04-26-2009, 04:21 PM
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Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by transplant99
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Yep. That's what he picked up. Sorry for the confusion.
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04-26-2009, 07:41 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: the C of Red
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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Where do you get your information?
No deaths in the US...in fact only 1 hospitalization and that person has recovered. All 20 confirmed cases have been deemed mild.
Yet another instance of the media scaring everyone to death.
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I got this from internal alerts that were sent out from 2 different departments at my workplace. If the info is incorrect then I stand corrected.
Where they got their information I don't know, but I'd hope their sources would have access to reliable information. I find it disturbing to think that statements like this would be sent out without reliable confirmation, but what can I say? I posted this based off of what I had read from a source I'm supposed to be able to trust and rely on.
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04-26-2009, 07:44 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Kalispell, Montana
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Originally Posted by Flamesoholic
I got this from internal alerts that were sent out from 2 different departments at my workplace. If the info is incorrect then I stand corrected.
Where they got their information I don't know, but I'd hope their sources would have access to reliable information. I find it disturbing to think that statements like this would be sent out without reliable confirmation, but what can I say? I posted this based off of what I had read from a source I'm supposed to be able to trust and rely on.
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It would be all over the news if it was true. I don't want you to think I was accusing you of lying...that's not what I was saying.
I apologize if that's how it sounded.
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04-26-2009, 08:00 PM
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Had an idea!
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Yeah, the bigger news shouldn't be the scare....but the fact that nobody in the US has died from it.
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04-26-2009, 08:12 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: the C of Red
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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
It would be all over the news if it was true. I don't want you to think I was accusing you of lying...that's not what I was saying.
I apologize if that's how it sounded.
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No not at all. Frankly my only concern now is that this kind of information would be sent out without confirmation from someone reliable, I'm kind of taken aback at the moment actually. Scare tactics are crappy in darn near every situation but they definitely have no place in health care. Hopefully this is some kind of one time mistake that will be rescinded in the next few days or so. I'm afraid to think that I can't trust the information that gets sent out for something of this importance. Scary.
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04-26-2009, 08:16 PM
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Scoring Winger
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I was just in Mexico. I am good friends with a local pet store owner and he paid me to go into Mexico and capture a wild pig. Upon smuggling it back into Canada, it turns out that the store owner wanted a male pig (for breeding purposes). Feeling rather upset, I went into fish creek park and released the pig.
Is this bad?
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04-26-2009, 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by bcb
I was just in Mexico. I am good friends with a local pet store owner and he paid me to go into Mexico and capture a wild pig. Upon smuggling it back into Canada, it turns out that the store owner wanted a male pig (for breeding purposes). Feeling rather upset, I went into fish creek park and released the pig.
Is this bad?
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No, but your post is.
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04-26-2009, 08:26 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
No, but your post is.
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Thanks
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04-26-2009, 11:05 PM
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I knew it was the Mexican Pigs, even when I knew it was the immigrants I knew it was the Mexican Pigs.
The only swine accepted by God is the Venezuelan swine....
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04-27-2009, 09:37 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Does anyone know where I can pick up N95 masks? They're for my paranoid in-laws who are traveling to Texas this weekend...
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04-27-2009, 09:39 AM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Hmmmm, we have a Mexican that came up on Friday to work in our office a bit... and I started coughing yesterday.... hmmmmmm
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04-27-2009, 09:40 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Even here in Calgary authorities are taking this very seriously. My roomate was feeling ill this week and he called the health 411 number and described his symptoms. He mentioned that he did some work with Mexicans last Friday. They rushed him in an ambulance and put him in the quarentine in foothills last night for testing and observation. Turns out he was just fatigued, but they gave him the whole "outbreak" treatment.
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Did they give him one of the most painful "non invasive" tests they have - the dreaded spinal tap?
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04-27-2009, 09:42 AM
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Norm!
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Did anyone see the empty soccer stadium in Mexico city.
It was sold out for a game, but nobody showed up except the players who played the game.
It was the Stand.
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04-27-2009, 09:42 AM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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It's okay people. It's just the first stages of the new evolutionary virus that will turn us all into zombies for Will Smith to kill.
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04-27-2009, 09:45 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Daradon
Does anyone else find it interesting that our worst flu outbreaks are now coming from our meat industry?
As mentioned in a previous thread, our society really has to take a look at how we value meat and the environmental/societal/moral concerns related to it.
Not saying go completely veggie, just saying we really do need to change a few things.
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Nevermind, too early in the morning to be combative.
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04-27-2009, 09:58 AM
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Redundant Minister of Redundancy
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Did anyone see the empty soccer stadium in Mexico city.
It was sold out for a game, but nobody showed up except the players who played the game.
It was the Stand.
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People weren't allowed to attend. Mexico is restricting public gatherings.
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04-27-2009, 09:59 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Did anyone see the empty soccer stadium in Mexico city.
It was sold out for a game, but nobody showed up except the players who played the game.
It was the Stand.
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That was a government decision, they were canceling all public events, I assume that would include games.
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04-27-2009, 10:14 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Toledo OH
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Originally Posted by mykalberta
Did they give him one of the most painful "non invasive" tests they have - the dreaded spinal tap?
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Not sure, but he had to shave all of his body hair due to all the leeds and various other things that they had to do to him.
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04-27-2009, 10:21 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Spartanville
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Originally Posted by mykalberta
Did they give him one of the most painful "non invasive" tests they have - the dreaded spinal tap?
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Unless they were suspecting meningitis, I would doubt it.
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04-27-2009, 10:25 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Toronto
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It's actually quite scary to think of how many diseases have transferred from animal to human
Pandemic potential:
Swine flu - Pigs
Bird flu - Birds
SARS - That Asian rodent
Not a pandemic, but still serious:
Ebola - unknown animal, possibly chimps
Mad Cow - Cow
West Nile - Mosquitoes initially infected birds
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