More Doom Flu! Again!

[Alondro]

Aw SHIT swine flu has just popped up in Florida. I'm going to go around wearing a SARS mask all day.

I've already been washing my hands, coughing into tissues, etc.

You're coughing?  *shakes his head*  I'm afraid it's already too late.  You're finished!   

[Arcalane]

Alternative names: bacon lung, the other white flu, tuporkulosis, porkulenza, bacon fever, hamthrax, aporkalypse (now).

It's a worldwide hamdemic!

[Keleth]

A very very delicious one~

[Gabi]

Heh. At least you people get a flu that can be cured within a few days with no permanent sequels, and odds are it will disappear soon.

Here we get the dengue fever, which gets worse if you catch it twice and often kills, and even the government (which is infamous for denying everything that doesn't favor them) has admitted that it's here to stay (that is, there's no chance of getting rid of it within the next few years). But the rest of the world doesn't seem to care.

[Keleth]

That's most of the 1st world countries unfortunately. It's why I mock ourselves more often than not.

A 'epidemic' that's not even as bad as the common flu, throws up such a national and international stink because we're whining so hard. Throws off aircraft delays, security is upped, all because it has a funky name attached to it.

Yet 30 miles over there, other people are dying to actual epidemics left right and center and nobody seems to care.


I imagine what'd happen if North America got hit by a REAL epidemic, like the old spanish flu was it? 1918, 40% mortality rate?


40% of 400 million americans, yeah, I think they'd only -just- realize what a true epidemic really is

[Damaris]

Could you imagine what would have happened if it did turn out to be a rehash of the 1918 flu, and the government had done absolutely nothing about it?  It was a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.  They didn't know enough to make a call until it had really started to spread.

[Keleth]

There's one thing I really like about technology these days, if you have a deep freezer and a fridge and pantry.

We have frozen and packed foods that last months longer than anything they really had available in the early 20th century.

The sure fire way to stop a disease? Is containment, how do people contain things in this day and age? Well for someone like myself, if a deadly flu like that started spreading? You stay home, limit your going to concentrated areas like cities.

For once, you'd wash your hands at public places, and don't keep overdoing it on the anti-botics making super flus.

Also, being out in the country is nice, as people think you're at disease central near some farm animals. Yet all the city slickers are sick

[alexwars1]

I have barricaded myself on an island in an atempt to stop the swine flu, called Australia.

[Pagan]

I have barricaded myself on an island in an atempt to stop the swine flu, called Australia.

Fool! Now the flu knows where you are!

[Zedd]

Next there will be a Bum flu,That will turn people into bums...No offense to local homeless people in this forum and Chester A. Bum

[Keleth]

You can get internet while being homeless?

Awesome~

I gotta get the cable company to come out and hook me up in my tree

[Brownie]

I have barricaded myself on an island in an atempt to stop the swine flu, called Australia.

Muhahahaha! I know where you school! I shall spread it to you, and then, the SCHOOL!

[Sunblink]

You're coughing?  *shakes his head*  I'm afraid it's already too late.  You're finished!   

OH GOD REALLY? Noooo I'm going to have to start organizing my will.

My assets will be appropriately distributed to my friends and family. Alondro, you get my plush shaped like a lion.

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

You're coughing?  *shakes his head*  I'm afraid it's already too late.  You're finished!   

OH GOD REALLY? Noooo I'm going to have to start organizing my will.

My assets will be appropriately distributed to my friends and family. Alondro, you get my plush shaped like a lion.

Nonsense! Death is no reason to give up your property. It's a system of discrimination I say, totally founded on the inability of those buried to stand up for their own rights. I say this should not be!

[Mao]

You're coughing?  *shakes his head*  I'm afraid it's already too late.  You're finished!   

OH GOD REALLY? Noooo I'm going to have to start organizing my will.

My assets will be appropriately distributed to my friends and family. Alondro, you get my plush shaped like a lion.

You know what I want from you if you die.  o.O