No! Lies! LIES! ALL LIES!
...but seriously? Swine flu = just another government scam to scare us out of our money. Its just the goddamn flu and we're so trained to hit the panic button instantly that just because its called SWINE flu we freak out. Its simply a different strain of the flu. You recover if you take care of yourself and besides, if people are that goddamn scared, wash your hands more often and don't hang around sick people and germy places. Srsly. Get over it.
/rant.
Its simply a different strain of the flu.
/rant.
I need a racing game on the computer to play with. I have DiRT, GRID, and am not interested in GTR or LFS as I don't have a wheel and I want something arcady. Any ideas?
I had a dream last night where I was watching an F1 race where the cars had indicators on them, and everyone was indicating left and right when they were about to make a turn into a corner, and turning on their hazard lights when they were pulling into the pits.
Is it any wonder then that I woke up laughing like some crazy fool?
The Real Stig!I don't remember if it was this forum, or somewhere else... but does someone here have that little crawling ant/spider thing in their signature? The one that actually looks like an ant crawling on your screen.
No! Lies! LIES! ALL LIES!
...but seriously? Swine flu = just another government scam to scare us out of our money. Its just the goddamn flu and we're so trained to hit the panic button instantly that just because its called SWINE flu we freak out. Its simply a different strain of the flu. You recover if you take care of yourself and besides, if people are that goddamn scared, wash your hands more often and don't hang around sick people and germy places. Srsly. Get over it.
/rant.
The black death spread from italy throughout europe in into england in about 6 months and that was in the 1300s. I would say the speed of the spread has more to do with how the virus is contracted rather then how quickly people move across the globe. A virus with a slow incubation period is particularly bad because the virus can move all over the globe before any symptoms arise and all of a sudden, you have a global pandemic. Some researches believe the black death was like this.
you just have to think as well (on the topic of swine flu), if this virus can be spread via airborne particles, and given that masks are althogether not that effective to prolonged exposure, what's going to happen if somebody with this is on a long-haul (ie more than 12 hour) flight with 400 other people and is coughing and sniffling into air that is just constantly being recirculated throughout the plane? That's 400 potential infections, then factor in any close family- one flight could cause hundreds or thousands of infections.
Worst case scenario there, but given the amount of flights each day and that most people will "act tough" when it's only in the little cough and sneeze stage (but still contagious), this is going to be a potential nightmare. If the world des get out of this with minimal damage, it's going to be due to great goverment management, not government sensationlism.
To divert the talk away from this flu madness...
I'm loving the Soviet Union's national anthem. Not as an idea, simply as a piece of music.