 Slmanifesto
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
 3 Posts
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 2:10:40 AM
Wow...now i know |
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 TunaKitteh
Female, 13-17, Western US
47 Posts
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Sunday, May 17, 2009 6:08:34 PM
Pandemics ftw. |
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 Sydust
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
39 Posts
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Sunday, May 17, 2009 3:24:35 PM
New findings estimate death tolls of the spanish flu to near 100 million because a lot of deaths were not reported to have been spanish flu related or reported. Back then, the deaths were ruled by small town physicians who linked the deaths to other reasons. Spanish flu is also somewhat of a misnomer because scientists today following the path of infection think it may have originated in Kansas, it was just at its worse in Spain.
I love pandemic history. The 1918 flu is fascinating. |
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 gibb0
Male, 13-17, Europe
125 Posts
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Sunday, May 17, 2009 7:25:29 AM
Swine flu is media on a stick. |
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 BBQ
Male, 18-29, Europe
239 Posts
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Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:44:26 AM
Awesome! :D |
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 mehh
Female, 18-29, Australia
529 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 10:03:03 PM
"OMFG. Pandemics DO NOT EXIST. The swine flu is no worse than any other flu. GET OVER IT!"Um, what? The swine flu isn't a pandemic. But pandemics are entirely possible. You have bizarre logic |
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 AndroidMetro
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
794 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 9:48:22 PM
Mother nature needs to be crushed. |
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 CrakrJak
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
2691 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 8:33:18 PM
Malaria is still the world's biggest disease problem. |
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 SuperSmash
Male, 18-29, Southern US
2596 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 8:01:57 PM
Mother Nature has her own forms of population control. |
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 horsie
Male, 18-29, Europe
186 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 7:53:24 PM
"OMFG. Pandemics DO NOT EXIST. The swine flu is no worse than any other flu. GET OVER IT!"No because we all know that the plague was just another decease. |
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 Falcore
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
187 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 7:18:56 PM
OMFG. Pandemics DO NOT EXIST. The swine flu is no worse than any other flu. GET OVER IT! |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
1448 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 6:02:07 PM
Flu every year is far more serious than swine flu, but it gives the media something to write about other than the economy and it gives governments something practical to do and be seen to do.The Black Death wasn't just bubonic plague, either. I'm not talking about pneumonic and sceptacemic plague, which are caused by the same bacteria. In Northern Europe, it didn't match yersinia pestis infection at all well. If you want a real scare about disease outbreaks, look at maps showing English towns prior to 1348 and after 1348 and count how many towns disappeared that year. Yes, entire towns, all dead. |
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 Quackor
Male, 18-29, S. America
1186 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 5:12:35 PM
the "aztec curse" or "la venganza de moctezuma" is when foreigners drink tap water and get diarrhea |
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 tenty
Male, 18-29, Europe
316 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 2:59:05 PM
These numbers aren't so bad. Hopefully my O.C.D. Will aslo decrease my mortality. |
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ga_sanabria
Male, 18-29, S. America
4 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 2:55:02 PM
---We should call it how they call it on Mexico: The "Aztec Curse"--WTF! Noone calls it like that here in Mexico (at least not in Mexico City... or any of my friends in any of the states)
Achuuuu! Oink!
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 Angelmassb
Male, 18-29, S. America
1579 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 2:42:43 PM
We should call it how they call it on Mexico: The "Aztec Curse" |
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uncleduck
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
301 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 2:32:12 PM
It is now believed that the 20 million deaths during the 1918 Flu pandemic were actually as a result of bacterial infection. Yes, the people got the flu, but it was their weakened immune system as a result of the flu that allowed them to die of infection from bacteria. Which would be easily treated today. |
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 TopperHey
Male, 18-29, Europe
936 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 2:17:17 PM
If the video would have said at the end "but its still just flu" I would have given it 4. But it had to go and leave a big ? |
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 habbazoot
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
2146 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 12:46:03 PM
oh no! a flu where the only difference between that and the common cold is how fast its spreads??!?!?!?! what will we do!!!! |
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 lukas1051
Male, 18-29, Europe
2303 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 12:44:20 PM
I was going to make a huge rant about this, but screaminbean said pretty much everything I wanted to. |
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 screaminbean
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
310 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 12:41:36 PM
Swine flu is an easily curable disease that, like backfat says, is already starting to fizzle. and like eezle says, the media is blowing this WAAAAAAYYY out of proportion. Even though it is horrible that there have been 60 deaths from it, most of these deaths have been in Mexico, and the five deaths that were in the US were all from sickly people or people suffering complications.
All in all, nothing really to fear.
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meowmeowmeow
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
127 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 12:40:25 PM
no, unless your a doctor or a nurse or something close to that |
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 cmheiple
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
111 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 12:31:50 PM
Now I know... WHAT? What was I suppose to have known after that whole video? |
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 pmarren
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
1467 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 12:26:30 PM
Funny. |
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 eezle
Male, 18-29, Western US
75 Posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009 12:20:29 PM
drat swine flu, it's not as serious as the media is making it |
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