. At the very least, there will be a few less Democrats walking around in the U.S. thinking that we have superior health care, so they'll be less inclined to screw up their own system in an attempt to make it more like Canada's, and if I ever get terminally ill I can take comfort in knowing that I can get proper treatment across the border by using the private health insurance that I work every day to pay for.

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