I don't think I've ever seen morning screenings around here, except for children's movies.
New Flu Virus SPREADS!
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According to an acquaintance of mine, who is a mortician, 36,000 people die from some form of the flu *every year*. So, in his opinion, this current strain has a lot of ground to cover before he would even blink.
On another note, I hate it when sick people come to the office. One of my former employers had one very strict rule: You're sick, you *don't* come to work. Period. You show up to work, you're escorted out of the building and told not to return until you've recovered. Sick people bring that crap to the office, spread it and thereby infect more people, which costs the company money with employees left and right missing work.
On another note, I hate it when sick people come to the office. One of my former employers had one very strict rule: You're sick, you *don't* come to work. Period. You show up to work, you're escorted out of the building and told not to return until you've recovered. Sick people bring that crap to the office, spread it and thereby infect more people, which costs the company money with employees left and right missing work.
(Also, no fair! I'm up here in Missouri, at college, and I still have to go to school!!!)
Ha ha! Now don't you wish you were back down here with us?
And that's just in the US. It's estimated that 250-500,000 people die world wide of the flu every year.
CNN
Yep, but I'm mainly concerned with the US since I live here
This is why you should be taking this seriously (from the CDC web site):
A pandemic will hit hard in developing nations. If it happens the way it did in 1918, the largest share of victims will be those who have children to raise. African families have already been devastated by the AIDs crisis there and there are an uncounted number of orphans already. Throw in a flu pandemic ...
The United States and other industrial nations will be hard-pressed to deal with our own crises much less able to help others.
Is all of this now speculative? Yes. But it's speculation rooted in history dating back to the 15th century.
A pandemic will hit hard in developing nations. If it happens the way it did in 1918, the largest share of victims will be those who have children to raise. African families have already been devastated by the AIDs crisis there and there are an uncounted number of orphans already. Throw in a flu pandemic ...
The United States and other industrial nations will be hard-pressed to deal with our own crises much less able to help others.
Is all of this now speculative? Yes. But it's speculation rooted in history dating back to the 15th century.
The everyday flu kills 36,000 people every year in the US!
OMGSWINEFLU!!! has been here for half a week. It has killed... no one.
Since Monday, statistically, 200 people have died from the every-day flu.
The regular flu is, right now, more deadly than the Swine Flu the media is hyping.
For ratings.
During May Sweeps.
OMGSWINEFLU!!! has been here for half a week. It has killed... no one.
Since Monday, statistically, 200 people have died from the every-day flu.
The regular flu is, right now, more deadly than the Swine Flu the media is hyping.
For ratings.
During May Sweeps.
It's rooted in rumor, conjecture, and wild speculation
Let's see, what is different *Nao*, versus the last 6 centuries:
Sanitation
Hygiene
Anti-Viral Medicines
Antibiotics
Hmmmmm
Pardon me, while I go eat a pork chop sammich.
I nominate this as the most irritating thing in the thread. If you are trying to make the point that others are overreacting, you are doing a really bad job of it.
The only person who seems to be overreacting to anything is Trekker himself, no one else seems to be showing anything other than concern that a new strain of the flu virus could be dangerous, since, you know, flu is dangerous enough as it is when we have a certain amount of immunity to it, and immunisations for it.
I think it's a good thing that the government is prepared for any trouble that might surface.
Oh, and Trekker, there has been 1 death so far in the US. So yes, it has killed someone who matters, since you don't seem to think the Mexicans who've died matter.
^Oh, it's ok, the death in the US doesn't matter either. It was only a 23 month old Mexican child.
It doesn't matter.
Not because it was a two year old Mexican, but because it is ONE death. How many two year olds died from other diseases today, yesterday, last week, over the last month?
Also that child wasn't infected in the US so can't count towards the "American death toll."
My "OMGSWINEFLU!!!" is more poking at the media than any posters here -who for the most part seem level headed.
But the thing is, I don't see how this warrants even concern. No more concern, certainly, than the regular flu (kills about 100 Americans each day), or pneumonia (which kills about 160 people each day in the US), bronchitis (3 deaths per day), or meningitis (2 per day.)
This Swine Flu has killed ONE person inside of a week now in the US. That one person caught it in Mexico.
The media is making too much of this (because it's May Sweeps) and there's one or two posters here thinking this all warrants concern and showing signs of, almost, panic.
Many are buying in to the hype.
The title of this very thread is "New Flu Virus SPREADS!" -emphasis to the poster. "SPREADS!" suggesting a degree of "panic" or unwarranted concern.
5500-6000 people die in this country every day.
When this Swine Flu virus makes that number significantly go up, then I'll show concern.
Hmmmmm
As they keep saying, eating pork can't give you the virus anyway.
It killed a 2 year old from Texas.
Plus normally there might be bird or pig flu deaths, but most of the time no one checks to see what flu killed you or made you sick.
Hmmmmm
As they keep saying, eating pork can't give you the virus anyway.
Can't convince the hypochondriacs and media zombies of that fact.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
I don't know if anyone's mentioned it but they exhumed an aristocrat last September who died 90 years ago from the Spanish Flu that killed 50 Million people back around 1919. Times have changed now, people mingle more such as going to the cinema and people continually travel between countries. If a flu outbreak 90 years ago killed 50 Million people then the death toll this time around could be enormous in comparison.
OMG! It killed ONE two year old! Oh NO!
Three people in the time it took me to write this post died from TB worldwide.
That's ONE two year old. In the US. Over the course of the last few days, inside of which 300 people died in this country from the regular flu.
And that two year old? Was IN Texas. Not FROM Texas.
Hmmmmm
As they keep saying, eating pork can't give you the virus anyway.
Of course not. Kermit is still okay after all these years. Right Kermit? Kermit? KERMIT!
