[NEWS] New flu on the rise!

Isis · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 4171 **Location:**

M3K0S wrote:

user wrote:

M3K0S wrote:

there are lots of people with the flu here in southern california... so you gotta watch out

okay smarty pants, whats the difference between flu and cold?

what? i was never trying to be smart? :roll:

looks like sum1 needs to learn how to read!

Men get flu, woman get colds...

Been told it might already be in the UK. Not really worried about it, like someone said about bird flu, what ever happened about that? Nothing.

Mr.Ganji · **Posted:** Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:45 pm

Mirosuke wrote:

Mr.Ganji wrote:

seriously mexico cant get any more fucked up than it already is...

Lol, indeed. They started it?. Can't be more fucked up..

well I was also referring to mexico's ongoing drug war and weak economy and damned illegal immigrants in the country...a civil war's probably whats next

mexican authorities are denying that it started in their country

Goobronicus wrote:

I just heard on MSNBC that Muslims are saying they find the term "Swine Flu" offensive, and want it to be renamed "Mexican Flu"; no joke. Thoughts?

why is the word "Swine" offensive to muslims?

lavapockets · **Posted:** Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:17 pm

Mr.Ganji wrote:

Mirosuke wrote:

Mr.Ganji wrote:

seriously mexico cant get any more fucked up than it already is...

Lol, indeed. They started it?. Can't be more fucked up..

well I was also referring to mexico's ongoing drug war and weak economy and damned illegal immigrants in the country...a civil war's probably whats next

mexican authorities are denying that it started in their country

Goobronicus wrote:

I just heard on MSNBC that Muslims are saying they find the term "Swine Flu" offensive, and want it to be renamed "Mexican Flu"; no joke. Thoughts?

why is the word "Swine" offensive to muslims?

I'm not a muslim, but I'll hazard a guess here. In the muslim religion, (and actually a the Middle East in general, because this extends to some non-muslim arabs, jewish people, and maybe some north africans), swine are considered to be filthy animals. I know that practicing muslims and jews don't eat pork because it's against their religion to do so, based on the whole filthy animal thing.

Why this would offend them? It probably has something to do with what happens if a muslim person catches the swine flu...and the fear that they will be considered as unclean as a pig. I believe that's a major insult also, to compare someone to a pig or call them a pig.

Like I said, I'm not a muslim, I could be TOTALLY wrong here

Reise · **Joined:** May 2006 **Posts:** 6650 **Location:**

It's because their god decided pigs were among the animals unfit for people to eat.

Swine flu sounds cheap anyway, you'd think they could figure out a more intelligent name for a potential pandemic.

Squirt · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 8186 **Location:**

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie ... 63&t=h&z=4

I just saw this on a forum, could it be real?

Mirosuke · **Posted:** Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:09 pm

Squirt wrote:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=47.100045,9.316406&spn=34.792294,79.101563&t=h&z=4

I just saw this on a forum, could it be real?

Omfg, it's getting trought South America :banghead:

Better be carefull..

Snoopy · **Posted:** Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:15 pm

Mr.Ganji wrote:

Mirosuke wrote:

Mr.Ganji wrote:

seriously mexico cant get any more fucked up than it already is...

Lol, indeed. They started it?. Can't be more fucked up..

well I was also referring to mexico's ongoing drug war and weak economy and damned illegal immigrants in the country...a civil war's probably whats next

mexican authorities are denying that it started in their country

Goobronicus wrote:

I just heard on MSNBC that Muslims are saying they find the term "Swine Flu" offensive, and want it to be renamed "Mexican Flu"; no joke. Thoughts?

why is the word "Swine" offensive to muslims?

How unusual. Someone jumping up and down about the name of something. I'm sick of having to base words around religions, and cultures which they offend.

Mr.Ganji · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:32 am

Snoopy wrote:

How unusual. Someone jumping up and down about the name of something. I'm sick of having to base words around religions, and cultures which they offend.

Its what religion does to you - everything you see or do is sensitive to your religion and become increasingly antagonistic and protective. I find it as amusing as you do as well.

XemnasXD · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:27 am

Mr.Ganji wrote:

Snoopy wrote:

How unusual. Someone jumping up and down about the name of something. I'm sick of having to base words around religions, and cultures which they offend.

Its what religion does to you - everything you see or do is sensitive to your religion and become increasingly antagonistic and protective. I find it as amusing as you do as well.

and i find it amusing that people like you and snoopy see a report on MSNBC and somehow think it pertains to the entire religion where in reality it's probably just the same few radical nuts that spout radical shit about everything that shouldn't even get airtime but you know its easier to shove a story like that down ppls throat...

Love · **Joined:** Nov 2007 **Posts:** 5336 **Location:**

<<Shut it. - Ru>>

Swindler · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:44 am

800 people here in sweden is affected by it.

imperial · **Joined:** Feb 2009 **Posts:** 108 **Location:**

user wrote:

XemnasXD wrote:

i'll survive....

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LMFAO !

Key-J · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:55 pm

BC has 6 Cases, New Zealand has a case now, i'm going to be flying out of Canada soon, and going back down to the Asia-Pacific.... Shit.

Grimjaw · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:28 pm

I read about it in the papers today. It seems to be getting a lot of media attention to.

Mirosuke · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:03 pm

Don't get in panic!

*Achoo*

Are we going to die because of this? :/

.curve · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:21 pm

We were joking like, what if this virus starts turning people into zombies?

As we were saying this, some lady comes on the news and goes, "We have not yet identified the origins of the virus." I loled and prepared myself for a possible zombie invasion.

NuclearSilo · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:06 pm

Alien invasion! They dropped this virus!

lavapockets · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:11 pm

.curve wrote:

We were joking like, what if this virus starts turning people into zombies?

As we were saying this, some lady comes on the news and goes, "We have not yet identified the origins of the virus." I loled and prepared myself for a possible zombie invasion.

Pretty sure I've posted about my apocolyptic fantasies before. If not, I am so becoming a pirate if there's a zombie invasion or if the flu destroys civilization as we know it. And I'm totally going to dress like Tina Turner in Thunderdome. I'm taking recruits, btw. But you have to obey me and be either a decent shot or a great fighter, or have some sort of technical skill I'm in need of. The first places we're hitting when the shit hits the fan are pharmacies, grocery stores, and Home Depot. Prepare yourselves.

KillMyDeaDBoW · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 92 **Location:** KMDB

NuclearSilo wrote:

Alien invasion! They dropped this virus!

Do you know for sure?

Snoopy · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:47 pm

Key-J wrote:

BC has 6 Cases, New Zealand has a case now, i'm going to be flying out of Canada soon, and going back down to the Asia-Pacific.... Shit.

Well apparently New Zealand has 20+ people with it. They were tested yesterday and came back positive.

Sacchin · **Joined:** Sep 2007 **Posts:** 2797

It seems to have started by a Mexican pig farm, they are denying it but people around it say it's caused some issues in the past and a boy that works there may have it.

They said eating pork is fine, you won't get it from that.

Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Relenza both react against swine flu. They said they are working on an antidote that could be available in May but will take months..or something.

Just posting what I just watched on TV, Homeland security.

Isis · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 4171 **Location:**

Just watched on the news to confirmed cases in the UK.

Squirt · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 8186 **Location:**

There are two cases in Massachusetts which will be confirmed later tonight.

Damn Mexican kids came back form vacation, and might be infected...

nohunta · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:10 pm

Fack Mather Ohio too.

Reise · **Joined:** May 2006 **Posts:** 6650 **Location:**

They changed the name to H1N1, and I called it. Aw yeah.

KillMyDeaDBoW wrote:

NuclearSilo wrote:

Alien invasion! They dropped this virus!

Do you know for sure?

Of course he knows, he talks to dead people.

.curve · **Posted:** Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:36 am

lavapockets wrote:

.curve wrote:

We were joking like, what if this virus starts turning people into zombies?

As we were saying this, some lady comes on the news and goes, "We have not yet identified the origins of the virus." I loled and prepared myself for a possible zombie invasion.

Pretty sure I've posted about my apocolyptic fantasies before. If not, I am so becoming a pirate if there's a zombie invasion or if the flu destroys civilization as we know it. And I'm totally going to dress like Tina Turner in Thunderdome. I'm taking recruits, btw. But you have to obey me and be either a decent shot or a great fighter, or have some sort of technical skill I'm in need of. The first places we're hitting when the shit hits the fan are pharmacies, grocery stores, and Home Depot. Prepare yourselves.

I'm in. Where we going to hold up at? Or are we just going to run around shooting up zombies?

zShared · **Joined:** Mar 2009 **Posts:** 787 **Location:** Lupus

.curve wrote:

lavapockets wrote:

.curve wrote:

We were joking like, what if this virus starts turning people into zombies?

As we were saying this, some lady comes on the news and goes, "We have not yet identified the origins of the virus." I loled and prepared myself for a possible zombie invasion.

Pretty sure I've posted about my apocolyptic fantasies before. If not, I am so becoming a pirate if there's a zombie invasion or if the flu destroys civilization as we know it. And I'm totally going to dress like Tina Turner in Thunderdome. I'm taking recruits, btw. But you have to obey me and be either a decent shot or a great fighter, or have some sort of technical skill I'm in need of. The first places we're hitting when the shit hits the fan are pharmacies, grocery stores, and Home Depot. Prepare yourselves.

I'm in. Where we going to hold up at? Or are we just going to run around shooting up zombies?

Count me in also (I lived btw if anyone cares </3).
I've played many hours of Resident Evil 2 and Left 4 Dead, I'm prepared for pretty much anything.

Disconn3cted · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 3293 **Location:** WV, USA

Barotix wrote:

Pointless fear mongering.

Its not pointless. Someone will make a lot of money from this.

inky · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 4025 **Location:**

Lol. I'm from New York and I now wear a gas mask to work.

Amarisa · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 4049 **Location:** Magic

.curve wrote:

We were joking like, what if this virus starts turning people into zombies?

As we were saying this, some lady comes on the news and goes, "We have not yet identified the origins of the virus." I loled and prepared myself for a possible zombie invasion.

no just you have to wait until the rabies virus mutates lol. honestly out of all the ways the world will go to the shit hole (like real deep like so deep humans are almost gone) zombies would probaly be the better one. why because wait till winter they all freeze due to improper body functions then run out and pop there head problem solved.

OT its funny how little deaths there is for how long this has been out........i mean come on the common cold has killed more people.

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