Swine Flu Skeptic: The Sky Is Not Falling

Dr. Paul is right about everything on this one. Seasonal influenza sickens millions and kill thousands in the U.S. each year, and no one even flinches. The world will never be free of emerging diseases. We need to learn to live our lives, use common sense with regard to illness, and learn to adapt to an ever-changing disease world.

People love to panic they get themselves all worked up over nothing. Your chances of catching swine flu are about as good as your chances of being killed by terrorists…very unlikely. Please worry about jobs, healthcare and consumer rights lack of those really is a serious concern.

Why not take on our toxic food supply. Then you would have a healthier populace that can overcome the flu. Besides we wouldn’t be so fat and maybe the healthcare crisis would start to subside. Go Dr. Paul!

The good doctor has spoken.

FINALLY! A voice of reason amidst the screaming hysterics!

You people are missing the point… This is a flu that our body systems do not recognize… in return your antibodies can turn on you and attack… then you die.
Stop trying to make this out to be just another flu, Vice President Biden knows better and should to.

insight – If it kills more in a year than traffic fatalities in a day, I would be surprised. It may kill but that is life. We don’t need to shut the country down. Besides those who survive will be stronger as will their offspring.

I wish he were our President.

When Ron Paul agrees with the Obama Administration, I generally feel pretty confident that the actions being taken aren’t only correct, but obvious to the pros.

insight – Not to worried. Got my elderberry ready just in case. If it is like the Spanish flu of 1918 no amount quarantining will stop it. Los Alamos just did a simulation showing that it will spread no matter what we try to do.

I don’t believe ANYTHING our stupid government has to say….idiots!

@Jason – “I don’t believe ANYTHING our stupid government has to say….idiots!” – Funny, Ron Paul would say the exact same thing. You two should hang out sometime, and suspect each other of various things.

jhw539 – You make a good point. That kind of consensus means something positive.

Ron is right on this…and many other things. Look folks 30,000-40,000 people die in the US EVERY YEAR! And it doesn’t get the media coverage that this is getting. Is this a bad strain of flu…yes it is. But the Chicken Little antics are getting old. Be smart, wash your hands often, cover your mouth and nose when you sneeze. If you get sick AND run a fever, seek medical treatment…and don’t go to work or school.

“Only one person died from the swine flu then, but at least 25 people died because of the vaccine.” …. When the cure starts killing more people than the original disease, one has to realize that we have broken the very oath of all medical practitioners -”First, Do No Harm!” As with ANY medical procedure or medicine, there is an adverse risk to accepting a treatment. When the risk of death or disability from the flu is lower than the adverse risk of the treatment, doing nothing is exactly what you do.

What does the border have ~anything~ whatsoever to do with an epidemic that arrived, legally, on an airplane?

So only one person died of the swine flu in 1976 after the vaccine was widely distributed. Isn’t that what the vaccine is supposed to do? How many would have died had it not been distributed? No one knows: not me, not you, not Ron Paul.
Norm

Dear Huh: Since Paul is a Libertarian who prefers less government regulation and interference in private business, he would presumably allow farmers to use whatever chemicals they want on their crops, thus making the food supply MORE TOXIC. Here’s a good joke: How can you tell if an apple is safe to eat? Don’t eat one unless there’s a worm in it. If the worm looks healthy then it’s safe to eat!!

I agree with doctor Paul. Closing schools in areas that don’t have swine flu is ridiculous.!

In 1976, the semi forced vaccination of 100′s of thousands KILLED more then the Swine flu did! It’s true, google it!

This is just another Obama distraction. Notice the media didn’t ask him 1 question on the economy and for God sake, can someone ask him why the stimulus is not working? Most of the media except for Fox and a few other’s that Obama won’t call on are a bunvh of chicken $h!T$. Consumer spending again went negative and somehow this is a back page story to less than 300 people who are sick. Most of you can’t even accept that around 36K people die every year of the traditional flus during flu season. this strain is far less potent. Even though Ron Paul is the original nutty professor, he happens to right on this one.

I like how people call Ron Paul a nutjob but they can’t describe rationally why he is a nutjob. Ron Paul isn’t a nutjob, and odds are he can defend all of positions with logic and reason instead of ad hominem. I don’t agree with him on everything, but he’s usually right.

This is going to run the same lines that the 1918 Spanish flu did. That is how these are designed to work. Read up on the Spanish Flu of 1918 and see what this is meant to do and how. This is the first stage it wont kill that many, but wait until this fall.

AlChemist – EPA does some good things, but the way to change behavior is to sue the pnats off those that do harm. If farmers use pesticides, then people should sue them when they get sick much like people did with the cigarette companies. They only listen when it hits them in the wallet. Folks find ways around regulations. By the way I live in NM and I grow my own stuff on a 1/4 acre. Its organic too. I even have an elderberry plant that is barring fruit just at the right time for this pandemic.

AlChemist – I almost forgot, I have an apple tree too. I just cut the good parts and discard the part with the worm. Cheers.

Here is how well flu vaccine works in tests: 3% of people who don’t get the vaccine contract the flu. 2% of the people who DO get the vaccine contract the flu. From this they derive that getting vaccinated reduces your likelihood of getting the flu by 50%.
Eat lots of Vitamin D to keep your body’s immune system from killing itself like with the 1918 flu. Vitamin D…

Well, maybe only one person DIED from the actual swine flu in 1976 BECAUSE there were vaccinations.

Ron Paul needs to just go away. Do I think people are over-reacting? Yes. Am I going to take the word of a quack who wants to use the gold standard and hasn’t practiced medicine in decades over the CDC and WHO? No.

Dr Ron Paul is right and is the only sane person in Washington. And I would like to thank Pres. Obama for his prime time news conference, I now know how to wssh my hands. I’m afraid to ask what’s next, potty training.
Ex Republican

Right to the point … this is nothing but fear mongering! Keep us all Afraid!

..funny how all the people who want Paul to disappear are most likely either on welfare or work for some three-letter government agency*
Most obvious is the fact they can not admit when they have been had; tricked into believing yet another wall-street con artist such as Obama.
Truth is the Truth.

Dr. Paul is right as usual. I live in south Texas in Cameron County right on the Rio Grande River next to Mexico which has half of our trade dependent on Mexicans. I also have a new baby girl born in January. As soon as I heard about the flu I waited to hear the opinion from my doctor, Dr. Ron Paul.
His word is as good as gold. Every other American can freak out for all I care. I’ll only freak out if Ron is freaking out.

Once again the good doctor is right. Unfortunately, we will probably continue to see more fearmongering on the news and from the government. VP Biden’s comment that he asked his family not to fly on commercial airlines was thoughtless and unnecessary; it was Cheney-lite in terms of fearmongering.

Dr. Paul was right, IS right, and will continue to be right. I don’t understand why that is so hard for mainstream media to accept. Put the snarky interviewer comments aside and let him speak!
Thanks for the good article, ABC news!

I like Ron Paul’s overall approach to solving problems. Leave it alone, it’ll fix itself. People who always interfere and try to fix thing create two problems for every one they solve.

Why would anyone follow the advise of a physcian that hasn’t practiced in 20 years and is not trained in public health. He bases his medicine on a idealogy rather than science.
He only proves that there are a lot of stupid people out there.

“Never let a good crisis go to waste”
The economic impact of this will be huge…at a time when every doller counts…..people are missing work…businesses are losing money….way to go Bama….
And for all who feared Sarah Palin as VP…thanks to the media’s twisting of everything she said……..How’s your boy Biden looking?

How predictable that Ron Paul is getting exposure for his views when Obama administration and the abcnbcmsnbcbs government mouthpiece finds them useful.

Calling Ron Paul fundamentally wrong is, well, fundamentally wrong. The USA went from a backwards agrarian country in the 1790s to the world’s leading economy in 1872 and the world’s highest standard of living by 1885. During this time, America was on the gold standard, had just about no 3 letter agencies, no CDC, no welfare, no social security, no medicare, no medicade, nothing. All the while, the nation had the world’s best medical care and greatest opportunity. Even during the Spanish Flu of 1918 the US government did absolutely nothing and it resulted in a morbidity rate of 2%, well below the 5% in Europe, which had governments doing something (and frequently did something every year in just about every aspect of life, including medicine, hence why it took them longer to get the cure).
Looking at history, America fared better than anyone else did, advanced faster than anyone else did and enjoyed a lifestyle that no one else could for nearly 60 years, all in the near-total absence of government and fake monopoly money. Yet here we are today, ignoring the timeframe and conditions that made America great, chosing to pick the decisions that allowed Europe to stagnate and allow America to surpass them. This includes asking our government to solve our health scares.