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

http://twitter.com/veratect

big boy was warning everyone on hot 97 that you dont get this from eating pork and that guys saying "oh i dont eat swine" should be less self-congratulatory

Guys, the thing is that if we freak out about this, we'll look like total wimps in front of the pigs

They will never let us forget it

they should call it Bacon Flu

did ppl think avian flu was transmitted from eating birds?

walking back from dropping my laundry off just now i coughed and this lady looked at me sideways and picked up her pace

Do as many people know "avian" = "bird-related" as know "swine" = "pig"? (A: No)

Since I work a door down from the ER and my roommate is about to start working at a restaurant where the staff frequently travels to and from Mexico, I figure we're just racing to see who can get swine flu first.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/49/186102293_763e58959f.jpg

true. . . but didn't most news orgs refer to it as bird flu in headlines

did ppl think avian flu was transmitted from eating birds?

Don't ever underestimate how fucking stupid people are.

"Belgium: Six suspected swine influenza cases reported by national authorities. #swineflu"

the newspaper article claimed the risk here in belgium was minimal. LIARS.

There's no simple storyline here except that public health officials need to work this hard and try to contain it as best they can

Agreed, but I don't think that's going too well right now, given that A&Es are going to be chock-full of sniffling bell-ends panicking their little hypochondriac heads off. For every reasonable and sensible thing I read, I'm reading two that make me want to inject people's fucking eyes with ebola.

i'm gonna start coughing on the street when i'm walking around, just for fun

i stopped eating sarsage for a while a few years back

just overheard: mum complaining at dad that he didn't buy some facemasks on Ebay for 25 quid

like, ffs

i'm gonna start coughing on the street when i'm walking around, just for fun

^ This. While eating bacon sandwiches. Genius.

Yeah, but I'm guessing "bird" just doesn't sound like food to most people, which seems like the functional bit here -- like "chicken flu" would probably make some people afraid of biting into chicken, whereas "monkey pox" makes people afraid of getting bit by a monkey -- beautiful beautiful context

cm, you're kidding, right?

buying used facemasks on Ebay=great idea

you don't know who wore it!

oh chirst, fiction and reality are mixing it up big style in my head. i just had a pic of that swine scene from damages.

kidding

Official soundtrackers to the 2009 swine-flu pandemic:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3186/2576714064_2e479b9771.jpg?v=0

http://www.frightcatalog.com/i/360x360/1217003.jpg

how about this?

I have brainiac in my head now.

Anyone read/know how long the disease takes to begin showing symptoms in someone? I read that the first cases in Mexico were reported in March. Does that mean it's likely that the infected people got the virus in March, or perhaps February?

u hav pork flu and r going to die sry

Dr. Icey over here

Last night my Mom got on the phone and said, "We should probably just kill all Mexicans. That would solve a lot of problems at once." Me = o_O

Is that a pic of Pig Destroyer, Grimly?

The band he posted? That's Clinic, I think.

ok wth erica

I KNOW!!!!

Jesus that sounds like something my dad would say (ie it is appalling).

think of the tacos ma

Or my dad. Or my mom. Do we all secretly have the same parents? Do any of your parents make unexpected visits to Missouri occasionally?

my mum merely wants facemasks, i don't think she has anything against Mexicans

i ain't being seen dead in one of those things fwiw

(facemasks, not Mexicans)

HAA

in asia u see people wearing these things* all the time when they hav colds to protect others - thats called consideration - think abt it rest of world

*facemasks, not mexicans

This reminds me of how we were all supposed to die of SARS a few years ago, then MRSA, then bird flu.... Oh yeah, smallpox was in there somewhere. And anthrax.

Smallpox was never in there.

ps a significant number of people did die from those things

people are still dying from MRSA in particular

yeah, mrsa is actually a huge problem, ~Bill~

dudes be cool to bill he has pork virus and is going to die

Uh yeah MRSA is a big serious deal and anyone who is wanton and shortsighted with their antibiotics gives me an Alex-in-NYC-level rage-on.

my mom likes mexicans