SHUT. UP.

after the jump

Can this please die in a fire?

WERE ALL GONNA DIE!!

....

Thank you Kos for proving with every link greenlit that this is a worthless place I should never visit. Last time I clicked a link.

Just when you thought it was safe....EVERYBODY PANIC!

clancifer: after the jump

Can this please die in a fire?

That always makes me think of Battle Star Galatica.

Steely faced Admiral Adama: And....JUMP.

Just got back from Mexico. Should I have not brought back a pig carcass?

Wadded Beef: Just got back from Mexico. Should I have not brought back a pig carcass?

I want to stab you.

Half of what is considered to be my family thinks it comes from pigs.

Nice job on the media induced panic... over pretty much nothing.

//back to your regularly scheduled garbage news media

Alebak: clancifer: after the jump

Can this please die in a fire?

That always makes me think of Battle Star Galatica.

Steely faced Admiral Adama: And....JUMP.

Reminds me of Starship Troopers actually.


This whole "OH GNOES SWINE FLU WENT AWAY AND WILL COME BACK AS KILLER VIRUS" shiat has to end. There's no predictability to random genetic drift. And a key gene that made Spanish Flu so awful is missing from this flu. It's not going to pop up out of nowhere. It would have to result from mixing of an influenza with that gene and swine flu in the same cell of a host who got the two flus at once. It can happen. Doesn't mean it will.

Stop worrying and live your life while you have it. You could be hit by a bus tomorrow.

Like anyone at the Daily KOS has anything to live for.

Any idea what this cost?

I only hope, one day, we find out the truth on what just (almost?) did or did not happen.

OBTW, the puppet show in the madia was and is a complete farce. None of the shenanigans make any sense in a real world plague scenario.

Unless you have real world, hands on plague experience and/or peer reviewed opinions, just accept that.

It may be a non-issue but we should napalm the hell outta Mexico, just to be sure.

raptusregaliter: Nice job on the media induced panic... over pretty much nothing.

Anything to take the heat off of that shine boy Obama and his horrible policies that are ruining this fine country.

Just as easy to find a new distraction to scare the sheeple...If this doesn't work, maybe he can go a bit further with the Fairness Doctrine

How about just practice good farking hygene if you are omfgwtfbbq scared of this crap?

clancifer: after the jump

Can this please die in a fire?

are you following this, camera guy?

fappomatic: It may be a non-issue but we should napalm the hell outta Mexico, just to be sure.

That could only raise property values

buk110: raptusregaliter:

You have been on Fark 2 years and that is your best stuff?
Goin for mine own coffee

buk110: raptusregaliter: Nice job on the media induced panic... over pretty much nothing.

Anything to take the heat off of that shine boy Obama and his horrible policies that are ruining this fine country.

Just as easy to find a new distraction to scare the sheeple...If this doesn't work, maybe he can go a bit further with the Fairness Doctrine

This has Jack and shiat to do with wanting to take the heat off Obama, and EVERYTHING to do with ratings. Fear sells. Fear sells A LOT. If you tell people "OMG THERE'S A HORRIBLE VIRUS THAT COULD KILL YOU AAGGGHAGH. More at 11." You can be sure as shiat people are gonna tune in at 11 to find out how to NOT DIE. It has *everthing* to do with the advent of '24 hour news channels' driven by ratings.shiat like this happened when Bush was president, too.

The media, as a whole, isn't biased towards Red or Blue. It's biased towards green. (And no, not "Let's save the earth" type green.)

buk110: raptusregaliter: Nice job on the media induced panic... over pretty much nothing.

Anything to take the heat off of that shine boy Obama and his horrible policies that are ruining this fine country.

Just as easy to find a new distraction to scare the sheeple...If this doesn't work, maybe he can go a bit further with the Fairness Doctrine

1/10 Please see me

somehow fitting

fappomatic: It may be a non-issue but we should napalm the hell outta Mexico, just to be sure.

Just make sure all the illegals are shipped back there first.

Man, a second wave could kill TENS of people!

Kali-Yuga: fappomatic: It may be a non-issue but we should napalm the hell outta Mexico, just to be sure.

Just make sure all the illegals are shipped back there first.

So harsh.
We need a deal where everybody wins,,,
Say, give Kalifornia to Mexico.
Give Mexico to the Skull and Bones guys to drill, mine, rape, pillage and create a thousand mile wide toxic no man's zone. Nuke anything that moves north from Central America.
Have a nice day.

I have a cold.

Tatsuma: Thank you Kos for proving with every link greenlit that this is a worthless place I should never visit. Last time I clicked a link.

If you read the link, you would have noticed that all it did was summarize an AP story. In fact, that is what most of the greenlit Kos links are, while most right wing site links are op-ed WHAARRGARBL.

shadowself: Man, a second wave could kill TENS of people!

while I don't think we're in any immediate danger, I hope to God that this country (or the world, for that matter) never experiences another epidemic like that of the 1917-18 event(s). it would be bad. worse than zombie apocalypse level bad. I've read stories about those days and I have no desire to see that happen to anyone.

buk110: Anything to take the heat off of that shine boy Obama and his horrible policies that are ruining this fine country.

Why don't you stop hiding it, and call him what you're really thinking? You know you want to call him a n*gger, a jigaboo, a porch monkey, watermelon-eating black-ass welfare muslim. Go ahead. Do it, you racist, shiat-eating country-fried ignorant ass. Do us all a favor and choke on one of your many handguns you hide behind, scared out of your mind.

Weaver95: I've read stories about those days and I have no desire to see that happen to anyone.

God willing it just wipes out all of the poor illegal minorities....

Panicking is good exercise.

Just so nobody is surprised next year when this happens again because not enough people panicked and bought flu shots that don't work:



Pick an animal. Support your local drug company.

Weaver95: shadowself: Man, a second wave could kill TENS of people!

while I don't think we're in any immediate danger, I hope to God that this country (or the world, for that matter) never experiences another epidemic like that of the 1917-18 event(s). it would be bad. worse than zombie apocalypse level bad. I've read stories about those days and I have no desire to see that happen to anyone.

Well, it would effectively *be* a zombie apocalypse. But unlike a zombie apocalypse, you can't easily tell who's infected and who isn't...

buk110: Weaver95: I've read stories about those days and I have no desire to see that happen to anyone.

God willing it just wipes out all of the poor illegal minorities....

no, that epidemic seemed to really like munching on people between the ages of 20-35. they said your lungs just filled up and you suffocated to death. Fast acting too - killed you in about 5 days. And a lot of surviors have varying levels of lung damage.

I cannot imagine the chaos and panic that would ensue on the east coast if something like that were to occur in this day and age.

Felgraf: Well, it would effectively *be* a zombie apocalypse. But unlike a zombie apocalypse, you can't easily tell who's infected and who isn't...

get an IR camera and look for people with higher than average body temp.

Having swine flu, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Yeah just like the 1978 swine flu came back.

btw... 8,000 people died from AIDS today. Panic?

It's bird-pig-human flu. How does 3 strands of the virus come together naturally like this? It doesn't!!! The public actually believes It came from mexicans rolling around in the mud with pigs.

Just like some taliban in a cave cause buildings to fall. lolz

Maybe the Spanish flu wasn't as deadly as it come across and wouldn't be as deadly today because it went down right after world war one and moving in to the great depression, when there wasn't as much fabulous health care, good medical conditions and people were generally malnourished and in a bad place in life.

mesohorny: Yeah just like the 1978 swine flu came back.

btw... 8,000 people died from AIDS today. Panic?

hmm, good point. A swine flu epidemic would tend to solve our AIDS crisis. NOT the preferred solution of course, but one does try to find the silver lining where one can.

Ugh. That was essentially a Wikipedia book report written to shore up a false assumption. Just because it happened in 1918 doesn't mean it will happen again. The virus could just as easily recombine with a less harmful strain, or just continue doing what it's been doing when it gets cold again.

If anything, this article only proved to me that whoever is greenlighting things has been really off the mark lately.

cobes: Having swine flu, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

I think I really do have swine flu -- been sick with all the classic symptoms since Tuesday. Having dealt with it for five days now, I think I can safely say:

I'll get over it.

some swedish girl: Maybe the Spanish flu wasn't as deadly as it come across and wouldn't be as deadly today because it went down right after world war one and moving in to the great depression, when there wasn't as much fabulous health care, good medical conditions and people were generally malnourished and in a bad place in life.

the weird part of the 1918 flu epidemic was that the virus seemed to specifically target the young and healthy. that, on top of the war deaths, almost completely wiped out an entire generation of kids.

Weaver95
I cannot imagine the chaos and panic that would ensue on the east coast if something like that were to occur in this day and age.

But we can dream

Weaver95: the weird part of the 1918 flu epidemic was that the virus seemed to specifically target the young and healthy. that, on top of the war deaths, almost completely wiped out an entire generation of kids.

That's because the young healthy kids were off dancing the Charleston and physically welcoming the soldiers home, so they were more likely to catch things... or something.

Warthog:
I think I really do have swine flu -- been sick with all the classic symptoms since Tuesday. Having dealt with it for five days now, I think I can safely say:

I'll get over it.

Ditto. Had a variety of symptoms since Friday before last. Down to just congestion and fatigue at this point.

buk110 2009-05-24 03:58:17 PM

God willing it just wipes out all of the poor illegal minorities....

Whoa there, bunky...in that case, you won't have anyone
to do the gardening or spread prebagged cowflop on your
delightfully manicured and lush green front lawn any
longer.

Aren't you supposed to be off someplace mocking disabled
welfare recipients?

some swedish girl: Weaver95: the weird part of the 1918 flu epidemic was that the virus seemed to specifically target the young and healthy. that, on top of the war deaths, almost completely wiped out an entire generation of kids.

That's because the young healthy kids were off dancing the Charleston and physically welcoming the soldiers home, so they were more likely to catch things... or something.

Cytokine storm.

The healthier immune systems got in a positive feedback loop.

Can we have a real malthusian disaster this time?

/Srsly

Impudent Domain: Weaver95
I cannot imagine the chaos and panic that would ensue on the east coast if something like that were to occur in this day and age.

But we can dream

well ok, if we're gonna go that route then yes...once the plague is in full swing, i'm going to go on a records destroying binge. Property records, tax records, credit card company records...all that stuff will be sitting there undefended. we could burn it all and nobody would be the wiser. that way society would get a clean start when they go to rebuild.

This poster says: Can we have a real malthusian disaster this time?

/Srsly

california is working on that right now.