Genus: Cliffus Curtis.Originally Posted by Finn
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Genus: Cliffus Curtis.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
ArseBiscuit
This might explain things. I drunk some tequila last night and all I remember was squealing like a pig and then waking up not feeling too well.....
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Did you have a sore botty perchance?This might explain things. I drunk some tequila last night and all I remember was squealing like a pig and then waking up not feeling too well.....
Grumpy Old Bastard
How can you tell if its swine flu? Ask the patient how s/he feels. Listen to the answer. If it sounds like this...
http://www.sound-effect.com/sounds1/..._pig_snort.wav
...dey got SWINE FLU!!!
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
ArseBiscuit
Guys all around the country start taking their wives to the doctor.....
Grumpy Old Bastard
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
sdkfz
On the beeb: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/8018428.stm
Measure once, cut twice. Practice makes perfect.
I'ma get medieval on your ass!
Spot on. The Bird Flu scare was only about a virus which was potentially transgenic ie. jumps from birds to human and then spreads. Fortunately it only jumped to single individuals and didn't jump to other humans..
Swine flu is completely different - it's already transgenic and is transmitted between humans. Kills late teens and healthy adults.
True but not in the way we might think. The Third World is where overpopulation, famine and poverty are a problem. Yet they also have the greatest natural immunities to disease because they live in such raw conditions. So they may not affected as much as us.
By contrast here in the pampered West we live "safe" sterile lives with reduced natural immunities. A slow pandemic can be dealt with by hospitals and medical treatment but a fast outbreak will be a tidal wave which cannot be answered.
Amen to that. My children are teenagers - right in the firing line. If any of them died I'd be so distraught that I can't even contemplate it.
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Beat me to it!
And that's it in a nutshell. Why not be prepared? Think about what you need if you had to stay inside for at least a month? Why not? What harm would it do? Versus the harm in light of the facts, if you didn't?
ter·ra in·cog·ni·taAchievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden
Plodding along at his own pace
If we stick our head in the sand then its not happening, folks are dieing and so far in greater numbers than the bird flu (as I understand the reports), you don't have to live with your livestock in the case of the bird flu.
But dont worry it wont affect us hey as we live so far away and these things peter out before they get to us right.....
Check out our history with the 1918 pandemic, and why it hit our shores.
As the hitch hikers guide says Don't Panic but a little preparation does not hurt.
Its not the destination that is important its the journey.
NEDWN VIII
Medicine has moved a very very long way since 1918.
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From what I understand there's no vaccine for this one, and if Tamiflu is the answer, the way it sold off the shelves when even the bird flu had minute cases of human transfer, er, I wouldn't rely on that. Or it's efficiency.
ter·ra in·cog·ni·taAchievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden
ArseBiscuit
Oh no, the swine flu. Call the haaaaaambulance.
NEDWN VIII
I am not bothered about the situation at all to be honest....hence my previous post.
But, they did report on the News tonight that, Tamiflu will cure if taken early enough....more media hype? dunno but the face masks are moving of the shelves, lucky theres shit loads of them left from four years ago when Bird Flu hit the streets....not here of cause.
Forum whore
Hang on a minute, just how do you "prepare"?
If you catch it, your body's immune system either deals with it or it doesn't and you need medical intervention for secondary infections, which you may not get if you it truly is a pandemic situation.
Our ability to deal with viruses isn't any better than 1918. You guys still get colds right (and call it 'flu)? Tamiflu simply doesn't work and never has. Placebo is better than no response though.
Virus immunization programmes are really hit and miss. If you have a relatively slow mutating virus like smallpox you can take a decade or three to eradicate it. Chicken pox vaccination on the other hand doesn't work very well at all, thanks to the way it works through human DNA.
Living with a medical professional who has just had a briefing on the topic gives a different perspective on the situation. If you catch this particular strain, you will either successfully fight it off (the majority of people) or you will succumb to probably a secondary infection, usually caused by bunging you into a hospital crawling with MRSA and respiratory disease, both bacterial and viral. The very young, and the very old are at risk from these types of virii, simply because their immune systems are either under developed or under performing. You can't do a thing about that. I have a child who runs very close to being neutropenic. If he catches this 'flu he'll probably die very quickly.
There's nothing you can do to avoid that outcome. Immunisation could easily spark the very problem you're trying to avoid in cases like that.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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