Renowned Scientist: Bird Flu will kill 50% of humanity

[English assassin]

i live in London... I'm f**ked

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.

There are places in Bombay where there is one toilet seat per 2,000 people

Who says you learn nothing in the Backroom?

[BDC]

The 1918 flu probably seemed to target the young more because of WW1, and (probably more importantly) several horrific flu epidemics in the late 19th century had left some level of immunity in the surving population.

Imagine if this flu had a week long incubation period and a high mortality rate. Could have infected half the world before anyone notices...

[mystic brew]

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.

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?

[Kraxis]

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?

You bring the champagne, he brings the flu.

[mystic brew]

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...

[JimBob]

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.