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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete
That is a little perplexing and unnerving as I haven't heard a damn thing about it till now and I check my news updates once an hour if I'm on my my computer. Good on your for digging to find these articles. My rational side is saying that there's a lot of news from that area that never sees the light of day in North America, I mean the genocide in Darfur barely made it in some of the newspapers I use to read, so why should this? Of course then you look at the numbers and something that big should've been reported about here earlier. Then my conspiracy side is saying the reason the media isn't reporting it is because they've done a lot of damage making people believe they'll die if they shake someone's hand, something like this might send them over the edge. I tell you though, it doesn't help that I'm currently reading World War Z and the way the zombie virus started was a lot like this... just sayin'
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Well then, I need to invest more time in Resident Evil 4 so I can hone my zombie slaying skills.
*Heads to Wal-Mart to buy shotgun and chainsaw*
Maybe some Slayer music will help too.
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Originally Posted by music_phantom13
By the way, as an interesting side note, I discovered something pretty ****ing scary in my searches. An article from the end of November stated that in the last week, the number of fatalities due to swine flu jumped up by 1000. Most notably over here in the Americas, from about 4800 since April to 5300 in one week. And from about 350 to 650 in one week in Europe. That's really not a good sign. Virus mutation spreads as swine flu deaths leap |
Well that's old news actually.
On it's own the swine flu isn't much worse than the regular flu, but unlike the seasonal flu it's gonna stick around for a while and so casualties will surely go up. But I assume it's still mostly people with weak immune systems, mainly children and the elderly. We can only hope it dosen't mutate into something worse, though I can see that happening because of all the vaccines being taken, sometimes all that sh*t does is make it worse, seriously.
But yeah, it's a good thing I don't get out that much, I'd suggest some of ya'll do the same depending on how the situation is where you live.