Swine Flu

[cichlaguapote]

So I need to stay away from farms, but eating bacon is fine. Pretty much what I'm doing already.

LMAO

 

[bigspizz]

Just wash your hands before you eat the bacon (if you touched your butt)

 

[ewurm]

Just wash your hands before you eat the bacon (if you touched your butt)

Not sure what the standard breakfast protocol is, but that is not a problem for me.


You can't have too many MFK shirts.

 

[bigspizz]

Not sure what the standard breakfast protocol is, but that is not a problem for me.


You can't have too many MFK shirts.

It's almost un A-mer-i-can to wash the butt off yer hands before you eat bacon.

 

[Red Devil]

It's almost un A-mer-i-can to wash the butt off yer hands before you eat bacon.

far out..for me...

 

[bigspizz]

I guess I'm just a germaphobe aphobe?

 

[Modest_Man]

Did you know, according to Wiki, pneumonia kills up to 1 million people a year? I have gotten pneumonia before. Wasn't bad.

Oh wait. I don't live in a developing country. Oh wait, I wasn't an idiot, and ignored it.


You're right. The post DID show my ignorance about the swine flu. I don't know much about it, because I refuse to let myself be drawn into the facts and fears, like a lemming running towards the cliff. However, it did not show my ignorance of the current trend of fear that our culture thrives on. I am guessing you didn't fully understand my post, as shown by this sentence "This cannot be compared with SARS (774 total deaths) or mad cow disease (206 total deaths)." I was not saying that SARS and mad cow were incredibly deadly. I was saying that you are a fool to be freaking out about these types of diseases.


Someone earlier mentioned Ebola. Should I constantly live in fear of Ebola? I mean, c'mon, the death rate is close to 100%! (Hold on, I should look it up real quick, so you don't quote it. Ah yes, it's 83%. My bad)

You mentioned the 1918 flu epidemic. Now THAT scares me! I mean, comparing how advanced we were back then with how we are today, oh man!!! How the hell did that happen? WE KNEW SO MUCH! /sarcasm

Pneumonia mostly attacks the already immunocompromised (I think you're a 20something male and are in the least at risk age group for death from Pneumonia) and can be treated with antibiotics (for bacterial pneumonia, the most common type). How is that similar? Pneumonia is very serious in it's own way, but most of the people it kills are the already sick and elderly, not the young and healthy.

As for being in a "developed" country, as far as developed countries go America has some of the worst health care around. I wouldn't rely to much on the health care providers, and can think of several other countries I'd rather have health care in than America if a pandemic occurs.

SARS, mad cow, and Ebola aren't/weren't worth worrying about. It's comparing grapes to strawberries to apples to oranges. As for Ebola, I don't worry about it because it's hard to go around infecting people (by direct contact with infected body fluids) when you're internal organs are hemorrhaging. Compare that with being on a bus with someone who sneezes. Or on a bus after someone who has sneezed. Apples to oranges again.

We are not much better prepared today for an influenza outbreak than we were back in 1918. Do we have a cure? No. Does the vaccine work? Partially. Read up on how the CDC chooses which flu virus' to immunize against. It's really interesting. Some years they get it right, some years they don't.

Choosing to be ignorant is the worst kind of ignorance. It's pretty easy to be well informed without being overly fearful and prophetic of doomsday.

Liz, the reason the 1918 flu pandemic killed healthy young individuals instead of the normal old, young, sick, or pregnant, was due to cytokine storms. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm). So those with the most active immune systems (healthy young adults) had the severest cytokine storm responses leading to a secondary infection and death.

And spizz, you can touch your butt as much as you like. It's spread through respiratory droplets, not fecal matter.

 

[rmorse]

Sigh....

I'm done. Lol, modest, you COMPLETELY missed the big picture. Yes, I am an (almost) 23 year old male. That doesn't mean I was 23 when I got pneumonia. Analogies aren't perfect.


But yea. Keep worrying about it. Should help the situation.

 

[rmorse]

Hehe, and I can pull a page from your book! Your comment about the spreading of Ebola shows your ignorance about it. =)

 

[Red Devil]

Pneumonia mostly attacks the already immunocompromised (I think you're a 20something male and are in the least at risk age group for death from Pneumonia) and can be treated with antibiotics (for bacterial pneumonia, the most common type). How is that similar? Pneumonia is very serious in it's own way, but most of the people it kills are the already sick and elderly, not the young and healthy.

As for being in a "developed" country, as far as developed countries go America has some of the worst health care around. I wouldn't rely to much on the health care providers, and can think of several other countries I'd rather have health care in than America if a pandemic occurs.

SARS, mad cow, and Ebola aren't/weren't worth worrying about. It's comparing grapes to strawberries to apples to oranges. As for Ebola, I don't worry about it because it's hard to go around infecting people (by direct contact with infected body fluids) when you're internal organs are hemorrhaging. Compare that with being on a bus with someone who sneezes. Or on a bus after someone who has sneezed. Apples to oranges again.

We are not much better prepared today for an influenza outbreak than we were back in 1918. Do we have a cure? No. Does the vaccine work? Partially. Read up on how the CDC chooses which flu virus' to immunize against. It's really interesting. Some years they get it right, some years they don't.

Choosing to be ignorant is the worst kind of ignorance. It's pretty easy to be well informed without being overly fearful and prophetic of doomsday.

Liz, the reason the 1918 flu pandemic killed healthy young individuals instead of the normal old, young, sick, or pregnant, was due to cytokine storms. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm). So those with the most active immune systems (healthy young adults) had the severest cytokine storm responses leading to a secondary infection and death.
very interesting modest man... you know your stuff..
And spizz, you can touch your butt as much as you like. It's spread through respiratory droplets, not fecal matter.

no flaming please..... this is a discussion....