New Flu Virus SPREADS!

[Peacemaker]

Oh, that's a good one. Sounds like the plot for a Saturday night movie on Skiffy...Swine Flu Zombies.

 

[The Grim Ghost]

Do you have your affairs in order?

I'm just going to kill myself first. Why give that virus the satisfaction?

How do you know that's not what it WANTS you to do? I mean, how can it zombify and reanimate your corpse if you're not dead?

Not if I set myself on fire or blow myself up...oh no, but what if my molecules then somehow fuse with the airborne virus!

//goes quietly insane//

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Anybody taking bets on how long it will take before we really do see some lameass Sci-Fi Channel movie about this? It was, what, six months after the bird flu scare broke before we saw the first flick?

 

[Peacemaker]

500 quatloos for September.

 

[Lonemagpie]

I don't get why so many of you are writing this off because it's "just the flu." The flu can kill people, you know, and when antigenic shifts or reassortments occur it can kill LOTS of people. This is probably a reassortment (swine gets infected at the same time by both human and avian influenza strains; the genetic material gets mixed up and out comes a new virus) . This means epitopes that our immune systems have never seen before, which can be deadly.

Before y'all mock people for taking influenza epidemic's seriously, take a virology class or two.

Actually, it's not "the flu" that kills people, it's complications that result from the flu. Namely secondary infections like pneumonia. Before you tell us to take a virology course, you may want to take an epidemiology course.

And usually the fatal element is a kytocine storm, i.e. the body's own immune system overloading.

No, what we're trying to do here is react against the scaremongering that's been going on in the media; their painting of this flu as some of kind of deadly superflu and going into their own screaming overload - which is probablly driven by the fact that most people have a bad cold rather than proper flu, and don't really get that the regular flu will put you to bed for a couple of weeks.

 

[RevdKathy]

Trouble is these Mexican things spread so damned fast. I mean, remember how quickly the whole board contracted the terrible infection of sombreros. Though maybe having previously been infected with that we have some immunity? Or perhaps we should resume wearing them - they'd be more useful than those face masks.

 

[Gertch]

Anybody taking bets on how long it will take before we really do see some lameass Sci-Fi Channel movie about this? It was, what, six months after the bird flu scare broke before we saw the first flick?

I'm sure they've already used ctrl+h through an existing script.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Trouble is these Mexican things spread so damned fast. I mean, remember how quickly the whole board contracted the terrible infection of sombreros.

Terrible? TERRIBLE? Do not mock the power of the almighty sombrero!

 

[Trekker4747]

Trouble is these Mexican things spread so damned fast. I mean, remember how quickly the whole board contracted the terrible infection of sombreros. Though maybe having previously been infected with that we have some immunity? Or perhaps we should resume wearing them - they'd be more useful than those face masks.

It's the same old story.

Mexican viruses coming up here and taking our viruses' jobs.

 

[bigdaddy]

A Taco Bell opened up in my town about 6 months ago!

THEY ARE SPREADING BIRD FLU!

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I tried to phone the NHS Swine Flu helpline earlier today but I all I got was some crackling.

 

[Trekker4747]

I got mariachi music.

 

[Brolan]

The bank I'm currently working for had some employee meetings this week. They told us anyone with flu symptoms in their family had to stay home for five days! And anyone who went to Mexico or Europe had to stay home for five days afterward!

Now I can understand the paranoia about Mexico, but his makes no sense at all for Europe since they have fewer cases than the US.

And the policy on flu in your family has huge scam potential. If you have four or more members in your family you could be out for a month!

Fear has interfered with clear thinking.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

anyone who went to Mexico or Europe had to stay home for five days afterward!

Yes, the European continent has literally been brought to it's knees by the flu pandemic!!!!!!

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^I didn't know continents had actual knees.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

^I didn't know continents had actual knees.

Yeh, they also have nipples.

 

[Sheep]

Anybody taking bets on how long it will take before we really do see some lameass Sci-Fi Channel movie about this? It was, what, six months after the bird flu scare broke before we saw the first flick?

It's already been made...at least twice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(2008_TV_series)

I watched the first episode of the show about 6 months ago. It is without a doubt one of the most depressing things I've ever seen on TV.

 

[Trekker4747]

^I didn't know continents had actual knees.

Yeh, they also have nipples.

But no side-boob.

 

[miraclefan]

It's the same old story.
Mexican viruses coming up here and taking our viruses' jobs.

^I didn't know continents had actual knees.

Yeh, they also have nipples.

But no side-boob.

That's because the planet is a dude! you ever go to the oriental countrys? GIANT six foot tall wooden PENISES EVERYWHERE!

 

[Lonemagpie]

Anybody taking bets on how long it will take before we really do see some lameass Sci-Fi Channel movie about this? It was, what, six months after the bird flu scare broke before we saw the first flick?

It's already been made...at least twice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(2008_TV_series)

I watched the first episode of the show about 6 months ago. It is without a doubt one of the most depressing things I've ever seen on TV.

Actually that was a remake of a 1970s TV show...