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« Reply #15 on: May 04, 2009, 05:57:00 AM »
Oh well...now the talking heads are sayin\' that the threat is not as great as it was....at least the pharmacutical(spel) companies enjoyed a small boost in their stock from this thing...:D

It really is idiotic...once you had folks talkin\' about shuttin\' down major corporations, and then you had folks slaughtering pigs all over the world in fear of this flu, (thus impacting the business side of it) all of a sudden the threat is not as bad as these experts thought...money overrides everything.
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« Reply #16 on: May 04, 2009, 06:21:49 AM »
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That means what exactly?

That has nothing to do with the potential of H1N1.

Go ahead and quote some statistic that says reg. flu kills 36k+ a year.


You know what, you want to worry about every single thing that could potentially kill you, go for it, but the fact is, this round of H1N1 is not a legitimate threat of being a pandemic.  Even if it was, what are you going to do differently than you do now?  The last time we had a legit swine flu scare that did serious damage was in 1918, every other instance since has been contained.

People here are becoming OCD with washing their hands and buying as much anti-bacteria everything they can get their grubby hands on.  I hear whispered conversations about super-viruses that can withstand everything, and all around friggen mass-hysteria over something that has killed ONE person in the United States.  Its just ridiculous.


And yes, I live in Austin, TX
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« Reply #17 on: May 04, 2009, 07:05:11 AM »
Heres a little bit of wisdom from a guy I work with that I appreciated...


"A couple hundred people get the flu and now everybody wearin\' masks... A million people got AIDS and aint nobody usin\' condoms".

And Luckee, you can\'t ignore the fact that the "regular" flu kills thousands of people every year... How come we don\'t flip out like this every summer?

Oh yeah, its because the media doesn\'t tell us to.
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« Reply #18 on: May 04, 2009, 08:13:19 AM »
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You know what, you want to worry about every single thing that could potentially kill you, go for it, but the fact is, this round of H1N1 is not a legitimate threat of being a pandemic.  Even if it was, what are you going to do differently than you do now?  The last time we had a legit swine flu scare that did serious damage was in 1918, every other instance since has been contained.

People here are becoming OCD with washing their hands and buying as much anti-bacteria everything they can get their grubby hands on.  I hear whispered conversations about super-viruses that can withstand everything, and all around friggen mass-hysteria over something that has killed ONE person in the United States.  Its just ridiculous.


And yes, I live in Austin, TX



I\'m not doing anything different. What is your point?

Are you trying to prove a media scare? I think that is obvious.

People should not underestimate new strains of virus\'.
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« Reply #19 on: May 04, 2009, 08:14:39 AM »
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Heres a little bit of wisdom from a guy I work with that I appreciated...


"A couple hundred people get the flu and now everybody wearin\' masks... A million people got AIDS and aint nobody usin\' condoms".

And Luckee, you can\'t ignore the fact that the "regular" flu kills thousands of people every year... How come we don\'t flip out like this every summer?

Oh yeah, its because the media doesn\'t tell us to.



yea..I think I stated that above.......

regular flu is just that, common and is different than this strain. seems simple to me....
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« Reply #20 on: May 04, 2009, 08:25:15 AM »
The flu virus is different every year. Next seasons flu wont be the same as this seasons.
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« Reply #21 on: May 04, 2009, 09:28:13 AM »
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The flu virus is different every year. Next seasons flu wont be the same as this seasons.



That is common knowledge with almost any sort of germ.
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« Reply #22 on: May 04, 2009, 10:33:29 AM »
I just don\'t get your logic by saying, "don\'t underestimate it"

Of course it could turn into a lethal killer of millions, but how else am I supposed to look at it other than indifference?  I personally can\'t do anything about it either way.

and I\'ll completely admit it, definitely read that you said the media scare was warranted, my apologies.
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« Reply #23 on: May 04, 2009, 11:48:09 AM »
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That is common knowledge with almost any sort of germ.


Ok, so what are we fighting about again? I\'m lost.
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« Reply #24 on: May 04, 2009, 12:05:02 PM »
I wasn\'t aware we were fighting. *dunno*
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« Reply #25 on: May 04, 2009, 12:43:00 PM »
Well we were!

God dammit Luckee, your opinions are wrong, and mine are right!
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« Reply #26 on: May 04, 2009, 04:41:46 PM »
everyones right

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/04/swine.flu.main/index.html

tis why i made a joke thread of this thing.

slow news week so the news found their chance to use the word \'pandemic\'
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« Reply #27 on: May 04, 2009, 04:48:31 PM »
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Well we were!

God dammit Luckee, your opinions are wrong, and mine are right!



YEAH!








wait, what?
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« Reply #28 on: May 10, 2009, 05:04:33 PM »
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You know what, you want to worry about every single thing that could potentially kill you, go for it, but the fact is, this round of H1N1 is not a legitimate threat of being a pandemic.  Even if it was, what are you going to do differently than you do now?  The last time we had a legit swine flu scare that did serious damage was in 1918, every other instance since has been contained.

People here are becoming OCD with washing their hands and buying as much anti-bacteria everything they can get their grubby hands on.  I hear whispered conversations about super-viruses that can withstand everything, and all around friggen mass-hysteria over something that has killed ONE person in the United States.  Its just ridiculous.


And yes, I live in Austin, TX


Nice so do I basically, not in Austin but just outside.
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« Reply #29 on: May 13, 2009, 04:04:36 PM »
I live more or less downtown.  Fun city, too bad I\'m only here for another month.
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