Serious question re flu outbreak
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Remember everyone, we all live in the world of CYA - cover your ass. There'd be no end of class action lawsuits/recriminations if the CDC/WHO didn't act in time.
No one wants a repeat of SARS. Since they still don't know enough about it, it's better to take all possible measures first then worry about the consequences later...esp when it's proven to be so deadly already. This is not just a matter of people getting an oddly colored rash - they're actually DYING.
No one wants a repeat of SARS. Since they still don't know enough about it, it's better to take all possible measures first then worry about the consequences later...esp when it's proven to be so deadly already. This is not just a matter of people getting an oddly colored rash - they're actually DYING.
Straight answer - yes, at this point I would. Even if I didn't have travel insurance which in this case I hope you do.ahahooper said:
That's why the WHO has raised the alert to stage 4 and the U.S. has advised citizens against most travel to Mexico and ordered stepped up border checks in neighboring states.enduser1 said:
Panic is one thing - prudence is another thing altogether!
Yup that damn medical scare 1918-1919 flue and that damn medical scare 1957 flue and drum roll that damn 1968 flue.enduser1 said:
All quite funny unless you were one of the 50 million or the 1 million in the later two pandemics who died!
Bottom line, perhaps this time it will turn out to be nothing at least in Canada or the Northern U.S. Then again sooner or latter it really is a wolf that comes out of the forest and those who say oh don't worry it's a friendly wolf. . . .
Another example of media hype going way overboard ... Thousands of people, albeit mostly the very old and the very young with compromised immune systems, die from flu viruses on this planet every year -- and not from the swine flu, or the bird flu, or any other rare form of the disease, but from the common variety of flu that people catch all the time. In fact, when traveling in third world countries, you're far more likely to catch any number of far more deadly bugs than the flu virus ... as already mentioned, deaths from malaria make the flu look relatively benign by comparison.
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Cycleguy007
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Lol!
Really? The press exaggerates stories to sell papers/ magazines and radio/ TV air time! that can't possibly be true Leppard! Say it isn't so!
snowleopard said:
Really? The press exaggerates stories to sell papers/ magazines and radio/ TV air time! that can't possibly be true Leppard! Say it isn't so!
LOL ... hate to disillusion you Two-wheeler, but don't believe everything you hear in the 'news' ...Cycleguy007 said:Really? The press exaggerates stories to sell papers/ magazines and radio/ TV air time! that can't possibly be true Leppard! Say it isn't so!
Now Terb, on the other hand, is 100% accurate!
Cycleguy007
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snowleopard said:
That's a relief... I get most of my news of current events on here now anyway! (It's also highly educational! Gen just taught me how to fist a pussy!!
)Bale said:Never mind about the swine flu.
It's the muggings, stabbings and shootings you need to worry about.
Wild wild west.... it's the wild wild west.
Less muggings and stabbings than here...and shootings are confined to the drug war zones...generally a long ways from tourist places (exception being Aculpulco). So if you want to walk on the beach you are safer in Mexico than anywhere in the USA.
I'll have no talk of fisting pussies while I'm in the lounge ... thank you very much.Cycleguy007 said:That's a relief... I get most of my news of current events on here now anyway! (It's also highly educational! Gen just taught me how to fist a pussy!!
Yup, it's a scream - until the first person you know dies.enduser1 said:
This is like Russian Roulette - perhaps this time you live, however, sooner or later. . . .
Cycleguy007
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snowleopard said:
OH Sorry about that! Quit being such a pussy! Frankly the thought of Gen fisting a pussy brings to mind some extremely arousing imagery! Ummm... BRB!
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