ok, this h1n1 bs is getting old....

[NAKID]

its a conspiracy


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One word....



WOW!

[mstevens]

One word....



WOW!

What's the connection between the global conspiracy and World of Warcraft?

[NAKID]

Hahahaha!

Not W.O.W.

WOW...

[mstevens]

Hahahaha!

Not W.O.W.

WOW...

Dang it! I know there's a connection between The Global Conspiracy(R) and W.O.W. (as there is with literally everything else) and was hoping I'd finally get an explanation. Guess not. Of course, that's just another example of T.G.C. in action!

[redxblack]

My wife and kid have elevated risk factors. I'd like to get them immunized. As a public school teacher, I'm sure to get exposed. I put a hand sanitizer pump in my classroom as a first line of defense. High school kids STILL leave their dirty tissues on the desks and floors. It's pretty gross and irresponsible.

[rgramjet]

The plot thickens.....went to the doc today, turns out I have pneumonia......greaatttttt.

[somegirl]

The plot thickens.....went to the doc today, turns out I have pneumonia......greaatttttt.

Sorry to hear, hope you get better soon.

[ducpainter]

No need to back away - I agree that we're on the wrong track in trying to sterilize life. I also suspect like rgramjet that antibacterial soap might well eventually be our downfall.

I just have a problem with infectious diseases that people don't have to catch. We've eradicated smallpox (which was what vaccination was invented for in the first place). We've diminished infectious poliomyelitis, yellow fever, typhus, and a number of other things that had our grandparents, and in some cases our parents, quaking in their boots. Influenza once killed off a significant percentage of the world population in just a few years. I very seriously doubt this current incarnation is capable of doing that, but I can do my part to minimize spread by getting immunized. Yes, we have tough-to-treat bacterial infections but most bacterial infections can be treated. Viral infections are almost completely untreatable, so prevention is practically the only thing to do.

As Statler indirectly points out, I'm not actually in a high-risk group at 48. Sure, I'm almost guaranteed to get exposed and quite likely to get sick, but I'm not at all likely to become seriously ill. For whatever reason (cytokine storm?) it's the otherwise young, healthy people with really strong immune systems that seem to be at highest risk from this H1N1/09, just as seemed to be the case in 1918 where the case fatality rate was over 2.5%. It would surely suck if a college student came to see me when I had the 'flu, got sick and croaked as a result. It would also suck if I brought it home to my kid and he croaked. So, I get immunized.

I just found someone that can explain my thinking better than I can...kind of long.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/vaccination-a-conversatio_b_358578.html

[rgramjet]

Man I wish Bill Maher would go on Adderall and read a John Updike novel.....that guy is painfully all over the place...

Not disagreeing with his message, just that it could have been covered in 4 substantive paragraphs.  I felt like I was reading a 10 graders essay with a 1,500 word minimum.

[ducpainter]

Man I wish Bill Maher would go on Adderall and read a John Updike novel.....that guy is painfully all over the place...

Not disagreeing with his message, just that it could have been covered in 4 substantive paragraphs.  I felt like I was reading a 10 graders essay with a 1,500 word minimum.

I'd be at the other extreme...and you wouldn't know what I thought.

can't please everyone.

[mitt]

A neighbors 40yo son just died of it, no pre-existing conditions.



mitt

[Howie]

A neighbors 40yo son just died of it, no pre-existing conditions.



mitt

Sorry to hear.

[rgramjet]

Pneumonia or a different secondary infection? 

Sorry to hear about your neighbor.....

[mitt]

It was my wife's old neighborhood, I didn't know him, but I know the mother.  He basically caught it, and within a week, he couldn't breath, went to the hospital, went on a respirator, and never came off it.

mitt

[corey]

its a conspiracy


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what are "terminator seeds" and where can i get some....