don't panic, but "SWINE FLU COULD SPREAD GLOBALLY"

RIP max

I made an awesome your mom joke about max's mom having swine flu and giving it to me, but then my hard drive crashed

RIP your hard drive

Hopefully this flu pandemic will be similar to the time I got flu really bad in elementary school, missed school for a week, and beat Dragon Warrior I TWICE.

since i live in san diego i am very interested in this bird flu stuff.

but then again i don't think there've been any cases in tijuana so maybe it won't get here

At church today they started out the service by saying, "We're all disease vectors; remember to wash your hands." The guy was wearing one of those hiking hats w/the neck-covering tent-type flaps.

Good advice, tho: wash your hands.

ZOMG ZS you beat Dragon Warrior?!??? I <3 you.

Isn't the Dragonlord THE most disappointing-looking final baddie of all time?

Did you ever get the diamond shield?

Did I BEAT Dragon Warrior I?

I taught that game who was boss so many times I literally lost count. For a long time that was the only game I had so I would just play it continually, beat it, start again, over and over.

and I DID get the diamond shield! I had the Nintendo Power strategy guide to it so I pretty much knew where everything was. Including that one hidden item in the middle of the swamp.

Josh Marshall (TPM) had the same question I did: "A continuing mystery is why the apparent swine flu infections in the US appear to be much less virulent than the one in Mexico."

WOW @ Drudge Report headlines:

JANET: EVENTS DO NOT WARRANT TESTING OF PLANE PASSENGERS FROM MEXICO...
'NO EVIDENCE' OF BIO-TERROR...
CALDERON TELLS MEXICANS TO STAY CALM, COOPERATE WITH AUTHORITIES...
CDC RECOMMENDS PLANNING FOR SCHOOL CLOSURES...
Positive: NYC students...
WHO: Swine flu could mutate to 'more dangerous' strain...
Flu fears prompt quarantine plans...
Mexico City residents staying at home...
CLOSE TO 1,400 SUSPECTED CASES...
Russia Suspends Imports of Meat From Mexico, Some U.S. States...
New swine flu likely widespread...
Asia on alert...
10 New Zealand students in scare...
Mideast First: Israeli man hospitalized on suspicions...
6 CASES CONFIRMED IN CANADA...
Spain announces 3 suspected cases...

__________________________

PÁNICO !!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8019544.stm

this hospital is like ten miles from me! These mild flu-like symptoms experienced by people who have been to areas of Mexico not known to be affected with the virus are surely only the very beginning of a pandemic which will ravage the west of Scotland.

It's been nice knowing me.

RIP.

Meanwhile the BBC says.
Only a handful of the Mexican cases have so far been laboratory-confirmed as swine flu, while in the US confirmed cases had only mild symptoms.

WHO TO BELIEVE!

Drudge must be excited, hoping that this is Obama's Katrina.

on the other hand HOLY FUCK WE ARE DOOMED

radio reporting bruce willis just got shot in an airport

I live on an island :)
oh, wait :(

Wake me when "Don't Fear the Reaper" starts playing

whuh?

Newsweek is reporting that Bea Arthur died of swine flu.

whuh?

Bruce Willis Shot!

Josh Marshall (TPM) had the same question I did: "A continuing mystery is why the apparent swine flu infections in the US appear to be much less virulent than the one in Mexico."

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, April 26, 2009 2:35 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is a good question! it's possible that, while both the US and Mexican cases are H1N1, they're not exactly the same, genetically.

...ho wait SWINE FLU COULD SPREAD GLOBALLY is the name of my dog!

dudes, hipster grifter chick is swine flu patient zero

Hopefully MIA will write a song about this.

Mideast First: Israeli man hospitalized on suspicions...

must... resist... zing

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/430261?rel=hp_picks

But they are the biggest fans of Millenarian thinking!

Josh Marshall addresses his earlier question (and mine) from before:

Late Update: Let me take a moment to reemphasize the 'appear' and 'apparent' in the sentence above. There are various hypotheses as to why there might be such a difference, as this Times article explains. But it's important to note that whatever spread there is of swine flu in the US seems much earlier along than in Mexico. And the sample size of cases in the US is exceedingly small. So we simply do not have enough data yet to judge what the difference in the virulence in the two countries is or whether there's any difference at all. I strongly recommend reading the Times article linked above.

The NYT article Marshall mentions is here.

just waiting for the outbreak of guano-spread flu and the resulting batshit cartoons

Brilliant!

Swine Flu meta-aggregator of other meta-aggregators for infovores:
http://addictomatic.com/topic/swine+flu

all 7 cases in california are in san diego and imperial counties. i don't want to freak out until we know more, but i am acutely aware that i live in a large, dense, populous city that's only a few hundred miles from those places. and i was just at l.a. union station over the weekend -- people take the amtrak surfliner from san diego into that station all the time!

ok, if we're counting, it's only 120 miles from downtown l.a. to san diego. it feels farther.

radio reporting bruce willis just got shot in an airport

― admin log special guest star (DG), Sunday, April 26, 2009 8:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^^^^ good joke

Google maps with all locations of (possible) cases of swine flu. (Denmark, France, Spain, Scotland on this now as well)

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=32.639375,-110.390625&spn=15.738151,25.488281&z=5

----- Original Message -----
From: RM
To:
Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 9:13 PM
Subject: Do Not Take Swine Flu Vaccine!

Do Not Take A

Swine Flu Vaccine!

From Patricia Doyle, PhD

4-25-09

I am making a plea to everyone who reads this, please, please DO NOT TAKE ANY VACCINE THAT IS PURPORTED TO 'PREVENT' THIS FLU.

Remember 1976 and the so called Swine Flu outbreak that was purported to be a coming pandemic? It only infected recruits at Ft. Dix. Why? Because I believe that the so called Swine Flu virus infected the recruits due to the vaccines they were given. Whether the government developed the Swine Flu 1976 virus and infected the recruits as a means to test the public to see if people would comply with a call to take vaccination against Swine Flu, or the recruits became infected via contaminated vaccine they were given as part of the recruit regimen, that outbreak was as phony as they come. I was one of the people duped into taking a Swine Flu shot and it made me so sick. I was sick in bed for three months after taking the vaccine.

Do not take seasonal flu vaccine if you are told that it could help prevent this brand new Swine Flu variant. It won't do a thing to prevent this flu. What it will do is serve up new genetic material to the Swine Flu virus that I have dubbed Spanish Flu 2, the Sequel. The Spanish Flu variant will use the gene sequences in the vaccine in humans to develop more of the changes that make the virus more readily infect humans. We do not want to give this virus more human genetic material so that it will infect humans more readily person to person. This is what vaccinated individuals do for pandemic strains.

There is also a safety issue in any experimental vaccine, much like the one in 1976. Some people even feel that such a vaccine for pandemic strain might require more than one vaccination which could actually be a binary set up. The first shot might just add some genetic code that stays dormant in the body until one gets the second vaccine shot which then serves to only cause infection. It could trigger Guillain-barre syndrome, Typhus or some other condition.

An Influenza vaccine does not protect or prevent a person from contracting flu. It is purported to, maybe, prevent some complications of flu and maybe shorten duration. I am not even sure it does that. Personally, I feel the vaccine weakens our immune system and also sickens us due to contaminants in the vaccine. I feel that people can better protect themselves by washing hands often and thoroughly. People should also use protective gloves when out and about during epidemics. Don't be afraid of "looking odd." I would not be ashamed to use a mask and gloves. I see that the Mexicans are using them.

A big problem during a pandemic is that these simple supplies will become extremely scarce awfully quickly. Stock up now. Medical supplies. personal hygene supplies and don't forget fido, or any other pet. Once a pandemic hits, it will be too late to stock up. Water, too.

We may lose clean water and electric power, so be prepared.

So, please, people, DON'T TAKE ANY VACCINES OFFERED. THEY COULD KILL YOU BEFORE ANY VIRUS KILLS YOU.

Pat Doyle

Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message board at: http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also my new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health

http://www.rense.com/general85/vacc.htm

radio reporting bruce willis just got shot in an airport

― admin log special guest star (DG), Sunday, April 26, 2009 8:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^^^^ good joke

― one thousand BIG HOOS raging and pounding (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, April 27, 2009 9:06 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not getting it but want to. did 'die hard 2: die harder' involve sswine flu?

'PhD Bus Admin'

the Swine Flu virus that I have dubbed Spanish Flu 2, the Sequel

the host for the above piffle:
http://www.rense.com/1.mpicons/bigjeffSP.jpg

12 monkeys dude

Who has this on his front page, which, quite frankly, is a good competitor for santorum.jpg:

http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/campfema_dees.jpg

Why Is Barney the Sheffield Wednesday Owl on the FEMA Deathtruck?

Whoah, would like to see a hi-res of that one

awesome

This is probably for the batshit thread but there's more:

http://www.rense.com/1.mpicons/dees1.htm

lol he's also driving the truck.....now we know our enemy

Never forget the owl flu epidemic of '88.

You would be a twit to.

Sheesh, that link totally brings me down, Ed ;_;