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Damn take care of the family that sounds like really bad!! My nephew in St Pete’s is sick like that as well something is up with Florida. :Cry:
Professor,
From a CNN report I saw a couple of weeks ago a terrible flu has been sweeping across 49 of 50 states. My sister and her 4 boys had it at the beginning of the month.
Both George and I had the flu so bad several weeks ago we had to go to the doctor and got a bunch of prescriptions. It dragged on for weeks.
Several people form the G&C team (in various states) were equally sick in the approximate same time period, including one who was hospitalized with it for a week.
There is a very nasty bug out there this year and it’s highly contageous.
The flu vaccine failed to cover 60% of the flu viruses out there this year, usually it has much better coverage.
The religious quote is likely right on by the way, mother nature does cull all living things when they become too crowded. Could well happen some day, but I doubt this is it.
So far, since the plague, we have always fought these things off with hygene and medicine.Anyway, from what I have seen this flu is very nasty but not deadly.
Stay well professor! Nothing worse than a house full of sick people.
Yes, Professor you apparently have plenty of company.
My brother in Michigan has been to the hospital twice. He is now on his second round of antibiodics after a breathing treatment. This all started with a 102 fever. Now his fiance has it.
They said its “this flu.”
Rest, plenty of fluids . . . you know the program. Although, it sounds like you are taking care of the rest!
I dont think this flu is the “big” one. But any year we could see it come like a thief in the night and this time it could easily kill half a billion or so.
Quote:The 1918 flu pandemic (commonly referred to as the Spanish flu) was an influenza pandemic that was first found in the United States, appeared in West Africa and France and then spread to nearly every part of the human populated planet. It was caused by an unusually severe and deadly Influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1. Many of its victims were healthy young adults, in contrast to most influenza outbreaks which predominantly affect juvenile, elderly, or otherwise weakened patients.The Spanish flu pandemic came in three waves[1] lasting from March 1918 to June 1920,[2] spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. While older estimates put the number of killed at 40–50 million people, current estimates are that 50 million to 100 million people worldwide died, higher than the number killed in World War I.[3] This extraordinary toll resulted from the extremely high infection rate of up to 50% and the extreme severity of the symptoms, suspected to be caused by cytokine storms.
Really have to wash the hands quite often these days. I guess at least 20 seconds under the water to be effective from what I’ve heard.
Call me paranoid but I now use my key or a coin to press the ATM buttons and make it a point to immeadiately wash my hands if I touch a shopping cart or variety store door. I always get bottled drinks, mostly water and never get beverages from those fountains.
Yep, that’s where today’s hygene and medicine comes in. We are miles ahead of the conditions back then, although not all countries are so lucky as to have medicine and hygene easily available.
We since had the swine flu and the bird flu and such, all very nasty but mostly treatable.
What we need is less money spent on war and more on research. If all the money we spent on the Iraq war had been dumped into research, some pretty neat things could have been accomplished.
I had something really crazy like that when I got back from CAP London. I was sicker than I’ve ever been from a bug and it had me in bed for several days and then my husband got it.
He is 6’4 weighing 250 pounds and it had him down for days.
I also heard on the news that this strain of bug is the kind that comes back so be very careful.
Hey Lou,
Sorry to hear the family is sick and not feeling well. Hope everyone gets well soon.The End to All Disease
What if someone invented a machine that could cure virtually any disease and was affordable to buy and easy to use?
Surely such a machine would immediately be hailed as one of the greatest achievements of all time right?
Throughout history most new medical breakthroughs have not been so easily accepted. Take for example Mr. Semmelweiss who struggled for years to convince surgeons to practice sterile procedures. Then there was Pasteur who was ridiculed for years about his germ theory. Roentgen was held back with his x-rays, Morton for his ether anesthesia, Harvey for his theory of blood circulation and many more. The big business of the medical world doesn’t like things to change very fast because it usually represents a threat to their massive profits in some way.
Well certainly the many research foundations who receive hundreds of millions of dollars per year in the form of donations and grants would be happy about a cure, right?
Think again. That would cause their funds to dry up virtually overnight and put them out of business. I’m sure that all the executives making six figure incomes in these foundations won’t let that happen.
What about the pharmaceutical companies, surely they would be interested in such a machine right?
Think again! These companies will be very unhappy to learn that a small handheld machine costing $700 could make most drugs today obsolete and put an end to their gravy train. Perhaps they would even try to stop anyone with such a machine especially since there are virtually billions of dollars at stake. Maybe they would even try to quietly get rid of anyone with such a machine.
What about hospitals and big clinics, wouldn’t they want a machine like this? They won’t be very happy about a therapy which can be administered in any doctor’s office or by the patient himself and which reverses illness before a patient has to be hospitalized. People would have little use for hospitals except for actual trauma related injuries and accidents. Hospitals would loose billions of dollars in revenue per year and be forced to massively downsize their staff.
Well what about the insurance companies, wouldn’t they be happy about such a machine? Most insurance companies would start to loose lots of policy holders when people realize that they can be cured by a simple machine which uses about as much electricity to operate as a small radio. Since this cure is so cheap, most people would not care much about having medical insurance. The insurance industry would not be happy about the billions of dollars of lost revenue from such a machine.
Now do you really think that if such a machine existed that you would know about it?
Well this machine does exist and has been around for decades!
It was invented by Royal Raymond Rife in the 1930’s. Rife was the first man on earth to see a living virus using his special Rife Universal Microscope. Rife’s discoveries were confirmed by many doctors and scientists worldwide during his lifetime. In 1934 Rife cured 100% of a group of terminal cancer patients brought to him by a special medical research committee. Forty four of the nation’s most respected medical authorities honored Rife with a banquet billed as “The end to all Disease”.
A short time later nearly all of these people denied they ever even met Rife. The AMA (American Medical Association) shut Rife down and kept him quiet for decades. Lives were threatened and pressure was brought to bear against anyone who supported him or even confirmed his work. Bribe money was paid to prominent doctors who witnessed Rife’s work to simply forget they ever met him. People were even filled and poisoned and laboratories and research was burned and destroyed.
Rife died in 1971 but his work has survived in an underground black market to researchers for many years. Now through painstaking research it is available again
http://www.futurehorizons.net/medicine.htm
I’m just quoting the story and not endorsing the product, i’ve never used it or know anyone who has, but the idea of something like this working is very believable, as are the reasons to why it’s not currently in use
I just can’t seem to convince people that we live in a world ruled by evil, and all these diseases are created by people and purposely spread
Oddly, this past year, i had 2 friends of mine who were “cured” by doctors, one with cancer, the other with a tumor…Less than 2 months after being “cured”, both were dead, go figure
@GamTrak 157538 wrote:
I had something really crazy like that when I got back from CAP London. I was sicker than I’ve ever been from a bug and it had me in bed for several days and then my husband got it.
He is 6’4 weighing 250 pounds and it had him down for days.
I also heard on the news that this strain of bug is the kind that comes back so be very careful.
GamTrak
Stace and I had the same bug from London took us both out for a long time.
Lou You guys get better soon!
Brad
Prof,
I am so sorry to hear of this. It’s horrible when it hits a whole family. I know I have been sick as a dog for almost 2 months now. Fever, chills, cough, congestion..in short, the whole bit. Unfortunately, I cannot afford health insurance so, have not gone to a doc. There were a couple of nights, my fever shot up to 104 and I was almost tempted to go to the hospital. Unfortunately, I didn’t think it would be so safe to drive. I just sat in the tub with semi cool water to bring my temp down. I figure, it’s got to break sometime. Hope that is soon. Warm weather wouldn’t hurt.
All the best to you and your family’s speedy recovery.
A virus strain of subtype H1N1.
I believe H1N1 is the bird flu that has been popping up in the Asian regions the last couple of years.
Vitamine C, plenty of rest, no stress, no computing, curtains closed, your wife in the other bedroom if applicable, no tv, plenty of “kamille” tea (is good for infections) and some “paracetamol” got me going again from a severe flue. I rather had a computer virus.
If you have H51N you are in deep trouble (H1N1 virus is a new one to me).
Wash your hands frequently with killing disinfect. soap.
Again the flue can be very dangerous do not underestimate the signals.
Get well soon.
Rick
