So, anyone have the swine flu yet?

“Just wonderin'”

“there are a lot of pigs on this site, so the chances are good”

“now that's not very nice :P”

“I just got over the ,'Tea Bag Flu'.”

“Seriously...wasn't they vaccinating for that in the 70s?”

“This is a new one.


The A/H1N1 swine flu confirmed in the Mexican, U.S. and Canadian cases is a previously unknown combination of pig, human and avian flu viruses. Pigs, which are easily infected with all three types of flu, can function as "mixing vessels" in which flu viruses exchange genetic material and emerge in new forms. ”

“You're right, Crash Bang.

Does the swine flu effect schweinhund as well.”

“Lay off the pork rinds and everything will be ok.”

“Schweine flug”

“Here piggy piggy piggy.

Just when I sorta swore off bacon they come out with a neat new contagion.

Go figure.”

“Yeah. It's not spread through meat, apparently, just by Mexico...”

“Thanks Mexico.

Newly human-human contagions, drug mafia overflow, really crappy blow...

Plz to improve ur exports? Kthxbai!”

“darn it! I hadn't heard any new threats about anthrax, SARS, or bird flu, so I took the duct tape off of my windows and crawled out from under the bed. And now this? I guess it's back to my fear-addled American life for another six months...”

“My corner store pulled all pork products as a knee-jerk reaction to our largely senior community wigging out compulsively. It's a tiny Italian community general store see.

OMG we're going to die! Pandemic!!”

“My insides were turned inside out last week with the stomach flu. The husband is home today with his head in the toilet.

Oink oink!”

“Good gawd what a frickin' panic. The media is going to ride this like a $2 whore for all she's worth. Quick, on the count of three everyone shyt a brick!

”

“I dunno. 100 people dead in Mexico from it isn't some sorta small thing...”

“let's see...20 people sick and 305 million people in the us...good thing my bunker will be finished soon”

“This should also be another brick in the wall that needs to be built on our southern border too.”

“Southern border?

Yup, gotta keep them Kin-Tuck-Eons out!”

“This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but with a whimper.

-- TS Eliot as quoted in "The Stand"”

“Eliot was always a real upbeat dude, lol”

“So this is what all those fema death camps and coffins are for.”

“20-100 million people worldwide were killed during the 1918 flu pandemic and they didn't have global air travel. influenza is no joking matter and the worst strains (like the one going around) are always totally new mutations. what is so deadly is your bodies over-reaction to a virus is has never see before... so the young and healthy are the first to die because their immune system is so strong and hence reacts so violently.

great read on the topic from my reading least last year:

The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Influenza-deadliest-pandemic-history/dp/0143036491/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240855365&sr=8-2

...which is not to say the media isn't riding this like a... well, you know.
last edited: 4/27/09 11:05:25 AM”

“The media rides just about everything like a...........DANG, that Nigal guy is a cheap so-and-so!!”

“What do ya call 100 mexicans dead of swine flu?.....

A good start on solving illegal immigration.....

No, I'm NOT PC...never claimed to be...

when they cross sick with the flu they will congregate where the mexicans live, and then the others will die...kinda like how fireant poison works...

Avoid the anthills and everything will work out for the best...

(C'mon, I stirring as hard as I can, let's FIRE this Thread up!)”

“Does this mean that we should not eat pulled pork quesadillas or burritos?

Should we avoid contact with Hog On Ice?”

“don't eat pulled pud. there are now 40 reported cases in the US. I'm willing to be it's 100 by tomorrow. They don't know why the people in Mexico are dying but those in the US are not.”

“The death tolls have been revised upwards quite a bit this afternoon, including those in the US. The closest it's been to Charlotte (thus far) is Newberry, Sc, where a bunch of kids and chaperons went to Mexico for spring break and they all came back sick. Then their families got sick. Then a bunch of other classmates got sick. And so on, and so on...”

“I have an urge to root around in muck. And here I am on TT. What a happy coinkydink.

Oink!”

“I thought gravel was more your thing, Geo.
(silly libby)”

“pigs can catch all sorts of flu viruses (swine, avian, and human) so they are a natural mutation factory for the influenza virus. the current virus is a combination of all three. you might get some protection from the current flu vaccination but i would expect not a lot as it's only part of the new virus.”

“We need to shut the border down now! The fact that troops have not yet been moved to secure the border is at best irresponsible and at worst treason.

We need to screen every person returning from abroad and every person visiting from abroad immediately.

This pandemic scare can be controlled within this country with information and isolation. Third world nations do not have the command and control resources that we have, nor do they have the medical capability. It makes no sense why our government is taking so much risk with an unprotected border at this time. The use of deadly force should be authorized immediately against those attempting to enter illegially. We have no way of knowing whether they are carring the disease. Shut the border and ports of entry down now while this thing is small and we keep it small.”

“Laughable. Shutting the border? They haven't been able to stop billions of pounds of drugs from pouring into this country for decades. Half of California is Hispanic with ties to Mexico. Do you know how many flights have gone in and out of Mexico in the past two weeks? How about in and out of California?

The deal is done. Hopefully, it's not as bad as it may appear.”

“why stop there? You know in the movie "Outbreak" when they get that huge fuel-air bomb and almost drop it on San Francisco? That's the only way to really stop a pandemic of such catastrophic proportions - by burning it up! We have the nukes, and the rest of the world would thank us if we took care of this horrific pandemic with a staggering 6% fatality rate...

in the meantime, let's all dust off the SARS masks and stay near the television for further details
last edited: 4/27/09 3:08:00 PM”

“
Meanwhile, the enraged Hunchmen
(and Hunch-women) rumble
through the Short Forest until
(realizing the little swine has escaped)
they decide to park their
steaming vehicles in a circular
pseudo-Wagon Train formation . . .


 from
"The Adventures of Greggery Peccary"
 Studio Tan (1978)
 FZ

”

“don't eat pulled pud. there are now 40 reported cases in the US. I'm willing to be it's 100 by tomorrow. They don't know why the people in Mexico are dying but those in the US are not.”
roseymonster
4:05:19 PM
4/27/09

i think it's due to our inadequate health care system.”

“I think I got it”

“hope not. take care of yourself.”

“yep, and I am pigging out, it was a hard flight. lol”

“Well I'll be damned if this thing's gonna catch me not living life the way I want to! The pants are comin' off!!!

”

“Gesundheit.”

“LMFAO @ yogi and nigal...lord where do you find pics like that?

me being a veggie head prob will end up with it!
FYI if i am going out, I am taking some of you!!!”

“

PIG SOOIE!”

“Pig Out”

“

Phuck you guys! Every man for himself!”

“woo hoo, first indiana case found...where's my hand sanitizer”

“to late!!”