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Old 04-27-2009, 12:53 PM   #76 (permalink)
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Besides this just started. Who knows how many of those infected will also die. they could all just fall over dead tomorrow.
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Old 04-27-2009, 12:58 PM   #77 (permalink)
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Well the 1918 influenza out break had around a 5% kill to infection ratio (Source) which is what this one currently sits at or there about. I dunno how crap your maths is but 25-35k is not 5% ratio to several million...
Huh? Did you have trouble understanding my point?
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Old 04-27-2009, 12:58 PM   #78 (permalink)
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Old 04-27-2009, 12:59 PM   #79 (permalink)
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I want to be clear that I'm not jumping on the conspiracy bandwagon and I really don't think that this is going to trigger a new pandemic but you can be sure that by the time the government is telling people that the shit has hit the fan the walls will already be caked brown with flung poop that has long since dried. The seriousness is irrelevant to the kind of official response we can expect. No matter the situation a panic will only make things worse and potentially cripple our ability to respond so just keep telling everyone that everything is fine. Swing flu not a big deal? Rocket sled to Hell? The message is going to be the same.

"It's a serious situation but the CDC is confident they can control the outbreak. Fortunately our existing vaccines are proving effective and other advances in epidemiology over the last few years have given us the ability to blah blah blah." They wouldn't tell you if the vaccines were useless so it doesn't matter. It wouldn't help a single thing for us to know that. Hell, the economic instability alone could lead to more suffering than swine flu itself.
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Old 04-27-2009, 01:00 PM   #80 (permalink)
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Huh? Did you have trouble understanding my point?
I do. Why do you think this is not serious when the fatality rate is far higher than for the common flu?
Your last line is very confusing.
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Old 04-27-2009, 01:02 PM   #81 (permalink)
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Huh? Did you have trouble understanding my point?
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Which is why I don't get why everyone is freaking the fuck out about this.
Errr you got your apostrophe in the wrong place then or is that intended?
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Old 04-27-2009, 01:06 PM   #82 (permalink)
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Hell, the economic instability alone could lead to more suffering than swine flu itself.
and they're still lieing about the severity of the situation. They'll just pump as much of our tax money into the economy as possible and hope that everything returns to normal before everything collapses completly.
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Old 04-27-2009, 01:17 PM   #83 (permalink)
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Given Kugbock's rampant pot smoking and penchant for fear mongering, I'd say the problem with that line is a lack of a proper double negative (i.e. isn't instead of is).
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Old 04-27-2009, 01:39 PM   #84 (permalink)
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so, anyway...

149 confirmed dead in mc, all schools there have been closed.

40 u.s. cases confirmed, 28 in queens, nyc, less than 5 miles from my house.
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Old 04-27-2009, 01:48 PM   #85 (permalink)
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so, anyway...

149 confirmed dead in mc, all schools there have been closed.

40 u.s. cases confirmed, 28 in queens, nyc, less than 5 miles from my house.
Go check it out for us, give us your eyes on the ground!
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Old 04-27-2009, 01:56 PM   #86 (permalink)
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Go check it out for us, give us your eyes on the ground!
Yea he should make one of those CNN iReports, some first hand vid would be nice, maybe the mafia got some secret pig pens underground there.
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Old 04-27-2009, 01:58 PM   #87 (permalink)
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0 US deaths right? how is this a panic?
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Old 04-27-2009, 02:00 PM   #88 (permalink)
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0 US deaths right? how is this a panic?
because the news seems to go off whatever happens in mexico apparently
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Old 04-27-2009, 02:05 PM   #89 (permalink)
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0 US deaths right? how is this a panic?
Well 40 infections in the US at 5% death rate = potentially 2 deaths. It's hardly a statistically large enough infection base to be able to say if there will or won't be a need for panic. Plus, people who present the flu in the U.S. will get quick access to anti-viral drugs. I'm wonder what a virus like this could do in a place like India. Massive population, low sanitary levels and congested urban regions.

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Old 04-27-2009, 02:15 PM   #90 (permalink)
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Well 40 infections in the US at 5% death rate = potentially 2 deaths. It's hardly a statistically large enough infection base to be able to say if there will or won't be a need for panic. Plus, people who present the flu in the U.S. will get quick access to anti-viral drugs. I'm wonder what a virus like this could do in a place like India. Massive population, low sanitary levels and congested urban regions.
Overpopulation might actually regulate itself! But we know that we'll once again strike down natural selection at work again by sending tons and tons of medical supplies once the death toll goes 4 figures =(
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