Comments on: How to improve vaccination http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/01/10/how-to-improve-vaccination/ A slice of lime in the soda Sat, 25 May 2013 16:48:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Publius http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/01/10/how-to-improve-vaccination/comment-page-1/#comment-45514 Publius Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:38:46 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20124#comment-45514 Somewhere in my mind swims the line, "Americans want to know what is going on in the whore-house, but they won't find out by acting like Mother Theresa." In an objective sense what Dr. Afridi did was wrong, but the greater good of fingering the world's most notorious terrorist must be considered. When I was in college, I was a pacifist, convinced that we should always uphold the highest principles. In the real world, grown-ups need to make decisions in morally grey areas. Sometimes that may mean co-opting a doctor to locate a bad guy. Societies have the morality that they can afford. The "prisoner's dilemma" evaluated across cultures makes that clear. Somewhere in my mind swims the line, “Americans want to know what is going on in the whore-house, but they won’t find out by acting like Mother Theresa.”

In an objective sense what Dr. Afridi did was wrong, but the greater good of fingering the world’s most notorious terrorist must be considered. When I was in college, I was a pacifist, convinced that we should always uphold the highest principles. In the real world, grown-ups need to make decisions in morally grey areas. Sometimes that may mean co-opting a doctor to locate a bad guy.

Societies have the morality that they can afford. The “prisoner’s dilemma” evaluated across cultures makes that clear.

]]> By: QCIC http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/01/10/how-to-improve-vaccination/comment-page-1/#comment-45513 QCIC Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:29:47 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20124#comment-45513 Because the 1918-1919 epidemic has a lot to do with the modern world and the current typical flu season? Because the 1918-1919 epidemic has a lot to do with the modern world and the current typical flu season?

]]> By: crocodilechuck http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/01/10/how-to-improve-vaccination/comment-page-1/#comment-45512 crocodilechuck Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:00:12 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20124#comment-45512 "Influenza doesn’t kill many healthy people in places with even modern medicine." QCIC, Influenza and pneumonia death rates for those 15–34 years of age in the 1918–1919 flu epidemic were >20 times higher than in previous years (35). Overall, nearly half of the influenza-related deaths in the 1918 pandemic were in young adults 20–40 years of age, a phenomenon unique to that pandemic year. Source: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-0979_article.htm#whydidthe1918viruskillsomanyhealthyyoungadults? “Influenza doesn’t kill many healthy people in places with even modern medicine.”

QCIC, Influenza and pneumonia death rates for those 15–34 years of age in the 1918–1919 flu epidemic were >20 times higher than in previous years (35). Overall, nearly half of the influenza-related deaths in the 1918 pandemic were in young adults 20–40 years of age, a phenomenon unique to that pandemic year.

Source: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05 -0979_article.htm#whydidthe1918viruskill somanyhealthyyoungadults?

]]> By: QCIC http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/01/10/how-to-improve-vaccination/comment-page-1/#comment-45511 QCIC Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:42:24 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20124#comment-45511 "The cost of this disease is going to be enormous, both in dollars and in lives" Well sort of, most of the people killed by the flu were likely going to die soon anyway. Influenza doesn't kill many healthy people in places with even modern medicine. “The cost of this disease is going to be enormous, both in dollars and in lives”

Well sort of, most of the people killed by the flu were likely going to die soon anyway. Influenza doesn’t kill many healthy people in places with even modern medicine.

]]> By: absinthe http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/01/10/how-to-improve-vaccination/comment-page-1/#comment-45510 absinthe Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:25:38 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20124#comment-45510 Even if you concede that this kind of subterfuge is justified in order to capture the world's most-wanted terrorist, for the life of me I can't figure out why the CIA allowed this to become public knowledge. Why was this in the papers at all? Even if you concede that this kind of subterfuge is justified in order to capture the world’s most-wanted terrorist, for the life of me I can’t figure out why the CIA allowed this to become public knowledge. Why was this in the papers at all?

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