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Author Topic: Pig Flu Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-30-2009 02:58 PM                    Well? We have a handful of confirmed cases about five miles from my house. Time for some plastic and duct tape to quarantine my house I guess... or rather quarantine the outside world. What's going on in your area?  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-30-2009 03:18 PM                     I am concerned about this but I also think it is nothing to worry about. People are blowing this thing way out of proportion. We have seen flu epidemics and pandemics before. There was the Asian flu in the 50's. There was the Hong Kong flu in the 60's. In the 70's there were outbreaks of swine flu and Russian flu in the 70's. There were several outbreaks of bird flu and variants of Asian flu all throughout the 80's and 90's. The current outbreak of swine flu is just another in a long line of flu outbreaks. The world didn't end on any of those outbreaks. It's not going to end this time either. My advice is to watch your health, eat the right foods, wash your hands a lot and avoid being around people who might be sick. The BEST thing you can do is to stop watching the news!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-30-2009 04:12 PM                        More people die from the regular flu each year. I am more concerned with catching a cold. It's just the news media trying to get everyone to watch/read. They love to blow things out of proportion. It's how they stay in business. Fear mongering = $$$.  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 04-30-2009 04:56 PM                     Pig Flu Over The Cookoos Nest???  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-30-2009 04:57 PM                     I read the other day that over 10,000 people have died from the regular strains of flu so far this year. I had it a week ago myself! In typical fashion the media is eating this one up... They got ham here but absolutely no cheese! Mark  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 04-30-2009 06:00 PM                     More horseshit and fear mongering from the sorry assed completely worthless federal government and news? media  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 04-30-2009 06:37 PM                     I found it most ironic that Time magazine ran an article that said that our government's vaccination program in response to the 1976 Swine Flu outbreak was an example of how not to respond to the flu AND that we should consider more draconian responses to this current one. Essentially, they're saying "The draconian response in 1976 shows us how not to do the job right and we should right now consider doing the same exact things they did." FFS, more people died as a result of the vaccine than the fucking Swine Flu and lots of the people who didn't die instead got paralyzed.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-30-2009 07:34 PM                     Its this guy's fault.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 04-30-2009 07:42 PM                     A little pig snot should provide immunity same as a flu vaccine.  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 04-30-2009 08:15 PM                     According to the World Health Orginization, there have only been 7 confirmed deaths caused by swine flu, all in Mexico. The major media would have you believe hundreds have died.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-30-2009 09:43 PM                     I think the only legitimate concern about the swine flu is that it could mutate into a new strain as it passes from person to person. The worry is a new strain would be more difficult for a person's immune system to fight. The good news is the flu season is all but over with the weather getting warm. I think the media got hold of this news after the disease had run much of its course. Garden variety influenza causes around 20,000 deaths in the United States every year, although some estimates go as high as 60,000. I saw some statistic a couple days ago that said upwards of half a million people worldwide die from complications brought on by influenza every year. Locally, no one here in Lawton has come down with swine flu. AFAIK there have been no confirmed cases in Oklahoma. A couple of students in Wichita Falls turned up positive for it. So the school systems went ape shit and canceled lots of athletic events, school functions and then just shut down school.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-30-2009 10:28 PM                     quote: Bobby Henderson The good news is the flu season is all but over with the weather getting warm. For your hemisphere maybe.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 04-30-2009 10:53 PM                     There are bound to be scores of UNREPORTED cases of "Swine Flu" as some of us don't usually go to the doctor when we get sick. What can a doctor really do? It's a viral infection. Chicken Soup and bed rest.  |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 04-30-2009 11:07 PM                     I'm not concerned. This flu "pandemic" is being way less blown out of proportion than the recent bird flu, meaning it is way less dangerous. Since it is less dangerous than the bird flu, and I didn't die of that, I obviously can't die of this strain of flu. Remember how the bird flu was supposed to infect 100,000,000 Americans, and prove fatal to 50,000,000? Oh yeah.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-30-2009 11:28 PM                    No, I don't remember that.  |  IP: Logged

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