imMonkeyGOD
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Well we are all screwed....
I think it was a mexican baby, my teacher was talking about it in class yesterday but I was half asleep so I didn't really catch the whole discussion.Adam said:The swine flu is something cooked up by the media. Thousands of people got it last year. 40,000 people die from the regular flu each year in the US. 1 person has died of swine flu in the us this year. OVERBLOWN!
Sean Bradley said:Hey everybody look over here... pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
It's a distraction, whitewashing plain and simple, just like Avian Flu. There's something big going on that the government doesn't want the general populace to pay attention to. A fear story like this spreads across the media so all the other stories are small in comparison. Suddenly middle America doesn't care about what's going on in Afghanistan... they just want to know what brand of dust mask keeps out viruses!
And thus the media does the government's dirty work again.. and we play along..
We'll find out what all this was about in a few years when people start coming forward to confess and nobody cares what it was about anymore.
All I know is that the CDC is asleep at the wheel... either that or they're a secret branch of the CIA.
*steps off soapbox*
So what else is new guys?
A bit off topic but my 80 year old communist digital design teacher told the entire class she didn't like Adobe Photoshop because it wasn't like Microsoft Editor....Bigalt424 said:Lol, my gym teacher said the funniest thing. He was like "I don't let the swine flu keep me from doing anything, I just had a pork roast last night." Lol
lol dude thats funny welp time to pull out the guns down here in the south! im ready bring on the zombie horde SAFE ZONES IN TEXAS!!! lets go to adams and set up campimMonkeyGOD said:Well we are all screwed....
Sean Bradley said:Hey everybody look over here... pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
It's a distraction, whitewashing plain and simple, just like Avian Flu. There's something big going on that the government doesn't want the general populace to pay attention to. A fear story like this spreads across the media so all the other stories are small in comparison. Suddenly middle America doesn't care about what's going on in Afghanistan... they just want to know what brand of dust mask keeps out viruses!
And thus the media does the government's dirty work again.. and we play along..
We'll find out what all this was about in a few years when people start coming forward to confess and nobody cares what it was about anymore.
All I know is that the CDC is asleep at the wheel... either that or they're a secret branch of the CIA.
*steps off soapbox*
So what else is new guys?
spartan 26 said:lol dude thats funny welp time to pull out the guns down here in the south! im ready bring on the zombie horde SAFE ZONES IN TEXAS!!! lets go to adams and set up camp
only one persons got it at my school, they think, but no bodys else has got it. yeah where i live they got a big way from making the virus spread there closing all the schools if 2 people get it here. yeah that should contain it not.
Bigalt424 said:I was watching the news this morning....someone died from it.
SPARTAN II said:...So, comparatively speaking, this swine flu (or N1N1, which I have dubbed "Nee-Nee") has so far had a much lower threat rating...
Drakku said:99.9% (if not 100%) of these "deaths from swine flu" were actually caused by underlying physical conditions or age. If you're already sick, a flu isn't going to help you.
Frankly, I'm getting really sick of it. I coughed the other day and some girl looks at me like I'm about to jump her.
.. yeah. I gave her a death glare.
Anywho, it's a propogandal diversion, as Sean pointed out. If you really are worried about it, it's just a flu.. It's not like it's an indestructable death machine, it's just a new strain we don't have the antibiotics for. It won't kill you, unless you're a newborn baby or a really old person, or your immune system can't fight it off like any other flu.
I'm one of those lucky low-immune people, though. Woo for near brush with death due to chemical pneumonia!
23Magnum said:Seriously though, it's been officially reported that only 20 or fewer people have actually died from this strain of flu directly. It's nothing to stop living your regular lives or become germaphobic over.
Spase said:Not to rain on the funny parade of making fun of a influenza outbreak propagated by the media.
Swine Flue is H1N1
Maybe calling it the Hiney flue would be more accurate...
In other personal news, went to buy school supplies as part of teacher appreciation week for the kiddo, and all of the Hand Sanitizer was gone... I mean all of it... media hype rediculous.