I'm sensing alot of hostility in this room... Uh, let's... GO CRAZY!
but back on topic... frankly I don't care. It's like the Bird Flu or SARs, people are freaking out about it and think that it's going to kill the world.... I doubt it will cause the world population to die out...
Cattivo
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Apr 30 2009 03:10 pm
UsaSatsui
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Apr 30 2009 03:15 pm
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It's like the Bird Flu or SARs, people are freaking out about it and think that it's going to kill the world.... I doubt it will cause the world population to die out...
Bird Flu never made the leap to human-to-human contact.
Life has too many playable characters. I say it's high time we drastically trim the roster.
Overpopulation is getting to be a problem. Normally there's wars, famines, or plagues that reduce that, but we haven't had a big one of these in a while. So we're due. Swine flu doesn't look like that though. I'll repeat the above sentiments - it's just SARS relived.
Slayer1
Title: ,,!,, for you know who
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Posted:
Apr 30 2009 08:33 pm
Cattivo wrote:
As Syd once said:
Syd Lexia wrote:
Life has too many playable characters. I say it's high time we drastically trim the roster.
Overpopulation is getting to be a problem. Normally there's wars, famines, or plagues that reduce that, but we haven't had a big one of these in a while. So we're due. Swine flu doesn't look like that though. I'll repeat the above sentiments - it's just SARS relived.
I agree with this quote. Simply because the fact that is apart of natures way of removing the weak, or perhaps, consider it a natrual Birth control Method.
jackfrost
Title: Cold Hearted Bastard
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Posted:
Apr 30 2009 11:33 pm
I did the math. The fatality rate in the U.S. for the last flu pandemic in 1918 was about 2% for those who contracted it (which was about 28% of the population). I will take those odds. There are plenty of viruses and diseases which are close to the 100% mark which I would much rather distance myself from. I will remain maskless and continue to live my life as if there is not problem.
Well, apparently it is in my state now. They closed one of the high schools around here because they think one of the students may have it.
Hah, i wouldn't be complaining if that happened here
Hacker
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May 01 2009 10:28 am
In my school district, if we go up another threat level for swine flu then we (we being those in my school district) get school canceled until we go back down
Slayer1
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May 01 2009 10:38 am
My college is freaking out for whatever reason... frankly I don't care, if anything it might bump up maintainece to actually clean more then just bitch about it and sweeping the floor...
Kubo
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Posted:
May 01 2009 11:27 am
Three cases in a town about 3 miles from here. Still not worried... know why? Cuz Time magazine is reporting that the CDC expects this flu to be somewhat less communicable and much less dangerous than we're making it out to be. I think I read that they said that CDC models predict that even if the U.S. government did nothing to step the spread of it, we'd still only see 1700 cases in the U.S.
Forgive me if I'm not shitting myself, but H1N1 is looking more and more like a mild form of the flu that the media came in its pants over.
For U.S. citizens, this may give you a little bit of peace as well- they seem to be zeroing in on the reason the U.S. strain isn't killing as many people (i.e. 0) as in Mexico. In Mexico, at the epicenter of the outbreak, the virus has the protein makeup that makes it a little more lethal. Not the case in the U.S. For whatever reason, the virus just isn't designed as harshly in the U.S. as it is in Mexico.
Thou, because I am wroth, be not dismayed, for I shall win the strife, whoever circle round within for the defence. This their insolence is not new, for of old they used it at a less secret gate, which still is found without a bolt. Above it thou didst see the dead inscription; and already on this side of it
descends the steep, passing without escort through the circles,
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UsaSatsui
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May 01 2009 11:42 am
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Forgive me if I'm not shitting myself, but H1N1 is looking more and more like a mild form of the flu that the media came in its pants over.
Oh, right, I was just gonna mention this. It's not "swine flu" anymore. It's "H1N1".
Even "deadly" pandemics need their marketing campaigns.
Forgive me if I'm not shitting myself, but H1N1 is looking more and more like a mild form of the flu that the media came in its pants over.
Oh, right, I was just gonna mention this. It's not "swine flu" anymore. It's "H1N1".
Even "deadly" pandemics need their marketing campaigns.
I actually read somewhere that the CDC decided to change the name to keep the pork industry from being hit hard. Something about the CDC changing a name for economic reasons stinks of overhyping the issue within the media. I can't put my finger on exactly how... but the fact that the CDC changed the (much more cumbersome) name seems to... I dunno... commodify the disease, which makes it seem less serious to me.
Thou, because I am wroth, be not dismayed, for I shall win the strife, whoever circle round within for the defence. This their insolence is not new, for of old they used it at a less secret gate, which still is found without a bolt. Above it thou didst see the dead inscription; and already on this side of it
descends the steep, passing without escort through the circles,
One such that by him the city shall be opened to us.
Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
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Location: Metro area, Georgia
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Posted:
May 01 2009 01:12 pm
1 confirmed infection in my state but I'm not all that worried.
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Eddie_Hyde
Title: Ernie with the Disposal
Joined: Apr 13 2009
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Posted:
May 01 2009 04:01 pm
We got two cases in my state now. Do I care? Fuck no. I've been in good health all my life and think the whole damn thing is overhyped anyways. But we did have a kid try to come to school in a gas mask, and several more come in painter's masks, so yeah, people are taking the whole thing way to seriously. Gas mask kid called his parents to come pick him up when the administrators made him take it off. But really, a gas mask?
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Optimist With Doubts
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Posted:
May 01 2009 04:24 pm
that poor kid will now be gas mask kid for the rest of his life
This is getting a tad bit ridiculous. Someone at my school today sneezed and everyone flipped OUT and was like "Swine flu! Germ-X! BANISH HER TO THE DEPTHS OF HADES! Germ-X! Lisa needs braces!!!!11!!!1!!!oneone"
Lady_Satine
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May 02 2009 02:03 am
I suppose if it's now called "H1N1" I can pronounce it "hiney."
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