akirahedgehog
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2 cases now in Milwaukee! Oh no that's 60 miles away from me!
The return of Swine Flu
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Jellybones
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Apparently now someone in my school has it. Still not panicked.
autosaver said:
Wait, you were planning a trip to go to the doctor's? *pwned*
As for me, I'm not scared. 50-100 deaths in Mexico is not much; it's not something to actually panic over.
JEV3
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Cue said:
Oh? I was told it was the water...
At any rate, after going through the Y2K scare, the Avian Flu scare, and etc etc etc, I'm not about to let this or 2012 drive me paranoid. As far as I'm concerned, its not worth going berserk just because you THINK that there's an end-of-the-world disaster going on, and if there REALLY is one, its not like you are going to be able to stop it anyway.
As for epidemics, I would say that everyone that is stable enough to post on an internet forum knows how to practice good hygiene, so what else is there to worry about?
Great, another one of these flus, and the media are making a total big scare thing out of it.
This is just what it was like when Bird influenza was spreading a few years back, as soon as it hit, media started going mental, then it started everyone going mental. The deaths are happening more due to lack of resources in Mexico, but because UK & US have more resources, it is resulting in less deaths. This can be cured easy if the mexicans, and other infected areas which have this virus try and act against it, but as Cue said, because it's a third party country, they don't have much resources, and the immune systems are pretty weak, and also, it can take as good as a couple of weeks (maybe 4 - 6 weeks) and a lot of areas are going to be restricted if it's that bad.
This is just what it was like when Bird influenza was spreading a few years back, as soon as it hit, media started going mental, then it started everyone going mental. The deaths are happening more due to lack of resources in Mexico, but because UK & US have more resources, it is resulting in less deaths. This can be cured easy if the mexicans, and other infected areas which have this virus try and act against it, but as Cue said, because it's a third party country, they don't have much resources, and the immune systems are pretty weak, and also, it can take as good as a couple of weeks (maybe 4 - 6 weeks) and a lot of areas are going to be restricted if it's that bad.
Great, people are making LittleBigPlanet levels out of this. The level I saw used messages in the level promoting social health care and that corporations created it themselves. This is just so lame.
There are other REAL epidemics that need to be on media more, like "Porn continues to tear families apart!"
There are other REAL epidemics that need to be on media more, like "Porn continues to tear families apart!"
Hey guess what guys! I live in the state that had the first reported cases in the US, and only so many miles away from the city they were reported in! Whatever.
It's nothing more than a scare; it's merely a modified influenza strand (yes, modified). Same symptoms, the only reason people are dying from it is the same reason people die from influenza - extreme cases, lack of treatment. Given it's not easy to treat a new strand, people can still prevent it.
It's a frivolous thing. My school's already planning on shutting down as soon as a case is reported. Some schools here have already done so. Seriously guys, preventable, the likelihood of dying from it is about as much as from the common strand.
It's nothing more than a scare; it's merely a modified influenza strand (yes, modified). Same symptoms, the only reason people are dying from it is the same reason people die from influenza - extreme cases, lack of treatment. Given it's not easy to treat a new strand, people can still prevent it.
It's a frivolous thing. My school's already planning on shutting down as soon as a case is reported. Some schools here have already done so. Seriously guys, preventable, the likelihood of dying from it is about as much as from the common strand.
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fawfulfan said:
If anything I'd say it brings them closer.
Just kidding! It's off-topic but it's probably not on the news because it's been around, for, like...ever? It's hard to stop it because it's available to anyone now.
Jacy
Now with less viruses
The world suddenly exploding into a flaming orb of doom?Jellybones69 said:
Today a kid was taken to the hospital after they fainted. All the kids are saying it was swine flu, but it could be anything... Like too warm of a classroom or overexhaustion in PE.(The PE teachers are cruel, they make you walk around the track and don't let you stop to take a breath or if you start getting cramps. Yeah, when walking starts giving you cramps, it's best to just walk it off, yeah.)
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SonicMaster: The Ned Flanders of SRB2. >_> Grow up:SonicMaster: said:
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Hyperknux is right about the media. I go to WordPress and it's weird how I always see the words "Swine Flu" in posts on the front page. Also, in my previous post, I said that a guy had a swine flu prevention shot and had a cold. Well, I was reading (again) an article on Swine Flu on a CNN blog and one commented that she had a shot too, and in the next month, she had a heart attack. I'm still wondering why everytime I read that a person gets shot by some prevention, they get sick in a few days/months later. It's either the tools aren't clean or it's only a side effect.
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