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Flu Models Predict Pandemic, But Flu Chips Ready
An anonymous reader writes "Supercomputer software models predict that swine flu will likely go pandemic sometime next week, but flu chips capable of detecting the virus within four hours are already rolling off the assembly line. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has designated swine flu as the '2009 H1N1 flu virus,' is modeling the spread of the virus using modeling software designed by the Department of Defense back when avian flu was a perceived threat. Now those programs are being run on cluster supercomputers and predict that officials are not implementing enough social distancing--such as closing all schools--to prevent a pandemic. Companies that designed flu-detecting chips for avian flu, are quickly retrofitting them to detect swine flu, with the first flu chips being delivered to labs today." Relatedly, at least one bio-surveillance firm is claiming they detected and warned the CDC and the WHO about the swine flu problem in Mexico over two weeks before the alert was issued.
Yes, but still, it's just a flu. Of course old and badly medicated people can die from it. But we've all had some flu. You get fever, take some specific antibiotics, and lay in bed for some days. And then you are ok again.
What's all the fuss about? I mean this swine flu is no disease that we don't have any antibiotics against, and it also is no super-killer-flu is it?
I mean the original patient one is alive and well.
If I didn't know better, I'd say that all this is a plot to get us allow them do something evil... like implant "flu" chips into everyone...
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
2 billion?
We need to kill off 6 billion so we can get down to 1 billion.
Anarchy? Guns for hire? Sign me up.
You plebes may fear for the destruction of your precious system, but real humans will see it as an opportunity.