bird flu made for TV movie on tonight

The ABC made for TV movie, Fatal Contact, premieres tonight,
and I must admit I'm looking forward to seeing it. It'll be
the first TV show I've watched since TWIN PEAKS, which shows
you how often I watch TV.

I don't even have one -- I'm going to my mother's house to
watch it!

Anyway, there's the predictable handwringing about it, which
you can read about here:

bird flu movie on ABC

But at least one reviewer thinks it's worth watching as a movie:

review of ABC's bird flu movie

I'm not sure why some experts are so concerned that it's alarmist.
I mean, do they expect a movie about an outbreak of mild flu
that's quickly contained. Yeah, boring -- right?

If it's worth a movie, it's going to be played to the hilt, and
people should recognize this.

Of course, there're always some kooks.

My guess is that yes it will scare some people who need to be
scared by bird flu. The kind of people who are more scared by a fictional
movie that by reality -- probably because they pay little
attention to the news or just don't understand it because it
isn't dramatized like a TV movie.

However, many people will be scared for a few days or weeks
but unless the contagious pandemic happens right away, they'll
forget about it because they're so busy watching the next
made for TV movie.

However, hopefully some people will be scared enough to make
rational preparations for the pandemic.

The people who have their heads in the sand on bird flu and
refuse to admit that a horrible pandemic is possible,
just on the grounds that it would be horrible and we've
already solve all the horrible problems . . . those people
won't do anything anyway.

More on Echinacea

More on Echinacea

This entry comes thanks to the research of Jon Barron, of Baseline
Nutritionals.

Recently, there have been studies which supposedly show that
Echinacea is not effective. Since I chose Echinacea as one of
my Super Immunity 7, I was concerned.

Take some comfort in this -- 3 of the studies used Echinacea juice
or unrefined plant matter. No herbalist uses these or claims that
they would be effective.

Other studies used their own extracts, so of course results were questionable. That's like you mixing up your own beer in a bathtub
and then complaining that it doesn't taste like Budweiser.

(And remember -- the main complaint of competent herbalists
regarding Echinacea is that commercials bottles of it don't
contain enough active ingredient to work.)

The dosage they used was 1/3 the normal recommended dose. So that's
like 1/3 of an aspirin tablet and then complaining that your head
still hurts.

The lastest "study" of Echinacea came out early this year, but
it did not perform any new experiments. It simply "reviewed"
previous studies -- which had the above flaws.

The problem is simply that no herb company has the necessary
resources to perform a truly definitive scientific study
of any supplement or herb.

There'd have to be a large number of participants across a
wide demographic span (Jon also points out that one study
used college students who generally have good immune
systems, so the boost they get from Echinacea would be
limited anyway).

It would have to follow them across a full winter's worth
of colds and flus. It'd somehow have to factor in everything
else the people might do to treat their colds and flu.

It'd also have to examine the issue of Echinacea in formulas,
because it's not as effective alone.

In the mean time, keep in mind that Echinacea does contain
echinacoside which can kill a wide variety of viruses,
bacteria, fungi and protozoa.

There are studies which show that it boosts the ability of
your macrophages to destroy germs and boosts production of
T-cells.

Now, nobody is saying that Echinacea is magic. You still need
to take care of yourself and take as many of the Super
Immunity 7 as you can if you're sick, especially with bird
flu.

However, it is a powerful weapon in your arsenal. You must
take a lot of powerful Echinacea for it to work, and what's
wrong with that?

Jon sells a high quality Echinacea formula:

high strength Echinacea

That page is a list of his many products (all of them are
excellent, by the way). You are looking for Immunify (Echinacea Plus).