Mexican officials are asking citizens to avoid large crowds, refrain from kissing as a greeting and maintain a distance of at least 1.8 meters (six feet) from each other amid growing concern in the country and elsewhere over new cases of suspected and confirmed swine flu infection.
Several countries issued travel notices and tightened restrictions to brace against the virus the World Health Organization is calling "a public health emergency of international concern."
By Sunday, 81 deaths had been deemed "likely linked" to a deadly new strain of the virus by health authorities in Mexico. Viral testing has confirmed 20 cases, said Dr. Jose A. Cordova Villalobos, Mexico's health secretary. In the United States, the number of confirmed swine flu cases stood at 11.
In New Zealand, officials said 22 students and three teachers, who returned from a three-week-long language trip to Mexico, may have been infected with the virus.
The 25 students and teachers at Auckland's Rangitoto College returned to New Zealand via Los Angeles on Saturday.
Fourteen have shown flu-like symptoms, with four "more unwell than others," said Dr. Julia Peters, clinical director of Auckland Regional Public Health Service.
swine flu is stupid. it is just another dumb flu scare that idiots get worked up over for absolutely no reason
OH SHIT WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE /sars
MAN HUMANITY IS FUCKED /avian flu
LOCK YOURSELF IN YOUR HOUSE AND DON'T COME OUT /west nile virus
...plus how much more of this stuff over the last 5 or so years that turned out to be nothing?
people are so reactionary and will buy anything the media tells them. i love the thread over at GAF about this. some people are seriously scared shitless.
avoid large crowds, refrain from kissing as a greeting and maintain a distance of at least 1.8 meters (six feet) from each other
swine flu is stupid. it is just another dumb flu scare that idiots get worked up over for absolutely no reason
OH SHIT WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE /sars
MAN HUMANITY IS FUCKED /avian flu
LOCK YOURSELF IN YOUR HOUSE AND DON'T COME OUT /west nile virus
...plus how much more of this stuff over the last 5 or so years that turned out to be nothing?
people are so reactionary and will buy anything the media tells them. i love the thread over at GAF about this. some people are seriously scared shitless.
There's nothing wrong with being scared. It's the WHO's job to react swiftly and fast to any potential pandemic; if in hindsight we can say there was over-reaction that's a pretty damn good thing
I'd expect that type of cynical opinion from some distinguished mentally-challenged fellow on GAF
New York City health officials reported Saturday that more than 100 students at a school in Queens were absent with flu-like symptoms this week. Mayor Michael Bloomberg Sunday said Centers for Disease Control confirmed that some of the students suffered from swine flu. New York officials previously had said there were eight "probable" cases at St. Francis Preparatory School.
Bloomberg stressed that the cases were mild and many are recovering. The city is awaiting the tests of additional samples to see if more students were infected.
Quoteavoid large crowds, refrain from kissing as a greeting and maintain a distance of at least 1.8 meters (six feet) from each other
Looks like we're gonna be just fine, guys!
Quoteavoid large crowds, refrain from kissing as a greeting and maintain a distance of at least 1.8 meters (six feet) from each other
Looks like we're gonna be just fine, guys!
we'll all have to try and find each other after everyone else dies!spoiler (click to show/hide)and have a massive orgy[close]
Quoteavoid large crowds, refrain from kissing as a greeting and maintain a distance of at least 1.8 meters (six feet) from each other
Looks like we're gonna be just fine, guys!
we'll all have to try and find each other after everyone else dies!spoiler (click to show/hide)and have a massive orgy[close]
To repopulate. I think that is a perfectly fineexcusereason.
Quoteavoid large crowds, refrain from kissing as a greeting and maintain a distance of at least 1.8 meters (six feet) from each other
Looks like we're gonna be just fine, guys!
we'll all have to try and find each other after everyone else dies!spoiler (click to show/hide)and have a massive orgy[close]
To repopulate. I think that is a perfectly fineexcusereason.
but we're all dudes...except cloudwalking.
swine flu is stupid. it is just another dumb flu scare that idiots get worked up over for absolutely no reason
OH SHIT WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE /sars
MAN HUMANITY IS FUCKED /avian flu
LOCK YOURSELF IN YOUR HOUSE AND DON'T COME OUT /west nile virus
...plus how much more of this stuff over the last 5 or so years that turned out to be nothing?
people are so reactionary and will buy anything the media tells them. i love the thread over at GAF about this. some people are seriously scared shitless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
And there weren't airplanes in 1918 to spread it like today.
swine flu is stupid. it is just another dumb flu scare that idiots get worked up over for absolutely no reason
OH SHIT WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE /sars
MAN HUMANITY IS FUCKED /avian flu
LOCK YOURSELF IN YOUR HOUSE AND DON'T COME OUT /west nile virus
...plus how much more of this stuff over the last 5 or so years that turned out to be nothing?
people are so reactionary and will buy anything the media tells them. i love the thread over at GAF about this. some people are seriously scared shitless.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States declared a public health emergency Sunday because of an outbreak of swine flu that has been diagnosed in 20 people in this country -- the same strain suspected of killing 81 people in Mexico.http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/04/us_acts_swiftly_to_contain_swine_flu_outbreak.php?ref=fp1
I hope I catch this and die. I've wanted to be dead for like the past 7 years. I'm just too much of a chickenshit to kill myself.
ok so I've doubled-checked my will and have a four-week quarantine shopping list ready to go. Laptop is good to go for working at home, and streaming netflix and gamersgate are at the ready.
:hans1 :hans1 :hans1 :hans1
:-\
ok so I've doubled-checked my will and have a four-week quarantine shopping list ready to go. Laptop is good to go for working at home, and streaming netflix and gamersgate are at the ready.
:hans1 :hans1 :hans1 :hans1
:-\
And Frag has his new excuse to catass some opaque eastern european or russian strategy wargame for the next month.
swine flu is stupid. it is just another dumb flu scare that idiots get worked up over for absolutely no reason
OH SHIT WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE /sars
MAN HUMANITY IS FUCKED /avian flu
LOCK YOURSELF IN YOUR HOUSE AND DON'T COME OUT /west nile virus
...plus how much more of this stuff over the last 5 or so years that turned out to be nothing?
people are so reactionary and will buy anything the media tells them. i love the thread over at GAF about this. some people are seriously scared shitless.
I dunno, I laughed this off as Avian Flu II: The Fluening at first, but I'm getting increasingly worried. Not that I personally am going to die from it, but that it may reach pandemic/quarantine proportions. I'm gonna stock up on meds and a few weeksworth of soup tonight.
I should also go to Best Buy and buy the REPUBLIC OF GAMERS laptop ... just in case.
i'm totally not concerned
because i live in population rich NYC.
if this kills off a lot of people it will make my commute much easier
and if it kills me, then i won't have to worry about it.
Edit: (http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k36/SlinkyT82/emot-fappery.gif)(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k36/SlinkyT82/emot-fappery.gif)(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k36/SlinkyT82/emot-fappery.gif)(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k36/SlinkyT82/emot-fappery.gif)i'm totally not concerned
because i live in population rich NYC.
if this kills off a lot of people it will make my commute much easier
and if it kills me, then i won't have to worry about it.
Also, all those new job openings. (http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k36/SlinkyT82/4g3swx.gif)
Fuck. I am at the airport right now about to start a 3 month journey through Asia and Europe. I really hope that this doesn't fuck with those plansAre you traveling through Hong Kong?
I should also go to Best Buy and buy the REPUBLIC OF GAMERS laptop ... just in case.
True story, one of the CDC's main guys came to Berea College only a month or so ago and said that the bird flu would probably start with birds (again), pass through to pigs, and mutate through pigs or livestock, creating a superflu. He said it would happen within the next year and it would be worse than the 1918 flu. He also said we are fucked since no one wanted to prepare for it because people think it's all under control when it really isn't.
BAM motherfuckers, he totally called the pig thing. Hopefully the rest won't come true too.
True story, one of the CDC's main guys came to Berea College only a month or so ago and said that the bird flu would probably start with birds (again), pass through to pigs, and mutate through pigs or livestock, creating a superflu. He said it would happen within the next year and it would be worse than the 1918 flu. He also said we are fucked since no one wanted to prepare for it because people think it's all under control when it really isn't.
BAM motherfuckers, he totally called the pig thing. Hopefully the rest won't come true too.
(http://tehresistance.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/manbearpig.jpg)
BAM motherfuckers, he totally called the pig thing. Hopefully the rest won't come true too.
BAM motherfuckers, he totally called the pig thing. Hopefully the rest won't come true too.
Bird Flu via pig was always the most probable transmission vector to human. All it takes is bird poop near pigs and then humans nearby all passing the virus through the pig.
That being said, if this was a real H5N1 variant they would have turned mexico city into racoon city by now.
i'm in la, so i'm getting kind of worried about this shit. even the regular flu fucks me up. i'm going to start avoiding crowds. so much for the festival of books this weekend -- was going to meet a girl there. maybe i can talk her into coming over to watch a movie instead. 'bobobo the swine flu'
hell, if 9/11 got me laid, why can't this
oh shit this would explain why she wouldn't come out on saturday
maybe i already have the swine flu does it impair brain function
Switzerland built an extensive network of fallout shelters (mainly through extra hardening of government buildings such as schools) of a scale to protect and feed the entire population for two years after a nuclear attack. This nation has the highest ratio of shelter space to national population of any country. All these shelters are capable of withstanding nuclear fallout and biological or chemical (NBC) attacks
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=34.452218,-2.109375&spn=98.274036,158.203125&z=3
slowly encroaching on switzerland... jarosh nooooo
"People in neighboring office buildings -- quite a majority of them wearing masks because of the swine flu outbreak -- were piling out into the streets," Cook said. "There were a few humorous people on the stairways saying, 'This is the apocalypse. First the swine flu, and now this.' "
We used to be pretty tight - you can find any room in your heart to spare me and invite me into your love shelters? :(
just out of curiosity, have any of those shelters been tested recently or had any studies done on them now with new information which may not have been available back in the day?
turns out America built it's public shelter system pretty shoddily because they didn't have all the math. Basically the LAST place you want to be in DC during a nuke strike is in a public shelter
We used to be pretty tight - you can find any room in your heart to spare me and invite me into your love shelters? :(
of course i can get you in :D
i think that being locked in a fallout shelter for a year or two would be pretty awesome. i expect mass orgies and the like.
SOMALI PIRATE FLU?!