Do you think the Swine Flu is going to erase

[great lover]

a significant portion of the human race?

 

[emap]

Seriously think about it, how many have died from it already? How many have had it? It just like the regular flu is only dangerous to those with a weakened immune system, the young the old and anyone of those who cannot find a hospital at least are looking at a greater chance of dying.

Most people have a greater chance of dying from a meteor strike than this flu.

 

[silverwhisper]

no. if ebola, hemorrhagic fever and west nile didn't...?

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[NippleMuncher]

It may not do much to the populace, other than strip away what few rights you think you still have. Massachusetts is in the process of passing legislation to completely remove your constitutional rights if the state thinks you might have or be a carrier of the virus.

 

[shiny5437]

I don't like the idea of them pressuring people to take the vaccine. Here in the UK it looks like there's going to be pressure on health care workers to have the vaccine. Given that it hasn't been fully tested I feel that that's wrong and people should legitimately be able to refuse.

 

[emap]

Actually it makes tons of sense for the health workers to take the vaccine, because anyone who gets sick with this and is able to get to a hospital will be contagious to the health workers.

Course there is something apparently not widely known about Vaccines, they are all a weak form of the virus, they call it a dead form but it's actually a weakened form, it is very possible to get sick from being vaccinated, though when that happens it is usually not as bad as a full blown case. Health workers and teachers are always on the forefront of vaccinations because they are the ones who see the illness on a rather constant basis.

 

[Username_In_Use]

I laughed at all the people that were scared out of their minds of swine flu. I even made a bet that in four weeks or less, news coverage would fall severely because people just won't die from it.

I then scared my co-workers shitless by explaining that THE SUN(skin cancer) is more deadly than swine flu.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

Most days, I hope so. There's too many of us on this planet now. We could use a cull before we fuck the place up irretrievably.

 

[great lover]

Most days, I hope so. There's too many of us on this planet now. We could use a cull before we fuck the place up irretrievably.

That is simply not true. You could do with reading some Thomas Malthus.

 

[N_B]

Now ya know, I can't be sure, as in our area they just stopped testing for flu strain and just test for type now (A B or C), but given the timeframe, symptoms, and my normal flu reaction, I'm thinking I might have had it last week. Didn't kill me yet.

 

[CristinaRobo]

Massachusetts is in the process of passing legislation to completely remove your constitutional rights if the state thinks you might have or be a carrier of the virus.

We've already suffered enough from Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank, the swine flu should be a blessing compared to that. Apologies in advance for the political reference, back to your regularly moderated thread.

 

[Mr.G]

There are

I'm of the opinion that there ARE too many humans on the planet. We are NOT the primary reason why global warming is happening and that doesn't mean we shouldn't clean up our act BUT there is a Law of Compounding and if you believe in COMMON SENSE only, we have reached saturation. Fish are almost extinct. Forests (they supply OXYGEN) are being cut down to plant townhouses. Some areas of the world are so badly polluted that almost ALL the ground water is not onjly undrinkable but too toxic to even water crops with. Are those the signs of a race of dominant species who even DESERVE this planet.

Swine flu seems to be maintaining a CFR (case fatality rate) of around POINT FOUR percent. NOT too scary. H5N1 (bird flu) on the other hand has an average CFR of 63% and some clades are sitting at 100%. IF IF IF the so called swine flu combines with the BIRD FLU then we are in deep KA KA. Just the numbers suggest a reduction of the human population from just under seven billion to around 3 billion.

One of the biggest problems is that the media has been screaming "The sky is falling" about bird flu for so long NOBODY pays any attention any more. Until there are bodies piling up in the streets people will keep going to work sick and proudlyu announce they're sick as dogs but dedicated and Ta Daaa "Here I am." With a CFR of even 20 or 30 % that's be grounds for killing them and burning their sorry asses because they've just "killed" half your office!!!

 

[JohnMBrowning]

Most days, I hope so. There's too many of us on this planet now. We could use a cull before we fuck the place up irretrievably.

Wanna volunteer?

Didn't think so. I hear that a lot, but the people who say it never step up to the plate. Not that I don't agree, but I'm willing to be patient about the world population getting on a glide path to lower levels in 100 to 200 years. It's already happening in the rich countries, which is suggestive as to what makes people want to have less babies. We may need to work on that patriarchy thing in Islam, however.

Those who are less patient are welcome to be the first on their blocks, though.

BTW, I strongly suspect this flu thing is a crock and huge hype by people who have reasons to lie about it. Some evidence:

Via Cato@liberty:

STRATFOR—a group I hadn’t heard of before—provides, in their words, the “intelligence behind the headlines.”

It has been five months since the A(H1N1) influenza virus — aka the swine flu — climbed to the top of the global media heap, and with the start of the Northern Hemisphere’s annual flu season just around the corner, the topic is worth revisiting.

If you take only one fact away from this analysis, take this: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) believes that hospitalization rates and mortality rates for A(H1N1) are similar to or lower than they are for more traditional influenza strains. And if you take two facts away, consider this as well: Influenza data are incomplete at best and rarely cross-comparable, so any assertions of the likelihood of mass deaths are little more than scaremongering bereft of any real analysis or, more important, any actual evidence.

 

[Ravenwind]

I don't worry about the swine flu. I really don't. I worry about the people who keep the schools open despite the massive amounts of students who have fallen ill. I worry about the government seizing control of our rights because we have a sniffle. I worry about the media who blow the death rate of an uncommon illness out of proportion from its more common and more deadly cousin. People can and will recover from swine flu... I find stupidity to be a more serious problem.

Regarding the population, to maintain an even balance, every person must provide one child to 'replace' them when they die. To have a population increase, anything more than that will work. A decrease, anything less. In industrialized countries (where emphasis for women is placed on "time for my career" instead of "time for raising kids"), overpopulated countries (such as China's 1-child-per-family legislature), selective births, ready access to birth control, and increasing fertility issues, very few people are having what was considered "the norm" in the 50's, let alone 100 years ago. While, world-wide, it's about 3 kids to every mother, average households tell a different story: back in the late 1800's, there were an average of almost 5 people per household (in perspective: a husband, a wife, 2 kids, and one on the way), now it's dropped to just over 2 (just the husband and the wife, and maybe a goldfish).

IMHO, if this current pattern keeps up, we will be culling ourselves from lack of kids. And lo and behold, there won't be enough doctors, EMTs, condom makers, and workers, so people are going to have more kids to fill the ever-increasing death-to-birth ratio, and the diminishing workforce, bringing us right back to where we are now... and the cycle continues ad nauseaum.

In the end, I honestly don't think the swine flu will cull the population... but stupid people and their lack of foresight will.