Intresting update - WHO has raised pandemic level to 5, one short of a full on pandemic. But, as Douglas Adams so rightly said, DON'T PANIC!!(so important I even used 2 exclamation points o.O) This does not mean that it isn't safe to go out of your houses. Act as if life is going on as normal. having an infection in your state does not mean that going out or going anywhere will get you swine flu. Panic is a greater enemy than the flu at the moment.
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Swine flu hitting everywhere
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But that isn't actually a strain of influenza. It's a bacterial infection, so it shouldn't be called 'flu' because that is misleading.
Why, would you say it hi everywhere if it hasn't?
That is mean to people who believe everything.
I'm not worried about it, everyone else is though.
That is mean to people who believe everything.
I'm not worried about it, everyone else is though.
Yeah and it really was nothing to panic about, it's so retardedly unvirulent and uncommon in virulent form for people that it was silly to flip out.
Come on people, just sit and wait. This is exactly what we get for overpopulating and being so densely populated. We totally had it coming.
So because there are more people alive...people getting sick is "us having it coming"? I don't get your logic. Are you saying that since we have a lot of people, we deserve to suffer "pandemics"?
Anyway, I'm not worried; this virus is not very deadly, despite how virulent it is. People die from the flu every year, sad to say. This is an anomaly, but the vast majority of people who contract this flu will be fine.
23 possible cases in my county!this is starting to get scary, since 23 for a single area is pretty damm big
I don't think people deserve it in the sense that you're kind of imposing upon my quote there, but our lifestyle is very condusive for rapid spreading of hypervirulent flu and other disease. More people mean more density given how things work today and that is exactly how devastating pandemics are even possible.
So in a sense, we really did have it coming (not to mention the observable fact that there is one major flu approximately once per generation).
So in a sense, we really did have it coming (not to mention the observable fact that there is one major flu approximately once per generation).
Districto federal? and I'm pretty sure you mean may not march.
Oh and why didn't they restrict travel to/from Mexico from the beginning?
all of you are overreacting
you remind me of the people spazzing out in the 2004 florida hurricane season when the media said the the storm was nearly the size of the state
maybe... but... the media 'overreacts' with this type of coverage (ex: y2k + conficker); probably not the best example but you get what i mean
do you bind this to ctrl+v or do you type it out every time? it's a question that's been bugging me for the last few years
you remind me of the people spazzing out in the 2004 florida hurricane season when the media said the the storm was nearly the size of the state
maybe... but... the media 'overreacts' with this type of coverage (ex: y2k + conficker); probably not the best example but you get what i mean
do you bind this to ctrl+v or do you type it out every time? it's a question that's been bugging me for the last few years
well everybody around the world is fearing this as it's spreading so quickly around the world. They did raise the pademic level from 4 to 5, almost every state in the us has been infected or possibly infected and around the world theirs many confirm and possible cases. the government itself is putting fear in the people, Obama says not to panic but then mentions the possibilities of closing schools nationwide highly possible and that many will die,heck in Egypt they sent for the extinguishing of all pigs in the nation even tough the virus isn't spread by eating pork meat. It's not us that's making it all that serious is the statistics that have been shown so far
This flu allegedly targets those between the ages of 20 and 45 actually.
Also, overpopulation is a myth; we are nowhere near the world's threshold for being able to support us. Pockets of dense populations do contribute to the spread of disease, but it is not an inevitable way of living nor is it a sign of the world getting 'too crowded resulting in nature trying to cull our numbers'.
Also, overpopulation is a myth; we are nowhere near the world's threshold for being able to support us. Pockets of dense populations do contribute to the spread of disease, but it is not an inevitable way of living nor is it a sign of the world getting 'too crowded resulting in nature trying to cull our numbers'.
the last two MAJOR influenza outbreaks were avian.
Avian doesn't 'transfer' into swine types, they are completely different things for the most part. Bird migration means very little in all this I'd imagine.
so did spanish flu, the deadliest ones always do!
Overpopulation isn't as big a deal as overcrowding. People living in such close quarters in such large numbers over such small areas really is pandemic encouraging.
The Fort Worth Independent School District will temporarily close all schools until further notice, effective Thursday, April 30, 2009. Schools will likely not reopen any sooner than Monday, May 11.
This follows the official confirmation of one case of swine flu at one campus -- previously reported as a probable case --and the announcement that there are three other probable cases at three other schools.
This is terrible, that is a fucking major school district freaking out, so this may be indicative of more schools freaking out.
This follows the official confirmation of one case of swine flu at one campus -- previously reported as a probable case --and the announcement that there are three other probable cases at three other schools.
This is terrible, that is a fucking major school district freaking out, so this may be indicative of more schools freaking out.
Agreed, but proactiveness is the only way to combat a flu. It's bad to freak out and start going insane about things, but being catious of a pandemic is never bad. Getting the students out of one area of congregation that is confirmed to have a case of hypervirulent flu is probably a good idea for now; the thing did kill like 150 people+ worldwide within just a week of discovery and outbreak...
Still, I remain stalwart in my opinion that I will freak out when the time comes, and that time is not now. I am a little more cautious, though my curiousity of the growth of this flu is quite overpowering the caution in me.
Seems like its one major flu once per year nowadays. Still, I agree that it is getting blown way out of proportion.
What about antivirals?
Proactiveness is also the only way to combat car accidents; we should close the roads when it is raining.
That's roughly as fast as the normal flu spreads, which kills 36,000 people a year.
I don't understand why people are such a ridiculous amount more cautious than they are during flu season.
If you don't feel the symptoms that early, you don't have a bad enough case of swine flu that it matters.
Antivirals don't just shorten the length, they significantly reduce the symptoms. Swine flu is the variant of flu most susceptible to antivirals, and we have plenty to go around.
Tangerine touched on the problem - it's not that the flu is so dangerous that it will bring about the end of humanity - quite the opposite, it's not particularly harmful - a 1% death rate is acceptable. but it is infectious, and if it mutates (which viruses are so good at doing) into something more harmful, a virus which has effects similar to those of bird flu, then we really are in trouble - remember, bird flu had something like a 50% death rate. That's the really dangerous thing about swine flu IMO. and habitually, Don't Panic! That's the best thing to do.