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# 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!
(, 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
(, 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.
(, Sat 2 May 2009, 0:41, archived)
# sure, thats the advantage of civilisation
(, 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.
(, 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
(, 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....
(, Sat 2 May 2009, 1:01, archived)