EB are you prepared to die of SWINE FLU?

[pilonv1]

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/26/swine.flu/index.html

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.

Map of cases

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=32.650649,-116.139221&spn=2.062781,3.99353&z=8

:mexcry

[demi]

Hermits triumph once again

[Reb]

Fuck, it crossed to ocean to France already.

[pilonv1]

im more concerned about NZ

[Reb]

Fun fact: regular flu kills about 47.000 Americans a year.

[Diunx]

Thats one of the reasons Dominicans are better than Mexicans, we don't have fucking swine flu.

[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.

[Don Flamenco]

Time to stock up on some Phalanx. African rabies is next!

[Diunx]

Well you never know when one of this "epidemic" is gonna kick start the zombie apocalypse, is only a matter of time.

[Phoenix Dark]

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

[Great Rumbler]

avoid 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!

[Madrun Badrun]

Google maps is so cool. 

[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.

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

over-reaction also causes droves of hypochondriacs needlessly crowding up the hospitals for the people who actually need to be there.

i'd expect that kind of naive opinion from somoene like phoenixdark.
it's okay, don't be too scared, phoenix. you still have time to flee the country.

[Phoenix Dark]

Better to be safe than sorry. Your point is moot.

I'd expect such a lazy retort from a Canadian 

[cloudwalking]

you're going to wish you were canadian when the swine flu slowly kills off all of the americans, as most people seem to suspect. don't try to run away to the north!

[Phoenix Dark]

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.

Michigan is protected by the great lakes and Ohio

[Don Flamenco]

avoid 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! 

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and have a massive orgy

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[Madrun Badrun]

avoid 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! 

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and have a massive orgy

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To repopulate.  I think that is a perfectly fine excuse  reason. 

[Don Flamenco]

avoid 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 fine excuse  reason. 

but we're all dudes...except cloudwalking. 

[Madrun Badrun]

avoid 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 fine excuse  reason. 

but we're all dudes...except cloudwalking. 

I'm sure it won't be that hard to get Cheebs pregnant. 

[ManaByte]

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.

[Flannel Boy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

And there weren't airplanes in 1918 to spread it like today.

Unlike 1918, we don't have crowded, stressful, unhygienic trenches full of dying soldiers to quickly spread the disease. We do, however, have better nourished people, flu vaccines, antiviral medication, critical care resources, and antibiotics to treat bacterial infections that people with influenza are susceptible to getting and dying from. 

[Flannel Boy]

end of the first overtime.

Yeah, it's not like tens of millions of unhealthy, dying young men from dozens of different countries were being transported like cattle in unsanitary trains and ships for weeks at a time in 1918. That can't possibility spread influenza like PLANES!

Stop listening to Art Ball, Manabyte.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

18 wheelers might spread it too 

[drozmight]

WE
ARE
SO
FUCKED

[TVC15]

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.

[Eric P]

then you should become a merchant marine

[demi]

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 heard sugar speeds up the viral process. Better watch yourself

[Phoenix Dark]

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

[Flannel Boy]

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.

I'm also too chickenshit. I also have an unreasonably optimistic belief that things will get better--someday. After having that belief for 15 years, I really should have learned by now.

[Fragamemnon]

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.


 

 

[duckman2000]

If any disease is going to cause major problems around here, it will likely be an old one, thought dormant and borderline eradicated, but given a fresh start due to vaccine scares and the Lysol effect really fucking up the immune systems of an entire generation.

[TVC15]

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.


 

 

And Frag has his new excuse to catass some opaque eastern european or russian strategy wargame for the next month.

[Fragamemnon]

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.


 

 

And Frag has his new excuse to catass some opaque eastern european or russian strategy wargame for the next month.

MADE IN THE USA

[siamesedreamer]

Anyone else think that its just a little too coincidental that this flu outbreak coincided with Obama's trip to Mexico and that the guy who received Obama at the museum in Mexico City died the next day from it?

They're saying its not bio-terror. But, it would be interesting to know the details as to why they ruled that out so quickly. Not saying I believe it was bio-terror though. I just think the fact that out of 22M Mexico City residents its very interesting that a guy who spent more time than usual with Obama is one of the 1500 cases so far. 

[Tauntaun]

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.

beaten 

attach a scary name to it and people go bonkers.  smh

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Is it cool if my wife and I come crash at your place?  I need moar vacation.  :'(

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[WrikaWrek]

Couple cases in Spain, fuck those spanish had to bring that shit to Europe.

[Tauntaun]

 

[Brehvolution]

yawn. Let me know when there is a roast beef herpes scare. I may have to worry about that.

[Madrun Badrun]

Love the Madagascar bit. 

[Howard Alan Treesong]

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.

[Tauntaun]

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.

That sounds hawt, specs?

[Eric P]

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.

[The Fake Shemp]

Looks like this is the real deal.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Gov. Schwarzenegger gives an update on swine flu

blah blah end times LET'S TALK HARDWARE

The Republic of Gamers laptop is amazing: Intel® Core™2 Duo processor P7450, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD, 9800M Nvidia graphics (!), 16 inch screen, all for only $899.

$899, and the sanity of your visual cortex:

[Tauntaun]

Edit: 

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.   

[Eric P]

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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.    (Image removed from quote.)

and rent will drop!

bring it on.

pussy ass flu.  bet you can't even kill half of manhattan.  you sars ass bitch

[Eric P]

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 plans

Are you traveling through Hong Kong?

if so, could you grab the new ekin chen film for me?

he's so dreamy

[Tauntaun]

I wanna make love to that laptop! 




   

[TVC15]

I should also go to Best Buy and buy the REPUBLIC OF GAMERS laptop ... just in case.

I made the LED screen above the keyboard say "LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH" 

[Bloodwake]

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.

[Tauntaun]

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.

[BlueTsunami]

160 said to be dead in Mexico

[Bloodwake]

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.

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lmfao

And that laptop definitely makes my dick hard.

[Fragamemnon]

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.

[Crushed]

oink oink i'm comin for you

[The Fake Shemp]

Kosher

[Eric P]

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.

in part 1, 2 or 3?

if it's part 1 or 2, how can you tell the difference?

[drohne]

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

[Diunx]

You fucking tourist better keep away from this island, I'm not planning on stopping my pork consumption anytime soon.