Swine flu, could it be the new smallpox?

[Chocolate_Rain]

http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/investigation.htm

The funny thing is, i told several people not to get flu shots, one of these days it will create some kind of super flu. Meaning if you don't get a flu shot then you have a better chance of fighting it.

You shouldn't baby you body to not getting sick, you needto build up immunity. The scary thing about this is it is killing off young childrten and adults. usually flu's only kill babies and seniors.:shake:

[rossmum]

I heard about this on the news, and couldn't help but laugh when I heard "...the World Health Organisation has issued a statement saying that it is worried by the outbreak" or something to that effect. Way to go, WHO, point out the fucking obvious. A disease outbreak is worrying. Well done, the UN and all its branches were such worthwhile investments. It'd be nice to see them actually get off their arses and do something for once, but I guess you can't expect much from an assembly of nations' leaders. Put a large group of politicians together, and they'll bicker and drop each other in it like children.

It's all well and good to say that you need to build up immunity and not to get vaccinated, but don't you get that vaccination is going just that? The whole point of injecting weakened or dead bacteria or viruses into you is so that your body learns to recognise them, learns how to kill them off, and can therefore wreck their shit next time it sees them. That's exactly what immunity is, the difference being that you can get it without suffering from the condition in the first place.

I seem to recall some huge hoo-hah a few years back about another 'killer flu' to match the one that came through just after the first war (or was it during?)... and it turned out that it was only marginally worse than a normal one.

[blind]

i hope it turns ppl to zombies

[DrunkenSamus]

Rebirth of the plague. Every one...bring out the lances. Time to lance some buboes. :v:

[n00b1n8R]

There's people on the street getting diseases from monkeys,
Yeah that's what I said, they're getting diseases from monkeys.
Now there's junkies with monkey disease
Who's touching these monkeys please leave these poor sick monkeys alone,
They've got problems enough as it is.

[ThePlague]

Someone say The Plague? :mech2:

But seriously, this sounds pretty cool.

[SnaFuBAR]

http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/investigation.htm

The funny thing is, i told several people not to get flu shots, one of these days it will create some kind of super flu.

You shouldn't baby you body to not getting sick, you needto build up immunity. The scary thing about this is it is killing off young childrten and adults. usually flu's only kill babies and seniors.:shake:

This happened in 1918 and 1976. Flu strain constantly mutates, getting a vaccination against it isn't going to cause a super flu. Retards shouldn't be giving medical advice.

[nooBBooze]

Oh, has it really been 2-3 years since the last OMG SUPERFLU?
I wonder if it's really just plain fearmongering or just periodically slow news weeks in the summer.

Also, Madagascar already closed the port.

[Chocolate_Rain]

Heh,

Worded my post wrong :(

Oh and snaf, suck my fat hairy balls.Piss off. :)

[rossmum]

Oh, has it really been 2-3 years since the last OMG SUPERFLU?

I wonder if it's really just plain fearmongering or just periodically slow news weeks in the summer.
no, flu's genuinely dangerous, but only to people who have compromised or weak immune systems or idiots who don't look after themselves properly

it's more mass panic on the public's part than fearmongering on anyone else's

[nooBBooze]

no, flu's genuinely dangerous, but only to people who have compromised or weak immune systems or idiots who don't look after themselves properly

it's more mass panic on the public's part than fearmongering on anyone else's

No doubt about it.

The media only satisfies a craving for baseless worry and whenever something like this hits mainstream media, a healthy dose of common sense (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Windshield_Pitting_Epidemic) would be appropriate.

[ExAm]

I seem to recall some huge hoo-hah a few years back about another 'killer flu' to match the one that came through just after the first war (or was it during?)... and it turned out that it was only marginally worse than a normal one.
Not when there's like 60 people dead in Mexico City :/

[SnaFuBAR]

Heh,

Worded my post wrong :(

Oh and snaf, suck my fat hairy balls.Piss off. :)
doubt they've even dropped, so that would make it pretty tough :giggle:

[rossmum]

No doubt about it.

The media only satisfies a craving for baseless worry and whenever something like this hits mainstream media, a healthy dose of common sense (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Windshield_Pitting_Epidemic) would be appropriate.
Wow, that owns. Thanks for the link.

e/ oh, it came from Mexico City! What a surprise!

You realise just how bloody filthy that place is, right? I'm surprised anyone can live there at all without contracting every disease known to man.

[SnaFuBAR]

Wow, that owns. Thanks for the link.

e/ oh, it came from Mexio City! What a surprise!

You realise just how bloody filthy that place is, right? I'm surprised anyone can live there at all without contracting every disease known to man.
some places in mexico like guadalajara are very sanitary.

[Xetsuei]

Wow, that owns. Thanks for the link.

e/ oh, it came from Mexio City! What a surprise!

You realise just how bloody filthy that place is, right? I'm surprised anyone can live there at all without contracting every disease known to man.

Every time someone in my family goes to Mexico they come back sick.

[n00b1n8R]

Don't get smarter, just get ontopic please. :/

[Timo]

Back on topic ok please~~

[Chocolate_Rain]

Maybe we wil mutate.

[rossmum]

some places in mexico like guadalajara are very sanitary.
Be that as it may, Mexico City itself is a literal cesspit. I guess at least that they should be alright in the cleaner areas.


You have enough experiencesucking balls to do it, have faith.:)
stop posting

[Chocolate_Rain]

Aparantly it's to late for it not to be pandemic or something.

[rossmum]

Stop worrying. When it's killing millions, then you can worry. Until then, it's just an outbreak of swine flu in one of the filthiest cities on the planet.

[Chainsy]

Actually, down here in Texas we just had our first case of a human giving swine flu to a pig.

[rossmum]

Revenge?

[Chainsy]

Naw, sexual interest.

[Mass]

Also, Madagascar already closed the port.
LOL

Diseases are natural and we'll do the only things we know how to do in response. Quarantine, vaccination, and rehabilitation is about all we can manage, and I'm afraid I consider 21 cases rather unsubstantial.

[Gwunty]

Wow, that owns. Thanks for the link.

e/ oh, it came from Mexico City! What a surprise!

You realize just how bloody filthy that place is, right? I'm surprised anyone can live there at all without contracting every disease known to man.
Congratulations on basing your outlandish posts on retarded stereotypes! You obviously know soooo much about Mexico and its sanitary conditions, when I doubt you have been there, ever in your life. Sure there are areas that are not very well kept, but there are places like that in every single other country on the entire planet.
:frogout2:

[TVTyrant]

Naw, sexual interest.
Lulz.

Yeah, I dont see any reason to worry. I doubt it can make it over 1500 miles of mountains to Oregon, and then it would probably drown in our spring rain storms.

[CN3089]

I seem to recall some huge hoo-hah a few years back about another 'killer flu' to match the one that came through just after the first war (or was it during?)... and it turned out that it was only marginally worse than a normal one.

SARS, and it fucked up Toronto's economy for a year afterward.



http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-argh.gif WHO/CDC http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-argh.gif

[ICEE]

Congratulations on basing your outlandish posts on retarded stereotypes! You obviously know soooo much about Mexico and its sanitary conditions, when I doubt you have been there, ever in your life. Sure there are areas that are not very well kept, but there are places like that in every single other country on the entire planet.
:frogout2:

Last time I was there. It was a shithole. Granted I wasn't in mexico city, but still. Shithole.

[blind]

Also, Madagascar already closed the port.
FUCK THAT GAMEee

[Con]

It's always Madagascar, ALWAYS

[blind]

Australia fucked me over a few times too.
So did NZ... damn those hobbits and their bulletproof immune systems!

[Maniac]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/04/26/9252491-cp.html
Confirmed cases in Nova Scotia, Canada.
:(

[SnaFuBAR]

New York, too.

[Maniac]

Yea just saw that on the news too. " Confirmed suspected cases"

[FRain]

Damn, this thing is spreading to random places like a pregnant-rich-bitch (joke, but still)

[SnaFuBAR]

Damn, this thing is spreading to random places like a pregnant-rich-bitch (joke, but still)
:lolugh:

[rossmum]

Congratulations on basing your outlandish posts on retarded stereotypes! You obviously know soooo much about Mexico and its sanitary conditions, when I doubt you have been there, ever in your life. Sure there are areas that are not very well kept, but there are places like that in every single other country on the entire planet.
:frogout2:
You idiot. Perhaps instead of having a fucking cry because I dared to say something bad about Mexico, you should look at the facts. Mexico City is one of the dirtiest major cities in the world, right up there with Beijing. If you're seriously going to insult me because I pointed out the truth, then perhaps it's you who needs to get the fuck out. I've seen just how dirty the place is, it's not pretty. I never said Mexico as a whole is filthy so you can fuck right off with your overdefensive nationalism.


SARS, and it fucked up Toronto's economy for a year afterward.



http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-argh.gif WHO/CDC http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-argh.gif
No, that wasn't what I was referring to; I seem to recall them saying something about a massive flu outbreak they were expecting to kill loads of people off (it was after the SARS outbreak died down). That was when they started to really push flu vaccinations over here, and I also seem to recall very few people actually falling ill and barely any dying.

[TVTyrant]

Yeah, the 05 Avian flu thing. That didn't disapear until Katrina, never to be heard from again. Bush's idiocy was way more important than the thousands of dying birds.

[rossmum]

No, I don't even think it was that. That's how much of a non-event it was, nobody else seems to remember it.

[DaneO'Roo]

Uh the "swine flu" is actually an extremely rare and naturally impossibly unlikely combination of human flu, bird flu and pig flu that sprang up in multiple regions at the same time.

Basically, Man Bird Pig flu. If it does start killing alot of people, then I'm going to laugh.

[n00b1n8R]

Oh, so it mutated into existence in multiple places around the world at almost the exact same time.

Amazing! :aaaaa:

[ExAm]

GUYS GUYS GUYS DON'T DO ANYTHING THAT WOULD STRENGTHEN YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM UNTIL THIS BLOWS OVER LET ME EXPLAIN:

Ok so, Swine Flu attacks the immune system and causes it to overreact and spaz out and attack your own body. If your immune system isn't very strong, it won't have much success in attacking you. PEOPLE IN HYGIENE OBSESSED NATIONS SHOULD BE OK.

As for Mexico, many Mexicans regularly consume foods that are unsafely made (street cheese made in dirty bathtubs, as well as the water supply in many areas) and don't get sick. That same stuff would make most of us puke. Their immune systems are very hardy. Hence the high number of deaths in Mexico, particularly Mexico City, where conditions are worse than other areas (and by extension, its citizens would have better immune systems). Swine Flu causes their supercharged immune systems to attack them, putting them in a very bad situation.

DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?

[Hate]

Where did this flu originate?

[Timo]

From: Deputy Vice Chancellor <enrol@canterbury.ac.nz> Sent: Mon 27/04/09 7:49 PM

To: ALL-STUDENTS@it.canterbury.ac.nz Priority: Normal

Subject: Swine Flu Type: Text


It has come to our attention that two University of Canterbury staff and
two of our students travelled from the United States at the weekend on a
plane carrying secondary school students infected with Influenza A.

Students will be aware that Swine Flu (H1N1) is a new strain of
Influenza A.

The two staff members and two students have been asked to remain in
isolation for three days having commenced a precautionary course of
Tamiflu. They will be guided by doctors as to when they can return to
the University.

During this period of uncertainty about Swine Flu, it is important to
keep abreast of current and correct information, especially regarding
impending travel. Appropriate local information can be found at
http://www.fluinfo.org.nz/

Another useful link is http://urgent.internationalsos.com/default.aspx.

Students should consult a medical professional if they have any health
concerns, particularly if they have visited North America or Mexico in
the past fortnight.

Students who are intending to travel to these areas in the near future
are advised to monitor developments.

--
Professor Ian Town
Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Damn, looks like NZ didn't close its ports afterall :smith:

[Bodzilla]

that aint working, dats not the way you do it.
ya get the Influenza on ur scene.

[n00b1n8R]

Worst.
Dire Straits reference.
Ever.

[ExAm]

If anyone mentions Mark Knopfler I will kill them. My dad plays his couple singing shit with that country bitch nonstop. The one thing all duet singers have in common: They all think they sound good. They don't. Ever. Duets suck. End of story.

[Bodzilla]

oi timo ya need to post in this thread for a sec.

[n00b1n8R]

The one thing all duet singers have in common: They all think they sound good. They don't. Ever. Duets suck. End of story.

http://www.isdproductions.com/thebeatles/images/beatles%20for%20sale%20f.bmp
^reactionface(s).jpg

[ExAm]

Duet, man. As in, a man and a woman singing sappy love songs. Four people is a quartet. Get your shit straight.

I enjoy a few of MK's not-a-duet-with-a-shitty-country-singer things, but that crap really soiled it for me.

[rossmum]

If anyone mentions Mark Knopfler I will kill them. My dad plays his couple singing shit with that country bitch nonstop. The one thing all duet singers have in common: They all think they sound good. They don't. Ever. Duets suck. End of story.
Dire Straits owns, regardless of that.

And Bodie, I would've thought Industrial Disease would've made a better (but still terrible) reference.

[El_Diablo]

The local news over here is making it seem like if we go outside we die.

Well i guess this kind of thing is bound to happen now and then.

[n00b1n8R]

Duet, man. As in, a man and a woman singing sappy love songs. Four people is a quartet. Get your shit straight.
You and I have different definitions of duet (got damn musical education, what would I know). vOv

ps. the beetles didn't usually sing all at the same time, hth

[tehgrunt]

stop calling it the swine flu.its a combination of human flu, bird flu and three different kinds of pig flu (north american, asian, europe) You should really call it the super flu. I find it very unlikely that all those types of flu could combine like that in one place. Then again this IS mexico were talking about so idk. its now 149 deaths last time a checked and i expect that number to grow. This could kill you if your not careful. hopefully it mutates into something less harmful. If it doesnt, then we have a problem.

[SnaFuBAR]

No, it's swine flu. It's not human flu, avian flu and 3 different pig flues. The strains of influenza the pig carries can be transmitted to humans and birds, yet it's still SIV.

It's not super flu. It's SIV.

[leorimolo]

Well it finally reached my small country. Honestly it makes me nervous its in a 50km radius of my county, and I know 2 different people at my school that just came from mexico. Fucking A

[ExAm]

It's only killed people in Mexico so far. Everyone else is recovering without incident.

[Rosco]

Heh, don't be worried guys.

Not that anyone should have been anyway.

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Oh, has it really been 2-3 years since the last OMG SUPERFLU?
I wonder if it's really just plain fearmongering or just periodically slow news weeks in the summer.

Also, Madagascar already closed the port.

Have you heard of the game Pandemic 2?

[Sel]

No shit.

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

The news just said 2 deaths in the us, I think.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll100/CaptainFailcon/SHUTDOWNEVERYTHING.jpg
lol madagascar

[Mass]

Duet, man. As in, a man and a woman singing sappy love songs. Four people is a quartet. Get your shit straight.

I enjoy a few of MK's not-a-duet-with-a-shitty-country-singer things, but that crap really soiled it for me.
lul.
also,
http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/nerveinsider/2008/05/01-07/FlightHair1.jpg

Also, to actually be on topic:
This swine flu is a perfect example of what is wrong with the media, they have us all worried about a flu that has killed no one with hygienic living conditions or access to proper health care, and yet the fact that there are places all around the world without those things (you know, the root of the problem) barely seems to get a mention edgewise.

[DaneO'Roo]

Ok heres the deal:

It's not flu season,

Didn't come out of the east.

Flu allways is tracked and follows a path.

This popped up out of "nowhere"

It has race and gene specific handles on it that scream manufactured to any bio scientist.

It has been marvelled by doctors as a "skeleton key" virus, that can infect almost any creature, because of it's pig and bird and human factors.

A 6 scale earthquake occured in mexico city right on the eve of this epidemic. (google: dod breifing secretary of defence s cohen earthquake weapons - it comes right up at you. It's been declassified but no details.)

The news has SEVERELY white washed the real figures, people on the ground in mexico are saying 2000 deaths.


The real give away, is that it's being so massively hyped by everyone. Flus kill thousands every year, thats normal.

No one knows for sure, wether this is just the forefront, the trigger for the next virus or wether this is just a scare to accept more degradation of freedoms, or wether this is actually going to mass kill millions like the spanish flu of the early 1900's.

Basically, this may be the cause for everyone to run in fear to the "solution".



Baxter has been chosen for the vaccine manufacturing, the same people who were found in britain to be giving the homeless bird flu.

Dr Eric Pianta - Univeristy of Texas, google him, got a standing ovashion at Saint Edwards in Austin, for saying kill 90 percent of the population. This isn't an idle thought. The un, the kissengers, they want an 80 percent reduction in the population by 2012.

This thing is clearly manufactured, the real question though, is this a real killer or is this just a scare tactic to sign away more laws.
Basically, get a nano mask.



The scary part is, the fema camps and the mass graves now make alot of sense. Camps for those who don't take the shots, graves for those who do.

[Huero]

and then the topic was ruined by an unnecessary debate started by a conspiracy theorist

[Disaster]

Stop watching fox news

:mysterysolved:


:cop:

[SnaFuBAR]

yeah i'm sure they bioengineered this skeleton key virus in 1918.

god damn, dane.

[ICEE]

Fox news just likes to add a little more drama to everything.

So do alts of banned members.

If your not robert graham, then I apologize, but if you are here is a tip:

People don't register here to go to the offtopic section. They register here to ask for help with their mods or talk about other mods. Then they get bored and eventually drift here. Generally, if your first post is in off topic, your an alt.

[Timo]

Ok heres the deal:

It's not flu season,

Didn't come out of the east.

Flu allways is tracked and follows a path.

This popped up out of "nowhere"

It has race and gene specific handles on it that scream manufactured to any bio scientist.

I guess the manufacturer's didn't like New Zealanders, already several people with it here :ohdear:



A 6 scale earthquake occured in mexico city right on the eve of this epidemic. (google: dod breifing secretary of defence s cohen earthquake weapons - it comes right up at you. It's been declassified but no details.)

How can you tell the difference from a coincidental earthquake, and one created by earthquake weapons of mass destruction?



The news has SEVERELY white washed the real figures, people on the ground in mexico are saying 2000 deaths.
If you're from Australia, and the news is reporting ~150 deaths, how can you know there's 2000 dead? Do you have informants in Mexico, or are you just reading a post at another forum?

[SnaFuBAR]

Oh yeah I forgot, the NWO would totally engineer a weapon that is a pathogen that has had a historically difficult time transmitting person to person and has an extremely low fatality rate in areas where people are used to halfway decent hygene. :allears:

grate plan

[TVTyrant]

Wheres the wall of Dane when you need it? :lmao:

[rossmum]

mindless bullshit with no grounding in fact
mate i'm sorry to do this but you're the idiot to end all idiots if you believe a single word you just said

[Huero]

it's all a distraction
they're building a new weapon
the return of the zeppelin

[Atty]

i just ate some bacon and then sneezed


fucking swine flu :argh:

[ExAm]

Wheres the wall of Dane when you need it? :lmao:
You mean the bar of Dane?
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[Bodzilla]

WE MUST SURPRESS THE MEXICAN THREAT!!!!

i was wondering if you where watching that info wars shit last night, could hear it.
i cried myself to sleep knowing exactly what it would make you do.

[rossmum]

he lives with you, block it at your router or something, lol

[Huero]

...
"he lives with you"
THIS IS NEWS

[SnaFuBAR]

he lives with you, block it at your router or something, lol
he would blame the gov't.

[blind]

[01:32] dano555666: weaj
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[01:32] dano555666: weak*

[CN3089]

The news has SEVERELY white washed the real figures, people on the ground in mexico are saying 2000 deaths.


The real give away, is that it's being so massively hyped by everyone.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/gf-welp.gif

[Huero]

it's obviously the first step in obama's holocaust
then, he'll ressurect the soviets and they'll build my aforementioned zeppelins

you'll see
it'll happen

[SnaFuBAR]

uuuhhhh

strato blimp (http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&ei=Ufj3ScfXBZ2ktAPj05GNDw&sa=X&oi=spell_reissue&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=strato+blimp&spell=1)

kk?

[ExAm]

Waitasec, since when does Dane actually live with Bodie?

[SnaFuBAR]

The news has SEVERELY white washed the real figures, people on the ground in mexico are saying 2000 deaths.
Uh, no they're not. My ex fiance, a med student there, hasn't mentioned anything like that.

And seriously, learn to fear monger. You can't have the media hype something and white-wash it at the same time. Way to defeat your own argument.

[n00b1n8R]

Waitasec, since when does Dane actually live with Bodie?
A few months I believe, but I only found out last week (nobody tells me nothing :saddowns:)

best post in months
:lmao:

[SnaFuBAR]

here's a theory... Alex Jones is an illuminati free mason nwo table leader and is the one pushing people to overthrow their governments as he and his illuminatifreemasonnwo friends swoop in to grab power and promise them protection.

put that in your goddam pipe and smoke that shit.

[n00b1n8R]

Or, the man™ wants you to think that Alex Jones is an illuminati free mason nwo table leader and is the one pushing people to overthrow their governments as he and his illuminatifreemasonnwo friends swoop in to grab power and promise them protection, to take the heat™ off himself.

heh

[Bodzilla]

n00bs got it.

obviously.

[SnaFuBAR]

It has race and gene specific handles on it that scream manufactured to any bio scientist.

It has been marvelled by doctors as a "skeleton key" virus, that can infect almost any creature, because of it's pig and bird and human factors.
woah woah woah, hold on a second..

it has race/gene specific handles (which would cause infection in only one group of character traits in a race of the human race only), but it is a skeleton key that can infect any creature?

Dane seriously, stop watching infowars, alex jones and like of all those xenophobic anti-social fools.

Learn something about the way a virus replicates as well.

[Reaper Man]

SARS, and it fucked up Toronto's economy for a year afterward.



http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-argh.gif WHO/CDC http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-argh.gif
Fuckin' SARS, was forced to wear a mask. Though it did cause school to be closed down for several weeks because somebody had caught regular flu, lulz. And then schools were officially closed for over a month and a half.

[TVTyrant]

O plz, yer all nubs.

Heres the thing, its a crazy conspiracy by Bob Barker to kill off all of the extra animals in the pet population. His whole plan all along was to create a super virus that could infect dogs, pigs, cats, birds, and people, so his army of chocobos would finally have room to breed. This way he could achieve his ultimate goal: A CHOCOBO THAT COULD GO OVER LAND, RIVERS AND OCEANS, seen here (http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/f/fe/Choc-gold.JPG)

By doing this he could find the unmarked island in the northeast corner of our flat planet and find the ultimate summon: KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND

Using this ultimate weapon, he would have the ability to destroy entire armies of weird animals in a single cast, and finally enable him to defeat his arch enemy, THE EMERALD WEAPON, seen here (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a337/Tempestwulf/Children%20of%20Crisis%20Pictures/EmeraldWeapon.jpg)

See, its all predicted in the bible. Just look at the gospel of Walt Whitman. LOOK AT IT!!! ITS ALL THERE!!! Its also part of the movie The Obama Deception, and its in Zeitgeist.

[Sel]

Stop watching fox news

:mysterysolved:


:cop:

ahaahhahahaah

[Donut]

well i still dont know how serious this ACTUALLY is, but my town here in rhode island has shut down the bus system for the next two days. they're investigating what might be a case at one of the public schools here

[Bodzilla]

l8pSPfZFysg

[thehoodedsmack]

_ik3j9m5fq8

Bod, I wish guys like yours got more attention than guys like mine... :saddowns:

Frickin' doom-sayers...

[Sel]

ahahhaha

stop them mexicans

[Maniac]

Someone give the guy in Bodzilla's post another reefer, he nearly remembered what he was gonna say there for a second.

[FreedomFighter7]

Ok, I don't know what you guys are talking about half the time in this thread, and a couple others. This alex guy, whatever.

Dane you are so full of it.

I read a book in my biology class once, and I remember one scary paragraph from it. The book was about dangerous viruses and how they can spread around the globe in a matter of days. I don't remember the name of the book.

"Every possible place that a new virus or disease could pop up is within 24 hours travel to any international air port, where it could travel around the globe to any city, any place on earth within hours."

It went something like that. I remember it telling a story, a scary one, about a man on africa, who contracted a very dangerous and contagious disease and managed to make it all the way to Washington DC. Why this was never in the news, I do not know. That paragraph was in the first few chapters of the book. I'll see if I can find it for y'all.

[Jean-Luc]

Ok, I don't know what you guys are talking about half the time in this thread, and a couple others. This alex guy, whatever.

Dane you are so full of it.

I read a book in my biology class once, and I remember one scary paragraph from it. The book was about dangerous viruses and how they can spread around the globe in a matter of days. I don't remember the name of the book.

"Every possible place that a new virus or disease could pop up is within 24 hours travel to any international air port, where it could travel around the globe to any city, any place on earth within hours."

It went something like that. I remember it telling a story, a scary one, about a man on africa, who contracted a very dangerous and contagious disease and managed to make it all the way to Washington DC. Why this was never in the news, I do not know. That paragraph was in the first few chapters of the book. I'll see if I can find it for y'all.

Cool story bro :ehhh:

In all seriousness though, unless there is any factual backing behind that (and come to think of it, even if there is), then it is fear-mongering, just without the conspiratorial edge that Dane has.

[L0d3x]

I eat swines for breakfast.
Yeah, I like a good strong breakfast.

[ThePlague]

My friend got a phone call today that they were closing elementary schools near her hometown (Rockford, Illinois) and she started getting scared. I heard there were some cases here too (Arizona). Not good man...

[Newbkilla]

Had a death in Ohio where I live, scary eh?

[Spartan094]

Indiana has 1 confirmed swine flu and my grandpa just got A flu, i hope its not the swine flu or else that counts 2 for indiana, i think there is some unconfirmed in michigan aswell, do you think in the US that New York is getting hit real hard?

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

My friend might have it, and some people in lowell might have it, and since I go to a vocational school w/ multiple towns going there, I'm somewhat paranoid tbh.

[DrunkenSamus]

The President of Egypt ordered all the pigs in the WHOLE country to be slaughtered.

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Seriously?
Damn.
And, did madagascar seriously close the port?
And will there be a pandemic 3?

[DrunkenSamus]

Seriously?
Damn.
And, did madagascar seriously close the port?
And will there be a pandemic 3?
Yessirrrr, Egypt just wants to save money instead of compensating for a few human deaths by slaughtering the pig population. Sad, eh? (No, I'm not Canadian)

[rossmum]

look at you humanity

look how stupid and gullible you are

it's fucking treatable with flu medications and people are shitting themselves like it's the bubonic plague, for fuck's sake

[nooBBooze]

I would say we should disregard at last 30% of the still quite measly estimates. /b/ seems to be trolling the media with fake reports of infections and suspected infections.

[n00b1n8R]

look at you humanity

look how stupid and gullible you are

it's fucking treatable with flu medications and people are shitting themselves like it's the bubonic plague, for fuck's sake
looking at you humanity :allears:

[blind]

http://doihaveswineflu.org/

[Con]

Someone here on the island has it. Time to loot!!

[Jean-Luc]

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090428/MED.Swine.Flu/

Made me :rage: pretty hard. I severely dislike the line "It really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic."

Jesus God people...why are we so fucking pathetic about this kind of stuff?

[p0lar_bear]

Oh noes the flu.

If you're a normal person you'll puke your guts out for like three days and be bedridden for about a week.

REPENT!!!

[Reaper Man]

I've had a cold and been sneezing for the past 3 days. GOODBYE MODACITY :phonegonk:

A possible pandemic is bad enough, the fear mongering that the media is doing, is not helping at all.

[paladin]

Not true... they think that I had it. It shut down my respiratory system and I couldn't breath. I spent 6 days in the hospital, 4 in ICU, 2 with a breathing tube....

They didn't test me at first for it, and they couldn't tell me what was wrong. I got a call 3 days ago from my doctor asking me to come in for a blood test. Ill know tomorrow.

If it comes back positive, I can tell first hand this is not something to mess with..

[ExAm]

Not true... they think that I had it. It shut down my respiratory system and I couldn't breath. I spent 6 days in the hospital, 4 in ICU, 2 with a breathing tube....

They didn't test me at first for it, and they couldn't tell me what was wrong. I got a call 3 days ago from my doctor asking me to come in for a blood test. Ill know tomorrow.

If it comes back positive, I can tell first hand this is not something to mess with..
Then you probably weren't in the best of health to begin with :|
Most likely you had a severe allergic reaction to something. flu != respiratory system failure.

[paladin]

No i had a cold the previous two days, but other than that, im probably healthier than the average person....

[Sel]

OH NO ITS IN OTTAWA SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHTIS TSHITHSITHSITHSIHTSI HT ISHTSIHTI

[Bodzilla]

~suppress the Mexican threat~

[Phobias]

I'm currently shopping around for tickets to mexico.

Theres a few people I'd love to send on a months holiday there.

[Maniac]

Then you probably weren't in the best of health to begin with :|
Most likely you had a severe allergic reaction to something. flu != respiratory system failure.

Uhh no, when the next killer flu comes (whether this is it or not) it will kill healthy young adults too. Thats whats scary about it.
And to say that the media is scaremongering is shortsighted.
They are simply reporting whats happened. Obviously they will exaggerate when possible, its their nature.

[Choking Victim]

Uhh no, when the next killer flu comes (whether this is it or not) it will kill healthy young adults too. Thats whats scary about it.
And to say that the media is scaremongering is shortsighted.
They are simply reporting whats happened. Obviously they will exaggerate when possible, its their nature.
Considering the global death toll for the regular flu exceeds a few hundred thousand people a year, and their making a massive deal out of a little more than 200 deaths in an area with poor health care? It's fear mongering.

[Maniac]

Time will prove one of us wrong.

[Choking Victim]

Time will prove one of us wrong.
The swine flu has killed 150 over the course of 1 month. 150 x 12 months = 1,800 deaths. That's well under the annual normal influenza death toll, so it seems the odds are on my side.

[rossmum]

The first death in the US was a toddler, or so I've heard.

It kills the very young, the very old, and the immuno-compromised. Surprise surprise, it's about as lethal as a normal flu. It's simply infecting loads of people at the same time, as opposed to the normal flu which is more or less always infecting someone but seldom in the soon-pandemic way this is. The fact it's being described as such gives it a lot more weight than it's worth - you could describe a common cold as a pandemic and it'd sound scary to the average citizen, even though it's relatively harmless.

Really, take care of yourself and you've very little to worry about.

[Choking Victim]

The first death in the US was a toddler, or so I've heard.
Visiting from Mexico.

[rossmum]

Visiting from Mexico.
http://sa.tweek.us/emots/images/emot-psyduck.gif

[TVTyrant]

The first death in the US was a toddler, or so I've heard.

It kills the very young, the very old, and the immuno-compromised. Surprise surprise, it's about as lethal as a normal flu. It's simply infecting loads of people at the same time, as opposed to the normal flu which is more or less always infecting someone but seldom in the soon-pandemic way this is. The fact it's being described as such gives it a lot more weight than it's worth - you could describe a common cold as a pandemic and it'd sound scary to the average citizen, even though it's relatively harmless.

Really, take care of yourself and you've very little to worry about.
True indeed. But what if we're all sick and bedridden at the same time!?!?! It could be a huge disaster, threatening hundreds of lives. What if the doctors are compromised to the flu?

WHAT IF BOB BARKER BREEDS A GOLD CHOCOBO!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[rossmum]

THEN I GUESS WE'RE ALL FUCKED! QUICKLY, TO THE SURPLUS STORE! ORDER GASMASKS! THOUSANDS OF THEM!

:downs:

[Jean-Luc]

o gawd gaiz, it like killed 0.000002511% of the world's population. we all gonna die!

:nsmug:

[AAA]

0.00000002511% of the world's population???????????

One of us is probably a soon to be victim already!!! D:

[CN3089]

Oh noes the flu.

If you're a normal person you'll puke your guts out for like three days and be bedridden for about a week.

REPENT!!!

not when it causes cytokine storms http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-eng101.gif


I don't think it's done that, though, unless you believe some of the less credible reports out of Mexico http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-tinfoil.gif


also what up immuno-compromised buddies http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/gf-ashobon.gifhttp://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-respek.gifhttp://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/gf-ashobon.gif

[Segnaro]

I hope a lot of people die from this , less people to be in the way I'm walking.

Also this is makes it easier to get jobs, even though most were of Mexican origin. That's more Sheetrocking and Landscaping for us!!!

[Jean-Luc]

I hope a lot of people die from this , less people to be in the way I'm walking.

Also this is makes it easier to get jobs, even though most were of Mexican origin. That's more Sheetrocking and Landscaping for us!!!

Who are you?

[Segnaro]

I'm that guy with three posts.

Really all you need to know is I'm really awesome.

[nooBBooze]

It doesn't matter if we disregard this like the ridicoulous media hype it is or if we are genuinly worrried, the fact that we are discussing it proves that they have already won.

Jesus, even backwoods radio shows in my town are picking up on this. I swear, mindless copypasta from foreign private news agencies is the dogma of the 21st century.

According to this guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays) when it comes to filtering information to mass compatible chunks it's either a distorting competition or a corrupting dictate but either one option smells like exploitation. Makes me wonder if man can be truly free given his inherent dependence on authority. Meh, maybe I should get back into philosophy.

[Disaster]

The swine flu has killed 150 over the course of 1 month. 150 x 12 months = 1,800 deaths. That's well under the annual normal influenza death toll, so it seems the odds are on my side.
You forget to take into account that as more people get infected, the number of infected will rise faster as there are more people who can possibly infect others. It exponentially grows.

There is not always going to be some 1600 people infected with it meaning your logic is flawed.

Even still, its not that big of a deal atm. Just your typical flu symptoms. The problem with any virus is that they mutate incredibly fast because of rapid reproduction.

[blind]

Who are you?
Who are you? :confused2:

[Sel]

Who are you? :confused2:

Who are you? :confused2::downs:

[Disaster]

Who are you? :confused2::downs:
Who are you?

[ExAm]

C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER

So yeah, 'sup regular flu with some weird tendencies.

[Rook]

@OP, this will mutate causing more deaths then the black death.

Or cause colds. :confused2:

[Sel]

oh no not colds!! :downs:

[ExAm]

SPEAKING OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG (http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-swine-reality30-2009apr30,0,3606923.story)

tl;dr:
Swine flu no biggie, say scientists.

[Rook]

I only posted to break the who are you chain but you beat me by seconds. :golfclap:

As for everyone exploding the news ran out of stuff to talk about as usual.

[Disaster]

SPEAKING OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG (http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-swine-reality30-2009apr30,0,3606923.story)

tl;dr:
Swine flu no biggie, say scientists.
Yeah but the problem with all viruses is how fast they mutate.

http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/04/whats-different-and-dangerous-about-swine-flu/

The swine flu is a really interesting virus and is why it is getting so much attention lately. Its not really any more fatal than your typical Flu other than its tendency to spread quicker.

[Sel]

It is dangerous, but it's not like it's going to wipe out a large amount of the population. Though if I'm lucky since it's in Ottawa now we'll have some closed schools :p

[Mass]

girl at my school has it

who the fuck cares

it's a flu

[blind]

Who are you? :confused2::downs:
Shut up.

[Boba]

My friend might have it, and some people in lowell might have it, and since I go to a vocational school w/ multiple towns going there, I'm somewhat paranoid tbh.
Where do you live?

[ExAm]

http://content.imagesocket.com/images/thefacts641.png
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/77627/original.jpg

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

I live in mass
My friend doesn't have it, but im thinking someone i know might have it, I do go to a multi town school so D:
Damn lowell!

[blind]

EVERYONE READ THIS:

this swine flu is definatly dangerous and contagious if not treated properly it can lead to severe problems, its a fact. but also think about this, the only reason its soo hyped by the news is because they KNOW EXACTLY WHEN IT STARTED and WHERE. if you tracked the normal flu during the flu season and how fast it spreads and how many people become sick and die from it. the number would be amazingly high, but you just cant track that.

so it might be as bad as its hyped up to be, might not.

black: deaths
red: confirmed cases
yellow: suspected cases

notice how canada is all red, which means confirmed cases....well theres 2 in BC(the west) and like 2 in Ontario(east) yet the whole country is red, so this map is another example of HYPE. USA is black, but only 1 girl has died and she was 2 years old.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/H1N1_map.svg/800px-H1N1_map.svg.png

If you replaced this map with a model of how many countries people have the normal flu and how many have died from the normal flu this year....alot more would be red and black.

[ExAm]

the regular flu is definatly dangerous and contagious if not treated properly it can lead to severe problems
Fixed.

[Rook]

both flus is definatly dangerous and contagious if not treated properly it can lead to severe problems
Fixed fixed.

[Choking Victim]

both flus are definatly dangerous and contagious if not treated properly it can lead to severe problems
Fixed fixed fixed.

[ICEE]

Both flues are definitely dangerous and contagious if not treated properly it can lead to severe problems.

Fixed fixed fixed fixed.

[Advancebo]

I hope going to Texas this weekend is okay...
Also I heard of this TamaFlu thing, that if you take it within 24 hours of getting any flu, the flu goes away.

[Roostervier]

you'll be fine

[DarkHalo003]

I don't honestly see what the big deal is. It's not really that different than other flus in the U.S. The only death I've heard of was of a baby. If a baby has the flu, it's going to die.

[rossmum]

Our local pharmacies are sold out of facemasks and flu medications. Hell yes, I live in a community of idiots.

*goes outside, takes a deep breath*

~fuck you swine flu~

[Ifafudafi]

My school is in a panic.

"To ensure the safety an health of our students, all extracurricular activities have been cancelled until further notice for the remainder of the year. We don't want anyone to panic or overreact; we're just taking the necessary steps to keep our students healthy."

In other words, they don't want to overreact, so they're just shutting down everything that goes on outside of the regular school schedule. Right.

[ThePlague]

My school is in a panic.

"To ensure the safety an health of our students, all extracurricular activities have been cancelled until further notice for the remainder of the year. We don't want anyone to panic or overreact; we're just taking the necessary steps to keep our students healthy."

In other words, they don't want to overreact, so they're just shutting down everything that goes on outside of the regular school schedule. Right.
Exact same shit is happening at my school, it made me laugh. I had a paper that I could've typed out here, but I threw it away. :|

[Ifafudafi]

Of course, I've taken the liberty of explaining to my students that most of this is merely a drastic overreaction; you wouldn't believe what some of them come into my classroom saying.

"Mr. $Q^*%#$^%#@! Did you know there's this flu going around and it's everywhere and it's going to kill us so they're shutting the school down?"

"Yeah, that was that pig thing! I ate some bacon last night... I hope I didn't get it."

Etc, etc.

[Roostervier]

I wish that would happen here, haha. Our school sent out some notice about washing hands, that was it.

[UrKungFuSux]

*sigh*
School about 5 miles away from mine just closed down for 1 case of the flu.

[TeeKup]

Oh for christs sake it's just a new mutation of Influenza. But it's still just influenza. I have no idea why people are panicking. Just use some common sense and it shouldn't be an issue.

[Jean-Luc]

Oh for christs sake it's just a new mutation of Influenza. But it's still just influenza. I have no idea why people are panicking. Just use some common sense and it shouldn't be an issue.

You're living in today's World, yes?

Really though, with America/the World today, we panic over the slightest thing, if for no other reason than media sensationalism.

[TeeKup]

Why do you think I hate the media. :downs:

I never watch the news/read magazines/or watch those stupid shows like Entertainment Tonight and the Insider.

All of it is crap.

[Jean-Luc]

Good man

o/

[TVTyrant]

You're living in today's World, yes?

Really though, with America/the World today, we panic over the slightest thing, if for no other reason than media sensationalism.
Yeah, but its way more fun this way :D

[UrKungFuSux]

If our school gets shut down for quarantine, then we have to make up the days during summer. I prefer to spend my summer hours playing tennis. I doubt it's that serious, because the only time it gets serious is when pneumonia is developed or something. Not too worried about the disease itself, except for my parents. They have very bad health.

[CN3089]

guys guys it's just like regular flu durr

there's a difference between endemic and epidemic diseases you dumbs!@!



still though yeah it's a bit overblown.

[Timo]

EVERYONE READ THIS:

notice how canada is all red, which means confirmed cases....well theres 2 in BC(the west) and like 2 in Ontario(east) yet the whole country is red, so this map is another example of HYPE. USA is black, but only 1 girl has died and she was 2 years old.


heh, so there's been more cases of this in NZ (~7) than in Canada.

[DirtyDave]

This swine flu is getting ridiculous; it's to repetitive and any flu now is the swine flu.

[ExAm]

EVERYONE READ THIS:

this swine flu is definatly dangerous and contagious if not treated properly it can lead to severe problems, its a fact. but also think about this, the only reason its soo hyped by the news is because they KNOW EXACTLY WHEN IT STARTED and WHERE. if you tracked the normal flu during the flu season and how fast it spreads and how many people become sick and die from it. the number would be amazingly high, but you just cant track that.

so it might be as bad as its hyped up to be, might not.

black: deaths
red: confirmed cases
yellow: suspected cases

notice how canada is all red, which means confirmed cases....well theres 2 in BC(the west) and like 2 in Ontario(east) yet the whole country is red, so this map is another example of HYPE. USA is black, but only 1 girl has died and she was 2 years old.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/H1N1_map.svg/800px-H1N1_map.svg.png

If you replaced this map with a model of how many countries people have the normal flu and how many have died from the normal flu this year....alot more would be red and black.Sir I have helpfully edited your map to reflect the statistics of the regular flu in order to show some contrast.


black: deaths
red: confirmed cases
yellow: suspected cases
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/flu.png

[Bodzilla]

Our local pharmacies are sold out of facemasks and flu medications. Hell yes, I live in a community of idiots.

*goes outside, takes a deep breath*

~fuck you swine flu~
you think thats bad in my area there are no suspected case's yet id doesnt mean they're sold out of all those things.

they had an article in the newspaper about how a women tried to get in early for protection but it was all gone, so she brought DUST masks to protect her kids.
yes thats right. dust masks.

i facepalmed and contemplated suicide yet again.

[ExAm]

You think that's bad, you should see the guys who do "Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This?". What do they wear when they go into the room after nuking a toy pikachu (pretty much all plastic fibers)? Dust masks. Fucking dust masks.

[Hunter]

Aparently the suspected swine flu in the UK was just a bad cold. Aparently. Media are just making this seem bad.. well, its bad, but they are making it seem worse than it is...



Media: Oh GOD! HUMAN RACE IS GOING TO BE WIPED OUT BECAUSE OF SWINE FLU!!!1!1!!11!!!! EVERYONE RUN AROUND AND DONT BREATH OR TOUCH ANYONE!!!1!!! AHRRRR!1!!!

[blind]

Sir I have helpfully edited your map to reflect the statistics of the regular flu in order to show some contrast.


http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/flu.png
thanks :hay:

[Sel]

hahhahaah

[Reaper Man]

So, swine flu is now in Hong Kong. Some Mexican brought it over here. If it's such a serious threat, as the media seems to portray it, why are they letting people travel out of Mexico still?

[Jean-Luc]

Because it's not a serious threat :eng101:

[TeeKup]

Good man

o/

\o

[Segnaro]

Despite the forum police, i still stand firm on hope for dead people.

Though i was one of the rare people who was for the war and against the troops. Stand up for what you believe in bitch's.

R.I.P. Bill Hicks

[SnaFuBAR]

Stop posting.

[paladin]

Despite the forum police, i still stand firm on hope for dead people.

Though i was one of the rare people who was for the war and against the troops. Stand up for what you believe in bitch's.

R.I.P. Bill Hicks

seriously :gtfo:

[rossmum]

oranges you seem to have caused some upset here,

[Rosco]

Despite the forum police, i still stand firm on hope for dead people.

Though i was one of the rare people who was for the war and against the troops. Stand up for what you believe in bitch's.

R.I.P. Bill Hicks

Haha orange, didn't take you long to be hated, eh mate? =)
get on xfire some time lol