New Flu Virus SPREADS!

[John Picard]

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.

90 years ago, people emigrated to the United States from Europe, so there goes your theory about travel. Also, diseases would always tear through cities because of cramped quarters and they were centers of factories. So again, there's another hole in your theory. My dad grew up in a time when polio was epidemic, and his parents instructed him to stay away from crowds and crowded areas, because that's how it was transmitted. To this day, although he doesn't go out much in his advanced age, he despises crowds and gets away from them as quickly as possible.

 

[Trekker4747]

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.

Again, it's sad then that medical science hasn't changed any in the last 90 years.

Nope. Exactly the same. Medicines haven't changed, our knolwedge of viruses haven't changed. Our medical practices in containment haven't changed.

Nope. Exactly the same as it was 90 years ago.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

90 years ago, people emigrated to the United States from Europe, so there goes your theory about travel.

Not really, there are more people travelling today then back then by a long shot and people visit far more countries than back then. I'm not sure how you can possibly compare travelling in 1919 to how it is now.

Also, diseases would always tear through cities because of cramped quarters and they were centers of factories. So again, there's another hole in your theory.

Cities are cramped now, especially on the underground tube network and during rush hour everywhere. So it's the same now as then if not worse.
The world population in 1919 was only 1.65 Billion people and is now 6 Billion.
If this swine flu gets worse we're looking at a far greater death toll than 50 Million.

Again, it's sad then that medical science hasn't changed any in the last 90 years.

Nope. Exactly the same. Medicines haven't changed, our knolwedge of virii haven't changed. Our medical practices in containment haven't changed.

Nope. Exactly the same as it was 90 years ago.

We don't have an endless supply of drugs and certainly couldn't possibly produce enough if the flu got out of hand. If we're so well prepared with latest 21st century drugs why have people died already.

 

[John Picard]

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.

Again, it's sad then that medical science hasn't changed any in the last 90 years.

Nope. Exactly the same. Medicines haven't changed, our knolwedge of virii haven't changed. Our medical practices in containment haven't changed.

Nope. Exactly the same as it was 90 years ago.

Damn, it took me a minute to catch your (subtle as a fart in Church) sarcasm

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^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.

My point wasn't that 1 person has died, it's that you're acting like everyone is over reacting when in reality most people here seem to have rational concern about a new strain of flu, which is killing people. You admit yourself even "normal" flu kills hundreds of thousands of people, and we have a certain amount of immunity to that. So concern about a strain we don't have immunity to is a rational concern.

 

[John Picard]

90 years ago, people emigrated to the United States from Europe, so there goes your theory about travel.

Not really, there are more people travelling today then back then by a long shot and people visit far more countries than back then. I'm not sure how you can possibly compare travelling in 1919 to how it is now.

Also, diseases would always tear through cities because of cramped quarters and they were centers of factories. So again, there's another hole in your theory.

Cities are cramped now, especially on the underground tube network and during rush hour everywhere. So it's the same now as then if not worse.
The world population in 1919 was only 1.65 Billion people and is now 6 Billion.
If this swine flu gets worse we're looking at a far greater death toll than 50 Million.

Again, it's sad then that medical science hasn't changed any in the last 90 years.

Nope. Exactly the same. Medicines haven't changed, our knolwedge of virii haven't changed. Our medical practices in containment haven't changed.

Nope. Exactly the same as it was 90 years ago.

We don't have an endless supply of drugs and certainly couldn't possibly produce enough if the flu got out of hand. If we're so well prepared with latest 21st century drugs why have people died already.

Nothing gets past you Be certain to lock the doors while you're panicking and believing everything that's getting blown out of proportion. Funny how you want to ask how I can compare traveling in 1918 to today, yet you gloss over all of my points and one more: SANITATION.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Nothing gets past you Be certain to lock the doors while you're panicking and believing everything that's getting blown out of proportion. Funny how you want to ask how I can compare traveling in 1918 to today, yet you gloss over all of my points and one more: SANITATION.

I'm not panicking, i'm just saying that it could easily get out of hand and when it does we're probably looking at a death toll far in excess of 50 Million.

 

[Trekker4747]

Nothing gets past you Be certain to lock the doors while you're panicking and believing everything that's getting blown out of proportion. Funny how you want to ask how I can compare traveling in 1918 to today, yet you gloss over all of my points and one more: SANITATION.

I'm not panicking, i'm just saying that it could easily get out of hand and when it does we're probably looking at a death toll far in excess of 50 Million.

*save to favorties*

You and Babaganoosh weren't in a transporter-accident were you?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Nothing gets past you Be certain to lock the doors while you're panicking and believing everything that's getting blown out of proportion. Funny how you want to ask how I can compare traveling in 1918 to today, yet you gloss over all of my points and one more: SANITATION.

I'm not panicking, i'm just saying that it could easily get out of hand and when it does we're probably looking at a death toll far in excess of 50 Million.

*save to favorties*

You and Babaganoosh weren't in a transporter-accident were you?

Don't you know Tacky is always right in the end? He'll prove all wrong in the end... just as he always does.

 

[John Picard]

I'm not panicking, i'm just saying that it could easily get out of hand and when it does we're probably looking at a death toll far in excess of 50 Million.

*save to favorties*

You and Babaganoosh weren't in a transporter-accident were you?

Don't you know Tacky is always right in the end? He'll prove all wrong in the end... just as he always does.

No kidding. Hold on, let me get ready:

 

[All Seeing Eye]

*save to favorties*

You and Babaganoosh weren't in a transporter-accident were you?

Don't you know Tacky is always right in the end? He'll prove all wrong in the end... just as he always does.

No kidding. Hold on, let me get ready:

Ready for what.

 

[Holdfast]

I'm honestly not remotely worried about the new Flu Virus. As long as I have my trusty Extra Strength Oil of Oregano at hand I shall forever be immune.

You currently have the best avatar on the board.

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....

THE SOURCE! The pigs probably got infected by him when they dug him up, and then the virus evolved... nature will find a way!!111!

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I'm honestly not remotely worried about the new Flu Virus. As long as I have my trusty Extra Strength Oil of Oregano at hand I shall forever be immune.

You currently have the best avatar on the board.

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....

THE SOURCE! The pigs probably got infected by him when they dug him up, and then the virus evolved... nature will find a way!!111!

If we can get the Polish involved in some way that would be the perfect Tacky post.

 

[Holdfast]

I'm honestly not remotely worried about the new Flu Virus. As long as I have my trusty Extra Strength Oil of Oregano at hand I shall forever be immune.

You currently have the best avatar on the board.

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....

THE SOURCE! The pigs probably got infected by him when they dug him up, and then the virus evolved... nature will find a way!!111!

If we can get the Polish involved in some way that would be the perfect Tacky post.

Probably was a Polish aristocrat that illegally entered the country in the late 19th century...

 

[All Seeing Eye]

You currently have the best avatar on the board.



THE SOURCE! The pigs probably got infected by him when they dug him up, and then the virus evolved... nature will find a way!!111!

If we can get the Polish involved in some way that would be the perfect Tacky post.

Probably was a Polish aristocrat that illegally entered the country in the late 19th century...

or not.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

You currently have the best avatar on the board.



THE SOURCE! The pigs probably got infected by him when they dug him up, and then the virus evolved... nature will find a way!!111!

If we can get the Polish involved in some way that would be the perfect Tacky post.

Probably was a Polish aristocrat that illegally entered the country in the late 19th century...

Or Polish scientists digging him up as part of a plot to start this whole thing off?

 

[Zulu Romeo]

If we can get the Polish involved in some way that would be the perfect Tacky post.

Probably was a Polish aristocrat that illegally entered the country in the late 19th century...

Or Polish scientists digging him up as part of a plot to start this whole thing off?

Let's face it: the theory definitely lacks polish.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

 

[Zulu Romeo]

We're now at Level 5, people.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8025931.stm

And I'm on call this weekend. Perfect timing.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

We're now at Level 5, people.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8025931.stm

And I'm on call this weekend. Perfect timing.

Not good enough, not enough people are dead yet. Damn hype machine.

Good luck being on call. Do you think your patients will mind if you treat them from inside a hazmat suit?