The ongoing outbreak of swine flu in Mexico and the United states has prompted El Jefe Obama to ask congress for $1.5 billion dollars to purchase flu vaccines from the pharmaceutical companies. My question is this, will the extra vaccines be used here or in Mexico? And how long till our government in the name of national security makes these vaccinations mandatory for all citizens? I have never had a flu shot in my entire 31 years of existence on this planet and don't plan to start now, why would I when I have a perfectly good immune system that so far has done a pretty good job of fighting off all the usual germs I come in contact with every day. The problem with swine flu or as our government calls it H1N1 is that we have become a society of pansies running to the doctor for every sniffle. When I was growing up I didn't go to the doctor until there was something really wrong, I had to be bleeding profusely or bones had to be broken before I went to the doctor. Many times I would say mom I don't feel good and she would put her hand on my forehead and say you have a fever give me some children's Tylenol and tuck me in bed no rushing to the ER for me.
One of my few trips to the hospital involved a bad bicycle wreck on a freshly graveled road, I was riding my bike to my grandmothers house only a 1/4 mile away when the chain came off the sprockets which threw my balance off and over I went. When I hit the road I landed on my forearm and elbow which got carved up really well and when I walked into my grandmas house my aunt damn near passed out I guess you could see all the tendons and muscles flexing when I moved my fingers . Grandma got me a clean wet washcloth and had me hold it over the wound to keep me from bleeding all over her floors and called my mom, when mom arrived she looked at my arm and said lets go and off to the ER we went. It took a major laceration for me to go to the hospital, to this day I avoid doctors whenever possible they have more important things to do than tell me I have a cold or the flu.
If you read any kind of medical information you will see that a common complaint of doctors is that diseases are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics the reason for this is simple they have been over prescribed and over used for decades. I have known people that would take amoxicillin for the common cold, the flu, and any number of other common illnesses. Go to the doctor with any kind of infection and the first thing they try to give you is some form of penicillin, no wonder it doesn't work as well as it used to. How about instead of throwing money and drugs at the problem you actually try and figure out what it is first jackass.
Years ago I went to the doctor because I had injured my knee and hadn't been able to straighten my right leg for better than three months, the GP I went to took some x-rays and poked and prodded my knee for a bit than looked at me and said I am going to send you to a specialist, great he admitted he didn't feel confident treating this so he was sending me to someone who could no drugs no bullshit just good judgment. The world needs more doctors like that. When I went to the specialist he looked at the x-rays and did more poking and prodding causing me great pain in the process, when he finished he said I really want to operate on this knee because I think you have a bone scale on the backside of your patella. Now I have found that there are four general types of doctors type 1 throws drugs at the problem, Type 2 want to cut everything to find out what's going on, Type 3 are the truly clueless quacks that really shouldn't be practicing medicine, and the fourth and rarest type are the ones who are both knowledgeable and caring. The true problem is most people go into medical school with the best intentions, they want to save the world but are blinded by the money the more patients they see the fatter their wallet gets. So now we have an outbreak of some new strain of the flu and the advice you get from the doctor on TV is if you start having flu like symptoms run to your nearest doctor as quickly as you can. This is the mentality that got us here in the first place.
If people hadn't been so quick to run to the doctor for everything for so many years the world would be a much healthier place. But what the Hell do I know I am just an angry Hillbilly
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