If only there were an Islam flu. Would solve like a million problems.
Swine Flu
Damnit, Beldaran, I just realized, flip the tables - they're probably laughing that it's an Infidel flu.
Maybe the terrorists will leave us alone now
"God has visited his punishment on the capitalist pigs!"
rock_nog wrote:Damnit, Beldaran, I just realized, flip the tables - they're probably laughing that it's an Infidel flu.
You know, that just made my day. But for that matter, it wouldn't affect observant Jews either. 😃
The_Amaster wrote:Maybe the terrorists will leave us alone now
"God has visited his punishment on the capitalist pigs!"
That would be so wonderful.
Hey atma. I think you're onto something!
Prrkitty wrote:Talk about "over kill" - "Egypt Orders Slaughter of ALL Pigs over Swine Flu"Good job Egypt...
...oh you gotta be kidding me. What, if there is a fish flu, the're gonna kill off every fish in the nile?
Beldaran wrote:If only there were an Islam flu. Would solve like a million problems.
I'll bet that some Muslims view the flu as a punishment from Allah upon the infidels for eating pork. Recall that pork is forbidden in Islam.
Beldaran wrote:If only there were an Islam flu. Would solve like a million problems.I got 10,000 problems but Islam ain't one of them. (My car's head gasket is like 1,200 of them though.)
I got 99 problems but a jihad ain't one...
Beldaran wrote:I got 99 problems but a jihad ain't one...
You have provided adaquate Lulz for me this day. 😎
Also... in Egypt (as far as I knew yesterday...) there's been absolutely NO incidence of swine flu there. http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1894703,00.html?cnn=yes
They're being preventative by killing ALL pigs? Yet the funny thing is... the flu will walk in on two (2) legs... not 4 (four)... So sure... kill your food supply. And when you come to your senses you'll have to go to other countries to get more pigs ... which THEN could expose you to the areas that DO have the flu strains.
Way to go with stupidity and mass hysteria...
If you cook anything properly you don't have to worry about being infected from pork. Also isn't the flu an infection of the throat?
The WHO raised their pandemic alert to 5 a few days ago. I don't know if that means I'm supposed to put on a helmet or what.
In all seriousness though, it's starting to look like what I've been suspecting for the last few days is true: this flu is no more deadly than the seasonal flu. The mortality rate was probably overstated because the true number of cases wasn't known. In addition, it seems that many experts think this flu has been out there for months, maybe even as much as a year, and we're only just now noticing a difference from the normal flu.
Of course, as soon as something like this gets out there people want to point fingers. I read the report of the city that's blaming a nearby dirty pig farm for the outbreak, since the people in that town got sick about a month ago. Now that could've happened, or maybe it didn't. We haven't found any sick pigs at that farm. We don't even know for sure that the virus is from pigs. It contains some pig flu bits, but it also contains pieces of human and avian flu. For all we know, the virus could've reconfigured to its current state in a person. But today my dad forwarded me an article that jumped to the conclusion that was the source of the virus and dosed out heaps of scorn on the U.S. company that has partial ownership of the farm. That article was from truthout, and I swear to god every time he sends me one of those I can't delete it fast enough. They're more biased than Fox News, which is really saying something.
The swine flu is quite literally nothing but the regular flu. The only reason people are shitting their pants is because it's very contagious. I could be mistaken but swine flu just causes very high fever. like, insanely high. The regular flu probably does that too if untreated, so swine flu is just a more contagious, marginally worse version of the regular flu, only pigs get it too.
Swine flu also makes people more susceptible to getting/developing pneumonia (which was the main cause of death in the 1918 swine flu epidemic).
I just hope this overreaction to the swine flu won't mean my class trip to the British Isles will be canceled.
Well, I'm posting this. http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2009/05/swine_flu_the_overreaction_ove.php
It's easy to see it as an overreaction, but it's important to realize how bad this could have been. At this point, it looks like it's well enough under control and shouldn't be a huge deal, overall, but people need not to get the idea that everyone was freaking out over nothing.