Likwid Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldie Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Thank god someone said it. I just got over being sick, but I didn't run out to tell a bunch of people I might have swine flu. Just deal with it, because it is what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Nope, I'm not gonna. I feel like crap right now, and I want EVERYONE to know about it. I don't want your pity (unless you have some extra lying around) I just want to make sure that you know! (I really am sick this evening FTR & FTL...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wnaplay Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Amen brother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thGix Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 I looked up how many people die from the good ole' regular flu each year. The CDC says 36,000 in the U.S. alone. You dont hear about each and every person that dies from complications of that do you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 It's not this flu that people are afraid of. It's the fear of another pandemic like the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918. One fifth of the world's population was infected. 675,000 died, that's twice the fatalities of World War One. The average life span in America dropped by 10 years. It struck people between age 20 and 40. It was a sudden and violent death.For some reason it hit Philadelphia really hard.Philadelphia had 12,191 reported deaths and 47,094 reported cases in four weeks.It started in April and May, but was only a mild flu. By the end of the year, it was deadly.A person could leave the house in the morning feeling ok, and be dead before making it to work. They would find young men dead on the street, where they were walking.The lungs would fill with fluids, and the bodies would turn blue/black.The phone systems stopped working for lack of operators.At one point, communications with the city were lost, from outside the city.Pharmacies and groceries were stripped bare quickly, and all stores closed.Workers in orphanages and rest homes and even hospitals fled in panic.Young students became stretcher bears hauling patients into the hospitals, only to haul the dead out.The dead could not be buried fast enough.Cold storage units were used to store the bodies.Packing crates were used as coffins.Delivery trucks were used as ambulances.Horse drawn wagons started hauling piles of bodies away.They began digging mass graves...It was over in 20 days.It came back twice the next year.This is what people are afraid will happen again.Read the story of what happened in Philadelphia:Death from "The Spanish Lady" - It started with a cough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Likwid Posted October 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 (edited) medicine has changed quite a bit in 91 years... peoples' fears are unrealistic and largely retarded. Edited October 25, 2009 by Likwid Cuz I type like a moron on my phone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kawi kid Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 +897645923457 im sick of hearing about this thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alab32 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 medicine has changed quite a bit in 91 years... peoples' fears are unrealistic and largey unrealistic.Unrealistic AND unrealistic, crazy!But yes, meds have changed a lot and i agree with you, i dont think there is that much of a need to worry about it. If you get sick, go to the doc. Easy enough to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevysoldier Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Deleted, double posted.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevysoldier Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 medicine has changed quite a bit in 91 years... peoples' fears are unrealistic and largey unrealistic.This may be true, but seeing as we don't have a cure for AIDS yet, there is a good possiblity something could come that we have no cure for and wipe out most the population. I also believe this could happen because we have all thos "kill 99.99% of germs" hand wash, people take pills for eveything. I think we are doing more harm this way than letting our bodies build up the immune system. Don't take this to the extreme though and say I am saying if you're in a hospital dying from somthing we could cure with medicine, not to, go for it and cure it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 (edited) medicine has changed quite a bit in 91 years... peoples' fears are unrealistic and largey unrealistic.I dunno, there still isn't any medicine to kill a virus. Only vaccines to prevent violent infection. And viruses can mutate way faster than vaccines are developed.edit: The Spanish Flu hit people so fast that medicine, doctors and hospitals meant nothing. Couldn't do a thing for a person that didn't know they were sick till they were suddenly dead. Edited October 22, 2009 by ReconRat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 ...there is a good possibility something could come that we have no cure for and wipe out most the population...About 70,000 years ago, the human population of the Earth was reduced to about 15,000 people. Attributed to the Toba super volcano in Indonesia erupting and changing world climate for a bunch of years. Yeah, it can happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kawi kid Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 wonder what the chances of screwing a relative was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevysoldier Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 About 70,000 years ago, the human population of the Earth was reduced to about 15,000 people. Attributed to the Toba super volcano in Indonesia erupting and changing world climate for a bunch of years. Yeah, it can happen. I'm not saying it can't or won't, but this is why people are freaking out. No body wants to die, and most people are afraid to die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevysoldier Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 wonder what the chances of screwing a relative was How do you come up with this stuff? You never cease to amaze me sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kawi kid Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 How do you come up with this stuff? You never cease to amaze me sometimes. i just type the first thing that pops into my twisted head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kawi kid Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 If you spend 5 days shitting liquid fire and sweating your ass off and don't drink clear fluids and visit the doctor you deserve death. Call it a mercy killing so you don't have to endure life as a retard anymore. i can only agree half here. i dont have a "doctor" never have. only use a chiropractor........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Likwid Posted October 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 lol, remember it's not JUST about medicine as in drugs, it's also the public's ability to DEAL with disease.In 1918 do you think they said "hmm, I should cough into my hand" or "I shouldn't shit out my window?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 How do you come up with this stuff? You never cease to amaze me sometimes. Mad Mod-czar powers? Ok, I think I've made up for the grumpy attitude I had toward you earlier! I dunno, but the cdc says that the seasonal flu hasn't hit yet, but I know people that have had it? :dunno? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kawi kid Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 im just confused on how my award changed?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 im just confused on how my award changed??Ooo.. Did not notice that! Casper was saying something about things updating around 2 am, maybe he's making changes as we go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevysoldier Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 i can only agree half here. i dont have a "doctor" never have. only use a chiropractor...........Really? Seriously? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kawi kid Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Really? Seriously?i swear to god. ask my close friends on here. i dont take meds or anything like that and i have to be pretty much suffering to even take a tylenol. i have never liked pumping stuff into my body that isnt supposed to be there (except beer;)) and i pretty much never get sick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Likwid Posted October 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 i swear to god. ask my close friends on here. i dont take meds or anything like that and i have to be pretty much suffering to even take a tylenol. i have never liked pumping stuff into my body that isnt supposed to be there (except beer;)) and i pretty much never get sickAnd you don't believe in condoms because that's unnatural Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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