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A Flu Pandemic?
Pedrito writes "Scientific American is running a story in this month's issue about preparing for a flu pandemic. What this article tries to convey is that a pandemic is definitely coming. Whether it's from the H5N1 strain (which would likely cause hundreds of millions of deaths) or another strain a few years down the road. There have been 3 other flu pandemics in the past 100 years. The 1918 strain being the worst, with 40 million killed. The reason H5N1 is being followed so closely is because it's already spread to people and because it's incredibly lethal (a roughly 50% fatality rate at th moment). Even if the fatality rate dropped to 5% when and if it mutates into an easily communicable form, it would be twice as deadly as the 1918 virus."
In the first place, people like me don't get the flu as I already said, moron. In the second place, people like me aren't stupid enough fuckheads to go into work or school or the general population when we are sick and put dozens or hundreds of other people who are forced to be confined in the same place at risk of catching it.
And of course flu straints and colds mutate. Are you retarded? Are you seriously suggesting that evolution works everywhere *but* in the realm of colds and flus and that they don't become more harmful and vicious over time to compensate for the medicinal walls they hit this year?
I hate people who get flu shots every year as if the flu is personally targetting THEM and they're 90 years old and can't fight it off or something.
People like you are going to get the entire fucking planet killed off when you run into the one strain you can no longer prepare for. Good luck with that.
Not evil, just stupid and sheltered.
Now before I get modded down, I be to remind whoever might read this that what I am saying is FACT. - bogaboga
"That's probably what you would have said about an article on the same magazine four years ago that predicted the demise of New Orleans by floods."
Did I miss something? Scientific American predicted this?
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.