The official "Swine Flu" thread.

[Cosmicman]

The Official "Swine Flu" Thread

OK. This is starting to scare the **** out of me.
I live in Wisconsin and some school in Illinois is closed because a teacher or some kid has the "Swine flu"

A toddler in Texas is dead because of "Swine flu".


Now Obama is on TV talking about "Swine flu"




Discuss among yourselves...


Thoughts?

[vulcan2074]

As soon as they started talking about it I freaked out. This is just the beginning. I wonder what else could be in store for us? The fact that this Strain has made itself around the world so quickly terrifies me. It's all the air travel. Once you get 1 person on a plane with recirculated air everyone gets it. Then they get off the plane and catch another flight. The same thing happens all over again and next thing you know it's everywhere. I just hope we can get through this.
Sammy

[Mikey]

I've been having dreams about a crow in a cornfield

[Cosmicman]

I am still a firm believer this is some kind of chemical warfare that backfired.

[Bill]

Elevated to five on a scale that only goes to six?

[Cosmicman]

Elevated to five on a scale that only goes to six?

That means we're about to get ****ed hard.

[Mikey]

Don't fear the reaper

[Bill]

That means we're about to get ****ed hard.

Or it means the scale is useless.

[toys2cool]

my wife's a nurse,she says the hospital is over crowded with everyone checking their kids

[MIB41]

Thousands die every year from the common flu. When the world death toll has surpassed those figures, then I'll take notice. Until then, it's mass hysteria over something that may not be warranted. Right now the death tally is coming from the same age and social groups that are killed by the common flu. I think people need to calm down.

[hobub]

I posted about this thread last Friday. I knew it was going to be bad. Glad we've got an official thread on the subject. It's pretty scary.

http://megomuseum.com/community/showthread.php?t=24919

[MysteryWho]

Yeah, 36,000 die from flu every year, I think? Hell, I've had flu that in retrospective
was probably pretty dangerous. Strange coincidence, last time I remember having really bad flu was the day of the Stones concert to benefit Toronto after SARS.
After having SARS right next door, it's hard to be worried, frankly.
Although, I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't help turning this whole situation into a horror movie in my head. Like, thinking of all the plot twists and variations. I realize this is real and people are dying, it's very sad. But I'll keep my Chuck Heston style safari jacket handy just in case.

[Joe90]

Thousands die every year from the common flu. When the world death toll has surpassed those figures, then I'll take notice. Until then, it's mass hysteria over something that may not be warranted. Right now the death tally is coming from the same age and social groups that are killed by the common flu. I think people need to calm down.

Exactly...

We're not talking Captain Tripps here.......I'm not scared -- I'm more pi$$ed off that Mexico is taking the blame for this. The last pandemic we had was SARS, and Canada got blamed for that. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, both SARS and SWINE FLU have their origins in CHINA. Avian Flu, Swine Flu... It's all the thame sam ding...

Now the World is talking about boycotting North American produced pork... They won't be boycotting Chinese products, or closing the borders to Chinese nationals. If you like pork, it's gonna be cheap for the next 6 months...

[hobub]

I don't blame Mexico for this flu. But that said, would now be a good time to secure the border?

Ellis Island had a quarantine section before letting imigrants through. I guess we know more than they did.

[D-McMEGO]

this could easily become a political thread after comments like the one before mine.