Capitan Tripps?

Infected:

That sucks for them. But who would be dumb enough to import food or medicine products from China?

"Yeah I had the Flu & didn't tell her, fark off!"

We're pretty well farked within a few iterations of this.

Watch Contagion. That's about how shiat will go down.

WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE !!!!!!1111111!!!!ELEVENTY!!!11111!!!

""The U.S. government paid scientists to figure out how the deadly bird flu virus might mutate to become a bigger threat to people - and two labs succeeded in creating new strains that are easier to spread. """


riiiight.. Should say: Government spends millions on Population control"

Goddamn Dutch. They're going to kill us all.

I love sensationalism. 350 deaths since 2003 due to H1N1 compared to an average 36,000 flu related deaths each year.

28 days later....

it is strange that someone would want to make a strain of the flu communicable between humans that was not able to do so previously.

Jake Havechek: 28 days later....

BRB, going to gun store.

soakitincider: it is strange that someone would want to make a strain of the flu communicable between humans that was not able to do so previously.

self fulfilling prophecies.. if it's not really going to happen, we will make it happen...

Pro Zack: Capitan Tripps?

Only if the human race is lucky.

soakitincider: "it is strange that someone would want to make a strain of the flu communicable between humans that was not able to do so previously."

What's strange about weapons research?

FTA: "This month scientists in the Netherlands revealed they had created in a laboratory a super-strain of the disease which can easily be spread through the air.

The team who created the so-called 'Armageddon virus' said it is 'probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can make'."

Not only did the Dutch manage to make the strain highly contagious among humans, a Japanese team did the same.

More on that story here. (new window)

We may have just solved the overpopulation problem.

I have a theory that flu's will never be the kind of death machines movies and the media want them to be, because they've been evolving alongside living things for millenia, and need us to exist. They evolve mainly to travel from one person to another as a form of procreation, and not to kill the hosts. They only kill the weakest among us because the methods they use to be communicable are too much for then to handle, but they aren't evolving with the intent to kill anything, because that doesn't do anything good for them. A dead host is a bad thing for the flu. Any flu virus which does evolve to kill its hosts efficiently probably wouldn't make it very far simply because it does kill all its hosts.

Anyway, i hope this doesn't end up like swine flu, with doctors diagnosing everyone who has the sniffles with "probably bird flu", and those dubious diagnosis being added to a WHO tally of confirmed cases.

This year's over-hyped media pandemic

deamonbutterfly: ""The U.S. government paid scientists to figure out how the deadly bird flu virus might mutate to become a bigger threat to people - and two labs succeeded in creating new strains that are easier to spread. """


riiiight.. Should say: Government spends millions on Population control"

What I want to know is why these new strains are not being released into the wild yet. You want to stop global warming? Climate change? Food inequity? Wealth distribution inequity? This would be the way to do it. Decrease the largest contributor to CO2 emissions and let the survivors redistribute the newly abandoned wealth. Food would also be at a regionally sustainable level to the population. Again why are they keeping the cure all to themselves?

simon_bar_sinister: You want to stop global warming? Climate change? Food inequity? Wealth distribution inequity? This would be the way to do it. Decrease the largest contributor to CO2 emissions and let the survivors redistribute the newly abandoned wealth. Food would also be at a regionally sustainable level to the population. Again why are they keeping the cure all to themselves?

You are aware that they pay farmers NOT to grow food, and buy food to destroy, just to keep prices high, right? There's more than enough food for everyone. If there was money to be made feeding poor people they'd be scrambling to do it, but as it is, there's more money in artificial scarcity.

And man made global warming has now been shot down in countless ways. But you are correct the very rich have a homicidal attitude towards the very poor, as evidenced in the aformentioned food thing. However, for now at least, they still need people to wash their cars and work the machines for very low wages.

socodog: Watch Contagion. That's about how shiat will go down

I actually watched that last night. I was on the edge of my seat, until the following line was delivered 'we could be looking at 70 million deaths worldwide'.

Sorry, I'm not interested unless the death toll reaches 10 digits. 70 million people out of 7 billion is a drop in a bucket.

RE J. Frank Parnell
"I have a theory that flu's will never be the kind of death machines movies and the media want them to be, because they've been evolving alongside living things for millenia, and need us to exist. They evolve mainly to travel from one person to another as a form of procreation, and not to kill the hosts. They only kill the weakest among us because the methods they use to be communicable are too much for then to handle, but they aren't evolving with the intent to kill anything, because that doesn't do anything good for them. A dead host is a bad thing for the flu. Any flu virus which does evolve to kill its hosts efficiently probably wouldn't make it very far simply because it does kill all its hosts."

Agreed (I'm not a doctor). I'm guessing that one reason why bird flu is so lethal in birds is that we don't treat birds for the flu. We just let them die. But we actually feel obligated to treat people. Most of the time.

People in countries with shiatty medical infrastructures might get lots of deaths, but maybe (hopefully) not so much here. As usual, with most terrible things, it's the desperately poor that suffer the most.

Seems a little early to tell. But I will admit that the fact that there have been more cases is a little worrying. Could be that people have become more lax in their handling of birds and junk.

But yeah, I, too, just watched contagion the other night on 1channel and now I actually have a cold.

/Just need to rest and eat some pizza.

simon_bar_sinister: deamonbutterfly: ""The U.S. government paid scientists to figure out how the deadly bird flu virus might mutate to become a bigger threat to people - and two labs succeeded in creating new strains that are easier to spread. """


riiiight.. Should say: Government spends millions on Population control"

What I want to know is why these new strains are not being released into the wild yet. You want to stop global warming? Climate change? Food inequity? Wealth distribution inequity? This would be the way to do it. Decrease the largest contributor to CO2 emissions and let the survivors redistribute the newly abandoned wealth. Food would also be at a regionally sustainable level to the population. Again why are they keeping the cure all to themselves?


Because the first thing that elitist bastards who might be inclined to do such a thing need to do is figure out how they (and a fairly large contingency of "essential support staff") can be immune to the disease so that they will be able to continue to rule over whoever manages to survive?

The "perfect crime" of arson doesn't seem so perfect if you accidentally lock yourself in the burning building.

Smelly Pirate Hooker: RE J. Frank Parnell
"I have a theory that flu's will never be the kind of death machines movies and the media want them to be, because they've been evolving alongside living things for millenia, and need us to exist. They evolve mainly to travel from one person to another as a form of procreation, and not to kill the hosts. They only kill the weakest among us because the methods they use to be communicable are too much for then to handle, but they aren't evolving with the intent to kill anything, because that doesn't do anything good for them. A dead host is a bad thing for the flu. Any flu virus which does evolve to kill its hosts efficiently probably wouldn't make it very far simply because it does kill all its hosts."


You're speaking of the natural evolution of the virus. But when such is intentionally modified in the lab for the express purpose of becoming both highly contagious AND extremely deadly, it may well run its course until it has consumed all the agar on the petri dish - which would be us.

Sure, the virus may run itself into extinction, but it seems that viruses don't think that far ahead.

Neither do humans, apparently.

Jake Havechek: 28 days later....

Better than 28 weeks later. But I have to say the scene in the pitch black subway tunnel was one of the scariest scenarios they could have portrayed.

Wouldn't that be MMXII?

Pro Zack: Capitan Tripps?

Guess my 'Just the Flu' submission was too obscure for the mods?

NationalHero: Infected:

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apparently - you can only get the disease by dry-humping big-bird.
I think I am safe.

J. Frank Parnell: simon_bar_sinister: You want to stop global warming? Climate change? Food inequity? Wealth distribution inequity? This would be the way to do it. Decrease the largest contributor to CO2 emissions and let the survivors redistribute the newly abandoned wealth. Food would also be at a regionally sustainable level to the population. Again why are they keeping the cure all to themselves?

You are aware that they pay farmers NOT to grow food, and buy food to destroy, just to keep prices high, right? There's more than enough food for everyone. If there was money to be made feeding poor people they'd be scrambling to do it, but as it is, there's more money in artificial scarcity.

And man made global warming has now been shot down in countless ways. But you are correct the very rich have a homicidal attitude towards the very poor, as evidenced in the aformentioned food thing. However, for now at least, they still need people to wash their cars and work the machines for very low wages.

That is kind of what I mean. If you were a minion and you see the Lord of the manor trying to solve the puzzle for himself would you not execute the plan ahead of schedule? Knowing that it was inevitable? I would. Why let him be the top dog? Knowing that it WILL happen would be a motivator to make it happen faster than someone with inside knowledge can prepare for. Instead of letting someone else clear the field I would opt to make it a level field.

/could just be the robo-tussin bending my mind
//kill all humans

Scientists in the Netherlands have created a super-strain of the disease which can easily be spread through the air.

Why Danish scientists? Why?

simon_bar_sinister: deamonbutterfly: ""The U.S. government paid scientists to figure out how the deadly bird flu virus might mutate to become a bigger threat to people - and two labs succeeded in creating new strains that are easier to spread. """


riiiight.. Should say: Government spends millions on Population control"

What I want to know is why these new strains are not being released into the wild yet. You want to stop global warming? Climate change? Food inequity? Wealth distribution inequity? This would be the way to do it. Decrease the largest contributor to CO2 emissions and let the survivors redistribute the newly abandoned wealth. Food would also be at a regionally sustainable level to the population. Again why are they keeping the cure all to themselves?

what 'they' don't realize, is they are all so pumped full of other prescription drugs, that the vaccine will have no effect whatsoever. I am perfectly happy fighting off the flu naturally. the way nature intended. I don't need anal seepage just so i can take a pill that makes another pill i take for some ailment I may or may not have, more effective...

hippydippy: Scientists in the Netherlands have created a super-strain of the disease which can easily be spread through the air.

Why Danish scientists? Why?

That should read "Dutch, " not "Danish."

Mr. Breeze: Jake Havechek: 28 days later....

Better than 28 weeks later. But I have to say the scene in the pitch black subway tunnel was one of the scariest scenarios they could have portrayed.

When he first goes into the church and yells and two infected people jerk up freaked me out.

/hot like a fever

Smiles in approval, would like to introduce himself...



/Hot as an nuclear bomb in Vegas.

QUICK! GET YOUR COAT HANGERS! Oh you meant Bird Flu...

Amos Quito [TotalFark] Add Favorite User Quote 2011-12-21 12:21:21 PM Ignore User
FTA: "This month scientists in the Netherlands revealed they had created in a laboratory a super-strain of the disease which can easily be spread through the air.

The team who created the so-called 'Armageddon virus' said it is 'probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can make'."

Not only did the Dutch manage to make the strain highly contagious among humans, a Japanese team did the same.

More on that story here. (new window)

We may have just solved the overpopulation problem.



The Dutch, you say?

Fear not.

It's just more human bullshiat.

It'll pass...

;)

P.S. Happy Solstice to Ya'll, and Go 2012, end of baktun!

Indubitably: Fear not.

It's just more human bullshiat.

It'll pass...

;)

P.S. Happy Solstice to Ya'll, and Go 2012, end of baktun!

P.P.S. Y'all, listen close: it's gonna be okay; please stop being so afraid of everything. Yes, we are on the verge of destroying ourselves, but we won't, right? Amirite?

P.P.P.S. I am. Right, that is. You'll see. :)

Indubitably: Indubitably: Fear not.

It's just more human bullshiat.

It'll pass...

;)

P.S. Happy Solstice to Ya'll, and Go 2012, end of baktun!

P.P.S. Y'all, listen close: it's gonna be okay; please stop being so afraid of everything. Yes, we are on the verge of destroying ourselves, but we won't, right? Amirite?

P.P.P.S. I am. Right, that is. You'll see. :)


If you're right, you can brag about it.

If you're wrong, there won't be anyone around to give you shiat about it.

So either way, you have your bases covered.

Amos Quito: Indubitably: Indubitably: Fear not.

It's just more human bullshiat.

It'll pass...

;)

P.S. Happy Solstice to Ya'll, and Go 2012, end of baktun!

P.P.S. Y'all, listen close: it's gonna be okay; please stop being so afraid of everything. Yes, we are on the verge of destroying ourselves, but we won't, right? Amirite?

P.P.P.S. I am. Right, that is. You'll see. :)


If you're right, you can brag about it.

If you're wrong, there won't be anyone around to give you shiat about it.

So either way, you have your bases covered.

Exactly.

;)

Indubitably: Amos Quito: Indubitably: Indubitably: Fear not.

It's just more human bullshiat.

It'll pass...

;)

P.S. Happy Solstice to Ya'll, and Go 2012, end of baktun!

P.P.S. Y'all, listen close: it's gonna be okay; please stop being so afraid of everything. Yes, we are on the verge of destroying ourselves, but we won't, right? Amirite?

P.P.P.S. I am. Right, that is. You'll see. :)


If you're right, you can brag about it.

If you're wrong, there won't be anyone around to give you shiat about it.

So either way, you have your bases covered.

Exactly.

;)

However, I don't brag.

True.

Indubitably: Indubitably: Amos Quito: Indubitably: Indubitably: Fear not.

It's just more human bullshiat.

It'll pass...

;)

P.S. Happy Solstice to Ya'll, and Go 2012, end of baktun!

P.P.S. Y'all, listen close: it's gonna be okay; please stop being so afraid of everything. Yes, we are on the verge of destroying ourselves, but we won't, right? Amirite?

P.P.P.S. I am. Right, that is. You'll see. :)


If you're right, you can brag about it.

If you're wrong, there won't be anyone around to give you shiat about it.

So either way, you have your bases covered.

Exactly.

;)

However, I don't brag.

True.

IRL, that is...

Hah!

;)