Swine Flu

[Miroslav]

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i can't believe how big a deal people are making this into. its the flu. it is no worse than any other flu. it is simply a new strain. you should only worry if you are a small child, an old fart or have a weak immune system. otherwise it will run its course. let them create a vaccine. things will be better.

and i hope i'm not proven wrong.....

Um...no offense, but I think the facts have already proven most everything you've said to be wrong.

1. Not all flus are created equal. Yes, it's just the flu - except much more virulent and with a significantly higher mortality rate than what you're thinking of. Ever hear of the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918? That was the flu too, and by conservative estimates it killed at least 20 million people worldwide.

2. Most people killed by it have been young, otherwise seemingly healthy people. This demographic mortality trend was supposedly quite distinctly witnessed in the 1918 pandemic, too. The medical theory is that in young people most of the damage ultimately ends up being caused by an overreaction of the immune system, called a "cytokine storm".

[Garrick]

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^ i haven't done any real research so thanks for the update. i stand corrected. i had heard about that virus in 1918 but i've read that even this isn't the same exact straing as the one that killed a lot back in 1918. i PRAY it doesn't get that bad.
you gotta think how much we've developed since 1918 too though. we are much more advanced and way more equipped to deal with this than 90 years ago. they probably barely even knew what the common flu was back then and advised you to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes to combat it. /sarcasm

hopefully if you take appropriate precautions, the chances that you contract this swine flu are minimized greatly.

pig n chik

never heard of it. where is it?? sounds good!

[speciale]

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never heard of it. where is it??

http://pignchik.net/

Some of the best in ATL. Swine free since 2001.

[Garrick]

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looks good! for another good suggestion while on the topic, i have always been a fan of fat matt's bbq. they have killer bbq and occassionally some kick ass blues bands.

i feel a bit inappropriate talking about pork bbq in a swine flu thread... lol

[speciale]

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looks good! for another good suggestion while on the topic, i have always been a fan of fat matt's bbq. they have killer bbq and occassionally some kick ass blues bands.

I've yet to try fat matts, but hear great things. Too far from me. Would love to go especially for the blues music. I have been to Maddys a few times which has some unbelievable pork.

[Miroslav]

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hopefully if you take appropriate precautions, the chances that you contract this swine flu are minimized greatly.

Probably so. I'm not suggesting that we need to start freaking out... The odds of survivability are strongly in your favor. I read that epidemiologists estimated the 1918 outbreak at a case fatality rate of less than 2.5%.

There's always something out there waiting to kill us.

[i!!ustrious]

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lol, this thread makes me want to move to the southeast. we usually whip up a low country boil for every reunion that we have out in savannah ga. mmmm

[speciale]

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lol, this thread makes me want to move to the southeast. we usually whip up a low country boil for every reunion that we have out in savannah ga. mmmm

becoming the prok thread

[Garrick]

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now i want to boil some crawfish.....

[DancingQueen]

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maybe we will cross paths at the airport. either way, get lots of pics and hope you guys have an awesome time.

That would be awesome if we did!

I hope you have a great time as well (even though its for work), and I hope you take lots of pics if you can too

[Steve Graham]

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i can't believe how big a deal people are making this into. its the flu. it is no worse than any other flu. it is simply a new strain. you should only worry if you are a small child, an old fart or have a weak immune system. otherwise it will run its course. let them create a vaccine. things will be better.

and i hope i'm not proven wrong.....

this

jesus this is ridiculous.. and that shit about Egypt really pisses me off

[speciale]

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funny how we are joking about this especially turning this into the prok thread, but fuck, I have to fly to vegas on Sunday and then when I come back I hope I don't get anything. Not for my safety but more so for my 6month old daughter.

That would be awesome if we did!

I hope you have a great time as well (even though its for work), and I hope you take lots of pics if you can too

I wish I could bring my dslr. I will be at a conference and wont get the chances to get out and see the city. That means, it will be on you to get some awesome pics. Get a lot of them. We need some more in the Digital Scribbles section.

This will be my second time there and I have yet to experience Las Vegas. There is so much to see there.

where are you staying?

[Haziel]

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who is goign to pork?

[DIDI]

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Probably so. I'm not suggesting that we need to start freaking out... The odds of survivability are strongly in your favor. I read that epidemiologists estimated the 1918 outbreak at a case fatality rate of less than 2.5%.

There's always something out there waiting to kill us.

Yeah. we had an America expert on TV, who probably wrote the article you read by the sound of it , say 98% of the people who caught the flu in 1918 survived. And also mentioned immune system over reaction. It was the reaction rather than the flu that was killing them. Apparently we can give it to pigs as well !!

[threehills]

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98% survived, but a million plus died....meaning pretty much every single person got sick with it at some point. That's a scary bug.