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Afghan Dave

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SWINE FLU?
« on: April 29, 2009, 11:09:54 PM »
"Step up to Red Alert!" "Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb"..

Well the latest case has just been found in Barnet London, just next to Johnny Mac and myself so we may not be long for this life.  :(

Is it just me or does this appear to be a great chance for drugs companies and there share traders to make money & politicians to bury bad news.

Not a conspiracy but simply a symptom of modern society living in fear.

Keep the public scared of disease / terrorism / paedophiles and keep em quiet.

All we need now is the "perfect storm"

An Islamic paedophile scout leader with swine flu auditioning for Simon Cowell and I'm sure Jesus and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will be just around the corner.

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Re: SWINE FLU?
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2009, 11:12:19 PM »
I really don't know if you're afraid, or not.

Or if you're using humour to hide it or.. I don't know.
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Re: SWINE FLU?
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2009, 11:14:37 PM »
NOT!

My dear Jonny... though I fear for the big J-MAC..

He is a as we all know, a delicate little flower...
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Re: SWINE FLU?
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2009, 11:16:24 PM »
I really genuinely cant believe the fuss people are making.

Repeat after me

"My chances of getting swine flu are less than winning the lottery. If I contract it my chances are still 95% survival, if I only had access to the standard of healthcare found in Mexico. "

Edit - thats not to anyone here.

In fact so far as I can tell its only to those in journalism and politics.

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Re: SWINE FLU?
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2009, 11:18:44 PM »
Besides, its an incurable 100% lethal hybrid of swine and avian flu thats going to kill us all - the Flying Pig virus.

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Re: SWINE FLU?
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2009, 11:20:09 PM »
Winning the lottery = Roche manufacturers of Tamiflu.
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Re: SWINE FLU?
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2009, 11:25:38 PM »
Winning the lottery = Roche manufacturers of Tamiflu.

Quite.

And its something else big and scary the gubberment can protect us from. After, of course, we've been convinced that it is in fact big and scary. Which it isnt.

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Re: SWINE FLU?
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2009, 11:37:54 PM »
The one who died in the US was only a couple of months old. So I don't think it's a reliable er- thing, to go by.
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Re: SWINE FLU?
« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2009, 11:58:00 PM »
Or if you're using humour to hide it or..
its this one jonny...
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Re: SWINE FLU?
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2009, 12:04:57 AM »
it's the new 'bird flu'  :roll:

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Re: SWINE FLU?
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2009, 03:34:23 AM »
you've got more chance of dying by falling down stairs, but that's common enough to not sell newspapers

it's also cheaper for the media cover pig flu or jade goody than a serious issue, but then the general public are daft enough to get emotionally connected to a talentless celeb they've never met and have no rapport with

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Re: SWINE FLU?
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2009, 03:37:03 AM »
I'm gunna roll around in bacon for a few hours to gain immunity.
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Re: SWINE FLU?
« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2009, 04:53:05 AM »
far as I can tell its just another way to sell the paper and cause hysteria, I'm much more afraid of terrorists and car crashes than swine flu
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Re: SWINE FLU?
« Reply #13 on: April 30, 2009, 05:49:54 AM »
First birds, now farm animals. What's next, tree flu? wait no best not give them any ideas!
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Re: SWINE FLU?
« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2009, 07:24:23 AM »
Glad to see that logic is prevailing here.

It's sometimes frightening to see how the "public" falls so easily for the media's scare tactics.

And it is the media. I think the govt. is basically just responding in a "reasonable" way - which is usually as "belt and braces" as they can be in these sort of situations. It's the media that hypes it up out of all proportion by never publishing or broadcasting any of the many rational voices out there which are saying "hang on a minute, this isn't really so bad".