Yeah, honestly just not too worried about it since the only death was a small child and he probably didn't have a fully developed immune system. Since the normal flu kills like 33,000 in America a year, versus that one on an infant with swine flu. I'd have to agree with it's a media hype. Still, I hate how people are still going on vacations to Mexico City and stuff. We don't need to be sick with it though either.

You can catch stuff which is so much worse by walking in your own garden with bare feet. Than this Swine flu which isn't very toxic. Its being hyped alot and you shouldn't worry too much about it. Theres so much more deadly infectious material all around you than this.

Swine flu =/= Spanish Flu.

Relaaaax, I have a crazy scheme for just about every apocalypse you can think of, don't worry.




First post on this site I think.

I phoned our national health service hotline today to see if i could get any more information about this so called swine Flu, the line was pretty bad i only heard crackling.



Sorry

H3WM TsengMao wrote:

Cannonman1944 wrote:

I really want out of school because of this.

Double if you ask me...

I had to cancel a trip I was going to have this summer with my friends to mexico because of this.

Nuff said..

EDIT: Damnit.. Henri beat me to it. =[

Henri wrote:

Finally we know what caused it

This is not true I'm just having fun with it

My history teacher shjowed us that same pic!

I just stumbledupon that pic earlier. I remember seeing it without the caption, but that fits perfectly!

oh so your telling me not to worry ONLY 60% of the worlds population is going to die off? IN THAT CASE, who wants ice cream?

Swine Flu =/= Normal Flu.

When you get a stomach bug and a headache you don't have the flue you have a cold.
Flu is when you can't get out of bed as well as some other effects it's not life threatening.
Your at risk of getting much worse in everyday life.

Henri wrote:

Finally we know what caused it

This is not true I'm just having fun with it

LOL

Effing kids putting everything in their mouths.

The weird thing with swine flu is it seems to hit the young and healthy particularly hard.

I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw "healthy"

Personally I think I should go out and buy some pork tenderloins for the Barbeque. Since "swine" is in front of the word "flu" everyone thinks you can get it from eating pork (you can't, that's stupid anyway as even if it WAS in pork you would kill it when you cooked it) so the price of hogs is plummeting. NOW is the time to buy pork products and even stocks in pork if you're into that.

Swine flu and Avian flu (and the Spanish flu of 1918) tend to hit the young and healthy so hard because of what is known as a 'cytokyne storm'. Basically, their immune system overreacts to the viral invasion by producing an excessive amount of cytokynes, which causes extreme damage to bodily tissue. So, having a strong immune system is, in this case, actually a disadvantage. Those who'd normally be more at risk, like those older than forty, they only have to fight the actual virus, and not the autoimmune symptoms it causes in the young.

But, as I'll say again, these diseases are not, at the moment, anything like Spanish Influezna was. Sure, Bird flu, Swine flu, Spanish flu, they're all highly infectious, but so is normal flu. If this was anything like Spanish flu, as the media likes to assert, a million people would already be dead.

They have closed several schools in our area and likely are going to close more.

I encourage all of you to pray for those areas and those infected. It is my understanding that this is a pretty wicked bug!

Overjoyedkitten wrote:

Nautical Onion wrote:

People get panicky about stuff like this all the time, relax guy. Where have you heard the information about this flu? The media. How do the media make money? Selling newspapers and magazines with over-exaggerated stories to make us by them. Its just hype.

One paper I read in compared it to the massive outbreak in 1915 (or whenever the date was) when like 60% or something of the worlds population died off. Its just a way to create hype, Hype = moneyz = Rich Magazine companys = Happy Magazine companys.

I sneezed today and my friend jumped back and stayed away from me the whole day, thats what the media does to people.

oh so your telling me not to worry ONLY 60% of the worlds population is going to die off? IN THAT CASE, who want's ice cream?

You didn't get what I was trying to say. They compared it to that outbreak. Its another tool of the media trying to brainwash us into bying more magazines becuase we all think we are going to die. 150-200 people die from it, and they says its going to be like the outbreak of 1915? Its all just fear mongering. Fear motivates people, and smart buisnessmen and women know how to use it effectivly.

EDIT:

~Loki~ wrote:

Swine flu and Avian flu (and the Spanish flu of 1918) tend to hit the young and healthy so hard because of what is known as a 'cytokyne storm'. Basically, their immune system overreacts to the viral invasion by producing an excessive amount of cytokynes, which causes extreme damage to bodily tissue. So, having a strong immune system is, in this case, actually a disadvantage. Those who'd normally be more at risk, like those older than forty, they only have to fight the actual virus, and not the autoimmune symptoms it causes in the young.

But, as I'll say again, these diseases are not, at the moment, anything like Spanish Influezna was. Sure, Bird flu, Swine flu, Spanish flu, they're all highly infectious, but so is normal flu. If this was anything like Spanish flu, as the media likes to assert, a million people would already be dead.

Didn't read Loki's post, but he is saying what I am trying to say. I mean the outbreak of 1918, not 1915.

Roflolmao fail My virus was so good it killed everyone and no one had it any more