Hey, playing Resident Evil during a zombie invasion could bestow upon you uncommon skill in zombie killing... hmmm....
What have we learnt from Pandemic 2?
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EVERYONE TO MADAGASCAR, QUICK!

Several countries have banned imports of raw pork and pork products from Mexico and parts of the US, although experts say there is no evidence to link exposure to pork with infection.

Shares in airlines have fallen sharply on fears about the economic impact of the outbreak.

Yes, Well calculated control. but Bird flu was confined to a small area (what, less than 0.01% of the globe?), and yet, it became a WORLD WIDE scare, people on the OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE GLOBE where in hysterics and not eating chicken, and buying bulk anti-biotics because of 5 or 6 people in a country some of them might not have heard of. Mad cow disease was more threatening, and its not even a REAL DISEASE! Its a Defective self-replicating protein, people in small 3rd world country's get conditions near identical to mad cow disease from cannibalizing decaying people, it works the same way as the Sci-fi Ice-9 crap, except it takes proteins out of brain-cells to replicate and it makes people go insane, feel tremendous pain (due to nerve damage in the brain) and eventually they fall asleep and die, after weeks of insomnia.

Mad Cow Disease had a legitimate reason to BE afraid, but given it CAN'T SPREAD from person to person unless you fudge EAT THERE DEAD BODY, and all they had to do is re-call the meat and destroy it, and isolate the infected cows, and stop feeding dead cow to other cows to save money on feeding them, and guess what? no more mad cow disease, Wasn't it isolated in the UK or something? there is no reason anyone else on the PLANET should have worried or even CARED about mad cow disease at that point in time.

Swine flu, is exactly like that, Yes, If it mutates, or spreads to a larger populous through say, an airport, then yes, time to get scared, but its in a CLOSED SOCIETY, of people who are hiding in there homes in there small town, NOT moving, NOT talking to eachother, and THEY are getting to paranoid, and the CDC is all over it, keeping it from spreading, Until some protocol is broken and someone INTENTIONALLY spreads it, there is no reason ANYONE NOT INVOLVED should give a rat's ass about it!





I agree, people often cite it, but the one thing that must be understood is that bacteria and viruses don't 'procreate' or even mix. If its 2 bacterial strains then they will KILL EACHOTHER, break appart the DNA/RNA and recycle the materials, not using the actual code,

The ONLY way it could spread is if BOTH strains mutated and for some reason didn't attack eachother, and then BOTH spread to the same host.

Viruses however are just shells made of protein that contain RNA, they hook onto a cell like velcro, and inject the RNA into the cell, which then thinks that the RNA is it's own.

Viruses can't infect other viruses. EVER. The only thing that can happen is if 2 viruses BOTH infect the SAME CELL, and the 2 strands of RNA get mixed, and even then it would probably be defective and just kill the host cell.

The odds of ANY non-human flu spreading to a human, and being contagious, are about the same as wining the lottery and getting struck by lightning at the same time. it wont fudge happen.




AIDS kills HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people, I'm pretty sure the death-toll from aids is already past 1 BILLION by now, and where's the AIDS quarentine? THERE ISN'T ONE.

The CDC has made NO attempt to isolate people with aids to prevent interaction with uninfected persons.

Yes Africa is where most of those infected with aids are at. Just send everyone with aids to africa, and don't let anyone leave, guess what, No more aids. That however is cruel.

Has the CDC made ANY statement, that AIDS could spread to other species the same wait as Swine-flu, or bird flu? Nope! Have they suggested that AIDS could potentially mutate the same way to become airborn? Nope! They won't even humor the idea.

Bird flu went over the 'entire planet' and killed a staggering what, 81-89 people? and the whole damn world was watching, Meanwhile AIDS has swept the 'entire planet' and killed, or infected 950,000+ people. Bird flue is an astounding 4% fatal, but AIDS is only a measly little 100% fatal.

Mass media Downplay of AIDS, by Up-playing other viruses that have a lower chance of doing a damn thing. Have you noticed the serious problems are never on the news? Where is the national news tracker saying that 4 AIDS infected Sexual predators just moved within 2 blocks of a major bus route, or serial rapists with AIDS?

THERE AREN'T ANY! And it pisses me off!

If you want to worry about a disease worry about AIDS, worry about Rabies.

Worry about the High risk, 100% fatal, contagious, Known to spread to humans, and has already killed +1000 people diseases, that NOONE cares about, because we're told 'oh that won't do anything, you won't ever get infected, after all you'll never see a wild dog, have sex, or get raped, and if you do, we'll just give you a little shot for rabies and you'll pay a few grand, or you'll get AIDS and buy anti-biotics from us until it finally kills you'

Think about how LITTLE Swine flu, bird flue, and mad cow disease actuall do, and how MUCH it is in the news,

And then how DEADLY others are, and how LITTLE is even done about it.


In short, Swine flu IS blown out of proportion, and If you want to talk about things that ARE global pandemics, actually pic one that ISN'T on every news station and radio station 24 hours a day that we are all sick of hearing about. Ignore the booming voice trying to draw your attention away from real problems.



also


first of all, Africa:
1/5 of all native africans are infected with HIV/AIDS, and IS eradicating a VAST Population.

Second of all


I didn't know they where radioactive (I'm sorry, I had to say something funny this post)



OH And I just saw a post about the dreaded 'SARS' Virus. Oh wahh, less than 100 people, again isolated in a small area, few infected, super contained, and screamed through a megaphone around the world,

Add SARS to the Swine/Avian flu /madcow/anthrax scares.

Ignore the man with the megaphone, its a trap.

surprise surprise it's already worldwide



remember SARS? yeah this isn't just one country like that was

20 cases in the US.

In the US, it's blown way out of proportion. You're more likely to die of a shark attack on a plane.

your right, IF they spread it, it will be serious. Right now, everyone who IS infected, is Staying at home, and is urged to stay home until they are no longer contagious, which means even if the number of infected TRIPLES it will likely be people in the same household.

I will be worried if 3 times as many cases are reported, in a wider area (not the same town, or household) in a day or two.

So we have 20 people in the US Infected, If by wednesday we have 60+ people infected, THEN I will get worried, Until then, in the US It is still totally blown out of proportion. Close the mexican/american border for about a week until we're no longer infected, and then just make the boarder one way, INTO mexico, for aid, NOT out of it. Put armed guards and the CDC along the boarder, and Only let people in if the CDC Clears them. and even then that's ONLY if it grows at that exponential rate.

Furthermore, Binary exponents are my job, don't steal my fun. mr double everything and add some zeros....






Holy crap is that where all the cases of swineflu are?!


I am now convinced that either A) someone is intentionally spreading it, or B) some global activist health group thought mexico needed help and gave up part way through. There is no logical way for ANY disease to spread that far, and yet that THIN. Each dot is a PERSON, not a town, not a houshold, but PERSON presumably colored by date, which ALSO suggests its people trying to intentionally spread it, which says to me that the austrailian CDC (or whatever they call it) is awesome, and that south america probably isn't counting.

And thats assuming you didn't just put a bunch of random points on google maps.
Link to source?

So old people and children will die, leaving the rest of us to feel like clowns for surviving.

If the human population is eradicated by the swine flu, so be it.
It'll make the universe a more peaceful place for other intelligent life that may or may not exist.

Well, unless we started using antibiotics carelessly.
Oh wait.

Anyway, I just watched a news story where a bloke thought that we were "Long overdue" for a flu pandemic since the last one was ages ago. -_-"
Thoughts?

... i hate flu. iv had it. i almost had swine flu. But i didnt panick because of the high levels of pollen in the air. so if u think ur sick. its most likely the pollen.

Hey! That's just a map of Wendy's locations!