The Swine Flu Thread

[WobbuffetClock]

you need to lick a monkey

hahahahahaha I remember that cartoon
BA-BA-BA-THANG!

[Steve]

伊吹Suika;1567651']It's here in the uk too

(Although it's in scotland, so maybe we should put up a giant wall to contain infection or something)

Naturally

[Mashed Potato Johnson]

ITS IN AUSTRALIA WAAAAT DAAA FUKKK

You mexicans and your shit.

[heineken]

[Topcatyo]

My throat hurts and my nose is runny.
guyz i think i hav burd floo

[heineken]

My throat hurts and my nose is runny.
guyz i think i hav burd floo

My doctor says it's just plain herpes WHEW

[Silly Putty Clock]

perfectly relevant to the topic at hand

[SpongeClock SquarePants]

swine flu only kills poor people

[Seriously Dark]

swine flu only kills poor people

sigh, and to think that I was worried, hah

[Heliopios]

I still don't understand how people die of a flu


I've had a pretty horrible case of the flu and wasn't near death, maybe because I'm not emaciated and already on death's doorstep like all these poor mexicans.

[AstronautClock]

it seems to only kill people in mexico

[heineken]

I still don't understand how people die of a flu


I've had a pretty horrible case of the flu and wasn't near death, maybe because I'm not emaciated and already on death's doorstep like all these poor mexicans.

You've never had the flu. What you're talking about is stomach flu, which isn't influenza at all. Stomach flu passes in 3 to 4 days and just involves puking and diarrhea, actual flu will have you really, really sick.

And then, actual flu is usually just harmful to older people. What makes swine flu so dangerous is that it's affecting younger people, which means a lot more people will die from it if it becomes a pandemic.

[RocketFetus]

You've never had the flu. What you're talking about is stomach flu, which isn't influenza at all. Stomach flu passes in 3 to 4 days and just involves puking and diarrhea, actual flu will have you really, really sick.

And then, actual flu is usually just harmful to older people. What makes swine flu so dangerous is that it's affecting younger people, which means a lot more people will die from it if it becomes a pandemic.

Stomach flu is real, I don't know why you are calling influenza "actual" flu, because Stomach Flue (Gastroenteritis) is real as well. Also, "Symptoms of gastroenteritis or stomach flu include abdominal cramps, stomach pain, nausea vomiting, and diarrhea. You may also have fever, headache and swollen lymph glands, depending on the type of bug that causes it." To me that sounds like it qualifies being "really, really sick" as you put it.

edit: I just realized that he never said what the symptoms of his illness were. You have no idea what he had, and you are just assuming what he was sick with.

[heineken]

Stomach flu is real, I don't know why you are calling influenza "actual" flu, because Stomach Flue (Gastroenteritis) is real as well. Also, "Symptoms of gastroenteritis or stomach flu include abdominal cramps, stomach pain, nausea vomiting, and diarrhea. You may also have fever, headache and swollen lymph glands, depending on the type of bug that causes it." To me that sounds like it qualifies being "really, really sick" as you put it.

Stomach flu is real, I was saying stomach flu =/= influenza. They're different things.

Also yeah having stomach flu sure sucks, but it's far less lethal than actual flu. Heliopios seemed to think he's had the same thing that's spreading right now but that's ridiculous, otherwise there'd been a global alarm of the flu spreading when he had it.

[RocketFetus]

Stomach flu is real, I was saying stomach flu =/= influenza. They're different things.

Also yeah having stomach flu sure sucks, but it's far less lethal than actual flu. Heliopios seemed to think he's had the same thing that's spreading right now but that's ridiculous, otherwise there'd been a global alarm of the flu spreading when he had it.

Again, he never said what his symptoms were. So YOU'RE WRONG he had influenza.

[CaramelAppleClock]

No cases reported here so I'm still good.

[DNAClock]

I still don't understand how people die of a flu


I've had a pretty horrible case of the flu and wasn't near death, maybe because I'm not emaciated and already on death's doorstep like all these poor mexicans.

Durrrrrrrr... No, people die because of a very aggresive pneumonia and fever. I'm guessing that the people that are dying  came in to the hospital too late for treatment, if you don't receive the antiviral drug within 72 hours of the beginning of the symptoms you are pretty much left alone with your own defenses. There haven't been any deaths on other parts of the world because other countries are screening travelers and sending warnings, it's still being able to be controlled... Here it's just fucking madness or something.

Also, this strain of the virus seems to be kind of aggresive so you can't compare it with a common cold, that's done by other virus.

[DNAClock]

Also, I went yesterday to sam's club to buy chicken wings and hot pockets and well... People is fucking crazy, I went to the store with a friend and it was full, the lines to the cashier were of like 50 people with their shopping carts, most of canned goods were gone, bottled water too. Some families had like 2 shopping carts full of food and one guy had bought like 300 rolls of toilet paper =/

Everybody is fucking alarmed, borderline psychotic, you can see how fucking anxious everybody is.

Restaurants can only sell food to go now, can't stay in the fucking place... All bars have been told to close I mean, wtf.

[BunnyClock]

We need a batman right now

[Steve]

Hadouken would solve all of this.


From a pyro, of course.