Flu Optimism

here, i'll start:

- the fatality rate is probably much lower than the initial 7% reported by mexico, cos they weren't counting all the mildly ill people that didn't go to hospital

let's make pandemic mad libs!

30,000 people die from normal flu every year

my mom and her whole family went through the same scare in the 1970s and they all got swine flu vaccinations

sars, west nile virus, hanta, bird flu were all viruses that were equally hyped up

Most of the symptoms are the same as normal flu, and most diagnosed with Swine Flu haven't even needed hospitalization or special treatment. Media once again making a big deal out of a relatively minor incident.

according to ron paul, only 1 person in the US died from the flu last "epidemic", but 25 people died from the vaccine.

In the US, you're still more likely to die from getting struck by lighting than from swine flu.

Israel is not calling it swine flu because its not kosher

according to a reliable german news website (spiegel.de)

normal flu actually kills between 250.000 and 500.000 people every year.

lame pandemic

the flu is boring man.

you always hear about "the bad aids". maybe swine flu will be the "good aids". when we all catch it, we will feel all happy and fluffy and nice.

Everyone is so worried, but I think they're just acting pigheaded and this whole pandemic is just hogwash.

This is going to kill me.

(Maybe a bit toooo optimistic.)

(Its not parmageddon, its not the aporkalypse, its just a small snoutbreak)

keep them coming... more optimism:

- because of the avian flu scare, the world is now quite well prepared with plans and tamiflu

- the flu has arrived in the summer instead of the winter which will reduce its spread somewhat

- by winter we should have some vaccinnes ready

  dr lopez said:

Everyone is so worried, but I think they're just acting pigheaded and this whole pandemic is just hogwash.

*snorts with laughter*

  ezkerraldean said:

you always hear about "the bad aids". maybe swine flu will be the "good aids". when we all catch it, we will feel all happy and fluffy and nice.

jews always should feel "happy and fluffy and nice"

heh

  ezkerraldean said:

you always hear about "the bad aids". maybe swine flu will be the "good aids". when we all catch it, we will feel all happy and fluffy and nice.

is dat liek teh bad acid???

probably this fever that's bacon my brain and my stuffy jowls are just a curly tale from ASS BACON JOWLS CHOP

The media is absolutely right. There is serious risk and you shouldn't leave your house or talk to anyone within your house unless you know sign language or set-up some kind of mechanism where you poke each other with long sticks in morse code format to communicate.

Breathing isn't recommended.

at least we're not talking about 'sexting' anymore...

At least it's something to talk about with strangers.

"So, how 'bout them swine flus?"

"Oh I know!"

Here's some recycled optimism from the bird flu scare a few years ago...

New York Times, Oct 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/national/09flu.html

  Quote

...But not everyone is equally worried about the bird flu.

 

The fear "is very much overdone, in my opinion," said Dr. Edwin

Kilbourne, an emeritus professor of immunology at New York Medical

College, who has treated flu patients since the 1957 pandemic and has

studied the 1918 flu.

 

The bird flu, he said, is distantly related to earlier flus, and humans

have already been exposed to them, providing some resistance.

 

Scientists also say that the death rate may not be as high as it

appears, because some milder cases may not have been reported.

 

Dr. Kilbourne and other experts also noted that when viruses become

more transmissible, they almost always become less lethal. Viruses that

let their hosts stay alive and pass the disease on to others, he

explained, have a better chance of spreading than do strains that kill

off their hosts quickly.

 

Moreover, he said, while much has been made of comparisons between the

current avian flu and the 1918 strain, the factors that helped increase

the flu's virulence in 1918 - the crowding together of millions of

World War I troops in ships, barracks, trenches and hospitals -

generally do not exist today for humans.

 

...

 

In addition, more people now live in cities, where they have probably

caught more flus, giving them immunity to later ones. "In 1918, you had

a lot of farm boys getting their first contact with city folks who'd

had these things," Dr. Kilbourne said.

  Awepittance said:

I like staying in bed all day. I wouldn't mind having the flu

2012 is getting closer