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Cheese Elemental wrote:Pah, you wish. Australia saved you all in WW2; without us, Japan would have annihilated America.

QFT. WHO saved/regained/invaded North Africa? Besides, Australia and New Zealand are just meatshield to the brits. See "Gallipoli"

JUST RELEASED: New set of symptoms:

1) Coughing
2) Sneezing
3) Sore Throat
4) Runny Eyes
5) The overwhelming urge to roll in your own excrement

AIEEEEEE! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!

And yet, part of me feels that humanity is well overdue a good, old fashioned thinning of the numbers.

I'm sure this will wreak the same levels of devastation as the Burd Flu, Sars, Mad Cows Disease and Salmonella epidemics that the tabloids all insisted were going to be the end of civilization.

You'll excuse me if I opt not to lapse into a fear induced coma.

On the subject of Drug Companies and their charges, I wonder how Doctors, who swear the Hypocratic Oath upon completion of training, reconcile said oath with the blatant money grubbing the Drug Companies so often indulge in? Surely the two ethos are diametrically opposed.

The Doctor swears to ease suffering and cure people wherever they can, refusing no one, to which the Drug Companies reply....

'Only if you've got the readies matey'

LuciusAR wrote:

You'll excuse me if I opt not to lapse into a fear induced coma.

But those are the best kind!

I loves me a good epidemic!!!

LuciusAR wrote:

You'll excuse me if I opt to lapse into a chocolate induced coma.

Fixed your typo.

Woop woop, chocolate!!!!!
My mom is actually allergic to chocolate, she can die from eating it...

I would kill myself, or more precisely others.

ShumaGorath wrote:This thing is hardly an epidemic. It's less fatal than bird flu was and far less widespread. Hows bird flu anyway, I stopped paying attention after nothing happened.

It's just another international scare scheme to drum up news profits.

They're probably waiting for an actual emergency. Or danger. This is neither.

i agree with this, i mean c'mon, there are 2-10 people in England with it right now, and they are all in quarantine, we have nothing to fear until man-flu comes about

plus, i believe scientists have a 'basic' flu vaccine that can be modified to suit another strain of it.

Nurgle must not be allowed to take our bacon!

NEVER!

Thats both funny and sad,but really the one reporter on CNN said he got a twitter(I think they are called twits,Im not really one for social networking sites.)from a guy saying he is thinking of buying and oxygen tank and wearing it on a plane flight he is going on.

There is only one important question to ask in the midst of all this:

"Are the people who have died of Swine Flu coming back as zombies?"

If no, then I'm not too worried.

If yes, then I need to make an S-Mart run.

We have 36,000 deaths each year from the normal flu in the US alone. How many have died from the swine flu worldwide??? Yeah come back to me when the numbers get up there.

"Never let a good crisis go to waste." - Rahm Emanuel


Check out this history lesson on the 1976 swine flu pandemic that never was.

http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/04/28/1976_swine_flu/

Gwar! wrote:
Yeah, feth you guys, I'm moving to Madagascar before the Port closes

Dude, that's exactly what I was thinking! See you there!

And actually it's kind of creepy, at my dad's work, this one guy's girlfriend was in a class, and there was this mexican girl who started to cough and was removed from the class by campus security.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Pah, you wish. Australia saved you all in WW2; without us, Japan would have annihilated America.

Yeah, a mostly barren island with just under 3700 residents WON WWII.

Being stuck way down in the corner of the map, you're just lucky the rest of the world even remembers you exist. You're like a 27 hour plane ride from anything. It's not like there's any reason to visit, other than to see weird wildlife. And we have zoos for that.

Vladsimpaler wrote:

Gwar! wrote:
Yeah, feth you guys, I'm moving to Madagascar before the Port closes

Dude, that's exactly what I was thinking! See you there!

And actually it's kind of creepy, at my dad's work, this one guy's girlfriend was in a class, and there was this mexican girl who started to cough and was removed from the class by campus security.

I would follow you both but damn air fair is so much!!!

Gitkikka wrote:There is only one important question to ask in the midst of all this:

"Are the people who have died of Swine Flu coming back as zombies?"

If no, then I'm not too worried.

If yes, then I need to make an S-Mart run.

True dat. But I can't help wondering if these increasingly frequent cycles are a coverup for something bigger.

Umm, this is mad cow, that's why the brains were bad. Yes, it spreads by eating brains. No, they weren't eating brains, the ummmm, cows were. Crud, I mean they were fed brains. Yeah, that's it.
Oh, that,? Just, ummm bird flu. that's it. Nothing suspicious about that. We just had to cut off the heads for testing. Rumors of quarantined villages being eradicated are blatant lies.
Mexico? Yeah, swine flu. No, I'm sure. Of course the victims didn't bite anyone. It's just the flu. Burning the bodies if perfectly normal. And people often moan and wander around when sick.


Nah, probably just a scare scam to make pharma business more money. Thank you corporate media!

Don't none of you worry if Mexico goes undead, Texas has got this. MINUTEMEN HOOOO!

Seriously though send help, we only fire the guns to make noise.

Ahhh Pandemic, don't know why you're all panicing really, theres nothing to great about it apart from mexico getting it rough, maybe this is the start of the chaos nurgle as we know it in the 40k world ?

Meh either way i'm not worried yet if im dead from swine flu then, i might start worrying but we'll see haha

All the best
Wolf

You're OK as long unless the wanderers are moaning "¡Cerebros! ¡Más cerebros!

I guess now is a good time to make one of these!

Flu can be a killer, the last real outbreak was in 1918 and it killed about as many people as WW1, so there is room for concern.

However times have changed, world health is more prepared even in the developing world. This is Swine Flu, not Italian Flu (cookie to the first to recognise the source).

And I see there are cases in Israel.

I'm expecting an epidemic in the Palestinian Territories any day now.

Not that it would be a convenient coincidence or cheaper than guns and men or owt.

gorgon wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:Pah, you wish. Australia saved you all in WW2; without us, Japan would have annihilated America.

Yeah, a mostly barren island with just under 3700 residents WON WWII.

Being stuck way down in the corner of the map, you're just lucky the rest of the world even remembers you exist. You're like a 27 hour plane ride from anything. It's not like there's any reason to visit, other than to see weird wildlife. And we have zoos for that.

There's no need to insult my country for me pointing out an historical fact. And our population, by the way, is 21 million plus. Even in the present day, you can't deny Australia's importance; we're the closest 'western' neighbour to Asia.

On-topic: This probably isn't anything serious. We have had loads of 'ultimate killer diseases' like SARS and Avian flu, and I doubt that this is any different. If you look at the number of deaths in pandemics since 1918, they have decreased greatly thanks to a modernised health system.

The threat comes from where it's developing. In Mexico City, in one day alone, Hospitals dealt with 7,000 people with Flu like symptoms.

Now granted, not all will have the disease, but given Mexicos poor health service, the virus has a lot of potential hosts to mature and adapt in. Given that number, it's entirely possible it will develop into a drug resistant strain in a relatively short time, then my friends, we are boned.

The drugs being administered right now are apparently only effective in the early stages, which is not a good thing.

So no panic right now, sure. But give it a few months.....

That's what they said about SARS and bird flu.

I'm going to go up to a farm and make out with pigs just to spite you pandemic people.

(Only female pigs though, otherwise it would be the gey.)

Cheese Elemental wrote:
There's no need to insult my country for me pointing out an historical fact. And our population, by the way, is 21 million plus. Even in the present day, you can't deny Australia's importance; we're the closest 'western' neighbour to Asia.

c,mon your only export is some slowed guy who likes to stick his thump up a croc gak hole(get the reference)
and he aint even that great really i laghed when he died.
ot: we need to get started on that 100 ft wall on the border soon then
To home depot!!!!!!!!!

Orkeosaurus wrote:I'm going to go up to a farm and make out with pigs just to spite you pandemic people.

(Only female pigs though, otherwise it would be the gey.)

Only if the balls touch

garret wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:
There's no need to insult my country for me pointing out an historical fact. And our population, by the way, is 21 million plus. Even in the present day, you can't deny Australia's importance; we're the closest 'western' neighbour to Asia.

c,mon your only export is some slowed guy who likes to stick his thump up a croc gak hole(get the reference)
and he aint even that great really i laghed when he died.
ot: we need to get started on that 100 ft wall on the border soon then
To home depot!!!!!!!!!

Have you taken an english class in your life?