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- joejitsu, on 07/17/2009, -2/+52Its the hogacaust!
- amabaie, on 07/16/2009, -1/+36In the worse case scenario, all life on earth perishes.
- weirdralph, on 07/16/2009, -2/+37The sky started falling on the day swine flu.
- DeadSkinMask, on 07/17/2009, -0/+33Its the Aporkalypse!
- URnotheonly1, on 07/17/2009, -3/+29We'll that's lovely... Tea anyone?
- TheBigBad, on 07/17/2009, -4/+19Let it go fear mongering media. You've cried wolf so many times that no one really pays attention anymore. It's the flu, no better or worse than any other strain of flu that makes it's way around every year. Screw swine flu, I fart in it's general direction.
- subliminali, on 07/17/2009, -3/+17the US has way more than double the UK population. Were you thinking Pound to Dollar exchange rate?
- atgmac, on 07/17/2009, -0/+14It's the... oh ***** it
Bacon - mapdesigns, on 07/17/2009, -0/+14Total *****. The normal flu kills 30,000-40,000 people a year in the U.S., and 300,000-500,000 worldwide. And you mean to tell me that if 63,000 people die from H1N1 it's going to be a "Pig Flu Apocalypse'!? Wake up people and actually research things for yourself.
- fragsta, on 07/17/2009, -0/+13I'm pretty sure he was, and I'm pretty sure it was a joke. Good one, ratava!
- atgmac, on 07/17/2009, -0/+12Syntax error on line 1
- hamishmacdonald, on 07/17/2009, -1/+13Hysterial much? Quite a leap from 29 people (suffering from previous conditions that weakened them, one would suspect) to 63,000.
From the article, they were doing emergency planning using an imaginary worst-case scenario, so of course a newspaper catches wind of this and reports it like a prediction.
*sigh* - Syraxis, on 07/17/2009, -0/+11Take car,
Go to Mum's,
Kill Phil,
Grab Liz,
Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint and wait for all of this to blow over. - ratava911, on 07/17/2009, -6/+17hmmm 63k in UK.. That's about 120k In US!!.. yikes
- TheBifman, on 07/17/2009, -0/+10You must not be very witty
- veggiemoore, on 07/17/2009, -0/+9Farmageddon?
- Inceptious, on 07/17/2009, -5/+13hmmm.. That shows you have no clue about country populations.. yikes
- everlast88, on 07/17/2009, -2/+10jesus, i was hoping we had heard the end of this hype
- BorsKaegel, on 07/16/2009, -3/+11Quick, Britons! Go to your nearest supermarket and buy cleaning products and over-the-counter vitamins and medicines!
- PiratesNStuff, on 07/17/2009, -3/+11Shaun of the Dead?
- mapdesigns, on 07/17/2009, -1/+8INFOWARS.COM - Take the time to actually use your brain and you might learn something. It's not about a conspiracy, it's about a New World Order. Do you research on that and then come back to me and we can have a discussion. Wake up you fool.
- inactive, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7Whoooosh.
- singletask, on 07/16/2009, -3/+10hogwash!!!
- compulsive1, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7There is something behind this hype. It's normal flu- my 14 y.o. nephew had it- no one else in the family got it, and he recovered in a week.
All this hysteria in the media tells me that someone wants us to be really scared and go along with some regulations yet to be proposed. - keysmachine, on 07/17/2009, -3/+10when the H1N1 death toll is higher than the Average Seasonal Flu death toll of 350,000 yearly. That's when i start boarding up the house and stocking water bottles.
- goatomatic, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5I know where this swine flu is headed...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH69fKaWUyk - austinwpetersen, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5Our governments are trying to scare us so we don't pay attention to how broke they are.
- bradleyland, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5Output truncated at char 44
- inactive, on 07/17/2009, -6/+11OVER 9000!
- ptoomey, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5I have yet to see any reasoning behind why this disease would suddenly gain such a high mortality rate. If the number of cases to date divided by the number of deaths gives us a mortality rate, multiplying that by the population of the UK doesn't seem to be anywhere near 63,000. Why will it suddenly become so much more deadly?
- anonymousmedic, on 07/17/2009, -1/+5[Citation Needed]
- MrFisty, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4WHO upgraded the severity warning to Level 6 Hamdemic.
- richmomz, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4Not to get in the way of rampant fear mongering or anything but I think some people forget that the regular old seasonal flu kills tens of thousands of people every year also.
- Beatmiser, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4Y'all got trolled.
- Yage2006, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4Read up on how many people just the normal seasonal flu's kill. Its much much higher.
Over sensationalized much ? - rhuxley, on 07/17/2009, -1/+5That many will die from tobacco related illnesses, so lets not panic
- 07dcolem, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4About that time 'eh chaps?
Right-o - TheSeeker11, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Parmageddon is upon us.
- MattBD, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3In today's Daily Mail there's a bit saying about how desperate parents are running to pharmacies to get Tamiflu, and there's women in dungarees with arms full of drugs, rushing to get them home to their snot-nosed little brats before the swine flu gets them and they're afflicted by a very dangerous slight sniffle.
Here's a link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200012/Sw ...
I really wouldn't normally link to a Daily Mail article, but it's entertaining how hysterical this article gets. - deff, on 07/17/2009, -2/+5Like I've said in the past on here, Colloidal silver is *****.
It doesn't cure, kill or heal anything. It's another homeopathic mind ***** boasted by uneducated mouth-breathers.
That is all.
Also, 10 years of excessive colloidal silver use: http://img169.imageshack.us/i/112blueskinn.jpg/ - fuzzybeard, on 07/18/2009, -0/+3It's the phenomenon of a cytokine storm that worries me the most. In a nutshell, a cytokine storm is like when you hear feedback on a speaker. The sound goes into a microphone by way of an amplifier which is too close to a speaker. The now amplified sound is picked up by the microphone, re-amplified, and sent back out to the speaker in an out of control positive (louder, in this case) loop.
OK, now imagine this happening in your body. Cytokines are the microphone; T-cells, leukocytes (white blood cells), macrophages, and other immune responses are the speakers.
Cytokines signal for immune responders, responders show up, do their thing, and as the penultimate action before death, release MORE cytokines, and the cycle starts over; but this time it's bigger.
Cell detritus starts to accumulate at a rate much faster than the body can remove it. This is where you get fluid buildup, the aches and pains, and organ failure from.
The punchline? Having a stronger immune system is, in this case at least, a liability. Let's go back to my microphone/amplifier/speaker analogy. Which makes more noise; a cheap pair of unpowered speakers that you plug you iPod into, or a Fender Pro S10 bass cabinet? - DivineMonkey, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Here's hoping i'm one of em.
- nirvanix, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Oh you programmers!
- digitalpencil, on 07/17/2009, -1/+412% of the work-force absent at peak contraction is a much sobering figure.. i know of a few people who have already confirmed swine flu, mostly kids and hopefully they'll all be ok.
- Legoman513, on 07/17/2009, -1/+4It's just that this is getting really old. As you said, the media totally blew it out of proportion. While it should be taken seriously, the media is being ridiculous and it needs to stop. There are a lot of things out there that could kill a hell of a lot more than 63,000 people in a "worst-case scenario," but all we hear is Swine Flu Swine Flu Swine Flu.
- LokitheComplex, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3The wolf got the sheep in the end.
- raskali, on 07/17/2009, -1/+4Ha ha ha...I see what you did there.
- subliminali, on 07/17/2009, -5/+8can we stop with the sensationalizing titles? this is digg, not the new york post.
- lukedamonkey, on 07/17/2009, -5/+8United Kingdom — Population: 60,943,912 (July 2008 est.)
304,059,724 - Jul 2008
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division - fety, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Bring it on!
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