[realfan87]

It's scary. We just can't control it's spread. And what if this is going to be another 1918 Spanish Flu?

BTW, 21st December 2012 is getting closer and closer.

[furious1]

It's scary. We just can't control it's spread. And what if this is going to be another 1918 Spanish Flu?

BTW, 21st December 2012 is getting closer and closer.

What happens on the 21st December 2012?

[realfan87]

What happens on the 21st December 2012?

End of the world as the Mayans predicted

[qwerty1]

What happens on the 21st December 2012?

Didn´t you know Bungle,
That´s the Day the Mayan calender ends, the End of the world,..



Btw H1N1 ?
I thought that was pretty much over ?
And something else,..
@ Mahoujin, have you even considered the fact that every year (last year ~16,000) people die because of the normal Flu ? (Influenza)
I wouldn´t worry about H1N1,..

/here´s a quick Wiki uote

According to the World Health Organization: "Every winter, tens of millions of people get the flu. Most are only ill and out of work for a week, yet the elderly are at a higher risk of death from the illness. We know the worldwide death toll exceeds a few hundred thousand people a year, but even in developed countries the numbers are uncertain, because medical authorities don't usually verify who actually died of influenza and who died of a flu-like illness." Even healthy people can be affected, and serious problems from influenza can happen at any age. People over 50 years old, very young children and people of any age with chronic medical conditions are more likely to get complications from influenza, such as pneumonia, bronchitis, sinus, and ear infections.

[furious1]

Didn´t you know Bungle,
That´s the Day the Mayan calender ends, the End of the world,..

Oh that. I knew something was supposed to happen in 2012, but I didn't know the exact date. Load of rubbish anyway.

[29clepayJainync]

Oh that. I knew something was supposed to happen in 2012, but I didn't know the exact date. Load of rubbish anyway.

Prove it.

[qwerty1]

Oh that. I knew something was supposed to happen in 2012, but I didn't know the exact date. Load of rubbish anyway.

Meh, i´ll take a 125,000 € Loan 2011 and go crazy.
If the world keeps a spinning i´ll go to court and claim all the talk about the end of the world made me woozy.

[hoconnor6605]

What happens on the 21st December 2012?

It's when the Mayan's predicted all new age hippies would disappear from the earth.

"I ain't goin to Goa."

[furious1]

Prove it.

I don't need to prove anything. It's up to you to prove that something will happen.

[Jadldqys]

Prove it.

Easy.

They didn't predict the downfall of their own civilization, so what makes you think they could predict the end of the world? Seems to me that they were just an ancient version of Ms. Cleo.

If they would have had telephones back then, I'm sure they would have started a 1-900 hotline and had a lot of unhappy customers who paid $9 a minute to get a shitty psychic reading that didn't come true.

[mralabama]

My dad (a doctor) discovered a case here in Gozo, Malta. It was a 4 year old baby. They just give it the medication and isolate it for a week. He didn't seem worried at all.

[EscaCsamas]

what did you expect, when i see people every day (even before the swine flu started) sneezing into the air, the fastest and most efficient way to let BILLIONS of your germs into the air and allowed others to breath it in.

This people is how the majority of colds/flu is normally spread, so next time you get a cold, you know it was of some inconsiderate moron that doesnt either use a hanky or STIFLES their effing sneezes! its not hard!

[hoconnor6605]

Easy.

They didn't predict the downfall of their own civilization, so what makes you think they could predict the end of the world? Seems to me that they were just an ancient version of Ms. Cleo.

But it's a set date not a prediction. It is the end of the long count calender. If I told you the year 2009 would end on December 31st would you think I was making some crazy prediction? Beyond that it's just a part of their creation mythology any other meaning that is attached to it is given by modern interpretations.

[Dokescoonse]

No one cares about the swine flue here, and Melbourne has been deemed a city that has heaps of it! I haven't seen anyone wear face masks. At the end of the day it's just normal flu. No one is dying from it any more than regular flu.

[Sarah Armstrong]

Swine-flu is about as big as an epidemic as taco bell


OH **** !

[Dyslermergerb]

Ah **** we are all gona die, I do believe in reincarnation btw so **** the lot of you[thumbup].


Knowing my luck Ill probably be plankton or a snail or even a fly living off crap.[thumbdown][thumbup]

[darieBarexish]

Easy.

They didn't predict the downfall of their own civilization, so what makes you think they could predict the end of the world? Seems to me that they were just an ancient version of Ms. Cleo.

If they would have had telephones back then, I'm sure they would have started a 1-900 hotline and had a lot of unhappy customers who paid $9 a minute to get a shitty psychic reading that didn't come true.

You sig reminded me of my Shelly, I had to give him away last week

[vladekad]

End of the world as the Mayans predicted

NO.

The Mayan Calander restarts,it doesn't end..and even if it did what the hell would that really mean anyway?

What were they supposed to do to make all the paranoid schizophrenics happy?,chart away to infinity?

[Biassasecumma]

i've had it, and have to say, it was a peice of cake. That said, like all flu's, if you are very old or very young or have pre-existing conditions that weaken your body or immune system, you will be more succeptable to severe problems from this flu.

[Audi_z]

This people is how the majority of colds/flu is normally spread, so next time you get a cold, you know it was of some inconsiderate moron that doesnt either use a hanky or STIFLES their effing sneezes! its not hard!

For example my housemate. His hygiene is terrible. Coughs and sneezes without covering up anything. [cursing] And guess what? He's doing a degree in Medicine. Go figure. You'd expect someone who's doing a degree in medicine would at least have half a knowledge in personal hygiene.

What makes it worse, last week he tells me 5 people on his Medicine course have been in contact with people with the swine flu. His responce? "Oh I don't have it"

3 days later, he's been given tamiflu as a precaution but thankfully I'm not feeling any different and it's already been 3-5 days and that's usually the incubation period.


Swine Flu isn't any different to any other flu. We just don't have a "cure" for it. And the media and all that just hype it to be some super bug. Plus they're all saying it's a pandemic etc. The use of a word like pandemic makes people think it's SERIOUSLY fatal.