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Title: awesomeness!
Post by: Stealth on January 14, 2003, 11:44:07 am
maybe some of you have heard of that strange virus that all the passengers of some luxury liners were catching... well it's spread to a neighboring high-school in my district

this one school on friday had 700 students and 40 teachers/administrators sick with it, and away from school

that school only has like 5000 students... crazy isn't it?
Title: awesomeness!
Post by: an0n on January 14, 2003, 11:49:19 am
Small-pox?
Title: awesomeness!
Post by: Stealth on January 14, 2003, 11:52:21 am
no, it's like a stomach thing... the victims throw up multiple times, etc.
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Post by: Knight Templar on January 14, 2003, 11:52:23 am
That's like so friggin' awesome f0-0lio!
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Post by: Stealth on January 14, 2003, 11:55:40 am
yeah, like one out of six people is sick at the school... i guess Strykes plan to take over the world (starting with making people at a high school sick) is finally showing some results
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Post by: an0n on January 14, 2003, 11:57:04 am
So it's small-pox then.
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Post by: Stealth on January 14, 2003, 12:01:48 pm
no, it's not smallpox... it's an "unknown virus"
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Post by: an0n on January 14, 2003, 12:04:13 pm
So there's a media-block on reporting this small-pox epidemic then?
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Post by: Stealth on January 14, 2003, 12:08:49 pm
it's only in Houston and Galveston i think... uhhh search online, you'll find quite a few articles about it.  it only happened like less than a week ago
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Post by: Ulundel on January 14, 2003, 12:10:56 pm
So, they finally unleashed their porn, err...bio weapons.
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Post by: Stealth on January 14, 2003, 12:15:42 pm
it originated in liners and cruises, people would get violently ill,and i guessit spread to the population :D
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Post by: Ulundel on January 14, 2003, 12:17:42 pm
*sniff* sniff*

*smells some evil plan*

Is it serious BTW?
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Post by: Stealth on January 14, 2003, 12:19:22 pm
not too serious, i don't think many people have died from it.
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Post by: Ulundel on January 14, 2003, 12:20:57 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth
not too serious, i don't think many people have died from it.


Maybe the government just denies it...

*thinks he's been watching too many Hollowood action films*
Title: awesomeness!
Post by: Stealth on January 14, 2003, 12:21:38 pm
naaaaa, i don't think there's any conspiracy behind it :D

i just thought it'd pretty cool that in that high school 700 kids and 40 staff were absent and called in sick with it :D
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Post by: Ulundel on January 14, 2003, 12:23:09 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth
naaaaa, i don't think there's any conspiracy behind it :D

i just thought it'd pretty cool that in that high school 700 kids and 40 staff were absent and called in sick with it :D


yeah no conspiracy...that's what they all say.

And we have about 700 students in our schools goddamit :D
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Post by: Sandwich on January 14, 2003, 12:23:33 pm
*detects Evil Plan somewhere*


Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be biological weapons.
Title: Re: awesomeness!
Post by: Stunaep on January 14, 2003, 12:26:36 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth
maybe some of you have heard of that strange virus that all the passengers of some luxury liners were catching... well it's spread to a neighboring high-school in my district

this one school on friday had 700 students and 40 teachers/administrators sick with it, and away from school

that school only has like 5000 students... crazy isn't it?

that a college?
Title: Re: awesomeness!
Post by: Black Wolf on January 14, 2003, 12:28:45 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth

that school only has like 5000 students... crazy isn't it?


I know! Fancy wasting a perfectly good school with only 5000 students!
Title: Re: Re: awesomeness!
Post by: kode on January 14, 2003, 12:29:22 pm
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Originally posted by Stunaep

that a college?


but of course it is. he just called it a high school because it's on a mountain peak.
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Post by: Stunaep on January 14, 2003, 12:31:03 pm
eh... the average school here as about 700 student.s
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Post by: Stealth on January 14, 2003, 12:59:49 pm
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Originally posted by Stunaep
eh... the average school here as about 700 student.s

perhaps in Estonia or wherever... it was the same in South africa, our school had like 800 students at most...

the school i'm in now has about 3300-3500.

i was exaggerating a little on the high school that got infected by the way, it has about 4000 at max. (found out :) )

still, 700/4000 is quite a lot!

Stunaep: it's not a college, it's a high-school, i said that in my first post :nod: :D
Title: Re: Re: awesomeness!
Post by: Stealth on January 14, 2003, 01:01:39 pm
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Originally posted by Black Wolf


I know! Fancy wasting a perfectly good school with only 5000 students!


lol, when i said "5000 students... crazy aint it?" the 'crazy' part i was referring to the virus... the ratio of people infected ---> total students.  5000 is a very, very big sschool... i think ( see above post ) that it's actually like 4000
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Post by: Stryke 9 on January 14, 2003, 02:36:14 pm
I never liked those cruise liner bastards. Disney, ya know.

Anyway, it's not really an effective bioweapon. Catches like atheism at a revivalist church meeting, but it's only really a two-day flu.

However, the "incurable" bit at least worked- there's no recourse but to ride it out.
Title: awesomeness!
Post by: Sandwich on January 14, 2003, 04:55:18 pm
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Originally posted by StrykeIX
I never liked those cruise liner bastards. Disney, ya know.

Anyway, it's not really an effective bioweapon. Catches like atheism at a revivalist church meeting, but it's only really a two-day flu.

However, the "incurable" bit at least worked- there's no recourse but to ride it out.


{Tom Clancy conspiracy mode}

It could easily be a test with a non-lethal bug to see how rapid and widespread a true bioweapon could spread.

Either that, or it could be a 2-stage bug - give the person the flu at first, lie dormant for a few weeks, and then break out with stage two.  :shaking:
 
{/Tom Clancy conspiracy mode}
Title: awesomeness!
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 14, 2003, 05:00:49 pm
Nah. Mark II comes out in a week- same symptoms, never ends.
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Post by: Knight Templar on January 14, 2003, 05:27:05 pm
well they chose the perfect place :D

(Actually.. I might have liked it better if it were florida)
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Post by: Stealth on January 14, 2003, 06:24:01 pm
Stryke's got it! :D :D :D