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What do you guys think, could be the 1918 all over again ... how long before we see it here?
What do you guys think, could be the 1918 all over again ... how long before we see it here?
Scary ... if it's true
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Why don't we do things like try to cut off all international flights & quarantine sea shipments, etc for a few weeks to see if there are no cases... If there are no cases... KEEP the barriers up until it burns itself out wherever it is...
It might also be a good idea on a personal note to try to avoid enclosed, densely populated areas...
Practice frequent & proper handwashing...
Keep surfaces, especially high traffic ones as clean as possible
Wear gloves & do not touch your face before removal & washing of hands
Remember that antibacterial wipes & soap & that alcohol gel work spectacularly on bacteria & germs... But the FLU is a VIRUS......
If you see someone in public coughing or sneezing without covering their mouth... hit them with a hammer & immoliate the corpse..
Just kidding, I don't think that will actually be necessary but DO very publicly call them on that nasty shit & encourage others to do the same... The selfish & dirty need to be identified & publicly shamed into safe behaviour or publicly ostracized...
Best to conduct as much commerce & business as possible through email & phone...
Not much other than prevention that can be done really... Other than that the best we can hope for is that the virus has a more voracious appetite for & effect on the poor & hungry.....
C'est la vie
I question the credibility of the news source. if you look at all the credible sites there is nothing in the Ukaine other than the normal H1N1 outbreak.
Yah, even the WHO site doesn't have anything and according to the article they are supposedly already involved.....
189 deaths from over a million infections. How severe is this? I don't know myslef, and am asking a question to those who would be more knowlegable. But, it sounds statistically like it is not all that dangerous (unless one is part of the 189 dead).
The spreading of a contagion from one person can on average take as little as 10 days to reach 2 million people. This is what makes infectious people so dangerous.
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES EVERYONE. THE KILLER FLU IS IN THE UKRAINE...oh, wait, we already are running for our lives with the swine flu. Tell that other virus to get take a number and queue up like everyone else.
Strange how quickly people push the panic button when fear is involved. I'm all ready with my hermetically sealed bomb shelter that I built during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I even replaced all the canned goods for Y2K and updated my video collection in 2004 to get ready for the Saddam poison gas attack, so why do I care what happens?
Strange how quickly people push the panic button when fear is involved. I'm all ready with my hermetically sealed bomb shelter that I built during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I even replaced all the canned goods for Y2K and updated my video collection in 2004 to get ready for the Saddam poison gas attack, so why do I care what happens?
Good for You (soft pat on the head). Good boy, now sit. Most people fears come from ignorance of the unknown.RUN FOR YOUR LIVES EVERYONE. THE KILLER FLU IS IN THE UKRAINE...oh, wait, we already are running for our lives with the swine flu. Tell that other virus to get take a number and queue up like everyone else.
Strange how quickly people push the panic button when fear is involved. I'm all ready with my hermetically sealed bomb shelter that I built during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I even replaced all the canned goods for Y2K and updated my video collection in 2004 to get ready for the Saddam poison gas attack, so why do I care what happens?
I'm hoping you're just being flippant, because a friend of mine would have lost a limb recently because of an infection from a cut, but didn't because of some drug intervention, some very strong drugs. Sorry CG, it does works. You've just been fortunate, but others not so.Fuji and "his" drug companies will rescue us for sure... For a price.
Of course I am blackrock... Not "ALL" drugs are bad...
I am just sick and tired of the pill pushing medical and pharmaceutical industry (all making incredible profits I suspect and all with the full blessing of our politicians not to mention the active promotion of it), that is so quick to come up with yet another drug to cure whatever ails us, without proper testing and with little respect for the side effects and what the consequences will be further down the road.
http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ArchiveRecalls/2009/default.htm
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/medeff/advisories-avis/new-neuf-advisories-avis-eng.php
Not to mention the immediate dismissal as being "part of the problem" for any of us that don't subscribe to that belief.
I also have a big problem with the food industry and the amount of hormones, chemicals and unnatural substances and tactics being used to produce our food sources, but that is a different conversation entirely (although related), and before I am accused of any "voodoo twilight" tactics, I will just leave it at that.
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I'm with you on most of this, but if the government or drug companies did nothing they'd be crucified.
The one thing I don't like is the Drug Companies to do research on 'orphan drugs', no it's not what you think. It's medication for some horrendous illnesses that very small people suffer from, so aren't profitable.
Malaria is another disease that kills millions each year, but research, treatment marketing are hampered by there being little or no profit in it.
If drug companies did more in these areas, they might find less people looking at them so harshly.
I'm also a believer that research into preventative medicinal practices are less likely to get funding as they lead to less drug oriented treatments
I'm not sure what you expect them to do. Drug companies are in business to make profits. You acknowledge that there is little or no profit to be made developing drugs for diseases like malaria. It sounds like you are taking a position against capitalism. Wouldn't it be more realistic to expect some other entity that does not have the expectation of profits to develop such drugs?
There's profit, mega profit, then obscene profit. I'm certainly not against profit as even I've got a portfolio to feed, but the amount of money needed for orphan research would cause barely a hiccup on the bottom line at most of the big name companies.
I'm not familiar with the term orphan research. Explain please. And how much money is needed for this? Barely a hiccup is kinda vague.
I don't have figures at hand, but you might look at Turrets' Syndrome, it's been one of them in the past.I'm not familiar with the term orphan research. Explain please. And how much money is needed for this? Barely a hiccup is kinda vague.
Try;
http://www.ehow.com/about_5114132_orphan-disease.html
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003615.html
http://www.childrenshospital.org/cfapps/research/data_admin/Site2673/mainpageS2673P1.html
There is some work being done but not enough.
This is especially true of people who are afraid of vaccines. Fear due to ignorance.
Conspiracy Theory
I wouldn't discount the need for panic just yet. It's no secret that EE nations had unfriendly status with the west until just 20 years ago. Its also no secret that germ warfare predates perestroika. So what happened to all the virulent strains and concoctions in various primitevely equipped cryogenic labs in the former USSR?
Were these projects all scrapped or somehow maintained under tighter mini regimes, poising for political shift in the future? And how stable were their containment methods in the first place?
What if a true biological Chernobyl has taken place? How will they contain it?
I wouldn't discount the need for panic just yet. It's no secret that EE nations had unfriendly status with the west until just 20 years ago. Its also no secret that germ warfare predates perestroika. So what happened to all the virulent strains and concoctions in various primitevely equipped cryogenic labs in the former USSR?
Were these projects all scrapped or somehow maintained under tighter mini regimes, poising for political shift in the future? And how stable were their containment methods in the first place?
What if a true biological Chernobyl has taken place? How will they contain it?
