Comments on: Good Luck, Gramps!

By: Mighty Skip

Mighty Skip — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:16:52 +0000

I have to find the source but I was reading just a few days ago that the total number of fatalities is very similiar to seasonal flu, but the distribution curve of fatalities among age groups is skewed compared to normal.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:51:49 +0000

“That’s true pretty much of every illness, isn’t it?”

You’re right. The difference is, with other illnesses we don’t withhold the only preventive measure from older people.

Rusty Shackleford would say: “Is this the beginning of a plan to save Social Security?” But I wouldn’t.

By: JimmyC

JimmyC — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:36:33 +0000

I will now channel my inner Dale Gribble and come up with a conspiracy theory: the government created swine flu to kill off old people so that they can’t diss Obama’s policies at town hall meetings anymore. Discuss.

By: JS Lawalin

JS Lawalin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:01:30 +0000

That’s true pretty much of every illness, isn’t it? I mean, fill in the blank in the sentence with any disease:

“A study has found that although older people are less likely to contract the __________, they are far more likely to die if they do get it.”

What disease doesn’t have that characteristic?