So, the swine flu is now officially a pandemic

[Ernstige Jan]

THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IS GOING TO DIE!!

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Wow, I'm going to die!! THERE ARE OVER 3.... PEOPLE REPORTED IN POLAND! All are already safe and cured.

There's actually cures for Swine Flu? That really isn't much of a pandemic then.

I guess in December, that's when the vaccine will actually remove swine flu.

 

[The Riff]

They are OVERREACTING! My god the world is going batshit crazy about this, it's fine when they do something, but it gets annoying when they make it a bigger deal than it already is.

 

[Nmil-ek]

Oh no what will our country do if only we had stockplies of flu treatment en masse say enough to treat 2/3rds of the population and a free healthcare system, oh wait sucks to be the rest of the world then.

Not that I think the swune flu will go anywhere.

 

[Biek]

There were a few more cases in the netherlands. But one of them was already cured when the news came out.

 

[Laughing Man]

I dunno on one hand you got the governments, organisations and media going ape shit over the swine flu issue then on the other hand you see just about f*ck all being done about. A person with Swine Flu could walk on to a plane tomorrow, infect everyone on the aircraft and then walk off the other side and not get challenged once. I seriously dunno if they have even the slightest level of control in place to stop people freely spreading this. After all it's air travel and specifically the wankers who are ill and still travel anyway that have caused it to spread as quick as it has.

Beyond that it's a general and big who cares.

 

[Colonel Rosso]

YEEEHAAAA! I already got it, passed it on to the Austrians, the Swiss, the Hungarians (and possibly the Germans) and then skarpered back to the states. Then I recovered. I never really felt like dying to some pandemic, and now I'm immune! Yay.

"A person with Swine Flu could walk on to a plane tomorrow, infect everyone on the aircraft and then walk off the other side and not get challenged once."
-person right in front of me

Yeah, about that... my bad.

 

[xXGeckoXx]

Well I don't really care. For some reason, I am immune to everything.

I don't ever catch diseases. ^O^

You have aids, I'm so sorry....

Just kidding but seriously you are asking for a disaster by saying that.

I have a friend who incidentally came down with a serious flu recently and I have my suspicions.

No that I care.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

Link: http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090611/UN.UN.Swine.Flu/

The World Health Organization has declared the first global flu epidemic in 41 years. Apparently it wasn't a false alarm. Go figure.

Now look up the definition of a pandemic.

From Wikipedia:

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a pandemic can start when three conditions have been met:[1]
-Emergence of a disease new to a population.
-Agents infect humans, causing serious illness.
-Agents spread easily and sustainably among humans.
A disease or condition is not a pandemic merely because it is widespread or kills many people; it must also be infectious. For instance, cancer is responsible for many deaths but is not considered a pandemic, because the disease is not infectious or contagious.

It's a big scary word that's incorrectly used in horror movies. It's not about the number of people infected, or the severity of the infection, just the fact that it spreads easily and it's new.

 

[goatzilla8463]

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I wonder where I got that from. The last time I checked, my girl didn't have AIDS.

I'm joking. I'm 14 and therefore have never had the fabled "IT".

 

[PhiMed]

Just because it's spread over a large area doesn't mean it's infected all the people in that area. Also, until the death rate gets above one half of a percent of those infected, I'll leave my mask at home.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Swine Flu? I haven't heard that name in weeks.

I'm not worried - I live in the absolute middle of nowhere, and I have no friends so I never have to go anywhere. Yay me?

Sort of yay me. You're safe, at some sort of price though

 

[JakubK666]

Has Madagascar closed its boarders yet?

I see what you did there. Well played, sir.

 

[jonnosferatu]

Given that the infection rates, prognosis, and treatment are all identical to those of virtually every one of the seasonal flu strains, I call false alarm and irresponsible media. It's not like this is the first time we've had some kind of "apocalyptic contagion" running around with a hilariously low infection and fatality rate.

You know what are dangerous pandemics we should worry about? Tuberculosis. AIDS. Flu IN GENERAL. Not some random strain that's attracting attention because some idiot researcher thought it'd be a good idea to tell everyone that it's got a connection to pigs.

EDIT: I should clarify here that I know the denotation of the term 'pandemic'. That said, it's extremely stupid for a major organization to announce that it's using the term in relation to something, because 90% of the people who'll find out will interpret it based on the much more worrying connotation.

 

[Grayjack]

Run to the hills! We're all going to die!!!!!11

Seriously though, the normal Flu kills what, 36,000 people in the US alone?

 

[SprodeMaster]

I just hope we don't get Oinked out of existence. And the government is weird.
Hurricane Katrina - Ehh, lemme stay in bed in for 5 minutes....
Pissant Flu in Mexico - HOLY FUCKING SHIT, WE NEED A VACCINE NAAAOOOO!!!

 

[El Poncho]

I would say its more an epidemic than a pandemic, it not killed many people since it's left mexico and its just slightly worse than normal flu.

 

[Vlane]

Why haven't I heard about the swine flu in the last weeks? Oh yes, because it's not as dangerous as some people say it is!

 

[Owain Thomas Davies Ellis]

The olny good thing to come out of swine flu' is Eton being closed.
If there was ever an ironic place to get it.