Swine Flu

Funny that a few days away from these forums and I return to see the hysteria had hit here as well.

Simply put, no one should be freaking out or showing concern.

1. There will likely be a pandemic of mass proportions in the next 1-100 years.
2. When it happens it will spread so far and fast that you will be dead or near it in the amount of time you would check into a web forum to see if you should be concerned.
3. It won't be Swine Flu, Avian Flu or likely any other flu that we here about spreading from another country (see #2).

Death in the form of a serious pandemic isn't going to be something you can debate about on the cable news stations or in forum boards, period.

Bighead wrote:

This may be a dumb question... but my excuse is that I rarely smoke these days.

What new additive?

They are supposed to alter cigarettes as a fire safety measure to prevent them from burning if left unattended. I havn't heard the details if that's by adding, or removing something already in them. I just know I've been feeling different for about the same amount of time since it started.

BigBadBeast wrote:

Funny that a few days away from these forums and I return to see the hysteria had hit here as well.

Simply put, no one should be freaking out or showing concern.

1. There will likely be a pandemic of mass proportions in the next 1-100 years.
2. When it happens it will spread so far and fast that you will be dead or near it in the amount of time you would check into a web forum to see if you should be concerned.
3. It won't be Swine Flu, Avian Flu or likely any other flu that we here about spreading from another country (see #2).

Death in the form of a serious pandemic isn't going to be something you can debate about on the cable news stations or in forum boards, period.

The 1918 pandemic ran from March to June. Why wouldn't anyone have time to worry about it? As I stated, my family to the best of my info had no deaths while other families in their areas were nearly wiped out. I imagine there was plenty of time for the survivors to worry and hit the party lines in those days.

But other than that, I don't think there's been a huge panic here locally. A few concerns and alot of joking is what I see.

BigBadBeast wrote:

Funny that a few days away from these forums and I return to see the hysteria had hit here as well.

Simply put, no one should be freaking out or showing concern.

1. There will likely be a pandemic of mass proportions in the next 1-100 years.
2. When it happens it will spread so far and fast that you will be dead or near it in the amount of time you would check into a web forum to see if you should be concerned.
3. It won't be Swine Flu, Avian Flu or likely any other flu that we here about spreading from another country (see #2).

Death in the form of a serious pandemic isn't going to be something you can debate about on the cable news stations or in forum boards, period.

Well, I have a box of masks, and hand sanitizer next to my front door, I've also been conducting health evaluations on whomever might be coming into my home!!! No swine flu here!!

I don't see any histeria....

slider, you mean you havn't figured out the panic? The flu is killing America's cheap labor pool.

Ratzilla wrote:

slider, you mean you havn't figured out the panic? The flu is killing America's cheap labor pool.

It's okay, they'll just make more of them to replace the ones that fall.

slider wrote:

Ratzilla wrote:

slider, you mean you havn't figured out the panic? The flu is killing America's cheap labor pool.

It's okay, they'll just make more of them to replace the ones that fall.

No doubt. Check out this vid. I counted at least 26.

If you count the one trying to get out the back window i counted 27

I work with the public every day and all I heard for the first few days was how it was going to run rampant and how there were already two people that died in Kansas (there were two reported cases in KS and the first US death was report two days after these rumors began).

It wasn't every single person I talked to but these rumors were also not exclusive to only a few people either. My remark was that I see the same type of overexuberant concern on these boards.

This shit is how hundreds of people get trampled to death at hairband concerts.

IF we see the likelyhood of a real disease outbreak in this day and age I do believe this will be one of the last areas hit but I also believe that with a strain of anything so advanced as to overcome our current technology completely enough to actually warrant any need for a panic it will likely operate like a chemical warfare agent. Quick, nasty and deadly.

Wash your asses and your hands?! Are we so digressed as a populace that we need to be reminded of this? Should there be a few cases of a sickness that isn't statistically anywhere near as deadly as the garden variety hit our nation to remind us of this and makes us think that no one in the US washes?

I am a germophobe and it has been pretty rediculous to see peoples faces guffaw at the sight of a child's sneeze or an old man's cough. They weren't bat-shit on edge a few weeks ago.

Yeah I suppose there is more hype, but that isn't the publics fault. They hyped up the bird flu and hantevirus before too. I guess I just havn't seen much change where I'm at. When two of us at work got sick last week I told them all it was ok, we just had piglet flu. Everyone laughed and there hasn't been much more said. Yesterday there was even a piece of TP with chocolate donut finger smears left laying on the toilet seat for a joke, so we're our usual demented selves.

fescue wrote:

If you count the one trying to get out the back window i counted 27

When I watched full screen I counted 28 including two who stayed with the van. That was a Messican sardine can.

PANDEMIC II

enjoy...

Sounds like a fun game, but it freezes up on me before it even starts.