1. There is no such thing as "swine flu". The "swine flu" is a thinly veiled cover story. The governments are afraid to admit there is a class 2 zombie outbreak. Read your Zombie Survival Guide (or get one - now!) the response so far has been 100% predictable.
Baked ham at Easter is my favorite holiday meal. Plus, you can do so many things with leftover baked ham.... ham and eggs for breakfast, fried ham for supper, ham sandwiches, fried rice with ham, ham caserole...
And lets not forget bacon! No more bacon? Screw that.
I don't see a problem. Both cases are described as mild.
The media is responsible for creating any panic we're seeing.
Agreed. This is all media hype. Not 1 person has died from this in all of North America (considering Mexico as Central America). Thousands of people die from the flu daily on this continent but the media does not hype that or the flu vaccine; whereas a different strain with an exotic name that hasn't proven to be overly dangerous gets all this attention. Makes no sense. Same thing happened with SARS and West Nile.
My general happiness and quality of life increased dramatically after I stopped paying any significant amount of attention to the collective group of cretins known as the news media. SARS, anyone? West Nile? Killer Bees?
Just the regular flu kills ALOT of people every year. People really need to get immunized every year (if they believe in immunization). My Grandma died of the flu last week. She was perfectly good one day, gets the flu and dies 4 days later from respiratory failure. Sorry, just trying to get the message out for immunizing your family.
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Agreed. This is all media hype. Not 1 person has died from this in all of North America (considering Mexico as Central America). Thousands of people die from the flu daily on this continent but the media does not hype that or the flu vaccine; whereas a different strain with an exotic name that hasn't proven to be overly dangerous gets all this attention. Makes no sense. Same thing happened with SARS and West Nile.
a young boy in Texas died today from it
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Ummmm... No. Not unless they've relocated Pincher Creek to Northern Alberta without telling us.
If government agencies can blow up major NYC buildings with no one any the wiser, they can move a town like Pincher Creek to Northern Alberta.
They probably did it to help the swine consolidate their power base.
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I was chatting with my neighbor yesterday and apparently his girlfriend's boss just came back from Mexico and was diagnosed with it. I guess he showed up at work Monday anyways and all the employees started freaking out and forced him to go home.
Just the regular flu kills ALOT of people every year. People really need to get immunized every year (if they believe in immunization). My Grandma died of the flu last week. She was perfectly good one day, gets the flu and dies 4 days later from respiratory failure. Sorry, just trying to get the message out for immunizing your family.
I was chatting with my neighbor yesterday and apparently his girlfriend's boss just came back from Mexico and was diagnosed with it. I guess he showed up at work Monday anyways and all the employees started freaking out and forced him to go home.
What an f'n tool. I'm not just saying that because he had swine flu, I'd say that if he had a standard flu or even a cold. One of my massive pet peeves is people that feel the need to show everybody how much of a hero they are for coming into work ill, and making everybody else sick in the process.
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What an f'n tool. I'm not just saying that because he had swine flu, I'd say that if he had a standard flu or even a cold. One of my massive pet peeves is people that feel the need to show everybody how much of a hero they are for coming into work ill, and making everybody else sick in the process.
Seconded. I HATE that.
The school I teach at was shut down because of the "norovirus" stomach flu for a week, and I still had students showing up to class sick a week later. I have a toddler at home, so needless to say I was not pleased.
Seriously--sick people belong in their own house, where theoretically they aren't making ME sick. If you go to work or school sick, you're not a hero. You're an inconsiderate moron.
While I agree with you, I wonder if it gets worse in depressed economic times because people fear for their jobs?
If cuts are going to be made, they don't want to miss more time than someone else in case that factors into future staffing decisions.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
Last edited by Bobblehead; 04-29-2009 at 09:53 AM.
Reason: clarified my point a bit.
