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Offline Enigmatic Entity

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If any of you have Mexico in your travel plans...
on: April 27, 2009, 05:36:13 pm
So what do you think of this "swine" flu virus? Do you think it'll go global? Do you think someone made it up and released it hoping for some kind of mass death? Solutions? Discuss:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090424/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu  (I couldn't be bothered searching elsewhere...).
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Reply #1 on: April 27, 2009, 05:38:37 pm
I'm no medical expert, but I've been wary of the "OMG VIRAL OUTBREAK GOING TO KILL US ALL" scares we seem to have every four years or so.
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Re: Sick, I tell you, sick 3.
Reply #2 on: April 27, 2009, 05:49:09 pm
yeah, it all reeks of some conspiracy to sell those little white mask thingys
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Offline Mr. Vega

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Re: Sick, I tell you, sick 3.
Reply #3 on: April 27, 2009, 05:51:48 pm
I'm sure that's what people said originally about Mono Turambar :p
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Re: Sick, I tell you, sick 3.
Reply #4 on: April 27, 2009, 05:55:37 pm
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Re: Sick, I tell you, sick 3.
Reply #5 on: April 27, 2009, 06:33:45 pm
Quote from: Nuclear1 on April 27, 2009, 05:38:37 pm
I'm no medical expert, but I've been wary of the "OMG VIRAL OUTBREAK GOING TO KILL US ALL" scares we seem to have every four years or so.

There's a fine balance between taking due care of this sort of thing and running around like Chicken Little.

On one hand the media loves a good panic. But on the other hand Spanish flu killed around 100 million people. Making people take care and containing these diseases is a good idea. Although SARS and avian flu may seem like an overreaction now it's worth remembering that we have no idea how widespread they would have been had the WHO not come down on any suspected case like a ton of bricks.
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Offline Mars

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Re: Sick, I tell you, sick 3.
Reply #6 on: April 27, 2009, 06:38:02 pm
Hmm, there's two cases right next door in Kansas
 

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Reply #7 on: April 27, 2009, 07:09:36 pm
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Offline Liberator

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Re: Sick, I tell you, sick 3.
Reply #8 on: April 27, 2009, 07:25:23 pm
There's 'Ton 'o Bricks' and then there Janet Napolitano briefing the press corp about it.
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Offline Blue Lion

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Re: Sick, I tell you, sick 3.
Reply #9 on: April 27, 2009, 07:28:29 pm
I may be a panic riddled baby, but I would much rather my government take a good long look at any fatal disease that could become an epidemic.
 

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Re: Sick, I tell you, sick 3.
Reply #10 on: April 27, 2009, 08:20:36 pm
To be honest, I think this may have been around in the US longer than being said. For instance, the past few months, a lot of people have come down with a nasty respiratory infection along with cold/mild flu like symptoms just like the mild cases of the swine flu that are going on in NY. I caught it too, and while much more annoying than deadly, I easily see how this could translate into pneumonia. I got over it after getting a steroid shot from the local Dr.  Now whether or not any relation, I don't know.

The more I'm watching, the more I think that had this just been in the US, it would have likely been just diagnosed as an late season outbreak of the flu or some kind of crud.
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Re: Sick, I tell you, sick 3.
Reply #11 on: April 27, 2009, 08:39:48 pm
 

Offline Commander Zane

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Reply #12 on: April 27, 2009, 09:31:26 pm
The vaccine for it will appear in about two weeks, big deal.
 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Sick, I tell you, sick 3.
Reply #13 on: April 27, 2009, 10:47:59 pm
While this is probably another "YOU CAN PANIC NOW" to some degree, fear is prevention.
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If any of you have Mexico in your travel plans...
Reply #14 on: April 28, 2009, 09:46:09 am
...you may want to consider an alternate destination.  The WHO has raised the pandemic threat to 4.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090427.wflu0428/BNStory/Front/home

And no, this isn't just fear-mongering.  If the lethal strain goes person-to-person and retains its virulence in colder climates, this thing could be 1918 Redux.
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Offline iamzack

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Reply #15 on: April 28, 2009, 09:49:54 am
Well, ****, I'm screwed.
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Offline Topgun

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Re: If any of you have Mexico in your travel plans...
Reply #16 on: April 28, 2009, 09:57:15 am
My friend was going to mexico for his honeymoon.
 

Offline Darius

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Reply #17 on: April 28, 2009, 10:03:00 am
Eh, they said that with SARS and bird flu. SARS was something to get scared about since we didn't have anything to protect against it. At least we've got some treatments for it based on existing H1N1 vaccine stockpiles.
 

Offline Sololop

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Reply #18 on: April 28, 2009, 10:17:56 am
*Flails arms*

We're DOOMED!

Seriously, though, I bet it'll vanish within a few weeks.
 

Offline Turambar

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Re: If any of you have Mexico in your travel plans...
Reply #19 on: April 28, 2009, 10:29:38 am
great time to go to mexico though

i bet plane tickets are super cheap right now
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