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- shutaro, on 04/28/2009, -1/+41I'd better get out there and start looting while I'm still healthy enough to do so!
- sjbdallas, on 04/28/2009, -0/+40They rushed the vaccine back in '76 and it ended up sickening more people that the original flu did.
- KrisStrong, on 04/29/2009, -2/+34The cure?
Bacon - inactive, on 04/28/2009, -2/+33Stop digging OP up. He's spreading misinformation and is scare mongering.
Facts:
1. 67 people have been contaminated in the USA since March.
2. 0 of those have died, half have recovered just fine.
3. The regular flu continues to kill upwards of 400+ people a week.
4. Out of the 152 deaths IN MEXICO, only 26 are attributed to the virus.
Now knock it off. - Trekhawk, on 04/28/2009, -4/+32PANIC!
- sodaman300, on 04/28/2009, -2/+25I have yet to actually be afraid of bird flu, swine flu, or any other kind of animal flu.
The only flu I really worry about is the regular old influenza.
Wake me up when there's more than media propaganda and spooky stories. Until then, I'm going about my everyday life; I'll keep washing my hands and covering my mouth when I cough, just like I have since I was about 4 years old.
I'm sorry, I just refuse to freak out about this. I didn't freak out when bird flu was the hot topic. I'm not going to do it now. - xsecretfiles, on 04/28/2009, -1/+23I hope it gets leaked on Piratebay sooner....
- gnomeh, on 04/28/2009, -3/+23From what I understand, the regular flu that goes around every winter kills more people yearly than SARS ever will.
The media told me to hide myself in my basement tho and to immediately kill and burn the body of anyone who coughs.... - drinkgreentea, on 04/28/2009, -1/+18Can I get a beta key?
- NinjaGod, on 04/28/2009, -0/+13I know this place down the street with ***** loads of bacon.
- shutaro, on 04/28/2009, -1/+14What's the word from Madagascar?
- twiztidsinz, on 04/28/2009, -0/+13It's not more cowbell????
- VisualRhetoric, on 04/28/2009, -2/+14Swine Flu, SARS, Monkey Pox, Bird Flu... Media hype + Mass hysteria = No reason to panic
- borez, on 04/28/2009, -2/+14Agreed, I'm ***** myself, there have actually been 20 confirmed swine flu deaths already and some people have actually died of other stuff as well. To top it all off I've heard at least 3 ( actually make that 4 ) Ambulances going past my flat and some guy fell off his bike down the street this morning, and there was a baby crying next door. For real. It's completely off the wall. I'm going down to the local high street store to buy some face masks right now.
/do I have to. - inactive, on 04/28/2009, -1/+12This is just a real life version of Pandemic.
- Bloodwine, on 04/28/2009, -1/+11I just wonder why they keep saying, "We don't know why it is so much more severe in Mexico than anywhere else". Do they really not know, or is it some sort of diplomatic/PC thing where we don't talk about the elephant in the room?
Don't stress about swine flu, just practice good hygiene. Hell, that is good advice for any time of the year, not just now. - conquer343, on 04/28/2009, -2/+12WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!! (bet you haven't seen that comment before...)
- Corneileus, on 04/28/2009, -0/+10SHUT
DOWN
EVERYTHING - nukewinter, on 04/28/2009, -0/+9Antibiotics don't work against a virus bro
- UselessTrivia, on 04/28/2009, -0/+9If I go to Europe and get infected with the crap-lousy weak version of Swine Flu they have over there, will it protect me from the ass-raping mexican strain?
- kingmanic, on 04/28/2009, -0/+8The people who make flu vaccines aren't also working on a cure for a cancer or a vaccine for aids. They are probably the same people who make the yearly flu vaccine (they pick 5 strains and then they generate vaccines for them). They are probably just including the swine flu for the next batch.
- CoD4, on 04/28/2009, -3/+11More lives could be saved by ending the war on drugs, where's your logic now?
- shredluc, on 04/28/2009, -0/+8This is not the Zombie Apocalypse that i wanted. *pout*
- dagamer34, on 04/28/2009, -0/+8Ditto. People are scared because there's no herd immunity in the public like there is for the Influenza virus. And when people hear about the same thing again and again, they just automatically tune it out, even if it's important to know.
- sodaman300, on 04/28/2009, -2/+10That isn't the issue.
I've never been threatened with bird flu or swine flu, but I have caught the flu. It isn't a matter of danger, it's a matter of exposure. There's a greater chance right now that I could die from pneumonia than swine flu.
I'm no doctor, but I'm also not naive enough to be afraid of this. - Logicexe, on 04/28/2009, -0/+7Thanks, that will make an excellent addition to my red herring collection.
- Revolutionista, on 04/28/2009, -2/+9Basic hygiene, common sense > R&D, cost, potential effectiveness of a drug without guarantees.
- duncan202, on 04/28/2009, -3/+10I posted this in an earlier thread.. but for kicks --
Accordign to the CDC website 36,000 people in the US die from flu complications every year. If you divide that number by 52 weeks you get just under 700 deaths PER week from regular ole flu. Swine flu has some catching up to do.
Just sayin' - MalenfantX, on 04/28/2009, -0/+7vaccine, not cure. We do the same for other dangerous viruses.
- inactive, on 04/28/2009, -4/+11Since the first poster is an idiot with his "facts", I'll post the real deal:
1. 67 people have been contaminated in the USA since March.
2. 0 of those have died, half have recovered just fine.
3. The regular flu continues to kill upwards of 400+ people a week.
4. Out of the 152 deaths IN MEXICO, only 26 are attributed to the virus. Meaning, others had other ***** wrong with them already.
5. Only 260 confirmed, 2500 POSSIBLE infected ... in the world... out of 6+ billion people.
If anything, you should be more scared of the regular flu right now. - MalenfantX, on 04/28/2009, -0/+6You misunderstand. SARS was contained. If it had turned into a pandemic, it would have killed many more people than the regular flu.
- flyingsquirle, on 04/28/2009, -0/+6You sir, are a genius
- Logicexe, on 04/28/2009, -0/+6Damn the media can suck sometimes. While I would prefer an overreaction rather than an under reaction the media can take these things to a whole new level. You'd think Godzilla had just destroyed Mexico or something.
The risk of a global pandemic is very, very real. International travel is very widespread, so any dangerous disease can be very easily carried all around the world before we even know it exists. That's why I would rather have health officials err on the safe side and overreact to these situations, but the media is just doing it wrong.
If they keep pulling this alarmist ***** enough people will eventually grow cynical and stop believing them. Then we'll really be ***** if ***** starts to hit the fan because no one will believe anything they hear. - HappyScrappy, on 04/28/2009, -2/+8Hey downdiggers.
The first one is speculation. No one has identified any special method as to how this flu is killing people. Some want to say it's cytokine storm, but there is no confirmation. Right now it is just speculation.
The third one is speculation. Not only is there not enough good data to calculate the 5-7% figure listed here, but the statement that 2-3% of American adults will be checked into hospitals in the next few months is nothing but rampant speculation. The poster nor anyone else has any information about the percentage of American adults that will be in hospitals in a few months.
Stop digging me down for pointing out that some jackhole who says "stick to the facts" is himself not sticking to the facts. - frostbyt, on 04/28/2009, -0/+6Eventually.
- penkwin, on 04/28/2009, -1/+7Wow, it'll come out just in time for everyone to have forgotten about swine flu.
- pintomp3, on 04/28/2009, -0/+5I wonder how the timing will effect the spread? Allergy season is just hitting a lot of areas, causing people to sneeze and rub their eyes a lot more.
- shutaro, on 04/28/2009, -0/+598 percent of us will die at some point in our lives.
- HappyScrappy, on 04/28/2009, -0/+5Bird flu did not spread from human to human, only from bird to human. They kept saying it was on the cusp of doing so, but they actually had no info that said it was, and it never did.
This swine flu is already spreading from human to human.
So they're probably not going to play out the same way. - kingmanic, on 04/28/2009, -0/+5The answer is obvious. Despite the US healthcare system being the worst over all in the western world it's still infinitely better than Mexico's. It's reported that the Mexican patients were all severely sick when they were admitted to the hospital while American patients were not as close to deaths door. Many of the complications and side effects are much more easily managed in the US and there are more drugs available to treat secondary infections.
The swine flu DOESN'T seem to have the traits that would make it as deadly as the Spanish flu of 1918. You need high infection rates and extreme virulence. H5N1 and SARS were virulent but not highly infectious while this swine flu doesn't seem all that virulent (5%-6% fatality rate mostly in a 3rd world country). - Khast, on 04/28/2009, -1/+6Naw, you got it all wrong... the flu debilitates the body. Supposedly the Rapture just makes everyone vanish in the blink of the eye.
have fun waiting. - nukewinter, on 04/28/2009, -0/+5There's no evidence of this happening based on the infected in the US though... I love how everyone jumps to assumptions just because they read a Wikipedia article.
- Nateon, on 04/28/2009, -4/+9The rapture is upon us! Cleanse yourself of sin and accept Jesus Christ as your savior!!!
- Thorpe, on 04/28/2009, -0/+5Yup. Damn you Guillain-Barré syndrome.
- centran, on 04/28/2009, -0/+5Sorry, they closed their ports. Hopefully your boat will re-route to New Zealand. They closed their airports but their port is still open.
- oxdeltaxo, on 04/28/2009, -0/+5<unnecessary>OMFG PANIC! WERE ALL GONNA DIE</unnecessary>
- kingmanic, on 04/28/2009, -0/+4SARS wasn't that infectious. The scary bit isn't the overall death toll but the fact strong young people were succumbing (SARS ~1% in young healthy adults, 50% for people over 65, for the flu it's 0.6% overall). The fatality rate is higher in SARS than in the flu but it's transmission rate seemed lower.
- inactive, on 04/28/2009, -0/+4AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!......................................................................
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........AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! - WarriorBlake, on 04/28/2009, -0/+4*buys ticket to Madagascar*
- inactive, on 04/28/2009, -0/+4Because comment pages are the most reliable sources...
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