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Originally Posted by nomesque
Lemme get this straight. You're worried that in the case of widespread riots, Homeland Security might... stop the rioting? Damn. That is majorly curbing people's freedoms.
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Sure, that's what they
say, that it is due to rioting, but if there is going to be any rioting, it will be due to the rest of our freedoms being stripped away. Spending tax money to build riot camps to keep citizens in after taking away their freedoms? It's a neverending circle or corruption. It tells me where this country is headed.
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Originally Posted by Ham88
One thing what do you mean "get a vaccine that will make me sick" vaccines don't make you sick. They use denatured forms of the virus, meaning it is none viral, because your immune system just needs to recognize the outer coating of the virus as alien, so no getting sick. Can you explain what you meant by the post about genocide I got a little confused there. But I do agree that this is all hype created by the media get to viewers, but there is a potential for a pandemic seeing as people lack immunity to it and I suppose it may turn out to be worse than normal flu.
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Many vaccines use live virus. How many times have you gotten sick from a vaccine? My brother did, my mother had, so had my father. He got a flu shot, got the flu, was out for a week. 2 months later, got a different strand of the flu, was out again. So, no, it's not just dead denatured forms.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
You misunderstand the meaning of the word "pandemic". It does not refer to the "seriousness" of an outbreak of an infectious disease, but to how geographically widespread it is. The common cold is a pandemic.
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My mistake. I suppose that's what I get for occasionally watching network news.
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
The problem is, it is highly contagious. The problem is that when a massive outbreak does occur, it's not so much the amount of deaths that will cause problem, but the huge number of people that won't be able to go to work.
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I speak only for myself in this. I would rather risk infection of a highly contagious, yet weaker strain of virus, than to submit myself to a vaccine that has yet to be proven.
The only news sources that I trust are NPR and BBC World News. I used to trust Fox News, but they are beginning to cloud their news as well.