bird flu from asia?

[Dunwho]

Originally Posted by matt

Oh dear

So .... let me get this straight...

..dont call it swine flu so as not to refer to an animal they already consider unclean...

...instead lets call it Mexican Flu and refer to a whole nation of millions directly.... and effectively call them unclean?

...hmmmm that doesnt insult anybody at all at all!

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call it "death-ray oogie-boogie monster flu"

[Dirty0900]

1000+ cases, population of 25 million. Do the maths kidz.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by //\/\/

call it "death-ray oogie-boogie monster flu"

If they actually called it this, I would kind of hope I die from it just so that "death-ray oogie-boogie monster flu" could be written as cause of death in my obituary.

The whole swine flu thing is a mountain out of a mole-hill, period. I simply can't seem to care about it at all let alone be freaked out.

[Dunwho]

Hey hey now, you could do worse.....

....you could be Sting

[Deckard]

Originally Posted by Dirty0900

1000+ cases, population of 25 million. Do the maths kidz.

Yup. The media routinely tell us 'X people are infected' or 'X people have died' but they almost always neglect to add '...out of Y population'. Although I guess even quoting the population figure would fail to quell the panic when the gut is being bombarded by images telling a more frightening story.

Sure this could turn into a major catastrophe, but lots of things could happen. Telling us something could happen tells us nothing.

[chuck]

You think you guys have it bad.

WE NOW HAVE CONFIRMED CASES OF SWINE/MEXICAN FLUE IN NEW ZEALAND!!!!

But apparently - as these students who arrived back from Mexico on the weekend, have had the Tamiflu anti-virus, and have been in quarantine for 5 days - they can all go back to school on Thursday.

Yeah - the day after tomorrow. WTF?

And in other news in which hyperbole gets the better of a reporter and a police officer - apparently NZ's roads are akin to the 'Killing Fields'.

Yes, that's right - 13 people dead in car accidents somehow compares to the execution of approximately 200,000 people and the deaths of a further 1.5million.

I despair, I really do.

[Future Proof]

Aww man... and the hysteria has even got some of my friends involved. I found this in my e-mail today:

someone left a comment on the info wars website that i thought was interesting. check it out:

My inlaws work for the CDC and a conversation came up about weaponized biowarfare and how to distribute it. We were talking about a terror attack by a government like North Korea.

They said the most likely scenario would be influenza, done in three parts.

1) Engineer a normal flu strain

2) Engineer a avian flu strain, H5N1
These first two would be designed to be highly infectious but with mild symtoms, they would stay dormant until a 3rd strain was introduced to combine all three into a super bug.

3) Distribute the 3rd strain that is also highly infectious by means of water, air, direct contact, vaccines etc.

I’m not saying that this is whats happening but I thought I’d share.


i think that if this thing really spreads and the government starts mandating that people get vaccinated, we should all be very suspicious and very cautious indeed.
in the mean time, let's all wash our hands, take vitamin c, seek god, be grateful for each day, and enjoy this gorgeous spring time weather

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[Sean]

Originally Posted by Future Proof

Aww man... and the hysteria has even got some of my friends involved. I found this in my e-mail today:



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That's it. I'm buyin' a gun today and camping out on the roof until armageddon is about wrapped up.

[Future Proof]

Originally Posted by Sean

That's it. I'm buyin' a gun today and camping out on the roof until armageddon is about wrapped up.

Oh wicked man, I'll bring an acoustic guitar and sing folk songs around the funeral pyre!