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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bird Flu H5N1

Back in I think 2005 people became very concerned about H5N1 influenza which was starting to go person to person but in a limited way and had at least a fatality rate of about 40%.

They were worried that it could spread more easily (more like COVID or the flu) and even if the fatality rate dropped, it might only drop as low as 20% CFR.

The conspiracy theory I believe is that the US pandemic plan under George Bush was to just let it spread to develop herd immunity.  "They" determined  that it would be worse for our economy to prepare the population for it; so only essential workers were told to prepare.   They were told to stockpile enough food and supplies to be able to shelter in place for up to 12 weeks, but this information wasn't told to the general public; just certain sectors of the critical infrastructure workforce; and they were sworn to secrecy somehow.

I totally believe this was the plan and that this actually happened although I don't believe many people actually managed to stockpile 12 weeks of food and supplies.[/quote]

That's not a conspiracy, there was actual quite a bit of pandemic planning that occurred at that time and those pandemic plans lingered all the way until now.  Lots of businesses and government agencies did a lot of planning. The problem was looking back that it was all amazingly short sighted given that no one had lived through a pandemic.

I think there was more spread than people realize and that it lingered for years.  I do think it just ended up being not quite as contagious to the US population.  
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