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Originally Posted by Mr. Billy
The problem is that this is the flu we are talking about. As people have pointed out, when a strain of the flu comes around that people do not have any immunity to, there is the potential for a pandemic. There have been several of these with tragic consequences.
This was a learning experience. Nobody can argue the fact that it was expensive and of course as we have seen, the pandemic did not materialize as expected.
I don't think there was a way to predict that this would not be a pandemic.
It takes time to produce vaccine, so if people waited to see if a pandemic developed before they spent the money to start development and distribution they would not have had enough when it was needed.
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To the best of my knowledge it met all of the criteria for being a pandemic and in fact was a pandemic...but was not as serious of a killer as they thought it might be...but those that it did kill was different then seasonal flu...as it generally killed the young and healthy where as seasonal flu generally targets the older population and unhealthy.