What the hell happened to Swine Flu?

[ConnorCool]

North Korea happened

 

[fix-the-spade]

Millions of people failed to die of it.

An effective vaccine/innoculation/whatever the proper word is has already been developed.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Swine flu... mad cow disease... chicken flu... it's Farmageddon!

that's easily the most class thing i've heard all day
but I haven't heard of chicken flu (i don't exactly keep up to date with the news since I don't have a TV and honestly couldn't care less half the time). What's that? Unless it's a reference to bird flu, in which case... meh.

Woops, I meant bird flu XD Thanks for the correction, but I do like the idea of chickens running around with a cup of beechams.

but how's a chicken gonna hold the cup? if it tried to carry a cup in its beak it's almost definitely gonna spill it unless this new strain of chicken flu mutates hands onto it. which would be AWESOME!

With it's fingers, duh!

That's where we get chicken fingers from

 

[toasterslayer]

We all realised that regular flu was killing thousands more people every week, and forgot about it.

Also: What bullshit with Miss California?

I live far away from America, you see.

well ms. california lost the ms. america contest because she was anti gay marriage and a judge was pro gay marriage. then pics of ms. california sprung up. plus something about donald trump (if you know him). anyway, its best not to go into detail...

 

[Toners]

With it's fingers, duh!

That's where we get chicken fingers from

hmm... outsmarted much x)
i've never actually had "chicken fingers" before. Thought you were referring to fish fingers, but i researched it and they do actually exist... the chicken fingers would probably be quite useless without chicken hands or arms, mind

 

[iain62a]

plus something about donald trump (if you know him). anyway, its best not to go into detail...

I know who Donald Trump is. I don't live under a rock, I just don't live in the United States.

Incidentally, Donald Trump's mother came from a small village 10 miles away from the one I live.

You never know when that fact might come in handy.

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

it was a overestimated version of a normal flu, just a little more powerful. those people who died because of it had a weak immune-defense (small kids, old people, people with chronical diseases).

Actually, the victims are young people with strong immune systems.

The immune system reacts so strongly that the victim get water in their lungs and drown.




Another bit of information is that WHO has decided to upgrade the flu to level 6 on their spread scale, where 6 is the highest level.

Well that's funny... Cause the only people that have died of it so far have been the young or old or people with underlying medical conditions. And the level remains at 5.

 

[EeveeElectro]

With it's fingers, duh!

That's where we get chicken fingers from

hmm... outsmarted much x)
i've never actually had "chicken fingers" before. Thought you were referring to fish fingers, but i researched it and they do actually exist... the chicken fingers would probably be quite useless without chicken hands or arms, mind

Chickens don't have hands or arms. Just fingers. Their body, wings and fingers attached to the end, so they don't kill the chicken for chicken fingers, they just chop off the fingers because chickens optionally use their fingers (they prefer their beaks).

Hmmm... this is what being ill and tired does to me. More sleep and less eating bad food I think.

 

[UnwishedGunz]

people freaked out because the swine flu killed like 6-10 people. the government said it might be an epidemic when theres even more things that kill more then the swine flu. maybe they should call cancer an epidemic

 

[SoranMBane]

The media decided it wasn't making them enough money after a while, and dropped it. And since most people have the attention spans of gnats, they all went back to pretending they care about other things.

 

[PersianLlama]

I live in Tennessee and people were freaking about the think. Then the whole Bull Sh*t with Ms. California (Or whoever) came around and I never heard about it again. Aren't we all supposed to be dead by now?

People stopped being retarded.

 

[Danny Ocean]

This whole "Swine Flu Epidemic" is pure bullshit. Something like 200 people have been confirmed to have caught it and only two deaths were caused by it

2% of 6 billion is 120 million people. Don't take it so lightly just because it's on a small scale.

It's not a epidemic, and people need to shut the fuck up about it.

I think you'll find it is. [http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/phase/en/index.html]

The state of New York is going bat shit stupid because 17 or so people total have got it here, some of which were in school. So now schools are closing left and right to be scrubbed down because everyone is paranoid that they're going to die from it.

And this is the exact reason it hasn't spread so far. The closing of schools and public centres isn't a fearful reaction to the virus, it's standard protocol set down by the WHO to contain highly contagious, highly deadly viruses.

It ain't gonna happen people. The only people who have died from it were already sick and dying.

This is not true. H1N1 can kill the weak, like every disease can, but it is particularly deadly against strong, healthy immune systems such as your own (I assume.). It has a similar effect to the Spanish Flu of 1918 in that it reproduces rapidly and so causes your own immune system to destroy enough of your body to kill you.

So stop wasting paper and time by saying how to avoid it, what to do if you think you got it and whatever the fuck useless "information" you wish to spew out. I and every single American have much better things to do than to listen to the germ-a-phobic nutter screaching on how the swine flu will kill us all.

Now now, no need to be cross. I don't think that every single American has something better to do, unless you want the sizeable scientific workforce to stop researching the virus?

An effective vaccine the proper word is has already been developed.

No it hasn't. That was one of the issues raised when the hype was still up. We had antiviral drugs, but no vaccine. It was cited to be completed in about 6 months. That was 6 months after the epidemic was declared. We really weren't as prepared as we could've been.

To others: the H1N1 subtype already accounts for about half of seasonal flu deaths. I can't understand why you count this as some kind of good thing. We can clearly see that we can't deal with regular seasonal flu as so many people die from it every year. Current seasonal flu targets and is effective against the weak-immuned, whereas the new H1N1 strain targets the strong.

Combine the two in one season and you have one huge problem.

The Reason for the hype surrounding it is this:

Influenza A virus strains are assigned an H number and an N number based on which forms of these two proteins the strain contains. There are 16 H and 9 N subtypes known in birds, but only H 1, 2 and 3, and N 1 and 2 are commonly found in humans.
It's a similar case for pigs.

See, us humans only have to deal with 3 Different H's and 2 Different N's normally, in various combinations. The problem comes when (In this, quoted, example) an avian strain of flu becomes contagious and effective to humans. This then, in effect, moves all of the other 16H's and 9N's that we haven't experienced yet into our list of possible combinations. This makes it much bigger, and there are many more which our immune systems, as a species, havn't been exposed to yet.


You may dismiss the media hype, but don't dismiss the danger.

It's not gone yet.

 

[dontworryaboutit]

Maybe people realized that swine flu happened in the 70's and nothing happened then either.

 

[toasterslayer]

plus something about donald trump (if you know him). anyway, its best not to go into detail...

I know who Donald Trump is. I don't live under a rock, I just don't live in the United States.

Incidentally, Donald Trump's mother came from a small village 10 miles away from the one I live.

You never know when that fact might come in handy.

lol.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

I live in Tennessee and people were freaking about the think. Then the whole Bull Sh*t with Ms. California (Or whoever) came around and I never heard about it again. Aren't we all supposed to be dead by now?

People stopped being retarded.

If only that was true.

Luckily the sensible ones got to understand the situation better and the stupid ones got distracted by bright lights and funny noises...

 

[Toners]

Chickens don't have hands or arms. Just fingers. Their body, wings and fingers attached to the end, so they don't kill the chicken for chicken fingers, they just chop off the fingers because chickens optionally use their fingers (they prefer their beaks).

Hmmm... this is what being ill and tired does to me. More sleep and less eating bad food I think.

Ill? Not chicken flu I hope Also I tend to stay awake for days drinking, then sleep for weeks at a time. Also I eat too much junk food myself, for a Devonshire lad. Yeah, who d'you think Mad Cow Disease struck the worst? My ex-girlfriend basket case, had to send her to the looney bin. gutted.
... I think I went slightly off topic there?
So swine flu... heh...

 

[EeveeElectro]

Chickens don't have hands or arms. Just fingers. Their body, wings and fingers attached to the end, so they don't kill the chicken for chicken fingers, they just chop off the fingers because chickens optionally use their fingers (they prefer their beaks).

Hmmm... this is what being ill and tired does to me. More sleep and less eating bad food I think.

Ill? Not chicken flu I hope Also I tend to stay awake for days drinking, then sleep for weeks at a time. Also I eat too much junk food myself, for a Devonshire lad. Yeah, who d'you think Mad Cow Disease struck the worst? My ex-girlfriend basket case, had to send her to the looney bin. gutted.
... I think I went slightly off topic there?
So swine flu... heh...

Wow, weeks? You must hibernate or something. Like Sandy from Spongebob when she got really fat to hibernate, you must do that, but with drinking like a camel because they can go ages without drinking.
I had a few nibbles of toast and felt sick... maybe I caught toast flu?
Hmmm. My mum works for a 'loony bin' not sure if there's any mad cow disease there though!
Thread derailing FTW.

 

[Toners]

This whole "Swine Flu Epidemic" is pure bullshit. Something like 200 people have been confirmed to have caught it and only two deaths were caused by it

2% of 6 billion is 120 million people. Don't take it so lightly just because it's on a small scale.

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You may dismiss the media hype, but don't dismiss the danger.

It's not gone yet.

one appears to know one's shit i think you've simultaneously put down about a million arguments AND get incredibly technical AND won several long post awards. nice
unfortunately there IS no prize for this, bar mock "you win the internet" ones, so i suppose you can have that?

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Wow, weeks? You must hibernate or something. Like Sandy from Spongebob when she got really fat to hibernate, you must do that, but with drinking like a camel because they can go ages without drinking.
I had a few nibbles of toast and felt sick... maybe I caught toast flu?
Hmmm. My mum works for a 'loony bin' not sure if there's any mad cow disease there though!
Thread derailing FTW.

indeed, let us derail ALL the threads! also I've never been told I drink like a camel before... that's a new one and i do sleep a lot, just not for literal weeks, I'll have the occasional 3 or 4 day drinking binge, then sleep for like... 2. I love time off after exams

 

[USSR]

I still love being the only state in the US not to get this virus =3

Good ol' West Virginia

 

[DerpyDerpyDerp]

North Korea activing nukes overshadowed it.