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Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« on: April 27, 2009, 07:27:54 PM »
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25391072-2703,00.html

anyone been following this? I only started reading about it yesterday but 100 or so dead in a few days, victims in the 20-40 age bracket, and transmission between people not from animals to people (wasn't that why bird flu didn't kill us all?). Could get interesting if it gets out of control, or it could just be a flash in the pan like SARS. Anyone here with medical knowledge and can enlighten me?
...and on the other a soldier with a bullet wound in his lower belly and his sphincter shot away so that his faeces are leaking out. The smell of excrement mingles with that of the scorching flesh of the corpses being burned in the distance.

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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2009, 07:32:59 PM »
Yup, the world's fucked.
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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2009, 08:53:25 PM »
yeah, I heard even madagascar are closing their borders


xkcd are on the ball as usual

« Last Edit: April 27, 2009, 09:03:18 PM by blaaah »

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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2009, 09:17:04 PM »
T-Virus next. We're screwed.
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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2009, 09:33:40 PM »
Who cares. We are all Doomed in the end.
« Last Edit: April 27, 2009, 09:35:16 PM by Nosaj »

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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2009, 09:55:59 PM »
What a bunch of up-beat cunts we've got here :P

But still, shutting down the worlds biggest urban agglomeration? Gotta be fuckn serious for that shit
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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2009, 10:49:12 PM »
Who cares. We are all Doomed in the end.

What the??

Come on Nosaj mate - you're usually the upbeat one around here!!!! ;D


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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2009, 11:57:53 PM »
we will all be fine. Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo will come in and make sure of it.

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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2009, 01:12:54 AM »
I take back my last post. Everything will be ok. I found some Banana Bread.  :headbang: ;D

Ps: Sod. You'll be pleased to know that the Baileys season has begun.
« Last Edit: April 28, 2009, 01:51:03 AM by Nosaj »

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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2009, 01:24:59 AM »
yeah, I heard even madagascar are closing their borders


xkcd are on the ball as usual


Get some pork on your fork. ;D

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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2009, 02:24:40 AM »
Yay i am going to die sooner now cause i work in a shopping center
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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2009, 02:35:03 AM »
BAH! NO SUCH THING AS DEATH, ONLY TRANSGRESSION.

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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2009, 03:37:08 AM »
CLOSE THE BORDERS!
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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2009, 06:17:38 AM »
CLOSE THE BORDERS!

SHUT.
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EVERYTHING!
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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2009, 06:20:18 AM »
If I get swine flu, mark my words I will be taking the next plane to Madagascar and spitting on everyone I see.

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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2009, 06:26:09 AM »
yeah, I heard even madagascar are closing their borders


xkcd are on the ball as usual



Unless you started in Madagascar, there was no way of winning that game. Idiots would close down their borders at the first sign of trouble.

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« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2009, 06:29:58 AM »

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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2009, 08:10:27 AM »
yeah, I heard even madagascar are closing their borders


xkcd are on the ball as usual



Unless you started in Madagascar, there was no way of winning that game. Idiots would close down their borders at the first sign of trouble.

Lol, I kept refreshing until I started in Madagascar... still didn't win... they closed their own fucking port before I got out, and I was running as a highly infectious, completely symptomless bacteria (from memory) with maximum resistances and shit. Fucking scientific geniuses... they must have sacrificial scientist agents who take random bodily fluid samples from every one in the world.

The few times I did get into Madagascar, some other lame ass country would wise up and shut down everything.

Fuck, imagine if in real life only Madagascar survived, and repopulated the earth. I mean, you'd EXPECT most pathogens of such high order to originate from there.
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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2009, 08:15:45 AM »
I just heard a short news flash about it earlier so I don't know the full details. This movie I just watched last night came to mind though - Doomsday. Surprised I hadn't heard about it before as it's pretty kick ass and has some cool action in it, but Jez told me about it. It's like a cross between 28 Days Later, Aliens and Mad Max, so I recommend checking it out.

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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2009, 02:59:38 PM »
I take back my last post. Everything will be ok. I found some Banana Bread.  :headbang: ;D

Ps: Sod. You'll be pleased to know that the Baileys season has begun.

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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #20 on: April 28, 2009, 04:08:50 PM »
I just heard a short news flash about it earlier so I don't know the full details. This movie I just watched last night came to mind though - Doomsday. Surprised I hadn't heard about it before as it's pretty kick ass and has some cool action in it, but Jez told me about it. It's like a cross between 28 Days Later, Aliens and Mad Max, so I recommend checking it out.
Have you seen 'Smoke em if you got em'? that has a Doomsday theme, not a bad movie. It's the end of the world and the survivors have radiation sickness, they dont have long to live so they all get fucked up on drugs. One scene this guys is offered a 'bong and a bang' he doesn't know what it is but he's dying anyway so thinks fuck it why not. He has the bong then they grab him and stick his head in a microwave, thats his bang  :laugh:

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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #21 on: April 28, 2009, 06:28:12 PM »
I just heard a short news flash about it earlier so I don't know the full details. This movie I just watched last night came to mind though - Doomsday. Surprised I hadn't heard about it before as it's pretty kick ass and has some cool action in it, but Jez told me about it. It's like a cross between 28 Days Later, Aliens and Mad Max, so I recommend checking it out.

Is that the one in scotland with the cannibals and medieval survivalists? not bad, but 28 days/weeks later is far better. The disease effects were cool though.

wikipedia this morning says death toll up to 149, was 103 yesterday.

Edit: 149 confirmed http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25398262-12377,00.html
« Last Edit: April 28, 2009, 06:31:47 PM by Melkor »
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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #22 on: April 28, 2009, 08:14:07 PM »
You've got to keep in context that Mexico isn't exactly world-renound for its medical care services. Still, sounds like it could be quite serious untreated. Thankfully the WHO got their act together with the whole H5N1 thing and are much more prepared.

Just remember that if you've got the flu, stay at home unless it gets really bad. This thing doesn't have a 100% mortality rate, looks to be more like 2-3% like bird flu was, so you don't want to spread it everywhere just like a regular flu.
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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #23 on: April 28, 2009, 10:28:16 PM »
If 100,000 people die in one week from it and the infected keeps rising its something to be afraid of..
other than that its another media plot to stir shit.

more people die from other diseases each day, reports??
fucking crock of pig shite

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Re: Pig flu? we all doomed or what?
« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2009, 10:42:34 PM »
If 100,000 people die in one week from it and the infected keeps rising its something to be afraid of..
other than that its another media plot to stir shit.

more people die from other diseases each day, reports??
fucking crock of pig shite

The difference is that its a new mutation of a disease we haven't seen before. We shouldn't be surprised, that's exactly what viruses do to survive.

And the big problem with these strains of virus, the ones made of a cocktail of viruses from other animals, is that humans have no natural immunity to it and, like the Black Plague, it attacks people who would otherwise be considered young and healthy. But you've gotta remember that even pandemics like the Black Plague only had about a 2% mortality rate, too. The reason an absoulte biblical amount of people died at the hands of that virus is because they didn't have antibiodics.

But I completely agree with the amount of typical media shit stirring happening at the moment. People have got to realise that when they see the word PANDEMIC it actually means, according to WHO, the fufillment of the following criteria;

* Emergence of a disease new to a population.
* Agents infect humans, causing serious illness.
* Agents spread easily and sustainably among humans.

Theres nothing about killing BILLIONS of people in there, just that theres a new virus in town and we need to be snappy about controlling it before that ~2% blows out of proportion in real terms.
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