Is your family doing anything to prepare for an Avian Flu Pandemic?

[Divinus Arma]

It's certainly a matter of time before bird flu is global. Whether it muates or not is a completely different question.


Just curious. What if it does mutate? What is going on with your family? Are you doing anything? If so, what?

[Samurai Waki]

There was a case reported in Poland as well... honestly, unless someone drops dead of it in the US I'm not gonna do much to prepare for it, don't eat too much chicken anyways.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Nothing at all. This is just another example of modern civilisation panicking unduly.

Even if it does mutate, the odds of it becoming as virulent in humans as in birds are tiny.

I'm far more likely to get hit by a bus this morning - or getting run over by some idiot trying to buy up all the baked beans.

[The_Doctor]

Go crazy broardway style.

Bird Flu, Bird Flu, it a hellofa disease...

[Devastatin Dave]

Regular flu has killed a hell of a lot more just this year than the # of bird flu cases. Just the latest way for governments to keep the citizens scared and waste tax dollars. The levees gonna break oh my!!!

[Shadow]

I think my government had done all the necessary protection so there shouldn’t be anything to worry about.

[Dutch_guy]

Not really worried, no sign of the virus has been found in humans and birds in Holland... well not yet

[Idaho]

Do you know how many people died in car accidents in your country so far this year?

Howabout the numbers who have died of TB?

Howabout the 50,000 children a year who die of malaria?

Or as Dave says the thousands who have died already from common flu.

[Tribesman]

Preparing for bird flu .
Step 1 . Buy a few hundred worn out scrawny old hens for a pittance
Step 2 . Get someone from the Mart or Co-op to do you a reciept for a couple of hundred top quality point of lay pullets .
Step 3 Wait
Step 4 . when it hits get the birds slaughtered and then claim mucho compensation for the loss of your "valuable" flock .

Every cloud of pestilence has a silver lining .

[KukriKhan]

Preparing for bird flu .
Step 1 . Buy a few hundred worn out scrawny old hens for a pittance
Step 2 . Get someone from the Mart or Co-op to do you a reciept for a couple of hundred top quality point of lay pullets .
Step 3 Wait
Step 4 . when it hits get the birds slaughtered and then claim mucho compensation for the loss of your "valuable" flock .

Every cloud of pestilence has a silver lining .

And don't forget to record the slaughter (with kids crying in the background), and send copies to the local news station.

The wife and I have 2 "bug-out" kits. 1 for "earthquake-the-house-fell-down-and-we're-on-our-own-for-a-week", and 1 for "get-out-of-town-quick.". Not doing anything special about H5N1.

[rory_20_uk]

Erm, do what in case of bird flu? Kill all birds in the area? Best kill people and other animals too, eh?

The vaccine in birds masks symptoms, nothing more. In fact proably aids spread.

Here in London and the UK in general property prices are bloody high, and the amount oul people get spent on then is shocking. Decimation at the very least will mean I can buy a house and the NHS will in the medium term have a greatly reduced work load.

[BigTex]

I have the ducktape and plastic wrap all ready for when the terrorists bomb us with bird flu dirty bombs. I even have the broom closet all nice and cleared out. Now all that needs to be done is constant training, to be able to seal that closet off in less then 10 minutes. Hmmm I also need some tinfoil hats incase the alliens invade while the bird flu is sweeping through.

[yesdachi]

I completely trust that my government will take care of everything...

[Dâriûsh]

No.

And I had chicken today. It was lovely.

[drone]

Gah! The bird fly hype has not yet entered my household. It may be dangerous, it may not. It may mutate, it may not. At the moment though, it's low on the radar of things that might kill me. Tops of the list is my driving.

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.

[solypsist]

my "family" is just me. and i am healthy as a horse. no worries on my end.

[Devastatin Dave]

no worries on my end.

Oh man, I've got a great snide remark but I like you too much soly, I must resist!!!

[solypsist]

argh - you dont need to say it, i understood it loud and clear.

Oh man, I've got a great snide remark but I like you too much soly, I must resist!!!

[Lemur]

Call me when there's a successful human-to-human transmission. Until that's confirmed, into the Gah! pool with the whole issue.

Gah!

[Brenus]

Kill the bastards and eat them... Death to the chickens, ducks and others... Kill them before they kill us.

[Ianofsmeg16]

Nothing, nothing ever comes here anyway.

Mad cows do you say?
Foot and what disease?
Bird who?

[aw89]

I'll sit here and watch as you all die horrible deaths!

Or, more likely, I'll laugh at the people who have used lots of money preparing for it.

[Duke Malcolm]

Nothing, nothing ever comes here anyway.

Mad cows do you say?
Foot and what disease?
Bird who?

Well, my family have made arrangements to go to the hills or a nice remote island...

[Monarch]

Well my family is working on a cure....











:| Seriously, "what is your family doing", what do you expect lol....nothing we can do other than sit tight.

[Papewaio]

The bird flu yet has to be global. The only cases of humans dieing could have been avoided with proper cooking and hygeine practices followed.

Then it has to mutate to a human to human version... and it won't mutate all over the world to the same version. And in the human to human version it may be more or less deadly... if it is less deadly it may in fact trigger the immune system to create antibodies that would fight off the bird to human variant... could, could, maybe... at this stage it is speculation.

And if it does mutate it will start at a spot and spread. It will not mutate simultaneously across the globe.

So first it has to mutate to a version that has a vector of human to human and then that variant has to spread around the globe.

[Ianofsmeg16]

Well, my family have made arrangements to go to the hills or a nice remote island...

We'd welcome you, we could plan world domination..er...politics, over lunch on Port Erin Beach....


...While plotting world domination

[Csargo]

Well if anyone dies of chicken flu then I'll probably just laugh at them
:DHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Divinus Arma]

This poll seems to be going as I thought it might.

I personally have little preparations for any kind of emergency, let alone bird flu.

I'm the guy voted for "have a list". I think it is important to have a general emergency kit. Not necessarily for bird flu, but just for general emergency use of any kind.

The need for an emergency kit will arise not from the flu itself, but from the natural panis that would set in with any pandemic with a 10%+ mortality rate.

I realize there are far more important things to worry about, and I agree.

But relaize this: If this really does mutate as the WHO is predicting, the news will report its spread second by second. People will be glued to the TVs, watching illness counts and death counts. Many, many people will simply refuse to go to work for at least a week as soon as it shows up in their state or other provincial area.

When or if it mutates, it will be non-stop coverage on the news. People will be talking about it nonstop including on this board.

When it hits your region, traffic will be light as people decide to stay home. Many may choose to flee to rural areas if they have relatives there.

When it hits your city, traffic will be sparce. Emergency and police services will be everywhere watching for opportunitists. Many regular businesses will be closed and all of this because of PARANOIA. The government will encourage everyone to keep on with their daily lives.

Then, depending on how bad the mortality rate is, things will get better or worse. Plan for many foods, water, and medicines to be on short supply.

Of course, this is all with just a 10% mortality. If it hits anywhere at 20% or higher, then we are so screwed. Prepare for military enforcement, rationing of goods, and great shortages.

If it hits 50% (the current mortality rate, but lacking good medical care), then the world will go back in time 100 years. Arm yourselves.


But I agree with the majority, it will probably just blow over. I'm more worried about my pregnant wife barfing constantly in her first trimester!

[TB666]

Yes I have prepared for the worst.
I have collected 200 porn movies just in case something happens.
Don't wanna be without porn during a major disaster.

[Kanamori]

When it hits your region, traffic will be light as people decide to stay home. Many may choose to flee to rural areas if they have relatives there.

When it hits your city, traffic will be sparce. Emergency and police services will be everywhere watching for opportunitists. Many regular businesses will be closed and all of this because of PARANOIA. The government will encourage everyone to keep on with their daily lives.

Then, depending on how bad the mortality rate is, things will get better or worse. Plan for many foods, water, and medicines to be on short supply.

Of course, this is all with just a 10% mortality. If it hits anywhere at 20% or higher, then we are so screwed. Prepare for military enforcement, rationing of goods, and great shortages.

If it hits 50% (the current mortality rate, but lacking good medical care), then the world will go back in time 100 years. Arm yourselves.

You should sell this as the basis of one of those disaster books! Two guys vying for power the whole way through and at the end their on brink of apocalypse!