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Post by lildevil92 on May 1, 2009 7:37:30 GMT -5
Who else is loving the media doing a bang up job sensationalising this? Btw, not posting this to flame people. I merely, just want to know what other people think about this. =D
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Post by YFWE on May 1, 2009 11:03:19 GMT -5
doihaveswineflu.org/All you need to know. Really, though, it is being blown out of proportion. Kind of like... well, most similar diseases in the last ten years. The buzz will die down soon enough.
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Post by Max Power on May 1, 2009 19:26:56 GMT -5
On the plus side it's taking people's minds off the economy.
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Post by charles finley. on May 2, 2009 1:42:12 GMT -5
^How true.
OHSH-TGUYSTHESWINEFLUISGONNAKILLUSALL!!!!!!!111
Yeah, well, so are 2012 and global warming. :]
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Post by The New Zealand Dragon on May 3, 2009 0:31:58 GMT -5
When I left America I had to get checked and everything when I got back into NZ. It was so stupid because some people wore all this over the top protection and some people wore none so if any of us actually had it the spread would have been easy.
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on May 3, 2009 3:22:14 GMT -5
I heard the threat level of it is not high enough yet, moreover, my priest yesterday told me it has no cure either. So you can never be too careful, just be cautious, without a cure is just like reviving back the old SARS problem.
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Post by The New Zealand Dragon on May 3, 2009 22:58:36 GMT -5
Yes but I'm talking about security guards who have to stand at that gate all day without masks on or anything. When they checked me out they didn't do much anyway so if i did have it i don't think they would have stopped me.
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Post by Desertscar on May 4, 2009 0:31:16 GMT -5
HERP DERP SWINE FLUE IS GUN KEEL US ALL.
I love how much people exxagerate over how bad it is, when it's the flu, but only a different strain of it. It's like it's the new SARS or something.
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Post by charles finley. on May 5, 2009 19:15:57 GMT -5
GUYS IT'S NOT CALLED THE SWINE FLU ANYMORE. IT'S CALLED H1N1. D: Just because people are scared to eat pigs now. -rolls eyes-
-looks at CDC- Hmm, Alaska doesn't have any confirmed yet. Nor do nine other states.
Actually, the threat level is at Pandemic Stage 5, which basically means it's in a couple of the places in the world. Pandemic Stage 6 is all over the world. So, if you look at it that way, yes, it's bad - but it's only bad because we don't have a cure for it.
-shrugs. 'Sides, they're not going to talk about the people who actually LIVE through it. Hell, I'm reading a book about the 1918 Spanish Flu, and everytime they mention the deaths out of the original number ... well, let's face it - 1,600 something out of 16,000 isn't THAT bad ... >_>
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on May 6, 2009 3:00:50 GMT -5
Just the same as bird flu except it's targeting pigs, as far as I'm concerned, the Chinese or Asians are going to worry more about that.
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Post by Chaos on May 6, 2009 21:18:13 GMT -5
Swine flu pisses me off so much. Not JUST because of overreaction (which is a big reason, but it's fun to toy with people who are scared of it), but because if I call people swines then they'll freak out. D=
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Post by Max Power on May 7, 2009 23:42:23 GMT -5
I just went to see Star Trek today and some people in the back were having a conversation and one person audibly spoke out "SWINE FLU" in the middle of a sentence. Just after that, I saw three people get up and leave the theater. I never saw them come back.
I was hoping it was just people that figured they were in the wrong theater because jeez.
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Post by Atecom on May 8, 2009 21:07:36 GMT -5
Swine flu pisses me off so much. Not JUST because of overreaction (which is a big reason, but it's fun to toy with people who are scared of it), but because if I call people swines then they'll freak out. D= Why does it piss people off that there was an overreaction? The overreaction was probably one of the main reasons the swine flu didn't become very serious
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Post by Max Power on May 8, 2009 21:21:00 GMT -5
Oh no, The Virus Formerly Known as Swine Flu is now OFFICIALLY in my area!
...At least I think it is. I'll find out at 11 according to my local news station!
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Post by charles finley. on May 8, 2009 21:31:44 GMT -5
rofl. I'm always making jokes about the Swine Flu, people are getting so pissed at me. Like, seriously, Alaska doesn't even have it yet. D:
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