Swine Flu
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Topic: Swine Flu
Posted By: tallen702
Subject: Swine Flu
Date Posted: 25 April 2009 at 6:45pm
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Personally, I think we're going to see wide spread death south of our border. I just hope it's done with by the time I go on my honeymoon to Costa Rica. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
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Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 25 April 2009 at 6:49pm
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Memo passed around for it at my job already.
Just read about the 2 more confirmed in the US, bringing total to 11 (along with a couple here in Texas) Woohoo N-95 mask!  ------------- 
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Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 25 April 2009 at 8:16pm
| it was only a matter of time before another flu came around...time to stock up on airborne tablets and vitamin C filled products. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 25 April 2009 at 8:30pm
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Madagascar always closes their borders. Jerks.
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 25 April 2009 at 9:09pm
Fixed! ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
GI JOES SON wrote:Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 25 April 2009 at 9:15pm
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This is where it sucks to be in this field...
Some of the first and only people to die from SARs in the west were EMS personnel that came in contact with Asian immigrants. If you see video of me running from a Mexican holding a pig, you know why. -------------
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 8:52am
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Looks like it might be in NYC already. Seal off the city. Martial Law. Shoot to kill.
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Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 11:13am
If only it were that simple. The reason why people are scared of this one, and rightly so, is that it is actually killing people who don't normally die from the flu, which is people in the 16-50 age range. On top of that, the normally healthy people are the ones dying as well. Flu typically kills the young and the old, but rarely ever the healthy middle ages. -------------
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 11:35am
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I don't think Vitamin C will do a damn thing.
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Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 12:02pm
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good thing nobody wants to come up here. dont think il have to worry much. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 3:44pm
| Well fingers crossed I don't die somehow. |
Posted By: arcticmonkey
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 4:11pm
does eating pork for the majority of your life make you more susceptible?  ------------- 
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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 6:35pm
| I'm moving to Madagascar. They are immune to disease. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 6:40pm
to late, their borders have long since closed |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 6:46pm
Always makes me smile
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Posted By: Uncle Rudder
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 7:48pm
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I got a good chuckle out of the title of an article published by the CDC's - "Swine Flu and You" ------------- 
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Posted By: Jayne Cobb
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 7:50pm
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Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 8:17pm
Noob.  M-95 Military Gas Mask Outstanding NIOSH-Approved Protection TC-84 A-3320 High Quality Chemical Resistant Materials Chemical Warfare Resistant (Independently Tested) Practical low profile design and construction Stable and fully adjustable for wearer comfort and acceptance Excellent field of vision (over 80%) Capatibility with weapons and tactical equipment Comfortable 6 point harness for extended wear Rugged collision resistant design Excellent fit with a NBC Protective Suit 20 year shelf life Equally ventilated lenses Low Exhalation Resistance Optional Camelback hydration adapter and prescription lens frame AND  |
Posted By: NiQ-Toto
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 8:43pm
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Great, this crap made it to new zealand already thanks to 22 or so auckland kids going to mexico for three weeks. Good thing they were from the north island and im on the south island. Id say that greatly reduces my chances of getting this.
Still time to be careful. ------------- ///AMG What? |
Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 8:47pm
| Wow. New Zealand is so random. |
Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 11:06pm
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Lulz pandemic.
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 26 April 2009 at 11:36pm
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Aw hells yeah. Let's do this thing. Maybe I finally get to tromp around my city with a gas mask and a loaded rifle gunning for looters. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 12:47am
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I want pics if that happens Bri.
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Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 1:06am
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Um, any dibs on my stuff? I live in an area pretty heavily populated by people of descent from south of the border, and I wouldn't be surprised if Houston starts getting some cases. ------------- 
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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 1:18am
| Hell no, I don't want none of your diseased stuff! |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 1:37am
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Dibs on Gatyrs penis. .... They just aren't made like his any more. ------------- |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 2:59am
| I get your paintball stuff, and computer. Write it down so people know. |
Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 4:19am
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Dibs on Gatyr's kidneys and liver.
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Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 7:29am
this could get entertaining. |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 9:17am
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Time to see if the Army/Navy store is already out of gas masks.... A whole bench of people went to Mexico over spring break too. This could suck. it sounds like Mexico has about 1,300 confirmed cases with 80-something deaths, mostly in the 16-50 age bracket, so we might be screwed with this one. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 10:00am
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San Antonio TX has started closing its parks and public school systems. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 10:09am
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http://xkcd.com/%20 - http://xkcd.com/
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Posted By: TheDude
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 11:19am
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Dammit. This stuff is freaking me out. Time to pick up a choosy religion to grasp desperately at when I become ill. : (
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 11:34am
| I will take monkey pox. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 11:34am
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As a Houstonian, I too am kind of worried. It doesn't help that the media is propagating fear right now... Oh well. What can ya do? ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 12:00pm
| 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&source=embed - Watch the pandemic spread live! |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 12:29pm
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Oh god, it's approaching me.
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 12:48pm
We have two cases in Indiana about an hour away from me. ------------- |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 1:07pm
about an hour and a half for me. their color code is off though, those are just suspected cases sent to the cdc for testing. |
Posted By: slackerr26
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 2:36pm
park bench or a picnic bench? ------------- 
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 3:26pm
I havent read much into this but could this be caused by the possible poor health of Mexico's citizens? ------------- |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 3:34pm
| high population density, poor living conditions |
Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 3:45pm
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Egad! Three cases 45 minutes from my house. Time to load up my AK-47 and get ready for swine zombies. God help us all... ------------- 
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Posted By: cdacda13
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 3:58pm
| Good thing that trip to Mexico me and my friends were planning to go on sometime in May fell though. |
Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 4:41pm
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None near South Florida yet... I really do need to get a gas mask though. ALSO: http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/ - http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/ ^Everything about swine flu that is scientifically accurate. PLUS it has a chart of where and how many cases there are in the U.S. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 6:47pm
Aaaaannnnddd the W.H.O. just raised us to a level 4 pandemic:
Death toll is now 149. The main culprit in the deaths is the body's reaction to the virus. Essentially the lungs of these otherwise healthy 16-50 year old people are ripping themselves apart in a very odd auto-immune response. When asked why the deaths are only in Mexico, the experts asked by WTOP here in DC stated that they had no clue. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 7:04pm
| Man.... now i have GOTTA get a gas mask. Anyone know the best brand for protection? |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 7:07pm
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Given that the primary cause of death has been an excessive autoimmune response, my inclination is to beat my immune system down so it can't kill me. My professional medical advice is to drink yourself stupid, eat awful food and deprive yourself of sleep. It's like putting your immune system in a headlock. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 9:00pm
Why wait, start shooting people that appear weak and sickly. ------------- Imagine theres a picture of your favourite thing here. |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 9:02pm
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I developed a cough yesterday.
When should I become hysterical? ------------- 
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 9:09pm
Wait for it... Wait for it... Hold..! HOLD! NOW! ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 9:12pm
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OH GOD NO!!!
I'm DYIIING!!!1!111 /heads to work to infect his customers -------------
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Posted By: Uncle Rudder
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 9:41pm
According to the CDC...
I take this as good news? Maybe? Hopefully?
sources: http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/ - http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/
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Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 10:27pm
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Yes that was good news. However I'm not sure it has been shown to combat it in a real world setting yet.
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Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 10:51pm
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Yes, the drugs Tamiflu or Relenza are useful against this strain of flu.
Strato... atleast YOU don't have to drive out to Dallas to work around sick people all day. -------------
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Posted By: NiQ-Toto
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 12:59am
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And this has been found at my uni as of yesterday. COOL! ------------- ///AMG What? |
Posted By: Destruction
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 1:04am
Ok, we get it. You're getting a gasmask. Cool.
Be sure to start a thread when you get infected. ------------- u dont know what to do ur getting mottor boatted Men are from Magmar, women are from Venusaur. |
Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 1:26am
I'll be too busy running around coughing on people. -------------
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 9:33am
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Upstate NY is still clean. We keep most of our nastiness confined to NYC anyway. I'm in a hospital anyway, so if anything DOES happen, I'm in a good spot, but man, what a fun time to have a baby.
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 6:05pm
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3 cases i believe in milwaukee. one of my profs works at an area lab, and yesterday his pager kept going off because of it. and now i'm sick. no flu, just a head cold, but still a bit scary |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 6:33pm
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There was a case about 25 minutes from my house.
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 7:39pm
Target acquired. Fire for effect. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 8:44pm
Zomg it's gonna get to me one way or another now that it is in WI  This is going on this weekend, so many people in contact: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mifflin_Street_Block_Party - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mifflin_Street_Block_Party ------------- [IMG]http://i27.tinypic.com/1538fbc.jpg"> Squeeze Box ☣ |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 8:49pm
The best part is, I'm driving 300 miles to run a half marathon when there is one going on in the city I live in the same day. Suck it mother nature. ------------- 
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 8:59pm
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My cough is getting worse.
Chances are it's just a cough, but I don't like it because I work right near a hospital. Who knows what kind of crazy disease I pickd up. -------------
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Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 9:08pm
| I have a cough too! I am just blaming mine on an allergy induced sinus infection though. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 9:37pm
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The cough must be accompanied by a fever and headache to be swine flu. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 9:38pm
| headache, check but i am still saying its just sinuses. i dont have a thermometer. |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 9:41pm
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Don't have a thermometer.
I felt fine yesterday, with slight cough. Today, I feel like crap in general. -------------
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Posted By: cdacda13
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 11:33pm
| Is any one else extremely paranoid of other people now? I'm sitting in classes today and I now notice everyone who is sniffling, sneezing, coughing, or look like crap. I've never done that before. |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 12:01am
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Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 12:33am
The cough must be accompanied with a swine flu strain to be swine flu* -------------
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 12:50am
Hey, good luck man. What kind of time are you aiming for? Last one I did a few years back was 1:48:23. I'm looking to get back into the distance stuff and run a half in September... ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: .636
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 1:29am
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Anyone else having fun messing with people? I forcefully hacked up a lung today in the line up at the grocery store... people seem to move away ------------- |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 2:10am
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Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: holysmartone
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 2:39am
| Wonderful, one case within 10 minutes of me. And about half of my gfs school went to mexico for spring break. |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 3:02am
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Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 9:29am
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I think incubation is 2-7 days, but I'm just assuming tallen knows what he's talking about. Oh, and NOW we can start panicking. http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/29/swine.flu/index.html - First US Death Reported |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 11:42am
Heh, this was in one of my local papers. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 11:44am
| it got a near lol chuckle out of me |
Posted By: Uncle Rudder
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 12:25pm
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How crazy/paranoid would I look if I went to class/work wearing one of those surgical masks? -------------
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Posted By: TheDude
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 3:36pm
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I'm waiting for a confirmed case in washington to bust mine out. I think thats a good way to go.
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Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 4:39pm
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2 cases confirmed in MA, but my town is on fire so there's more to worry about |
Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 4:49pm
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A bunch of kids at my school were wearing the masks even though there is no flu within about 300 miles from us, but its fun. I'm making jokes like crazy about it. I'll have to try the grocery store one. |
Posted By: TheSpookyKids87
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 5:20pm
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I work in a pharmacy and so far we sold out of surgical masks, and running low on gloves, and running low on hand santizer.
I don't know if this is happening to other pharmacies but they are putting a restricted limit on the perscribed antibiotics for the flu. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 5:23pm
| Yeah, it'll totally protect you..... |
Posted By: TheSpookyKids87
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 5:26pm
| Yeah I read about the surgical masks doing very little to nothing about protecting yourself but people are still buying them. |
Posted By: chronic future
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 6:03pm
| possible case just came up today at the high school a few miles from here, they closed all the schools in the town for tomorrow and friday |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 6:12pm
While it may not protect the wearer, it may actually prevent someone who is infected from spreading it. It used to be the Japanese custom to wear surgical masks when one had a cold (or something similar) specifically for that reason as it is considered rude to spread infections. (I say "used to be" because I do not know if it still is or not.) ------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 6:47pm
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Mack's got it hit on the head with the masks. They prevent the droplets of mucus and saliva from entering the immediate atmosphere which helps prevent the spread of the disease. Surgical masks aren't to keep the doctors from getting sick, they're there to prevent the doctors spreading germs to the patients. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 9:30pm
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ANTIBIOTICS FOR THE FLU. ANTIBIOTICS DO NOTHING TO A VIRUS. Gah. -------------
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 9:40pm
Chill dude. They have antivirals. Antibiotics is used more for a general term. ------------- Que pasa?
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 9:48pm
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It doesn't make it less stupid to say. -------------
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 9:56pm
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It's all a conspiracy, Obama did it. He has close ties to surgical mask companies, so told CNN/BBC/etc. to take pictures of everyone with masks on so people go crazy and get mislead. He did it to boost the economy.
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Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 10:01pm
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Schools in and around Fort Worth have been closed due to a confirmed case of swine flu... They are closing them until May 11th.
http://www.fwisd.org/News/Pages/2009-04-29_closed.aspx Great. I live here. -------------
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Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 10:04pm
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 30 April 2009 at 6:55am
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I hope this "cold" that I have is the swine flu. I'll recover from it (we have more medicine than the Mexicans, I'm not worried), while transmitting it to the several hundred customers I've sold things to the past few days.
Then they'll be too sick to come to the store I work at. That would be a win. -------------
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Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 30 April 2009 at 10:39am
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fast forward to 2:30 in to see what biden wants his family to do...
ARRGGHHH!!!
We're all gonna die. Stay away from me...
ARRGGHHH!!
sniff. wait
is my nose running?
I think I have a fever...
AHH CHOOO! ------------- They tremble at my name... 
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 30 April 2009 at 10:47am
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How the hell could you even watch that with that music playing? -------------
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 30 April 2009 at 10:59am
| that music is annoying as hell. What is the point of posting that? |