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    Things Change Member JAG's Avatar
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JAG
    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.
    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.

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    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.
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    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?

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    [QUOTE=Byzantine Prince]Great attitude Wazikashi. I think that way too, except for the afterlife bit. QUOTE]

    I was being facetious about the afterlife bit... as I have about the same attitude with everything regarding religion and spiritualism... don't know... don't care.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wazikashi
    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
    Much better to tell your grandchildren of the agonising recovery.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BDC
    Much better to tell your grandchildren of the agonising recovery.
    You mean show them where the wings where located......

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    Should help to curb the population growth. It's probably those pesky MJ12 critters up to no good again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bmolsson
    You mean show them where the wings where located......
    I almost died... But the wings made it all worth the pain.

    I too blame MJ12. Would clear out AIDS too. No one with a weakened immune system would survive.

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