Renowned Scientist: Bird Flu will kill 50% of humanity

Random conspiracy theory thrown out here:

50% of the population dies. Chances are, urban areas will be hit harder than rural areas, since population density and general squalor will aid in transmission. This decimation of the blue states will lead to Republican rule for a very long time. Karl Rove's master plan is now revealed. :inquisitive:

Its the vaxine that is against the virus form that can infect from animal to human.That is supplied mostly to medical personal generally around the world.Ofcourse the virus have not mutated into Human to Human form yet.Me knows that.~;)

I survived the Hanta Virus, I can survive this.

Hasnt something like this happened before? Mass hysteria, panicking, threat of a big evil destroying everything....


sounds like the night before the eurovision song contest :help:

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Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

I doubt he's fear mongering. He probably feels that this is a very real danger and just wants people to be prepared. He is a well known scientist.

I doubt the 10%/50% would be evenly distributed. I imagine china and india would get hit worst. I'd say Japan but they're already anal about wearing face masks all the time.



I just looked it up and 20% of the world caught influenza during the 1918 pandemic. The mortality rate was something like 2.5% though. 20-40 million died.

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I meant fear mongering on the part of the article. They didn't provide any information on the assumptions made that he used to reach the 50% figure, they just reported that "Respected scientist says Bird Flu will doom humanity" I'm not saying anything against him, I'm saying that the article seemed vague.

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Originally Posted by Mongoose

I meant fear mongering on the part of the article. They didn't provide any information on the assumptions made that he used to reach the 50% figure, they just reported that "Respected scientist says Bird Flu will doom humanity" I'm not saying anything against him, I'm saying that the article seemed vague.

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Well it's a newspaper, that's a given :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by English assassin

Pah. Me too. But ask yourself, what would Oscar Wilde do? We get to die in the best city on earth, instead of "surviving" up some mountain in Montana eating lichen and cuddling up to a rifle at night. I've made my choice.

Anyway, I make it a rule only to worry about things that I have some control over. Mutant avian vruses do not fall into that category.

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Absolutely. i'm gonna go to tower bridge, climb up and watch civilisation die from the best vantage point.

I'll bring some champagne...
see you there?

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Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

Well it's a newspaper, that's a given :laugh4:

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Now all we need is the Bird Flu theme song, which you'll hear at the beginning of every news show(listen carefully, and you'll hear the sound of the reporters opening a bottle of wine to celebrate the new 'threat to humanity')

You still have to wonder why he didn't just publish the actual study, instead of letting the news decide which parts they want the public to know...

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Originally Posted by Mongoose

Now all we need is the Bird Flu theme song

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Done:

I am a man who walks alone
And when I'm walking a dark road
At night or strolling through the park

When the light begins to change
I sometimes feel a little strange
A little anxious when it's dark.

Fear of the flu,fear of the flu
I have constant fear that something's always near
Fear of the flu,fear of the flu
I have a phobia that the bird's are already there!

hellooooooo!!!!!!!!!

http://people.uleth.ca/~paul.sparrowclarke/28_days.jpg

lol, good one legio

I doubt that we will see anything as severe as that. 1918 the year when the Spanish flu struck the world was in turmoil. The social situation then cannot be compared to now. 1957 and 1968, which are certainly more comparable to today have seen equially dangerous forms of influenza with much less victims.

LOL, Iron Maiden pwns bird flu it seems

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I'll bring some champagne...
see you there?

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Absolutement mon brave. I'll be the one with the canapes.

He said it *could* not it will.

AIDs *could* mutate into an airborn virus. We don't know it will though.

So, gah. I just hope it's not the half I live in. Or Taiwan. Or Europe. Or anywhere, preferably, but we all have to make sacrifices.

*hands over some random nation in the middle of nowhere*

I'm not worried. I'm confident that I'll be one of the chosen ones who survives Captain Trips and goes to Denver to hang out with Mother Abigail and do battle against the Walkin' Dude...

:hippie:

Thank god for my mutant healing factor! I was pissed about that radioactive spider bite at the time, but it's paying off now.

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Originally Posted by mystic brew

Absolutely. i'm gonna go to tower bridge, climb up and watch civilisation die from the best vantage point.

I'll bring some champagne...
see you there?

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You bring the champagne, he brings the flu.~;p

sure, piss on my parade!

but anyway. he said he'd bring canapes as well. i'll risk death for a mini blue cheese souffle anyday.
and you can put that on my headstone...

In the hypothetical situation where half of the population dies the bigger problem will be all the dead bodies. Think about the diseases that will fester in 3 billion dead bodies. People who survive the bird flu will catch something from the bodies and have a weakened immune system that cannot fight back.

I was shocked to hear a report that a pandemic would harm the international economy. No way! Who would have thought it? People sick and dying and restrictions on movements may damage economies shock! Way to go with stating the obvious, thank goodness we have all these experts with us!

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Originally Posted by Goofball

I'm not worried. I'm confident that I'll be one of the chosen ones who survives Captain Trips and goes to Denver to hang out with Mother Abigail and do battle against the Walkin' Dude...

:hippie:

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That showed was terrible.....


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Hmmm. I would like more info please. And maybe a few more studies. Not that I remeber him saying how likely this is to happen.

50%? Isn't that what they said about AIDS. Looks like the folks making billions on AIDS have found a new cash cow. I'm calling BS on this. The sky is falling, the sky is falling.

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Originally Posted by Divinus Arma

But I cannot help but wonder, why would 3rd world countries be effected more? No medical establishment can cope with this...

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The bias DA the bias... Anyway my thanks.:2thumbsup: ~;)

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Originally Posted by STFS

6 billion

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Sorry cultural differences, here it's always 6.000.000.000 = Six thousand million (well now I know why it doesn't work on english :no: ), while 6 billion will be 6.000.000.000.000. I've heard in a lot of movies gringos talking like that it always seem wrong to me, I mean if you say six billion to simbolize 6.000.000.000 then how do you say 6.000.000.000.000, six thousand billion?:inquisitive:

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Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave

50%? Isn't that what they said about AIDS. Looks like the folks making billions on AIDS have found a new cash cow. I'm calling BS on this. The sky is falling, the sky is falling.

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Perhaps adding all the deaths together (diacronically) we could get a number as big as the half of the actual censed world population.

There's one way to solve this problem and it's like all those crazy "theories" of the end of the world: GO HERMIT.

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

6,000,000,000 = Six Billion
6,000,000,000,000 = Six Trillion. IIRC, our national debt is around the 5 Trillion range.

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Thanks for the correction then, but I suppose that's an alternative way of spelling it. I mean, for example, 1900 can be spelled one thousand and nine hundred as it could be spelled nineteen hundred. Right?

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Originally Posted by Soulforged

Sorry cultural differences, here it's always 6.000.000.000 = Six thousand million (well now I know why it doesn't work on english :no: ), while 6 billion will be 6.000.000.000.000. I've heard in a lot of movies gringos talking like that it always seem wrong to me, I mean if you say six billion to simbolize 6.000.000.000 then how do you say 6.000.000.000.000, six thousand billion?:inquisitive:
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Rule 1 Gringos are right always:2thumbsup: :laugh4:

Funny I learn el esponal from the novelas

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

IIRC, our national debt is around the 5 Trillion range.

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Make that 8,2.
national debt

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Originally Posted by Soulforged

Thanks for the correction then, but I suppose that's an alternative way of spelling it. I mean, for example, 1900 can be spelled one thousand and nine hundred as it could be spelled nineteen hundred. Right?

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Actually, a billion is one million million, IIRC its another one of those things that the Americans have changed and everyone has just adopted, like "Color" :furious3: :wall: :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by Slyspy

I was shocked to hear a report that a pandemic would harm the international economy. No way! Who would have thought it? People sick and dying and restrictions on movements may damage economies shock! Way to go with stating the obvious, thank goodness we have all these experts with us!

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Yeah, and not to mention they drily mention "3 billion humans will die" alongside "OMG OUR 1337 3c0n0my might be hurt, NO IT MUSTN'T HAPPEN!" as if the economy being hurt would be of equal importance with 3 billion casualties :laugh4: Who cares if economy is hurt if there are 3 billion dead, half-rotten bodies lying on the ground?

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Originally Posted by Ja'chyra

Actually, a billion is one million million, IIRC its another one of those things that the Americans have changed and everyone has just adopted, like "Color" :furious3: :wall: :laugh4:

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Well here it is...
We have after each -lion a similar number that just ends with -liard. So million is the same, billion is then milliard, trillion is billion and then I don't know any more english numbers actually while ours go through billiard, trillion and trilliard before I'm lost in our numbers.

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Originally Posted by Kraxis

Well here it is...
We have after each -lion a similar number that just ends with -liard.

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I thought you were talking about feeding the bodies to lions there, I must learn to scan things better.

Anyway, 3 billion bodies? save the zoos, feed the lions.

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Originally Posted by Kraxis

Well here it is...
We have after each -lion a similar number that just ends with -liard. So million is the same, billion is then milliard, trillion is billion and then I don't know any more english numbers actually while ours go through billiard, trillion and trilliard before I'm lost in our numbers.

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Same here(only -liarde).:2thumbsup:
My latin teacher could go way further, he got tha knowledge, but I never heard anyone else mention any higher number. Most don´t even use the word Trillion.