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SashatheMan

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It might be serious, but untill there are hundreds or thousands of known cases i will be inclined to think this is overhyped.
 

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It's not hype you fool. This flu is following exactly the same pattern as the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed more people than WW1 - about 50 million to be exact.

Add modern air travel to that and denser populations and game over.

For reference, a comparison of this flu and the Spanish flu compared to ordinary influenza. Note how these flus are special in that they target primarily young healthy people rather than children and elderly, by way of triggering a cytokine storm in strong immune systems:

File:W curve.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Normal yearly influenza kills about 5% of all hospitalised cases. This influenza is killing 5 to 10% of ALL cases, hospitalised or not. For every 1000 people infected, 100 die. If you extrapolate that to the entire world, that's almost a billion people dead.
Fuck world population has gone through the roof! 1 billion dead from a 5-10% fatality rate... that means there are 10-20 billion of us!!!
 

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This is a very very serious virus.

Swine flu unlike bird flu spreads from person to person and mutates rapidly. With todays rapid transportation systems such as trains and planes this has the potential to kill millions. It is similar to the spanish flu that killed half a million people.

There could be lots of people who are infected and don't even know it, This could turn out to be like something out of 12 monkeys.

Basically try and avoid overcrowded areas as much as you can.
All types of influenza are dangerous.
 

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There's going to be a global pandemic eventually.

I'd like to believe everyone dying could be a catalyst for social change and progress. Renewal and rebirth.

People could look at their priorities, what they're doing with their lives, and what their government is doing to them, put aside all this wasteful bullshit, we could abandon fear and hysteria about a whole bunch of things and actually do something meaningful.

That probably won't happen though. More likely the extreme opposite will happen. Panic and religious fervour on the rise. Fear and hatred of your fellow man. Brutal authoritarian governments exploiting the situation to demand control, and the people loving them for it.

Two steps backwards.
 
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Vacines cause autism and learning difficulties because no one is born with them. Everything which happened after a vacine can be directly attributed to a vaccine. Autism is usually detected after a vacine and therefore was caused by a vacine.
 

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Vacines cause autism and learning difficulties because no one is born with them. Everything which happened after a vacine can be directly attributed to a vaccine. Autism is usually detected after a vacine and therefore was caused by a vacine.
True, but wrong thread.
 

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It is interesting that this virus has hardly touched the uncivilised contintents (South America, Africa, Asia).
 

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Vacines cause autism and learning difficulties because no one is born with them. Everything which happened after a vacine can be directly attributed to a vaccine. Autism is usually detected after a vacine and therefore was caused by a vacine.
True, but wrong thread.
False false false false FALSE.

Vaccine controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Re: Thiomersal: "Currently there is no convincing scientific evidence that thiomersal causes or helps cause autism"

Re: MMR:
In the UK, the MMR vaccine was the subject of controversy after publication of a 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield, et al., reporting a study of 12 children mostly with autism spectrum disorders with onset soon after administration of the vaccine.[43] During a 1998 press conference, Wakefield suggested that giving children the vaccines in three separate doses would be safer than a single vaccination. This suggestion was not supported by the paper, and several subsequent peer-reviewed studies have failed to show any association between the vaccine and autism.[44] Wakefield has been heavily criticized on scientific grounds and for triggering a decline in vaccination rates,[45] as well as on ethical grounds for the way the research was conducted.[46] In 2009 The Sunday Times reported that Wakefield had manipulated patient data and misreported results in his 1998 paper, creating the appearance of a link with autism.[47]

In 2004 the MMR-and-autism interpretation of the paper was formally retracted by 10 of Wakefield's 12 co-authors.[48] The CDC,[49] the IOM of the National Academy of Sciences,[50] and the UK National Health Service[51] have all concluded that there is no evidence of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. A systematic review by the Cochrane Library concluded that there is no credible link between the MMR vaccine and autism, that MMR has prevented diseases that still carry a heavy burden of death and complications, that the lack of confidence in MMR has damaged public health, and that design and reporting of safety outcomes in MMR vaccine studies are largely inadequate.[2]

A special court convened in the United States to review claims under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program ruled on 12 February 2009 that parents of autistic children are not entitled to compensation in their contention that certain vaccines caused autism in their children.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
 

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Lol failure to read the LOQ
(i laughed :eek:)
 

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