WWI troop movements was pretty huge...
Re: Bird flu: we're all going to die
WWI troop movements was pretty huge...
Our genes maybe in the basement but it does not stop us chosing our point of view from the top.
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Pape for global overlord!!
Re: Bird flu: we're all going to die
Bird flu...
Pape went to the doctor and said:
- Doc, I feel like a bird...
- Nothing serious, take an aspirin and sleep...
- Ok, said Pape and flew out of the window.....
Re: Bird flu: we're all going to die
Scare stories, in my opinion. Yes if it ever gets out it may well kill tens of thousands, but millions upon millions? I doubt it.
GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.
Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit 1944
Re: Bird flu: we're all going to die
Like it did in 1918?
Only now it only takes one person with it to get on an international flight, then the other people on it to fly off on their own, and within a few days it is springing up in every city with an international airport. And that's basically every major city. Could kill millions before anyone even notices its happening if it's infectious and dangerous enough. Even more so if it incubates for a couple of weeks.
Re: Bird flu: we're all going to die
It would take more than one person to spread it, but the transmission of disease in that way is a big risk. Hopefully it will never happen on that scale, but it may well happen. Oh well, I can be comforted by the marginal security of living in the middle of nowhere.
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
Re: Bird flu: we're all going to die
I'm not really afraid... if it happens then so be it. Lifes not that important anyway, if can't expirience it then whats the point? I'm going to keep doing what I've always done, visit foreign countries, and have fun, if I die a horrible, agonizing death from a flu virus, that'd be a great story to tell in the afterlife
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Great attitude Wazikashi. I think that way too, except for the afterlife bit.
Anyways, I agree with JAG on this(as usual) that it's just panic news. Like SARS, it's overblown out of proportion to make the media people feel important. I think journalists have become almost pathetic is the ways they try to get attention these days. Am I the only one noticing this?
Re: Bird flu: we're all going to die
Much better to tell your grandchildren of the agonising recovery.I'm not really afraid... if it happens then so be it. Lifes not that important anyway, if can't expirience it then whats the point? I'm going to keep doing what I've always done, visit foreign countries, and have fun, if I die a horrible, agonizing death from a flu virus, that'd be a great story to tell in the afterlife
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