tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post8233484647146579409..comments2024-03-29T04:10:55.032-07:00Comments on Hawaiian libertarian: The Profitable PandemicKeoni Galthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842553742723239151noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-35750066840773717282010-08-16T06:26:44.227-07:002010-08-16T06:26:44.227-07:00Oh Jesus.
Vaccines are not actually that big a ...Oh Jesus. <br /><br />Vaccines are not actually that big a moneymaker, because people don't take them all that much, and they typically prevent the disease you've being vaccinated for. I promise you, pharmaceutical companies would make a heck of lot more money treating polio than they ever did from the vaccine.<br /><br />And think of the people who made iron lungs! A whole industry destroyed by vaccines.<br /><br />As to the alleged vaccine/autism link, it's pure nonsense. The reason more children are autistic is that the diagnostic criteria have been expanded to include more people. The kid who would have been diagnosed with "childhood schizophrenia" now has autism. The weird kid in the back of the classroom has "Asberger's Syndrome," which makes him a high functioning autistic.<br /><br />There is no credible scientific evidence that vaccines cause autism. Zero. Nada. And by the way, you're worried about drug company greed -- quite a few of the anti-vaccine types are selling things like very dangerous chelation therapy.<br /><br />I don't deny that public health bureaucrats used the fear of H1N1 to expand their power, or that they exaggerated the danger. Because that's how bureaucracies work.<br /><br />But just because somebody is anti-establishment doesn't mean they're right. And the scientific establishment actually does get things right sometimes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-87160928561172808532010-08-15T21:00:03.699-07:002010-08-15T21:00:03.699-07:00Vaccines are a huge money maker for the medical es...Vaccines are a huge money maker for the medical establishment. It's even better when they don't get used like the H1N1 vaccine because then the medical establishment does not have to answer hard questions like why are so many children autistic when several decades ago it was non-existent. The medical establishment thinks money is more important than our children's health.Thomas Georgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-86081641077548036932010-08-15T18:59:46.557-07:002010-08-15T18:59:46.557-07:00Dude, I'm sorry but Michael Adams from Natural...Dude, I'm sorry but Michael Adams from NaturalNews is an anti-science Woomeister kook. A nutcase. Look vaccines work; they're why most people don't know what an "iron lung" even is, and why kids don't die of whooping cough.<br /><br />Nor is Vitamin D a cure-all.<br /><br />Yes, the H1N1 proved less serious than some had feared. That's good, no? Sure a few companies probably made a few bucks on the vaccine -- though it's a drop in the bucket compared to, say, a cholesterol medication or an anti-depressent.<br /><br />But that's no reason to embrace anti-science quackery.<br /><br />Being open to unorthodox ideas is good. But that doesn't mean one should embrace anybody who is unorthodox.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-4124961958819180212010-08-13T14:20:55.787-07:002010-08-13T14:20:55.787-07:00It is no secret that I live in a Third World villa...It is no secret that I live in a Third World village in rural Puebla. My best friend is a doctor. A doctor who reads constantly and keeps up with the latest. While Mexico City was still under a "lock-down" he did some reading and calling, and told me, "This is not going to be serious. We can handle it."<br /><br />So, how could a small-town doctor figure it out so fast, and it took the finest minds almost a year.<br /><br />In this village, he had one case. A woman who had just given birth was back within 4 days, near death's door. They shipped her to a hospital in Puebla, and it was weeks before they were sure she'd make it. She did lose her milk, of course,but she lived. Interestingly, no other member of her family, including the baby, got it.<br /><br />Also, interestingly, he had noted several months earlier a form of 'grippe' which roughly translates into fever and sniffles, more or less, was unusually prevalent, and it was in a different form than usual. Alas, no one kept specimens. I drove a mother and her small baby to a hospital where they sucked mucus out of her lungs for 3 or 4 days to keep her alive.<br /><br />Anonymous age 68Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-78621693048838499412010-08-13T01:42:49.538-07:002010-08-13T01:42:49.538-07:00In fairness, we would need to see the economic ana...In fairness, we would need to see the economic analysis that was performed in authorizing the vaccine purchase decisions.<br /><br />I would hope that the advisors would have referenced some kind of model that showed things like infection rates, mortality likelihood, disability likelihood, etc. This could be used to assess whether vaccines represented value for money.<br /><br />In an ideal world, such models would be public domain so that the assumptions that went into the model to arrive at a particular decision are transparent and subject to potential scrutiny.<br /><br />This might be opposed on the grounds that it could create panics, but to be honest I don't think doing things behind closed doors works too well in today's world.Gunnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-7384803654030701322010-08-13T00:15:57.994-07:002010-08-13T00:15:57.994-07:00Well, whaddaya know, a conspiracy that is proven t...Well, whaddaya know, a conspiracy that is proven to be factually true.<br />A small group of influential people defrauded the taxpayers and pocketed millions of dollars.Deansdalehttp://deansdale.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com