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04/26/2009 11:16:00 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by Bugzeye:
even after it is over you still run a risk of sickness when eating at taco bell.
Originally posted by ambaker:
I figure I'm safe. I am in a rural town, nobody ever comes here, and I'm not eating at Taco Bell till it's over. |
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Hey dont be knocking Taco Bell. That place fed me well back in the 90s when I was in college. :P |
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04/26/2009 11:29:49 PM · #27 |
| As of this evening, 1800 cases in Mexico, with 160 deaths. Thats a nasty flu. It is now in San Diego and Imperial counties in California, with no mortalities. But a near 10% death rate in Mexico is pretty scary. |
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04/26/2009 11:35:34 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by Bugzeye:
even after it is over you still run a risk of sickness when eating at taco bell.
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serious? |
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04/26/2009 11:39:13 PM · #29 |
1st case is confirmed in Ohio now.
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04/26/2009 11:53:03 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
1st case is confirmed in Ohio now. |
That one is in the county to the East of me. They are checking on one in the county to the west of me. I suspect it won't be long before it's in our county too. We have a lot of farming and Mexican immigrants here so I'm sure I'll be seeing the panic here soon. It will be interesting to see if there is any tie-in with people travelling back and forth between Mexico and the spread in the states. |
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04/26/2009 11:57:44 PM · #31 |
| Anyone notice that it's not "flu season"? |
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04/27/2009 12:14:54 AM · #32 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Anyone notice that it's not "flu season"? |
From what I have have read your right. Here is how he answered that question.
COX: Let me clarify. This is very late for seasonal influenza. The routine kind of influenza strains that we see every year. That's declining. The regular season is in its pale really. What we're seeing now is different. It's not seasonal influenza, it's what we call Swine Influenza. Has different characteristics and we don't really see enough of it in people to have a seasonality.
These are quite unusual cases. It's in fact a little bit easier that it's occurring now in the end of the influenza season because we don't have so much noise or so much background influenza to look through. But it is, you know, initially we want to take very special measures to make sure this really was a different strain because sometimes towards the end of a season it can be harder to take the strains that are just regular flu. So this is not routine seasonal flu it's just occurring at the tail end of the seasonal – of the season of regular influenza.
So thank you for your questions and look to our Web site for more information. |
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04/27/2009 01:49:02 PM · #33 |
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04/27/2009 02:02:42 PM · #34 |
WE'RE DOOMED!! DOOMED I SAY!!!
Gonna soak up the whole "end of the world" atmosphere and read The Stand by Stephen King.. |
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04/27/2009 02:03:36 PM · #35 |
Doesn't bother me. I never drink swine, only sbeer and svodka.
That's right, isn't it?
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04/27/2009 02:04:34 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by Simms:
WE'RE DOOMED!! DOOMED I SAY!!!
Gonna soak up the whole "end of the world" atmosphere and read The Stand by Stephen King.. |
I'll be watching my collection of Zombie DVDs.
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04/27/2009 02:07:36 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Originally posted by Simms:
WE'RE DOOMED!! DOOMED I SAY!!!
Gonna soak up the whole "end of the world" atmosphere and read The Stand by Stephen King.. |
I'll be watching my collection of Zombie DVDs. |
You could well be starring in the next zombie blockbuster if this outbreak gets to you.
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04/27/2009 02:07:51 PM · #38 |
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04/27/2009 02:13:10 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
On one hand it is inevitable that we will have another pandemic flu. In fact, we are overdue (on average). Is this it? Who knows. But it WILL happen.
On the other hand, the regular old flu killed 36,000 people in our country last year but we never hear about it because it's all old people and babies and that doesn't make us immortal, healthy adults worry... |
This statement reminds me of the first time I was told you could actually die from the flu. I didn't believe the person who told me at first.
And I love XKCD :) |
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04/27/2009 02:15:59 PM · #40 |
This is probably a good time for me to start the marketing campaign for my human-sized, hermetically sealed, gerbil balls.
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04/27/2009 02:20:02 PM · #41 |
Originally posted by Simms:
Gonna soak up the whole "end of the world" atmosphere and read The Stand by Stephen King.. |
Go for the original, it's better than the rewrite. |
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04/27/2009 02:20:07 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
This is probably a good time for me to start the marketing campaign for my human-sized, hermetically sealed, gerbil balls.
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Like this? |
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04/27/2009 02:21:16 PM · #43 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
This is probably a good time for me to start the marketing campaign for my human-sized, hermetically sealed, gerbil balls. |
How many minutes of oxygen did you say those contained?
I'm going to check out the SCUBA shop up the street -- seems it should be as effective used as SCABA ... or maybe a firefighter's set-up ... |
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04/27/2009 02:22:01 PM · #44 |
Originally posted by dknourek:
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
This is probably a good time for me to start the marketing campaign for my human-sized, hermetically sealed, gerbil balls.
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Like this? |
Actually THESE ZORB'S look like more fun :) |
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04/27/2009 02:23:07 PM · #45 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
This is probably a good time for me to start the marketing campaign for my human-sized, hermetically sealed, gerbil balls.
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Something like this? |
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04/27/2009 02:25:32 PM · #46 |
Originally posted by dknourek:
Actually THESE ZORB'S look like more fun :) |
The one on the water reminds me of the thing ("Rover" I think) in The Prisoner series ... I believe they used a weather balloon for that.
Message edited by author 2009-04-27 14:26:43. |
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04/27/2009 02:27:33 PM · #47 |
Originally posted by citymars:
Originally posted by Simms:
Gonna soak up the whole "end of the world" atmosphere and read The Stand by Stephen King.. |
Go for the original, it's better than the rewrite. |
There was no 'rewrite'. The 'original' was simply an abridged version that was edited down to size because the original manuscript was so large, and the publishers didn't feel that people would buy it, at the time. Remember that this is before King reached his legendary status.
The unabridged version, which is more to tune with the original manuscript, is a truer version of King's vision than the unabridged, and, IMO, is a far far better read. I've read both, and the unabridged leaves far too much out and is a bit of a wash.
Of course, it's all in personal preference, but I could never read The Stand without reading the unabridged version these days. |
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04/27/2009 02:31:52 PM · #48 |
This is from the Los Angeles Times blog.
AP quotes Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs as saying, “The president’s trip to Mexico has not put his health in any danger.â€
The AP also reports:
The outbreak coincided with President Barack Obama̢۪s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at the anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist who died a week later from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn̢۪t say if Solis had swine flu or not.
Message edited by author 2009-04-27 14:43:10. |
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04/27/2009 02:32:13 PM · #49 |
Originally posted by K10DGuy:
Originally posted by citymars:
Originally posted by Simms:
Gonna soak up the whole "end of the world" atmosphere and read The Stand by Stephen King.. |
Go for the original, it's better than the rewrite. |
There was no 'rewrite'. The 'original' was simply an abridged version that was edited down to size because the original manuscript was so large, and the publishers didn't feel that people would buy it, at the time. Remember that this is before King reached his legendary status.
The unabridged version, which is more to tune with the original manuscript, is a truer version of King's vision than the unabridged, and, IMO, is a far far better read. I've read both, and the unabridged leaves far too much out and is a bit of a wash.
Of course, it's all in personal preference, but I could never read The Stand without reading the unabridged version these days. |
I agree! And it's just so darn fitting too... |
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04/27/2009 02:32:53 PM · #50 |
Originally posted by K10DGuy:
Originally posted by citymars:
Originally posted by Simms:
Gonna soak up the whole "end of the world" atmosphere and read The Stand by Stephen King.. |
Go for the original, it's better than the rewrite. |
There was no 'rewrite'. The 'original' was simply an abridged version that was edited down to size because the original manuscript was so large, and the publishers didn't feel that people would buy it, at the time. Remember that this is before King reached his legendary status.
The unabridged version, which is more to tune with the original manuscript, is a truer version of King's vision than the unabridged, and, IMO, is a far far better read. I've read both, and the unabridged leaves far too much out and is a bit of a wash.
Of course, it's all in personal preference, but I could never read The Stand without reading the unabridged version these days. |
Never read the abridged version myself - only the uncut - one of his best works. |
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