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morphakunJan 12, 2011
and Swine like super power!!!
doodlemasterJan 12, 2011
spider pig ... spider pig ...
randomgorillaJan 12, 2011
He's not spider pig now, he's harry plopper.
dsmxJan 14, 2011
Most memorable bit about that film and it still wasn't funny.
stallscribbleJan 12, 2011
Giraffe flu coming up next!
Closed AccountJan 12, 2011
bundles of dna floating around your environment trying to kill your ass. when will science do away with these freakishly odd threats to human health?
ExplonentialJan 13, 2011
Kinda weird question - considering swine flu is a naturally mutated occurrence and 'science' is your best hope at surviving it.
leemapleJan 14, 2011
Doing so would probably kill everything and everyone. Not a great solution.
mahlerJan 12, 2011
It's starting to look more and more like I did indeed have swine flu.
Ever since I can remember I used to be sick with flu at least twice each year, but in August 2009 I went traveling from Russia to Japan by train for 6 weeks and I was sick for 4 of those weeks, but refused to get hospitalized because I was traveling on a schedule, didn't want to get in trouble at the border and my gf is a doctor and was traveling with me. It is strange though how I haven't been sick ever since.
Something else has happened to me though. Last september I started having headaches for the first time in my life and they are continuing until this day. Does anybody else who had swine flu also have have this pattern?
smpaisnutrientsJan 13, 2011
you know, its people like you that spread disease around the globe. if you're sick you should not continue exposing people.
dr3wJan 13, 2011
Don't feed the trolls. Especially the uninteresting ones.
smpaisnutrientsJan 13, 2011
i'm not trolling. dunno bout the other guy.
bigpimpin79Jan 13, 2011
Im getting a headache after reading this string
ExplonentialJan 13, 2011
Perhaps that will afford you an immunity to future boredom trolls.
myztryJan 13, 2011
Why? Because instead of "biting the bullet" and allowing the survival of the fittest to prevail as evolution does, we should spend eternity inbreeding inferiority by treating the symptoms for massive profit but never solving the problem?
For f**ks sake. We already risk oxymoronic conditions like hereditary infertility because we are too smart for our own good. One you allow creatures to survive contrary to their own "fitness" then evolution will start to reverse as adverse conditions are more likely then advantageous conditions.
Don't over-estimate your role in the grand scheme of things you selfish bastards. Hundreds of billions have come and gone before you. The only question is how many will follow?
neotechniJan 13, 2011
I agree.
But cant agree cause the nazis agree.
myztryJan 13, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics - different POV.
Eugenics involved taking action (such as sterilization) against unfavorable traits so they didn't propagate.
I am more of the view that sometimes things should be allowed to take their course so that natural selection can take place without interference.
Even things like Asthma are just going to get more and more common as the symptoms are treated without actually removing the condition.
People don't naturally tend to favor unhealthy partners but it's become more and more unavoidable as these conditions are hidden despite their genetic continuation.
Is a downward spiral that's going to make medical science more and more lucrative which is great for the shareholders but not so great for humanity as a species that one day hopes to reach for harsh environment like space.
ExplonentialJan 13, 2011
Except with science advancing and curing conditions, we should no longer consider their sufferers to be inferior.
Nobody in the developed world gets polio any more - but many potential polio sufferers turn out to be wonderful, valuable members of society.
While the coddling of undesirable traits may well be leading to increases in short-sightedness, athsma, and some nutters even recon autism, the alternative is scary - and will lead to a shallow gene pool.
myztryJan 13, 2011
Vaccines are a bit different as they although they don't cure the disease, they do prime the bodies immune system for outside factors such as viruses.
I'm talking more about internal condition which are encoded in DNA. I think you will have trouble naming genetic conditions that can be cured, or otherwise removed, without natural attrition.
Do we really want to end up like cyborg's or otherwise be dependent on technology because our bodies have "devolved" into not being self-sufficient?
ExplonentialJan 13, 2011
myztry: You make a valid point, I will concede that. But yes, that is what I'm saying. When bionic limbs get awesome enough that they're stronger, faster and more durable than real ones, I may well hack off my arm and attach a robotic one.
I don't want to trot out tired old cliches, but allowing the weak to die would deprive us of the likes of Hawkings and other brilliant people - because physical ability doesn't correlate with genius or morality.
I must admit though, I do swing back and forth on this issue.
myztryJan 14, 2011
"Hacks" from congenital Heart Valves to Bionic limbs are nice until you have nobody or no resources to repair/install them.
Whether they be in transit in space, post apocalyptic war/outbreak, or simply due to economic hardship.
I would rather my car's paint job could heal itself like flesh before I became dependent on such things for generations to come..
mahlerJan 13, 2011
Like I said, I used to be sick with flu twice each year and didn't make a big deal out of it. I figured that if it was indeed swine... errr H1N1, then soon I wouldn't be concious enough to make that decision anyway.
As for spreading the disease around. already I started feeling sick in the airplane to Moscow, so couldn't help that. The rest of the journey, I barely had contact with other people in Russia, Mongolia and China. And in heavily populated Japan I was wearing one of those masks, precisely for that reason.
smpaisnutrientsJan 13, 2011
you were on planes and trains yes? incubators and spreads it around over a greater area.
spreadtruthJan 12, 2011
Is it just me or is everything usually 5 years off?
Good voice recognition, Robotic butlers... and now a universal vaccine.
Hmm.
hipmanJan 12, 2011
I think there's more than good voice recognition apps.
return2workmomJan 12, 2011
does it come with a cape? my kids were 4 for 4 in contracting swine. The dad & i did not. So they get the cape and superpowers and we're... screwed? rut roh!
rujtuJan 12, 2011
Maybe it's just me, but I find that I only get the flu (complete with all of its sweating, shivering, pants-s**tting, dry heaving goodness) about once every 5-7 years. I've just assumed that getting the full impact of a flu meant that I was being exposed to something my body didn't have antibodies to because it had evolved over those 5-7 years. The theory proposed to explain the reaction to swine flu sounds a lot like what happens to me, and I'd wager millions of others every time they get extremely ill with a flu virus.
They get extremely sick because their body doesn't have the tools to fight the infection. The body activates all of its defenses and eventually creates the tools to fight it. You get better. Your body is awesome at fighting the flu for long enough that the virus has time to mutate significantly. Then you get sick again and the
cycle starts over.
The idea of a taking five years to create a universal flu vaccine sounds pointless. There will be another flu, equally as novel as the swine flu by then, and the old swine flu universal will be useless against it.
thanatetanJan 13, 2011
Hi, great idea.
entroperJan 13, 2011
I agree. I can recall having the flu only twice in my life, and I turned 30 this year. I've also never gotten a flu vaccine, so that's not helping me avoid it. Seems like most people I know go at least 5 years between flu infections as well.
stevenhess19Jan 12, 2011
Where can I get some Swine Flu?
fauozJan 12, 2011
So much for that prediction of End Times due to H1N1.
nathanloehleinJan 13, 2011
Or the need to go get the swine flu shot.
ruckfulesJan 13, 2011
Hyperbolic rhetoric aside, there is good reason to be very cautious when dealing with the H1N1 influenza virus.
Closed AccountJan 13, 2011
When it happened, I got sick. I STAYED home, ok...but I was sick for about 16 days.
I got a cold this season, but it only lasted 2 days and was gone.
I'm not really surprised by this. My grandma is 103 and the doc told her that the chances of getting swine flu were low because she survived the flu of (1918?)
royalecraigJan 13, 2011
Google Swine Flu, Swiss Train.
interesting.
mredofcourseJan 13, 2011
IMDB Cassandra Crossing.
Entertaining.
japtasticJan 13, 2011
Swine flu "Survivors"? Come on! That's a bit much, don't you think? "Survivors"? Wow. I like how the article points out that 18,000 have died from H1N1, but 500,000 people die every year from the ordinary flu. As a "survivor" of the swine flu, I can't wait to try out my new Super-Immunity!
zer0258Jan 13, 2011
i wonder if this will be like overclocking your cpu, will it inevitably burn itself out???
tomyclikJan 13, 2011
Kermit beware on Miss Piggy
netbookbooJan 13, 2011
Good photo and very clear
tigeronthewallJan 13, 2011
Thank you, now I would prefer not to discuss this "swine flu" any further.
1of95activeJan 13, 2011
I bet all the doctors,who said not to go to swine flu parties are feeling s**tty about now.
TrueLinksJan 13, 2011
Why everyone has paranoid with this anyway? :P
rockthebells25Jan 13, 2011
i believe it! both my roomates had strep and I (a swine flu survivor) never got sick. havent for a while
pethanksJan 13, 2011
Swine flu is really scary. We should be careful always.
testcaseJan 13, 2011
Ahhhh, Digg... the trolls, the crazies, the Rugby-style pile-ons passing for debate, all peppered with random insults and stupid questions banged out in broken Globish...
how I have missed you, you big beautiful time-waster!
neotechniJan 13, 2011
They changed it from swine flu to H1N1 cause of the pork industry
But I made a database format in college called HINI and no one cared about MY feelings. Do you know how upset I was the first time I saw "Survivors of H1N1" in the news? 1's look like I's at first glance!
cuoopsJan 13, 2011
source - http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/01/pandemic-flu-strain-could-point-way-to-universal-vaccine.html
gunshighJan 13, 2011
YEAH i a super power. Able to survive Spanish flu and bird flu in a single bound
cherry001Jan 13, 2011
That's really good news.
priyankawritingJan 13, 2011
thats really interesting esp considering there were so many survivors!
batmandarknightJan 13, 2011
right on! hopefully something good can come of all that.
i4visualmediaJan 13, 2011
wow, that's really something extraordinary
just goes to show what human bodies are capable of
identityamethJan 13, 2011
Now as a digg user I must say to my followers who may be reading this that I in no way indorse swine flu vaccines.http://www.vaccineriskawareness.com/ http://www.vaccinerights.com/e-book.html?hop=debweb0
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identityamethJan 13, 2011
Now as a digg user I must say to my followers who may be reading this that I in no way indorse swine flu vaccines.http://www.vaccineriskawareness.com/ http://www.vaccinerights.com/e-book.html?hop=debweb0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyOww-9xo_0Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
gisuckJan 13, 2011
Is it too late for me then?
androlyJan 13, 2011
Absolutely amazing.
bnk1310Jan 13, 2011
Someone hook me up with some swine flu, I need some immunity.
johnomazzJan 13, 2011
cue will smith and his dog.
scarredupJan 13, 2011
Score one for the hygiene hypothesis.
veganvultureJan 14, 2011
That's right suckers, I've joined coon and friends now.
charlie876Jan 14, 2011
sounds like they got supper powers lol
immediateactionJan 14, 2011
s**t dude, then I'm a superhero now.
jsungjinJan 15, 2011
It is interesting that the experienced people can generate universal protection to swine flue.
edwardr3073Feb 3, 2011
i was the 7th person in Victoria, i think 14th in Australia and the first in Australia to contract the virus from another individual as i had not been overseas. i was quarantined for 3 weeks, quarantined my friends for a week followed by quarantining my school for a another week (effectively closing the school down). the best 3 weeks of 2009 and now i get super immunity. i would say not such a bad deal