EVERYBODY PANDEMIC

/I bring my own spice.

/oblig
//hotter than Madagascar

/hotter than my forehead

the bird flu schenanigans falls in the same category as global warming. Yes, it's real, but the effects and consequences are taken the most extreme unlikely scenario and passed off as true fact.

Goldeneye007: the bird flu schenanigans falls in the same category as global warming. Yes, it's real, but the effects and consequences are taken the most extreme unlikely scenario and passed off as true fact.

Bird flu either (a) evolves to transmit human-to-human, in which case, by the time it gets noticed it'll probably too late to stop millions dying around the world within a few months. Or (b) it doesn't, in which case a few Asian chicken farmers get sick and nobody in the West really cares.

Global warming is gradual and you can see its effects gradually. (Or not, if you only look at data since 1998.)

So... perhaps not that alike.

Wait...there are only suppose to trot out the 'ZOMG! BIRD FLU!!!!' story when there's nothing in the news, but this week alone couldn't be further from that. They are wasting one of their ratings-grabbers.

And on a side note, and I wanted to ask this, but did Drew have a rant or something about hot-linking? People keep saying it.

Senor Awesome: EVERYBODY PANDEMIC

/I bring my own spice.

Came here to say this.

Huh, I just got back from Beijing after New Year's.

/Yes, I had a little cold.
//No, it wasn't Bird Flu.

So I guess the inauguration is off then?

But I'm not a bird. Why do I have to worry about this????


/and even if it does wipe out half of humanity, that'd be a good thing right?
//overcrowding and all?
///yes, i'm anti-social.

I was just wondering yesterday what happened with the bird flu - I'd not heard of it in a year or more.

Neesie: I was just wondering yesterday what happened with the bird flu - I'd not heard of it in a year or more.

Probably because asian markets have become a little better at keeping poultry and swine separate.

But in all fairness, the avian flu could be the answer to a lot of the coming welfare problems. If all the old and weak croak, the economy would do a lot better

Meh, I'm going to file bird flu with gas prices, when the economy will bottom out, global warming, ten day forecasts, educating our nation's youth, and marriage as things that are way too complicated for anyone to actually understand. Therefore, whenever anyone tells us how it's gonna be with these items, I can roll my eyes and say, "You think so. We'll see."

"You know how many disease scares there used to be? Jesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so . . . ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many people made money on those scares? Shiat, I made my first million on useless anti-radiation pills during the dirty bomb scares."

does anyone have any good links (not to wikipedia) with technical information geared towards the scientific/medical community, not general news/everyone panic articles? i'm looking for some more info about bird flu...hopefully something along the lines of the CDC flu tracker.

thanks for any help.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/interactives/birdflu/

DeRosso: Neesie: I was just wondering yesterday what happened with the bird flu - I'd not heard of it in a year or more.

Probably because asian markets have become a little better at keeping poultry and swine separate.

But in all fairness, the avian flu could be the answer to a lot of the coming welfare problems. If all the old and weak croak, the economy would do a lot better

WHO has three confirmed cases reported within the last two weeks. One in Egypt, one in Vietnam, one in China. It's not that it's contained and relatively nonexistant, it's just that the outlets aren't bothering to cry "The sky is falling!" quite so much right now.

DeRosso: Neesie: I was just wondering yesterday what happened with the bird flu - I'd not heard of it in a year or more.

Probably because asian markets have become a little better at keeping poultry and swine separate.

But in all fairness, the avian flu could be the answer to a lot of the coming welfare problems. If all the old and weak croak, the economy would do a lot better

If the bird flu starts acting anything like the pandemic we had back in the early 1900s the main deaths will be middle aged healthy people.

Plus, if this virus ever does become "human to human" and transmits like a cold things could get really ugly.

Ah yes... the economy is supposedly falling so we need to kick the "fear industry" in high-gear again. I think at this point the "bird flu" thing has lost any credibility it once had. Yeah 3 peoples out of 5 billions died... so what?

Some people never thought it was gone. I see little old ladies walking past my store front all the time with face masks on.

thanks for the link, NutWrench.

nobody panic, but here's why people are concerned about avian flu:
1. it's highly lethal in humans, with a fatality rate over 60%, even in healthy young adults
2. since H5N1's appearance in a big way in birds in 1997, it's spreading into a progressively larger group of mammals, including humans
3. influenza has a notoriously high mutation rate, which means at some point human-to-human transmission of avian flu could easily start

a pandemic flu is like a major meteor strike, it's happened in the past, and without intervention, is bound to happen again. no one knows when, though.

We owe Viet Nam and China big time fortheir epidemiologist and politicians controlling and blunting the epidemic in potential.
Paternal grandmother died in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.

Meanwhile, up to 500,000 people die every year from good old fashioned human influenza. But that's not new and sexy, so don't anyone panic.

Sweet! I hope I get to use all those N95 masks I bought! Would be a sham to waste them!

Three hours after being greenlit and there are only 29 comments; nobody is panicking.

symbolset: So is Ebola. (pops)

Dude, whatever. That's mostly brown people.

DeRosso: Neesie: I was just wondering yesterday what happened with the bird flu - I'd not heard of it in a year or more.

Probably because asian markets have become a little better at keeping poultry and swine separate.

But in all fairness, the avian flu could be the answer to a lot of the coming welfare problems. If all the old and weak croak, the economy would do a lot better

But if De Rosso did, the air would be cleaner.

Maybe my store will get another "Bird Flu Kit" from the company.

We decided to open ours a bit ago, since bird flu wasn't hip and cool anymore and the sealed box was just taking up room, and it was full of paper towels.

First the flu came for the swines, and I didn't give a fark. Then the flu came for the birds, and I still didn't give a fark. Call me when we get to monkey flu. That shiat would be scary.

shanghaid:

Google Bird Flu News:

http://news.google.com/news?q=bird+flu+news&hl=en&lr=&sa=X&oi=n ews&ct=title

Newsnow Avian Flu News:

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Business+%26+Finance/Industry+Sectors/Agriculture/Bi r d+Flu

Bird Flu Breaking News:

http://www.birdflubreakingnews.com/

Pandemicflu.gov/Avianflu.gov:

http://www.pandemicflu.gov/

Flu Wiki:

http://www.fluwikie.com/

Avian Flu Diary:

http://afludiary.blogspot.com/

CurEvents Avian Flu (note: in reverse order, start page 34 for most recent)

http://www.curevents.com/vb/archive/index.php/f-40.html

WHO Avian Flu:

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/

CDC OPLAN:

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic/cdcplan.htm

Ahahahahahaha... LOL@"Bird Flue". Thanks, bearded clamorer. :D

Well, considering the population density and the rate of mutation/evolution in microbes, a pandemic is pretty much inevitable. Not saying we shouldn't do anything to try to stop the things, but eventually there's going to be another plague and a LOT of people are going to die. Not any point in worrying about it overmuch unless you're in the business of epidemiology or vaccine production.

All I heard is that the bird is the word.

thanks whammer!!

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a hacking wheeze.