I guess I'm a little confused about the significance of all this swine flu talk if it really is no different from the flu we already get. 47 cases in the US? That doesn't seem all that exciting at this point
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we sell these delicious chocolates called fruits de mer and they are milk and white hazelnut glory shaped as tiny shells and sea horses. i <3 fruits de mer too.
some words i appreciate:
barnacle glitter fork cunt funk killa chiquito boriqua
(the last two are words i hear a lot in spanglish conversation with my manager)
Significance of the Swine Fludarkally45April 28 2009, 15:03:20 UTC
The lack of control over the flu is the reason some people are getting excited. No one knows how it spreads or where it originally came from. And yes it might be just look like a flu but young people are dieing from it not just the old or weak who usually are dieing from the flu.
Re: Significance of the Swine FlutwodoorApril 29 2009, 00:49:58 UTC
Further to that, the swine flu is a direct descendant of the Spanish Flu, which killed 20-100 million mostly young people in 1918. That's what makes this terrifying -- the flu killed nearly twice as many people as the WWI, and if left uncontrolled, the swine flu has the potential to do the same:
Re: Significance of the Swine FlunonedrinkableApril 29 2009, 02:57:53 UTC
Buuut it still remains that the symptoms are the same as the regular flu and most people don't die from the flu because it's treatable. It seems like most deaths will happen in places where there is no health care, which is unfortunate--don't get me wrong--but I'm not sure it should be monopolizing the news, either.
I think it just gets people unnecessarily upset, but I suppose that is a major side effect of most news. I just like living in a low-stress world.
Re: Significance of the Swine FlutwodoorApril 29 2009, 03:49:04 UTC
I'm fond of the word 'vase' -- it is a nicely containing word and has lovely pronunciations.
As for swine ... The Spanish flu had a mortality rate of at most 5%. This means that the vast majority (95%) of the people who were infected got better. But when you consider the fact that almost a billion people were infected, this translates into enormous carnage. The danger is that if this thing spreads, even if it has low mortality, you can get something that's pretty devastating. It should be interesting to see what develops ...
But yeah, news coverage of anything is often far worse than the thing itself.
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some words i appreciate:
barnacle
glitter
fork
cunt
funk
killa
chiquito
boriqua
(the last two are words i hear a lot in spanglish conversation with my manager)
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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/04/the_weakest_link.php
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Mike
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_influenza#Background
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
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I think it just gets people unnecessarily upset, but I suppose that is a major side effect of most news. I just like living in a low-stress world.
Btw, give me a word you like!
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As for swine ...
The Spanish flu had a mortality rate of at most 5%. This means that the vast majority (95%) of the people who were infected got better. But when you consider the fact that almost a billion people were infected, this translates into enormous carnage. The danger is that if this thing spreads, even if it has low mortality, you can get something that's pretty devastating. It should be interesting to see what develops ...
But yeah, news coverage of anything is often far worse than the thing itself.
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