Swine flu

**37Beour** · 27/04/2009, 7:18 PM

The only thing I did find strange was that when I was going to bed Thurs or Friday night there wasn't a mention of a flu of any kind....when I wake up 80 are dead and there's a risk of global pandemic!!!

And no smart arses asking how long I was asleep for

**eamo1** · 27/04/2009, 7:31 PM

This is just like the Hurricanes.Hurricane Ivan and Rita BATTERED Haiti and Cuba and killed 100s but the news reporters only bothered with it when it was near the U.S.Same with this flu,"ah sure its fine,its only Mexico(also killed people in Costa Rica too btw),oh wait,its now found in the U.S and Canada and Europe,NOW its a story"

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They are also scaremongering by saying its going to be a pandemic.They are NOT reporting that simple tablets like Tamiflu do the job as does plenty of rest

**Poor Student** · 27/04/2009, 7:37 PM

Got a source for the fatalities in Costa Rica? Why does it have a roughly 7% fatality rate in Mexico if a bit of Tamiflu and rest will fix it?

**mypost** · 27/04/2009, 8:02 PM

Originally Posted by eamo1

This is just like the Hurricanes.Hurricane Ivan and Rita BATTERED Haiti and Cuba and killed 100s but the news reporters only bothered with it when it was near the U.S.Same with this flu,"ah sure its fine,its only Mexico(also killed people in Costa Rica too btw),oh wait,its now found in the U.S and Canada and Europe,NOW its a story"

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They are also scaremongering by saying its going to be a pandemic.They are NOT reporting that simple tablets like Tamiflu do the job as does plenty of rest

All lives are equal, but in journalism, they are more important when it's Western lives at risk. But that's journalism for you.

No surprise that it's only Mexico where people have died. It's not as capable to deal with it as everywhere else.

**DaveyCakes** · 27/04/2009, 9:08 PM

SARS, Bird flu, now this...By my reckoning we should all be dead 3 times over at this stage.

**Red&White Rover** · 27/04/2009, 10:40 PM

Obviously the US Government is behind it. They're behind everything that goes wrong. Ever.

It's a conspiracy I tells ya.

**Bluebeard** · 28/04/2009, 8:56 AM

I think some of the reports have been rasher than the others, a lot of the journos seem to be only too happy to trot out the "end of the World" headlines once again.

All the same I suppose we all have to prepare once more to meat our maker.

**Roadend** · 28/04/2009, 9:01 AM

Some of the puns in here are just sow bad

**Wangball** · 28/04/2009, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by Roadend

Some of the puns in here are just sow bad

Some people have conspired to make a pigs ear of this thread!

**passinginterest** · 28/04/2009, 10:38 AM

Just back from New York and it's dominating the news there, they really do love a good apocalypse story. I do have a bit of a sore throat though so here's hoping I haven't brought home the bacon!
There was 140 school students in Queens getting tested, 10 of them had regular flu at the last update.

**37Beour** · 28/04/2009, 1:46 PM

Originally Posted by Red&White Rover

Obviously the US Government is behind it. They're behind everything that goes wrong. Ever.

It's a conspiracy I tells ya.

Wouldn't be the worse guess in the world I bet!

**Schumi** · 28/04/2009, 1:55 PM

Originally Posted by Red&White Rover

Obviously the US Government is behind it. They're behind everything that goes wrong. Ever.

It's a conspiracy I tells ya.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/swine-fl...beta-test.html

**OneRedArmy** · 28/04/2009, 2:08 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

Have any of the mini-balaclava wearing population, realised that it's not just the nose and mouth where they can be infected, but also the eyes?

Flu can only enter the body through open exposed areas, from mouths to miniscule hand cuts.

Where's my gloves to go with the balaclava??

The masks are to prevent carriers transmitting it (coughs and sneezes) rather than preventing people receiving it. As you say, they offer little protection for that.

But if people knew that they wouldn't be so bothered about wearing them, therefore there's an incentive not to de-bunk the myth that wearing one protects you.

**pete** · 28/04/2009, 2:11 PM

Originally Posted by passinginterest

I do have a bit of a sore throat though so here's hoping I haven't brought home the bacon!

There should be a ban on all people travelling outside the US. It would have been one benefit of the swine flu.

**tricky_colour** · 28/04/2009, 4:41 PM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

So pigs can fly?

**Thunderblaster** · 28/04/2009, 5:41 PM

Will little Miss Piggy be going to the market at the weekend?

**eamo1** · 28/04/2009, 10:45 PM

So the Irish tests came back negative for it this evening.I know the exact headline in the papers tomorrow "IRELAND GETS THE ALL CLEAR FROM SWINE FLU OUTBREAK,FOR NOW!".Then they will procede to tell us how "its only a matter of time before it comes here".Granted in this era of easy travel etc it might come here but its like they are hoping it comes.