

they were interviewing an expert who kept being asked words to the effect of "so we're all going to die is essentially what you're saying?" to which he kept repeating "i don't think we need to be alarmed"
he should have had the balls to say "11 in 60 million people is a very fucking tiny number, you stupid bitch. remember bird flu? SARS? BSE? YOU'RE NOT FUCKING DEAD YET! GET OUT SIDE, HAVE SEX WITHOUT A CONDOM, DO ONE THING EVERYDAY THAT SCARES YOU!"
or something
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he should have had the balls to say "11 in 60 million people is a very fucking tiny number, you stupid bitch. remember bird flu? SARS? BSE? YOU'RE NOT FUCKING DEAD YET! GET OUT SIDE, HAVE SEX WITHOUT A CONDOM, DO ONE THING EVERYDAY THAT SCARES YOU!"
or something

There's been 16 confirmed deaths already, that's nearly 0.00000025% of the world's population.
We're lucky to be alive.
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We're lucky to be alive.


For now, I'm going to get on with my life.
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Somehow I get the feeling that if there isn't a severe outbreak and things are contained that everyone will complain that it was just an overhyped rather than an actual effective organised reaction plan.
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Unless you happen to be scoring by the number of deaths, rather than by public opinion
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Seeing as all my grandparents are dead already, I feel I'm ahead of the game here.
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That would arguably worsen the pension situation if anything.
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Hopefully they're right.
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I thought the fatalities in Mexico had been all relatively young people.
Although saying that, if it's not lethal but still infects lots of people then you've just got a much higher chance of lethal mutation. (which is to say the virus mutating into something lethal, not giving people four arms)
Fuck knows why they didn't just kill all the fucking pigs after the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak. JUST FUCKING KILL THE PIGS!
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Although saying that, if it's not lethal but still infects lots of people then you've just got a much higher chance of lethal mutation. (which is to say the virus mutating into something lethal, not giving people four arms)
Fuck knows why they didn't just kill all the fucking pigs after the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak. JUST FUCKING KILL THE PIGS!

I don't really know the details of the Mexican fatalities, but the young and healthy infected people here seem to be doing fine.
But yes, the chance of mutation is the worrying bit.
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But yes, the chance of mutation is the worrying bit.


I've been doing ultrasound for the past couple of weeks, it's quite fun to see how little they think about safety compared to nuclear medicine.
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Luckily, I've accepted a job offer to play with linear accelerators, which at least sound awesome.
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not a swine/avian hybrid variant
but we'll let that slide
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Sat 2 May 2009, 0:28,
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but we'll let that slide

I mean I would certainly want to fucking kill anything that feasibly had the virus. KILL. KILL THEM ALL!
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To be honest we've been without war or disease for long enough that we're all fairly ignorant of the reality of the natural world, yeah it may be unlikely if everything's treated well and contained but I imagine if everyone ignored it and sneezed in eachother's faces freely we'd be pretty fucked.

Although I'm not really a man of science enough to interpret the raw studies.
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Although that might be referring to effectiveness against any viral infection, rather than this one in particular
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It's really fucking confusing to read because they're not referred to as tamiflu...damn uppity scientists with their uppity science names....
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point proven
Jebus doesn't like them
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Jebus doesn't like them

Rather than assuming that as the country of origin, they have more cases and inevitable more deaths.
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their health system is shite if you're amongst the 99% of the population what is poor???
did like the way the media tried not to mention the fact that the girl who died in America wasn't actually American. I am not worried, but have a worrying feeling I know the merseyside woman who's the latest UK victim, or at least the person they caught the disease from
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did like the way the media tried not to mention the fact that the girl who died in America wasn't actually American. I am not worried, but have a worrying feeling I know the merseyside woman who's the latest UK victim, or at least the person they caught the disease from

Fucking hell, lock yourself away for the good of humanity
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