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It s flu that affects birds. Those actually scared that they'll contact it are ignorant wankers who should be shot today. Preferably yesterday.

The media can go and get fucked. This whole thing is NOTHING but another little thread of panic and outright lies like everything else on TV. The doctors must be raking it in on their bullshit "bird flu" vaccinations.

I might just go across to Thailand and smuggle some known affected birds back to release into the wild. Whats the point in fretting about something so far away when we can have them flying and shitting on our heads, then we can start to "panic" (not that we will).

[Tensium]

bird flu would have to be able to move from person to person and not just bird to person for it to kill any more than 1500 people. (not bad case scenario)

also, what with the whole "sars/mad cow disease/anthrax attacks/ other terrorsim etc will kill eight hundred million billion by 2009" , i wouldnt get too worried.

read the coke forum and get worried about aspartame instead.

[Bomber]

id worry The Spanish flu virus that killed up to 50 million people in 1918-19 , now with todays transport moving people around the world much faster i expect the numbers to be 5 times that

[ray@ladymercedes]

Originally Posted by ()Papaspyrou()

It s flu that affects birds. Those actually scared that they'll contact it are ignorant wankers who should be shot today. Preferably yesterday.

The media can go and get fucked. This whole thing is NOTHING but another little thread of panic and outright lies like everything else on TV. The doctors must be raking it in on their bullshit "bird flu" vaccinations.

I might just go across to Thailand and smuggle some known affected birds back to release into the wild. Whats the point in fretting about something so far away when we can have them flying and shitting on our heads, then we can start to "panic" (not that we will).

Apparently wrong. There have been infected birds found in Siberia. Wild Geese migrate to Britain from Siberia every winter. The doctors can't be raking anything in purely because it has to "mutate" to a human form before scientists can tell how to counter the virus.

[Laxton's Superb]

all i know is, having a 'leif' through the paper today, it claimed a minimum of 50,000 Brits will die, and that a pandemic is inevitable....not really sure how real the threat is, or how well the government is prepared!

[Alvin Starclusk]

We should run a line on who on the board's going to get it first.

I put my odds at 200-1. Surely worth a flutter?

I was in Toronto just after the SARS outbreak. Couldn't believe that they didn't sell t-shirts that said "I went to Toronto and all I got was this lousy SARS". Missed a trick.

On another note, I found a completely random business card in my wallet last night. Turns out it was from a bloke that I met in a pub in Toronto who was a complete twat (in that kind of likeable Canadian way). He was a complete bullshitter - or so I thought - until I checked the website and it turns out he actually was a reasonably famous Canadian artist. Oops.

[boss]

on the plus side:

catch bird flu, get time off work.


i've already started asking sickly people to cough on me.

[Knight of Swords]

It doesn't matter whether we worry or not. There's bound to be something (whether it's Bird Flu or something else) because it's the kind of thing that happens from time to time (a bit like the way there's going to be another mass extinction at some point). However, we won't know about it till it hits us.

Someone said MRSA is blown out of proportion. I don't agree in the slightest. Something which basically occurs in such large numbers because hospitals are so clatty is definitely worth going on and on about. However, it is part of a succession of British governments' continual aim to annihilate the NHS.

to be honest, i really don't give a fuck.
i don't watch knews because all television does is terrify the living daylights out another. the result is whole continents living in fear. i'm not even kidding.
if there was NO SUCH THING as TELEVISION, i think the world would be a happier and more peaceful place. at least i'd imagine so. maybe people would go out and do something constructive. or maybe they'll go and commit crimes. but i'd hope for the former.
i don't want to know about birdflu. i want to get tattos. drink drinks. have sex. take drugs. listen to music. make conversation. look at pretty paintings. that kind of stuff.

Originally Posted by Leif Erikson

all i know is, having a 'leif' through the paper today, it claimed a minimum of 50,000 Brits will die

Then it is a lying pile of shit, because the Chief Medical Officer said that 'up to' 50,000 people could die. As usual the media takes the figure and runs with it in its usual sensationalised manner.

Why idiots like Liam Donaldson insist on putting a figure on something when it is obviously little more than guesswork is beyond my comprehension.

a pandemic is inevitable....not really sure how real the threat is, or how well the government is prepared!

I bet when they talk about pandemic, they are really talking about the bird population.

I mean you'd think people would have learned from the SARS episode where fuck all happened over here.

As for migratory birds, yadda yadda yadda, the only way you will contract bird flu is if you are in close contact with poultry. Hence why less developed countries are the ones seeing human contaminations.

So unless you are sleeping with some chickens and turkeys, your chances of contracting it are less likely than being hit by a bus while carrying the winning lottery ticket and then being hit by lightning. Twice.

I really wish people would get a sense of perspective. Over 20,000 people have been killed, and thousands more made homeless, by an earthquake in Pakistan/Kashmir/India and all that happens over here is people get worried about a strain of flu which hasn't even been detected here.