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- RainStreet, on 05/06/2009, -3/+23Swine Flu ain't got ***** on AIDS.
- Garofoli, on 05/06/2009, -1/+21I know there are much more than 5 diseases worse than swine flu. Try upwards of 20.
- anstice85, on 05/06/2009, -2/+17Of course ebola was worse, but no one here cared because it was in a far away country. Same with all of these except AIDS.
- Nlewis4, on 05/06/2009, -2/+17the common cold
- slvrbullet87, on 05/06/2009, -1/+14Normal flu is worse than swine flu
- Fusi0n, on 05/06/2009, -0/+9True, but it's not like it's can be "contracted" person to person
That's a different field - Number23, on 05/06/2009, -0/+9I have the avian swine flu SARS.
- ghostlywind, on 05/06/2009, -1/+10The swine flu is a joke, it turned out to be just like the bird flu and sars. It was blown way out of proportion to probably get people to buy stuff.
- drmangrum, on 05/06/2009, -0/+8Stop throwing race into the mix. The world does not hate blacks. The world does not hate Mexicans. Stop playing this sad race card.
It's all geography and economics. Most people simply don't care about what isn't going to effect them. Seeing as you live in Texas, do you really care if California gets has an earthquake? Do you really care if Florida gets hit by a hurricane? Chances are you see it in the news and say "Oh, sucks for them!" - MrInfallible, on 05/06/2009, -6/+14AIDS virus? There is no such thing.
- Megatronz, on 05/06/2009, -0/+8The paper cut I got yesterday is worse than the Swine Flu.
- johnedc, on 05/06/2009, -0/+7What, no Dysentery?
- kyle415, on 05/06/2009, -0/+6It wiped out my entire family when we were moving to Oregon.
- badenglishihave, on 05/06/2009, -2/+81. The common cold
2. Athlete's foot
3. The regular flu
4. Chicken pox
5. Conjunctivitis, a.k.a. pinkeye
6. Bronchitis
7. Strep throat
8. PMS (ha)
I could go on. - chanop, on 05/06/2009, -1/+6False, very few people (almost none) that are diagnosed are getting anti-viral medicine. I'm in NY (most cases in the US) where everyone that is taking the anti-viral drugs are yuppies that don't want to get it and think taking anti-viral drugs will be the saving grace.
- falser, on 05/06/2009, -0/+5Campbell's chicken noodle soup + DayQuil + Sprite
- JustJoe4Life, on 05/06/2009, -0/+5gonorrhea
- inactive, on 05/06/2009, -0/+4Pretty much all diseases are worse than the swine flu. Except maybe toe nail fungus.
- inactive, on 05/06/2009, -0/+4The medicine of our people...
- marshaiiness, on 05/06/2009, -1/+5Everyone in the US should read this so they can really understand how mass media lies to us and uses fear mongering to keep us scared just to get better ratings
- DWatch, on 05/06/2009, -0/+4I'm sure that in Africa, there are media and news outlets that barely even noticed the swine flu 'outbreak' and are continuing to report on their own countries problems; wars, poverty, famine, disease, genocide, etc. Should we show indignant outrage towards them for ignoring things that are not impacting them directly (swine flu), or just realize that localized media will report on whatever is going on in their own locality and ignore other events that seem to them to be trivial. Right now, swine flu is trivial compared to their problems.
- inactive, on 05/06/2009, -0/+4Well, I'm stumped. The potential for an anal sex joke is there, but I'm too tired and sore all over to work it out.
- chrisinsocalif, on 05/06/2009, -0/+4Swine flu so far is pretty minor. Equivalent to a mild flu. Scientists already state is mild so all this hysteria is just media hype.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-swin ... - Volath, on 05/06/2009, -1/+4"Swine flu has infected 1,500 people worldwide and killed around 30,"
Yeah, in the span of a few weeks! This article and a lot of the comments I'm seeing about the swine flu just tell me there are are too many ***** small minded people. You can't judge a disease's threat by what its done compared to other diseases that have been around much longer. You have to judge it by its potential.
The influenza outbreak in 1918 started out in around March and it was generally mild like the normal flue (mostly killing young children, old people, or the already sick), so everyone just kind of ignored it. A few months later and BAM it evolves into a more vicious strain and then starts killing healthy young adults. By the end of it over 50,000,000 people died by 1920(thats more than twice as many AIDS victims since 1981 according the numbers in the article). The swine flu is already able to kill healthy young adults. This is why its so important to make sure it doesn't spread. - drastik21, on 05/06/2009, -0/+3walk it off, champ
- Jashanpreet, on 05/06/2009, -0/+3HIV is the most dangerous. It is like spreading like hell in the whole world. Be careful regarding it.
- badcrumble, on 05/06/2009, -2/+5HIV/AIDS still kills thousands of people a year worldwide and is spreading faster now among youth than it was in the mid-90s, but nobody talks about it anymore because it no longer sells newspapers and because celebrities stopped wearing red AIDS ribbons and started talking about Darfur instead.
- 1x253, on 05/06/2009, -0/+3Then you have nothing to fear.
- Fusi0n, on 05/06/2009, -2/+5I guess when someone dies outside of North America it's not news anymore
What a joke - Greenhouse568, on 05/06/2009, -0/+3Okay, can we agree....you have to kill at least one busload of people before you are a pandemic?
- MOP06, on 05/06/2009, -0/+3I would buy a mask...... once Ebola went airborne
- petebot, on 05/06/2009, -0/+3I'm scared of the Marburg virus.
- whorunbartertwn, on 05/06/2009, -0/+3No, it isn't.
With a nod to the rare transmission via tainted blood in a medical procedure one can generally make certain choices that all but guarantee you won't catch HIV.
In a monogamous relationship my concern about HIV is about zero. - daimposter, on 05/06/2009, -0/+3the swine flu is 'overrated'. the media wants a big story and they took it. there are numerous other outbreaks more deadly and dangerous but they have been around for some time. a new one comes through, it becomes a NEW story they can sell. i really see no difference between the swine flu (those affected outside of mexico) and common flu. In fact, i think the common flu has a higher death rate than the swine flu (outside of mexico). I believe the first non-mexican citizen just died today. She was pregnant so very weak. 1 out of hundreds of hundreds affected outside of mexico.
seems like the media is pulling a chicken little with the sky is falling. - Jascol, on 05/06/2009, -0/+3But unfortunately that's, medically speaking, going back to a period of time where people just ***** died.
"touch of the black death? Bit of taragon'll sort that out" - 7m7uf, on 05/06/2009, -0/+3I hate when people do that -- HIV is the Virus. AIDS is a syndrome -- ITS IN THE NAME FOR CHRIST SAKE!
HIV = Human Immunodeficiency Virus -- as in a VIRUS!
AIDS = Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome -- as in a Syndrome, not a virus. - Volath, on 05/06/2009, -0/+3True, but it's curable now so no one really cares about it.
- NovaPrime9, on 05/06/2009, -0/+2No. It's about the monkeysphere.
http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysp ... - dhoneywell, on 05/06/2009, -1/+3Thank you to CNN for making not important ***** turn into baseless public hysteria.
- Necronomicana, on 05/06/2009, -8/+10It's kind of sad that race and geography seem to be the primary reasons no one seems to give a ***** about these diseases. No one cares when black people die in Africa, but as soon as white people in America are threatened there's a massive *****.
- lroche, on 05/06/2009, -0/+2ebola terrifies me
- Burmanator, on 05/06/2009, -0/+2What about the Black Death? It's so bad they measure it in % of the populations. "45% to 50% of the European population dying during a four-year period"
- Fusi0n, on 05/06/2009, -0/+2I'm not sure why you got dugged down for that, I completely agree
But i'd reword that to the media not caring, they're definately people that care here - Number23, on 05/06/2009, -0/+2I would but it’s inflamed my fibromyalgia
- inactive, on 05/06/2009, -0/+2Even a common flu vaccination is no guarantee that you wont contract the flu. Each season the flu vaccination is just a guess as to what mutation of the virus is going to hit. Only 30 people have been killed by this swine flu and caused mild symptoms at best for everyone else compared to tens of thousands who die each season from the common flu even with vaccinations available.
Its totally 100% over-reacting. If this were Rage, then yeah... Id probably be irritated that people didnt care. - SneakyNinja, on 05/06/2009, -0/+2Actually that's wrong. Each year a large portion of children and elderly get flu shots, preventing them from getting the "normal flu" The flu that typically circulates seasonally, doesn't kill that many people because most vunerable people get the shot and don't get the flu.
Nobody has the H1N1 flu shot...
Meaning that if it hit us in the scale that the regular flu does, many MANY more people would die vs. the normal flu. Hence the necessary precautions taken. - 7m7uf, on 05/06/2009, -0/+27Up > Sprite
- TrevorBradley, on 05/06/2009, -0/+2@whorunbartertwn: Try reading the article again. Cholera is #1 on the list.
- drastik21, on 05/06/2009, -0/+2yeah, and it also happened like 700 years ago.
- ramilehti, on 05/06/2009, -0/+2Sad thing is that science is blamed for the false alarm. Even though the false alarm was media's fault.
And the fault of clueless governments around the world. Egypt and China for example. Egypt for slaughtering pigs for no good reason and China for going overboard on preventative measures. -
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