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Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 30 May 2009, 12:57
by Jaxad0127
Tintin wrote:Look its simple as everyone knows

The Swine flue is just another strand of a currently existing virus in fact there are only two big strains of flue so technically you can only get a flue twice so most people would already be imune to swine flue, even then it is weaker then a normal flue, trust me i'd rather get swine flue and dodge the real thing but i already had the real thing and its nasty most people have had flue before.
Then how is it that the same people get the flu every year? The influenza virus mutates a lot, so you can get it more than once per season.
Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 30 May 2009, 17:04
by Goku
Speaking of overhyped..
How bout those North Koreans and their nuclear weapons testing.

Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 30 May 2009, 21:02
by Tintin
Then how is it that the same people get the flu every year? The influenza virus mutates a lot, so you can get it more than once per season.
well it mutates right so you can get it though you are still semi immune so you only get it weak the next time and its more like a cold though sometimes it can mutate heaps, other times a little, take The Bird Flue as a really bad mutation and The Swine Flue as a weak mutation
it won't be bad at all the second time unless it mutates badly
Speaking of overhyped..
How bout those North Koreans and their nuclear weapons testing.

I am not so worried about those China did them when it was banned must be a communist thing I guess... testing nukes when banned. I am a lot more worried about China new fleet of Nuclear submarines Watch Out! Japan I say
Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 01 Jun 2009, 14:49
by Rotonen
Tintin wrote:I am not so worried about those China did them when it was banned must be a communist thing I guess... testing nukes when banned. I am a lot more worried about China new fleet of Nuclear submarines Watch Out! Japan I say
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-492804/
Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 01 Jun 2009, 17:03
by John P
embarrassing.
Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 02 Jun 2009, 01:17
by Tintin
Interesting Rotonen thanks
I have known about their new Sub warfleet but not about that incident. Shows how dangerous they are getting I have known for ages that they would become a threat someday though that's what commies love taking over the world! Never works but they love trying.
Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 02 Jun 2009, 01:23
by Goku
China can be very dangerous seeing as how they are North Korea's traditional allies..
Btw what was interesting about the weapon testing was that N. Korea also lifted the truce with the U.S. Truce from all the way back to the war!
Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 02 Jun 2009, 02:25
by Tintin
Goku wrote:China can be very dangerous seeing as how they are North Korea's traditional allies..
Btw what was interesting about the weapon testing was that N. Korea also lifted the truce with the U.S. Truce from all the way back to the war!
Maybe they were trying to prove something "Look at us we got Nukes We are as good as America we no fear them anymore!"
Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 02 Jun 2009, 03:02
by Goku
Their hatred towards America is mind blowing..
Has anyone else seen that documentary that people managed to film in N. Korea? There was an eye doctor who was going to go into N. Korea and try to heal 1,000 people in 10 days and a camera crew tagged along and pretended to be part of the doctor's crew.
If any of you have read 1984, North Korea is the modern day version of that book. Very, very scary.
Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 02 Jun 2009, 04:51
by Tintin
shoot I never knew they hated it that much I just had a long chat to a communist and he want shouting and calling me an idiot and that my views suck and that communism is the only way and that the only thing that should be allowed on TV should be Communist Propaganda and that the 5000 or so students murdered in Tieanaman Square for protesting against the occupation of Tiebet deserved it and had it coming, and that the 200,000 or so that got forcefully moved from houses and houses buldozed no-one refunded, to get the space to make Olyimpics was all good and proper and that no-one can protest is all good and that people who don't support communism should be "reeducated" this is all coming form an American :/ *sigh* he isn't very good to talk to trust me.
and that is just a couple of the known atrocitys that i told him Communists have done I don't think I will tell him more he probably will promote them as a good thing, he even told me of the government told him he had to die he would happily die for them. That was a bit much for me but what can I do...
Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 03 Jun 2009, 23:44
by Goku
Yeah, it's pretty bad over there.
They even still have concentration camps! And you can be put into one even if you've done nothing and just someone in your family has..
They also teach kids at a young age to hate Americans. Before this documentary there was only one other one with lots of footage in North Korea, but was made to make them look good. And there was a scene where a mom and a child were singing a nursery while walking down the road happily and when translated it talked about killing Americans.
What else shocked me was that after some people were healed and could see, they didn't even thank the Doctor! They all thanked the leader and said i'm glad I have my sight back so I can see the great leader.
There was a part I found funny though. They believe in a philosophy, forgot the Korean words for it, but it said that it basically translates to "up yours".

Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 04 Jun 2009, 11:13
by Rotonen
Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 14 Jun 2009, 19:06
by Goku
Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 16:42
by Getafix
I was safe untill now ):
22 cases here!
Re: Something really off topic - The Swine Flue "Pandemic"
Posted: 26 Jun 2009, 13:55
by chuchu
I really think that swine flu is a disease that hasn't yet hit it's stride. Let me explain. Swine flu is a brand new form of flu. The last new form of flu virus was created in 1917, in World War 1. That 1917 is actually the same basic virus that we call flu today. Originally, the 1917 virus became alot more dangerous the NEXT year. In 1918-1919 the influenza became an epidemic that killed an estimated 55,000 Americans with an estimated global mortality of 30 million. The scary thing is that swine flu is likely to change unpredictably in the next flu season and can easily become ALOT more dangerous. (Swine flu is actually a combination of several animal and bird flus. Come next flu season it will also combine with the human flu and when it does it will gain new and potentially more dangerous capabilities.)
Alot of current talk about how mild swine flu seems today ignores a potentially lethal global pandemic looming on the horizon. Btw, current flu vaccines may not work on the brand new disease which will come from the swine flu+ human flu combination. Time will tell.