Killer Flu...

[The 5th Benitel]

I work for the largest flu virin manufacture in the UK and this current outbreak COULD be quite serious. The thing with bird flu was that it was never transferred person to person, i.e someone with normal winter flu also got bird flu and the two strains mixed, this has already happended with swine flu. The good thing is it doesn't seem to be as strong as bird flu and so most people who have contracted it fully recover. If it continues like that it's just another strain of flu and not much to worry about although it might effect the yound more than the usual sufferers which tend to be the yound and elderly.

 

The real worry is that it subsides now and reapppears in a more virlalent form in the winter when the standard winter flu begins to spread. Hopefully that wot happen but they are definately not over-reacting as that could lead to millions of deaths.

 

There's a chance we could all get our holidays cancelled this summer which hasn't gone down well with the two girls in my team that are getting married in July.

[Dirk]

An interesting take on the situation mate...

 

Ben Goldacre: Swine flu and hype – a media illness | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

 

He's blob on too. I mentioned on RAOTL that there will be a response from some people, to ignore this in defiance of the press, when they should really seek out the facts. Read the bits quoted from reputable scientists and fuck the rest off and, even the, don't be certain that they haven't twisted the quotes, chopped them up.

[Mr T]

He's blob on too. I mentioned on RAOTL that there will be a response from some people, to ignore this in defiance of the press, when they should really seek out the facts. Read the bits quoted from reputable scientists and fuck the rest off and, even the, don't be certain that they haven't twisted the quotes, chopped them up.

 

Yep he's pretty much nailed the whole thing in about 500 words.

 

News reporting on science is generally shite, and attempting to give 'balance' to it actually distorts the picture further - we're talking about statistics probability and risk.

 

For flu pandemics the risk is high, but we are now so cynical of the media that we don't believe it even if they are stating the facts. That's partly the medias fault and partly our own for engorging ourselves on 24 hour rolling news.

[Faustus]

I, for one, am genuinely worried. The Daily Mail have said that paedophile terrorists are the main carriers of the disease.

[Silvah]

I work for the largest flu virin manufacture in the UK and this current outbreak COULD be quite serious. The thing with bird flu was that it was never transferred person to person, i.e someone with normal winter flu also got bird flu and the two strains mixed, this has already happended with swine flu. The good thing is it doesn't seem to be as strong as bird flu and so most people who have contracted it fully recover. If it continues like that it's just another strain of flu and not much to worry about although it might effect the yound more than the usual sufferers which tend to be the yound and elderly.

 

The real worry is that it subsides now and reapppears in a more virlalent form in the winter when the standard winter flu begins to spread. Hopefully that wot happen but they are definately not over-reacting as that could lead to millions of deaths.

 

There's a chance we could all get our holidays cancelled this summer which hasn't gone down well with the two girls in my team that are getting married in July.

 

They better not get cancelled. I've got my honeymoon in Spetember, which I'm looking forward to more then my wedding (yes, don't worry my mrs doesn't come on this)

 

p.s. Are the 2 lesbians in your office hot?

[Rex Banner]

Bird flu kicks swine flu's ass. This whole thing is so stupid you know you would get arrested if you shouted bomb in a public place but the news is allowed to stir up fear and panic willy nilly.

[col06]

I'd like to thank Mexicans for taking one for the team and being the one's who get wiped out. I'm sure you'll have a small plaque made to honour you all and stuck somewhere out of sight so we will remember than you once existed.

 

Peru, I'm looking at you as being next in line for future illness. You're least likely to be missed. Maybe the Welsh can be after them.

 

repped for quality ;)

[Hermes]

Bird flu kicks swine flu's ass.

 

Really? It killed more humans in 3 days than bird flu managed in 3 years.

[Rex Banner]

Really? It killed more humans in 3 days than bird flu managed in 3 years.

 

Only because of where it is, bird flu had it harder

[Elmyn Noos]

I heard there'd been a case reported in Scotland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good.

[Hooch]

Even thick fucks are cynical of the media nowadays.

 

Progress baby.

[Anubis]

An interesting take on the situation mate...

 

Ben Goldacre: Swine flu and hype – a media illness | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Cheers for that. Interesting read.

[Spy Bee]

If bird flu had a fight with swine flu who'd win?

[melons]

If bird flu had a fight with swine flu who'd win?

 

neither, have you not read the full thread, this virus clever enough to mutate, promote growth, adapt during mitosis and eventually become one of these

 

[Malarkey]

They better not get cancelled. I've got my honeymoon in Spetember, which I'm looking forward to more then my wedding (yes, don't worry my mrs doesn't come on this)

 

p.s. Are the 2 lesbians in your office hot?

 

I'm going to Mexico in June. I have been generally thinking about all of this Swine flu business and came out with this thesis:

 

If two people on a flight from Cancun have swine flu, how havent the rest been infected? I believe that the air in a cabin is pressurised and that everyone is more or less a foor (if that) away from eachother. If this disease is a bad ass killer like the press is making out, why arent the other dozens infected?

 

It's a load of shite. It will blow over in a month anyway. If it doesn't, Thomas Cook have offered me other destinations for an exchange or a full refund including my deposit. But I'll probably go to Cancun and take the chance because if 40,000 britons went to Cancun last month and about 10 at the most got infected, I think I'll take the chance.

[Anubis]

Here's some unintentionally funny shit, right here....

 

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[Anubis]

The gift that keeps on giving....

 

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[Red Phoenix]

Here's some unintentionally funny shit, right here....

 

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Anyone else think that guy might have issues?

 

Reminds me of a Bill Hicks joke where he was on about making weed mandatory, then some guy being made to have a bit and then saying something like "Ah I'm sorry, I was talking life seriously!" Maybe Bill was imagining a guy like that...

[Kurt]

Thousands. The difference is they were mostly people who were already sick with some other ailment. This is killing otherwise healthy people.

 

Really?... That is certainly good news for most of us on this forum.

 

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[Fugitive]

He really likes Bruce Springsteen.

 

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[WaltonRed]

I'm bemused as to why people brush this off as just another scare story???

 

If it was allowed to spread, the results could be catastrophic. If the governments just ignored it, then people would complain, and now that they're raising concerns and making more anti-viral medicines, people are still complaining.

 

What can they do to look good in peoples eyes?

 

Its the whole hysteria that gets me, I totally understand they have to contain it but it just smells of bullshit to me.

 

Silvah, it's the way the press are treating it. Instead of just giving a balanced view of it and saying anyone presenting with symptoms should just seek medical help as it's clearly treatable, they are instead peddling stories of doom and mass extinction. And I'm fucked off with it. I want a return to the days when the news sought out facts, not told everyone they're going to die. We've imported this sensationalist nonsense from US news channels and it's shit.

 

Spot on.

 

Sky News are a disgrace, 8 cases in Britain alone it said before as if there was only ten of us in the whole country.

 

8 in a nation of over 60m people is a drop in the ocean, 8000 I might say fair enough but 8?

[Section_31]

There might be method to some of the hysteria madness though. If it stops even one scruff from not washing his hands it might save someone a very uncomfortable 72 hours with their head in the toilet.

[Rex Banner]

Obama dedicated 1.5 billion dollars to this flu, way to tighten those purse stings Barry.

I'm getting really annoyed now, influenza kills thousands every year.

It's like killer bee's it's just something exciting for the news to talk about for a while before everyone realises it's no worse than influenza. I saw one news talking about where cases had been reported and there was 1 case reported in Canada so they put their graphic up showing all of Canada infected because one baby got sick.

If your not old, a baby, weak or incredible poor and dirty there is nothing to worry about.

[Anubis]

There might be method to some of the hysteria madness though. If it stops even one scruff from not washing his hands it might save someone a very uncomfortable 72 hours with their head in the toilet.

 

Bit aren't they the people we want to cull....

[Hermes]

neither, have you not read the full thread, this virus clever enough to mutate, promote growth, adapt during mitosis and eventually become one of these

 

 

 

Ohhhhhh, yeaaaahhhh.....................and pigs might fly.