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k2o4   United States. Apr 26 2009 16:19. Posts 4803 | | |
For those of you who have read The Stand by Steven King, you know what I'm talking about. Seems like we have a potential superflu on the loose - shit. This shit scares me a million times more than terrorists or natural disasters.
| No wonder health officials are so concerned about the new strain of swine flu that has infected Americans in four states, killed at least 80 people in Mexico, and has already traveled to the other side of the world in New Zealand. Understandably, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns of a "public health emergency."
"This virus has, clearly, a pandemic potential," says Margaret Chan, director general of WHO. Why? The new strain spreads quickly and efficiently from human to human. It's "a completely novel virus," says the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). This latest variant is a brand new mixture of human virus, bird virus, and pig viruses from all over the world. Experts say it's particularly worrisome because people are getting sick without any encounters with pigs. Even worse, young, healthy people (ages 20-40) are dying at a striking rate, a telltale sign of the worst flu epidemics. |
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-she...wine-flu-survival-three_b_191459.html
I'm betting things will be contained and all that shit, but it's still scary when you think about the potential of what could happen.
A while back someone posted a thread with a quiz to determine whether you would survive a zombie apocalypse. I failed horribly, mostly cause I lost all my weapons in moving from place to place over the last few years, but also cause I didn't have a bunch of food stored up and so on. Now I feel like maybe I should go stock up properly in case we have to go through a real life version of The Stand. At least I live like 20 minutes from Boulder, CO, so it will be an easy journey!
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Yea, storing up some food might be smart. I'll actually do something like that someday I think. Just like enough for maybe a week or so. |
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Svenman87   United States. Apr 26 2009 16:23. Posts 4636 | | |
lol I hope I get it.
If I die, my body was weak, but if I survive... I'M A GOD! |
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k2o4   United States. Apr 26 2009 16:25. Posts 4803 | | |
odam finished the article and it appears that there is a cure. oh well, no end of the world T_T
but overall I really gotta stock up some stuff like canned foods, water, flashlights, gas stove, batteries, blah blah. I barely have any of that shit and having enough for a couple weeks seems like a smart thing to do. Not cause the world is about to end, just cause shit happens. Might hit a snow storm that kills the power for a week - then I'd be totally fucked. |
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Svenman87   United States. Apr 26 2009 16:27. Posts 4636 | | |
| On April 26 2009 15:25 k2o4 wrote:
odam finished the article and it appears that there is a cure. oh well, no end of the world T_T
but overall I really gotta stock up some stuff like canned foods, water, flashlights, gas stove, batteries, blah blah. I barely have any of that shit and having enough for a couple weeks seems like a smart thing to do. Not cause the world is about to end, just cause shit happens. Might hit a snow storm that kills the power for a week - then I'd be totally fucked. |
eh just resort to killing your neighbors and stealing their supplies...
that or cannibalism, or maybe both!
I'd go for both. |
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fuck this virus. i was going to go to mexico in a couple of weeks but all the travel agencies advised that we didnt go to mexico right now because of this. sucks. guess dominican will have to do again |
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Robinson47   United Kingdom. Apr 26 2009 17:21. Posts 992 | | |
i just hope baal is alright |
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k2o4   United States. Apr 26 2009 17:56. Posts 4803 | | |
| On April 26 2009 16:21 Robinson47 wrote:
i just hope baal is alright |
he's such a sick bastard that the diseases probably dies when it comes into contact with him |
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C0n5pir4cy   New Zealand. Apr 26 2009 18:48. Posts 1270 | | |
| On April 26 2009 16:56 k2o4 wrote:
he's such a sick bastard that the diseases probably dies when it comes into contact with him
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lolllllllllllll |
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bane   United States. Apr 26 2009 19:22. Posts 2379 | | |
jumped the gun before finishing the article haha |
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| On April 26 2009 15:25 k2o4 wrote:
odam finished the article and it appears that there is a cure. oh well, no end of the world T_T
but overall I really gotta stock up some stuff like canned foods, water, flashlights, gas stove, batteries, blah blah. I barely have any of that shit and having enough for a couple weeks seems like a smart thing to do. Not cause the world is about to end, just cause shit happens. Might hit a snow storm that kills the power for a week - then I'd be totally fucked. |
Even if there is a cure, if a pandemic breaks out supply won't be able to meet the demands for the medicine and millions will still die though. Dunno where I read it but I remember back when SARS was all hyped up a lot of scientists said a large flue pandemic was inevitable in the long run and it was not so much the question if there would be one but rather when o_O |
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k2o4   United States. Apr 26 2009 23:12. Posts 4803 | | |
Yeah that makes sense. But have you read the stand? What you're describing is Stand enough. =) |
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I was reading about swine flue and such earlier today.
go on wikipedia and search Spanish Flu. I was like holy shit WTF? I didn't even know that pandemic happened! Over 50 million people died from it during 1917-1919 or so. |
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TekxY   Mexico. Apr 28 2009 17:50. Posts 236 | | |
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Bejamin1   Canada. Apr 28 2009 18:12. Posts 7042 | | |
| On April 28 2009 16:14 Night2o1 wrote:
I was reading about swine flue and such earlier today.
go on wikipedia and search Spanish Flu. I was like holy shit WTF? I didn't even know that pandemic happened! Over 50 million people died from it during 1917-1919 or so. |
That doesn't seem accurate at all given the worlds population at the time. 50 Million is too large a number. Plus there is also the millions that died in WWI between 1914-1918 so I think those numbers are quite a bit off. If you look at population statistics for the world at that time you'll see why. |
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