That is so awesome. NPR is all I listen to on the radio. I'm impressed. Plus, you used a fancy word like 'anecdotal'.

Savor this.. now you have peaked.

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76 deaths of children out of a total US population of 300 million people is not high. These medicos are guilty of the same fear-mongering that the media employs. If the entire population of the US was inoculated there would only need to be a tiny undiscovered contraindication (say, Flinstones vitamins taken on same day as shot causes diarrhea) to make the shot more deadly than the flu.

As for the 76 deaths of the children to date- most of these kids were hospitalized, who can say that they weren't killed in hospital at least in part, by the extremely strong anti-viral meds which 't been tested on children as much as adults.

The continual all-knowing hubris of the the medical industrial complex never ceases to infuriate me. They are always 100% right and infallable in the present. It's history that reveals the mistakes- but they are quickly swept under the rug:

Viox
Fen-Phen
thalidomide
Aspirin (for treating the flu)

I'm certainly not anti-science, but I'd like to see a democratization of health and a tearing down of the patriarchal medical institutions out there.

I wish people were as concerned with MRSA. Going to hospital can kill you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methicillin-resistant_Staphylococcus_aureus

You sound dreamy.