swine flu question... answer me dammit and end the madness, page 1
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reply posted on 28-4-2009 @ 05:37 AM by Donkey_Dean
Originally posted by spearhead
have there been any reported deaths of this apparent "swine flu" in any countries other than mexico.
seriously if there hasn't i demand all threads are trashed (including this thread) with the exception of a few key topics and news articles.
this is flooding the forum and i, as a lowly nobody, am getting ready to give you all koala flu H8N8.
i mean it. i'll cough in a thread and you will get sick.

or is it too late for you?


Here is the thing my friend.

The swine flu is barely a month old and has only affected a relatively small number of individuals, and it has had high mortality rates. We do not currently have any natural immunities or a vaccine, so the entire populous is susceptible.

The Spanish Flu was the worst pandemic in world history. The flu that year killed only 2.5 percent of its victims, but more than a fifth of the world's entire population caught it, and so it's estimated that between 50 million and 100 million people died in just a few months.

There is a great possibility that this strain will prove not to be the killer bug that some think it is. The point I am making, is that it is better to be scared and informed than blissfully ignorant if this thing comes your way.

Some may interpret it as fear mongering, but so long as it’s the truth and is as accurate as possible we have only helped to preserve life. The past has shown that silence in times such as these can be very costly.
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reply posted on 28-4-2009 @ 06:52 AM by son of PC
reply to post by spearhead


This is a discussion site. How are we to communicate, by telepathy?



reply posted on 28-4-2009 @ 07:31 AM by stinkhorn
reply to post by FlyersFan


Actually, the mortality rate is 8% and the 1918 swine flu killed 65 million people. That was before aviation, it's already spreading around the world faster than 1918. Wait until it gets to India and China.

The problem with this type of flu is that it doesn't kill children or the elderly, it kills healthy people 25-50 because their immune systems work too well.

Children's immune systems are not fully developed yet, thus their bodies cannot produce the massive amount of white blood cells needed to fill up the lungs with fluid and kill them. However someone that is 25-50 will most likely die from it.

We are in the very beginning stage right now, I hear the media asking why no one has died in the US, it's too early yet.


reply posted on 28-4-2009 @ 07:35 AM by argentus
reply to post by spearhead


OP, I think your solution is going to be amazingly simple: Stop using "recent posts" to find what you're looking for; go directly into the forums that interest you, and then you don't have to be bothered by all that inconvenient flu and death stuff.

If you were indirectly asking why there are so many swine flu threads, ONE answer is that infectious diseases spread geometrically. Also, the swine flu has been confirmed around the world with people who have had to apparent contact with each other. How did they get it? A few, of course, traveled, but others........ ?? Did it leapfrog from Mexico to Europe in three days by itself? If not, what is the vector of contamination? Was it released? If so, who and why?

There is no previous immunity to the virus, no vaccination, nothing. How or will it exibit a shifting antigen and become even more virulent?

So the importance of the above questions as juxtaposed to your desire to surf ATS without all that bothersome clicking. pfffffffft.
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