is no reason to downplay a 1918-like event.

In August, “60% of the H1N1 deaths were Under age 49″.

Over 90% of deaths are under age 65;
exact opposite of seasonal flu.

(Please stop calling H1N1, “swine” flu and call it Pandemic Flu 2009; we have been in an HHS-declared National Public Health Emergency since April.
Communities were supposed to have done much more by now than, “wait for vaccine”.)

“Most” people, “got better” from 1918-1920′s ‘Spanish’ Flu, too,
if, ‘risk communicators’ have to put it that way to get paid.

Public hellth would be ‘thankful’ during ‘Spanish’ Flu
since it’s not, “bird(s & beasts & humans) flu, H5N1? (Yet.)
Or ‘thankful’ until H1N1 cases were allowed to increase by hiding the CFR and ignoring pre-Outbreak, “Community Mitigation” guidelines, until we are in, “that place” where more overt rationing of treatment & care is seen by the public, and the surge of formerly-preventable illnesses & deaths crash systems? (As taxpayer-funded modelling predicted, during 3.5 years of Alert, will happen with No effective Mitigation.)

WBUR should have been telling the public to prepare for the disruptions ‘warned’ about since Oct. 2005; now hidden away on the gov pandemicflu site. Search:

“Pandemic Influenza Planning: A Guide for Individuals and Families”

(but decode, “2 weeks” -which isn’t even enough for an ice storm as, 2 months of supplies -which isn’t even enough for the, “up to 12 weeks” schools may be dismissed in a, “severe” situation- such as the hospitals being so full the, “Influenza ‘Specialty Care’ Sites” -usually your schools – have to be triggered, whether they are staffed, supplied, or Not).

Pandemic Alert was covered up, “due to political and economic pressures” -and now Pandemic is being (mis-)handled the same way as it was in 1918;
officials relying on censorship and propaganda,
even though now we had warning, and, Antivirals that can (currently still) prevent irreversable lung damage and death If given at onset, and prior Mitigation plans- which the public was kept from seeing- so, there’s no protest key “layered interventions” aren’t being used.

“What we learn from History is that
people do not learn from History”.