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# i'm rooting for the flu here.
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:13, archived)
# It could go some way to helping the pension funding problems.
Seeing as all my grandparents are dead already, I feel I'm ahead of the game here.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:17, archived)
# It could, as long as it's not the strain which only kills healthy young people.
That would arguably worsen the pension situation if anything.
(Jeru War and Piss, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:19, archived)
# According to Newsnight, it's not got that overstimulating the immune system bit.
Hopefully they're right.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:20, archived)
# Really?
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!
(Jeru War and Piss, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:23, archived)
# That's what Egypt are doing, in some kind of overreacting orgy of bacon and death.
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.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:27, archived)
# you do nuclear medicine. the chance of mutation is surely an every day thing to you
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:29, archived)
# I've had those tentacles dealt with now.
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.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:33, archived)
# thats because no one has ever written a comic book about anyone who got powers from ultrasound
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:40, archived)
# It's true, ultrasound is less exciting.
Luckily, I've accepted a job offer to play with linear accelerators, which at least sound awesome.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:43, archived)
# that does sound awesome. is that anything like super colliders?
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:47, archived)
# Something like that, but scaled down, shoved in a hospital and aimed at cancer patients.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:50, archived)
# possibly cos 1918 was an avian flu variant
not a swine/avian hybrid variant

but we'll let that slide
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:28, archived)
# Yes but the swine flu people are contracting is a descendent of the 1918 spanish flu which ended up passing onto pigs after the human transmission had petered out.
I mean I would certainly want to fucking kill anything that feasibly had the virus. KILL. KILL THEM ALL!
(Jeru War and Piss, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:32, archived)
# why? you're massively statisically unlikely to contract it and in the mean time the disease has plenty of oppurtunity to deal with the living afterbirths that glog up my planet
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:36, archived)
# Yeah, fuck you mexico with your poorly built medical system. *shakes fist*

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.
(Jeru War and Piss, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:41, archived)
# sure, thats the advantage of civilisation
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:45, archived)
# Plus anyway apparantly tamiflu only has like a 24% effectiveness rating according to the cochrane library.
Although I'm not really a man of science enough to interpret the raw studies.
(Jeru War and Piss, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:53, archived)
# You're pretty safe relying on cochrane studies.
Although that might be referring to effectiveness against any viral infection, rather than this one in particular
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:55, archived)
# Actually no I think that's it's 60% effective compared to a placebo and the direct competitor is the 24%.
It's really fucking confusing to read because they're not referred to as tamiflu...damn uppity scientists with their uppity science names....
(Jeru War and Piss, Sat 2 May 2009, 1:01, archived)