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winterfate
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posted April 30, 2009 02:28 AM |
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@Xerox: What Swamplord said. Be happy in your blissful ignorance for now. 
@Doomforge:
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I don't have newer books so if they finally agreed on something, let me know.
Still not considered living, although I have trouble believing myself that a non-living entity can cause so much trouble. 
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Not that I know of, no. But I'm perhaps not the best source on the moment. With the current mass hysteria I just canīt take regular media seriously.
At my college, they are going to have a conference about Swine Flu on Tuesday. Not sure whether I'm gonna go or not yet (I have no classes that day...so I may not bother myself to get up. )
So yeah, they closed the universities over in Mexico, and quite a few Puerto Ricans take classes over there, so they're coming back until this blows through.
[sarcasm]We have such epic health control here that we're letting them in without testing them for the possibility of infection. This is going to be so much fun...[/sarcasm]
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Some kid at a chicago public school has been 'possibly afflicted' with swine flu and is currently being evaluated by the CDC. With the amount of hysterical attention paid to the case by the media, you'd think the kid had been diagnosed with Ebola.
Except quite a few people know about Ebola and Swine Flu is like OMGWTF what is that?!
(Even though it's just yet another variant on the many types of influenza viruses existent today.) 
@Azagal: Awesome career choice, my friend! 
As for the evolution thing...I see. Just making sure.
(Mutation/Evolution is really just an argument in semantics in the end, but I couldn't help myself. )
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Corribus
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posted April 30, 2009 03:15 AM |
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@Winterfate
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(Even though it's just yet another variant on the many types of influenza viruses existent today.)
Well, to be fair, the 1918 Spanish Flu was also "just yet another variant" of the H1N1 influenza virus. It killed at least 20 million people.
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winterfate
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posted April 30, 2009 03:17 AM |
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@Corribus: I'm well aware of that. I'm just saying that people tend to overreact (in a bad way) towards anything unknown.
Some people don't realize that the Swine Flu is related to the Spanish Flu which is probably related to some undocumented viral pandemic which is.../rant
Or, did I miss your point entirely? 
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Corribus
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posted April 30, 2009 03:25 AM |
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No, you got it, and I agree with you.
Is the swine flu something to take seriously? Yes. I just think it's a little early to start ringing the pandemic bell, which the media just seems like it's itching to do.
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winterfate
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posted April 30, 2009 03:26 AM |
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@Corribus: Ok I see.
And yes, agreed.
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lord_crusader
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posted April 30, 2009 07:22 PM |
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I wonder... how many people die every year... for neumonia thanks to complications of the common flu???
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Azagal
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posted April 30, 2009 07:34 PM |
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the problem is not that big
Ehm... did I missunderstand BBC or is every Mexican now locked up at home for 5 days? Not exactly "not that big" wouldn't you say?
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Adrius
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posted April 30, 2009 07:38 PM |
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Egypt is slaughtering 300.000 pigs to calm their people and avoid the Swine-Flu... talk about hysteria! 
Ah well, I guess they're still pretty worked up about the bird-flu, I read they've had a few cases... like, the 26th fatality was only a week ago or something.
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razor5
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posted April 30, 2009 07:55 PM |
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Hey,probably I wasn't look on the net,but I don't know nothing about that bird-flu that are you guys talking besides the pig one.Seriously,I haven't heard anything about the bird flu at the news
When it started? How dangerous it is?
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del_diablo
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posted April 30, 2009 08:27 PM |
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Seriously,I haven't heard anything about the bird flu at the news
When it started? How dangerous it is?
Started somewhere over at Asia i belive, caused a nuisance.
What was dangouros about it was the fact that it infected birds, since birds cross great distances and land everywhere, meaning it could spread completely inpredictably.
Ofcourse, what the fear eventually was never came. And that was springtime, and all southbirds would spread the disease all over the place. But since that never happend, meh. A few single birds was reported in Sweden, but beyond that it was zero.
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Doomforge
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posted April 30, 2009 09:11 PM |
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I wonder... how many people die every year... for neumonia thanks to complications of the common flu???
I typed down the numbers a couple posts ago - you didn't read the thread in whole, did you.
around 0,5 million per year - ordinary flu.
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lord_crusader
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posted April 30, 2009 10:18 PM |
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the problem is not that big
Ehm... did I missunderstand BBC or is every Mexican now locked up at home for 5 days? Not exactly "not that big" wouldn't you say?
not exactly locked... the school was suspended and some other activities like concerts, soccer matches, etc... but the people are working normally, for example me, I didn't even wear that masks on these days, I have worked every day normally... that's why I think the problem is no that big... I mean I'm not saying that we must forget it and acting like nothing is happening... but again the media is overreacting about this...
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I typed down the numbers a couple posts ago - you didn't read the thread in whole, did you.
around 0,5 million per year - ordinary flu.
sorry about that, I guess I missed it... and that's exactly my point... we dont hear on the news about all this deads... because is normal... we get in the news that 150 people have died... I mean 150(150 suspicious, like 8 confirmed) people have died over a popullation of 120 millions(30 millions on the mexico city and the sorrounded metropolitan area)... I understand that all the buzz is just for the fact that is a new kind of virus... but is not is more mortal than the ordinary flu...
what makes me angry about this... that now we are being treated like infested people... every single mexican in the world... and that is not the case at all...
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lol I just notice that my avatar ironically is wearing that kind of mask XD
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SwampLord
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posted May 01, 2009 01:32 AM |
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Lol crap, two kids in the university right around the corner from my house have it.
Dammit.
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winterfate
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posted May 01, 2009 01:58 AM |
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How do you know this though?
Did you come into contact with them?
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SwampLord
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posted May 01, 2009 03:31 AM |
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Nah, I heard about it from a family member who heard about it online.
I live in a suburban area and am decently far away from the college (which has a huge campus) though so I think I'm fine, I haven't had any contact with students recently and the disease is perfectly treatable anyways.
It's just annoying.
And it wasn't even confirmed positively as swine flu yet apparently.
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posted May 01, 2009 03:42 AM |
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Blizzard implented the Swine Flu in WoW.
Isnt it a bit tasteless when people have actually died on it?
The debuff says:
"You are infected by the Swine Flu! 10% chance to cause an outbreak"
WoW actually had its own pandemic twice. The Cursed Blood was used by real scientics to study outbreaks and the Zombie Invasion.
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blizzardboy
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posted May 01, 2009 04:12 AM |
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Egypt is slaughtering 300.000 pigs to calm their people and avoid the Swine-Flu... talk about hysteria!
Ah well, I guess they're still pretty worked up about the bird-flu, I read they've had a few cases... like, the 26th fatality was only a week ago or something.
Of course there's underhanded reasons for why that is going on. With Egypt being overwhelmingly Muslim, they've sprung on the opportunity to decimate the pig herds raised by minorities. There isn't going to be any financial compensation either since the meat can still be sold, although of course it will still devastate the farmers since the herds will be gone and they'll have no future generations to raise.
This is just one example of many of how governments play off of a should-be minor issue in order to please their constituents or get something done.
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SwampLord
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posted May 01, 2009 04:33 AM |
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Blizzard implented the Swine Flu in WoW.
Isnt it a bit tasteless when people have actually died on it?
The debuff says:
"You are infected by the Swine Flu! 10% chance to cause an outbreak"
WoW actually had its own pandemic twice. The Cursed Blood was used by real scientics to study outbreaks and the Zombie Invasion.
That is kinda tasteless, wow...
Wasn't the Cursed Blood a massive fail on Blizzard's part where some of their players managed to get the effect out of the caves or something?
Never heard of that zombie thing, what happened there?
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winterfate
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posted May 01, 2009 05:17 AM |
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@Xerox: Agreed.
@Swamplord: Oh, I see. Stay safe, you hear?
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del_diablo
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posted May 01, 2009 08:57 AM |
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Blizzard implented the Swine Flu in WoW.
Isnt it a bit tasteless when people have actually died on it?
The debuff says:
"You are infected by the Swine Flu! 10% chance to cause an outbreak"
WoW actually had its own pandemic twice. The Cursed Blood was used by real scientics to study outbreaks and the Zombie Invasion.
I guess it works like this: Every X seconds all PC and NPC within Y area got a 10% chance of being infected, or Y is likely a tad over touch range. Or its already incorporated into a global trigger for approuching.
It will get out of controll if NPC that are quite essential(flightmasters, major quest givers, etc) gets infected, because of the amount of players that goes around over there. Like Thrall maybe? Every 10th player over there will get infected, the rest of the NPCs in that room would likely also be so the chances would skyrocket.
Or its just a crude joke.
Cursed Blood was sealed of to 1 instance if i remember the article, BUT a bug made it come outside and it become quite insane. Scientists watched this because, well its a rare chance. There was an article on it in a gameing mag i once read.
Zombi invasion, not heard of it <.<
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