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    Well, it just underlines what I thought for a while:

    It's not going to be ourselves or something big like mammoth aliens or sabretooth octosquids from the deep sea that's going to wipe us out but micro "organisms" like bacteria and virii that are going to kill us.
    Now we are close to having killer flus because they evolve so fast, so far they are not killing us but they seem to be evolving into that direction, then we have the antibiotic resistant bacteria that hardly get any attention but supposedly kill 40000-50000 people in german hospitals every year and who knows what comes next?


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    my question is why havent we closed our borders until the threat has passed like every other nation has?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hooahguy View Post
    my question is why havent we closed our borders until the threat has passed like every other nation has?
    WHich other nation has my friend??
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    as i understand it most countries arent allowing in people from Mexico or something. but my source may be wrong.
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    I think the South Koreans are being quite clever, using infrared cameras to spot people in the airport with elevated body temp. Simple. Elegant. Just the sort of thing we would never do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hooahguy View Post
    as i understand it most countries arent allowing in people from Mexico or something. but my source may be wrong.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hooahguy View Post
    as i understand it most countries arent allowing in people from Mexico or something. but my source may be wrong.
    You're not recommended to fly into Mexico in some countries (the other ones thinks that tourism will hurt too much for a mostly scare atm) and that's about it.
    We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?

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    Anyway, let's move on to the really important stuff when it comes to this flu.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TB666 View Post
    Anyway, let's move on to the really important stuff when it comes to this flu.
    Swine flu is offensive according to jews and muslims
    wow.
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    Swine flu also has something to do with Dems. So sayeth free-range cougar Michelle Bachman:

    Bachmann, speaking on Pajamas TV, noted: "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."

    The 1976 swine flu scare happened on Gerald Ford's watch.

    We checked Wikipedia.

    Ford was a Republican.

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    Why is she still in office ??

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    Alot of worrying about nothing, care more how you cross the road...


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    Well it's a big scare here in NZ at the moment. Some kids came back from Mexico with it. Though I'm not worried about it (at least for myself), since I consider myself a fairly healthy individual, and so if I did get it, I'd probably be very sick but eventually recover. Or at least, that's what I'd like to think.

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    Guys, I hate to break it to ya, but we shouldn't call it "swine flu".
    At a news briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took pains to repeatedly refer to the flu as the "H1N1 virus."

    "This is not a food-borne illness, virus. It is not correct to refer to it as swine flu because really that's not what this is about," Vilsack said.

    Israel has already rejected the name swine flu, and opted to call it "Mexico flu." Jewish dietary laws forbid eating pork.
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    @Janet: Dude, we know.

    I very seriously doubt anyone thinks it's food poisoning. Last I checked, you can't catch the flu through undercooked food, unless the person preparing it has the flu.
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    Big scare in SD county, a school's closed, and knowing the locals, one school is enough and then we have the cascade of closed schools and emergencies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marshal Murat View Post
    Guys, I hate to break it to ya, but we shouldn't call it "swine flu".
    Never underestimate the power of the pork lobby. Dance with the swine, you come out fine. Insult the hog and you will be dogged.

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    I think swine flu just gives Muslims and Jews another reason not to eat pork.
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    there are people now who are accusing israel of putting out this virus because they claim that jews cant get it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hooahguy View Post
    there are people now who are accusing israel of putting out this virus because they claim that jews cant get it.
    *groan*
    ...there is at least one Israeli with it...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hooahguy View Post
    there are people now who are accusing israel of putting out this virus because they claim that jews cant get it.
    *groan*
    Well apparently there is at least one Israeli who got sick after eating a mexican, but you don't hear anything about that in the liberal media.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
    Well apparently there is at least one Israeli who got sick after eating a mexican

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
    Well apparently there is at least one Israeli who got sick after eating a mexican, but you don't hear anything about that in the liberal media.
    I'm surprised too since you don't hear about cannibal jews that often in the media.

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    First fatality in the US:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8024611.stm

    Though the child probably got the virus in Mexico, it is still a significant milestone...


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    Got the 'mass panic' feat.
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    Eh what? So first they say don't panic and closing airports is useless and now that I have calmed down they raise the alarm level and say we are all gonna die?


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    The worrisome part is not the death rate (6.8% in Mexico, less than 5% in USA), but the ease of contagion. Apparently, this strain is as communicable as a typical rhinovirus.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
    Eh what? So first they say don't panic and closing airports is useless and now that I have calmed down they raise the alarm level and say we are all gonna die?
    Nah, only MOST of us are going to die. We wont ALL die until it hits phase 6
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    What phase is the one where we all go blasting everyone we see Left 4 Dead style and somehow there are safe rooms with plenty of ammo, food and weapons everywhere? Oh and lot of random pills in rooms. That happens as well.


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    Pills here!

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