also I've heard that the UK has more tamiflu than America, and that the UK has enough to treat ~half its population.

Yup.

Lucky us.

Well, lucky half of us anyway.

I'm wondering if the warning levels were thought out properly. It's certainly a big deal, but I wouldn't say it was as big as the warning level would say. (atleast, not outside of mexico anyway)

Offtopicish: My friend started a game of Pandemic 2 in Madagascar. That fact alone allowed him to kill everyone on the planet.

Yeah. It transfers through contact with other people.

and, who the hell hasn't heard of the spanish flu?

No you idiot, not out of 6.7 billion.
More like a minidemic.

10240*2*2*2*2
163,840
*2*2*2*2
1,621,440
The point of a fudge disease is that the numbers don't remain constant. It spreads. Exponentially. The numbers I've been feeding you are based on everyone giving it to two people. Every time you cough, sneeze, blow your nose, fudge breathe, you release billions of bacteria into the environment. it only takes a few to infect someone. Walking through a crowd one could potentially infect hundreds. Imagine an outbreak somewhere like New York where everyone's packed like sardines, and constantly on the move and in contact with often poor hygiene. An infection rate far higher than two per person is far, far more likely. So please, shut the fudge up and stop encouraging people not to take the damn disease seriously. "Nah, it's all overreaction, I'll go outside and start licking everyone I see, nothing could possibly go wrong."
For kicks, let's do an infection rate of 10 people.
Starting at ten infected:
10*10*10*10*10
100,000
*10*10*10*10
1,000,000,000
Hi my name is pandemic and I am fudge terrifying. That's eight recursions. Eight. One billion people, infected. How many of us are on the planet? What happens when those billion people infect ten? Or, a far more likely number, 6.77? Is it a pandemic yet, Clam?

Every time you cough, sneeze, blow your nose, fudge breathe, you release billions of bacteria into the environment. >>>it only takes a few to infect someone<<<.