Swine Flu in Washoe
 

http://www.rgj.com/article/20090429/...m/breakingnews

First confirmed case in Nevada is a 2 year old in Washoe County.

Kid is doing fine, everyone please panic now.

:omg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASibLqwVbsk

*cough* *cough* *oink*

I just saw this on the news. :eek:

I had pork chops on Monday night and have been having ham on my bagel every morning. Delicious!

I heard the best way to inoculate yourself is to get as many pig products into your diet as you can. Eventually, you will build up a resistance to swine related viruses.

Sounds intoxicating. :drool:

I'm going to go make a bacon, ham and pulled pork sandwich with baconaise for lunch.

And a side of ranch.

Bird flu.....Swine flu.....
I will hold off panic till the Donkey flu arrives.

I have had the swine flu for years. The Dr. told me that the only cure is diet and exercise. I am just happy that I am a survivor and still here to tell the tale.

:lol:

^^ LOL
Bacon tastes good. Pork chops taste good.

So timely!!! Love it! :lol:

**eating ham sandwich as I type**

:lol: :lol:

I can't stop laughing.

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But seriously, has the swine flu proven to be more deadly than any other flu? This is somethin I haven't been able to get a handle on. Is I going to kill more peeople than a "regular " flu? Or are we just freaking out about it because the Media has tired of reporting on the recession?

EVERYBODY PANIC!!!

Actually, a lot of conspiracy theories are going around.

It was done by people that want to close the border with Mexico. It was done by Obama to push through more appointments in this time of 'crisis'. It was done by the Mexican government who just passed a bunch of controversial laws (plain-clothes policemen, unlimited cell phone surveillance, hot-pursuit agreement with the US for drug traffickers, legalizing personal amounts of narcotics). It was done by Al Queda as its easier to get into the Mexico than the US. It was done by Baxter Pharm, the makers of the most effective viruses. It was done by the New World Order as a beta-test of one of their bioweapons. etc...

I think the biggest difference is that the "normal" flu tends only to kill the very young, and the elderly. Whereas this particular strain is strong enough to kill healthy adults more easily than the everyday variations.

That said, IIRC something like 20,000 people die every year from plain old influenza... I think a lot of the "danger" from the swine flu is more hype than anything.

And that kid/pig picture is fucking comedy GOLD! :lol:

Thanks. exactly the information I was looking for, I don't read Alternet enough and forget how good it is,

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What I know (or think I know) about Swine Flu :

Swine Flu is more dangerous than regular flu because unlike the normal yearly flu, humans have no built-up immunity to Swine Flu at all. It started in pigs, mutated, then jumped to humans, and now it has mutated some more and it jumps from humans to humans. It is *potentially* very dangerous because when (not if) it mutates in the future it could become very deadly for humans. It kills young healthy people because the body's immunity freaks out and over-attacks it. The body's immune system basically drowns the person in there own fluids in reaction to a flu of this caliber. Younger adults with nice robust healthy immune systems are at higher risk because their body is better able to drown itself. The Spanish Flu (Swine's ancestor/cousin) pandemic of 1918 killed 25-50 million people worldwide. Most were young and otherwise healthy. That flu also hit during the summer and fall which is unusual. The US and most other countries are much better prepared for a flu pandemic now, both in organization and technology. The wildcard today is how virulent the virus becomes as it mutates while propagating rapidly across the globe.

Best case scenario: People get it in its mild state with relatively few deaths (a normal amount for flu), and the population builds some immunity to it.

Worst case scenario (far fetched): Something equivalent to the Black Death of medieval times on a global scale along with total global economic collapse.

It is much more likely to end up like the former than the latter, but it warrants our attention and diligence. It does not warrant panic or even some of the overreaction happening already. For instance, you cannot get Swine Flu from eating pork, even raw pork (not advised for other reasons).

Interesting. I wonder if anyone is trying using a low dose of immuno-suppressants as a treatment. Doesn't cure anything, but maybe reduces the severity of it.

I think the normal treatment at the moment is do-nothing unless the symptoms are really bad. This flu isn't that deadly at the moment. If symptoms are bad (pneumonia.etc.) then the pneumonia is treated appropriately and anti-viral drugs are administered. Tamiflu is the brandname of the stuff that the US has stockpiled (50M courses I think). Give the Bush-43 Admin. credit (rare) for spending $B's on pandemic preparedness.

You mean "give the Bush crew credit for spending $B's on the company Donald Rumsfeld was the chairman of the board for"? Gotcha.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/tamiflu.asp

That's disturbing, albeit unsurprising. But most of the $B's were spent on other aspects of preparedness besides the Tamiflu.

Looks like Mexico is backing off the reported number of deaths from Swine Flu:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem...the_number.php

But here's a public health expert's opinion on why it could be bad even if it is just a "mild" flu:
http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasur...dead_horse.php

One of my friends in Sac just had the swine flu....He's perfectly fine now.

Apparently it only kills Mexicans. :huh:

For the most part anyway. We have had two fatalities.

:lol::lol:

My conspiracy theory: Obama's plan to scare everyone, then it will be easy as hell for him to get his universal health care bills put through in a hurry.

This isn't really directed at WRXlerate... that joke is actually somewhat funny...

...but are the Obama bashers worse than the Bush bashers were? I mean, it took years of failed foreign policy, illegal war, torture, stripping of Constitutional right, etc, etc, etc before people started to immediately bash anything he did regardless of its actual merit.

But Obama does anything and it's immediately part of some big communist take over plan to make America his own personal playground for some sinister plan.

I'm not saying Bush bashers weren't unfairly bashing him at times, or that Obama bashers aren't sometimes right... but it seems like Obama's detractors give it to the guy (who has a 70% approval rating 100 days in) the way Bush detractors gave it to Bush midway through year 7 when he had a 15% approval rating.

Frankly, Obama's done nothing even remotely on the level to hurt America the way the neo-cons totally screwed up the Persian Gulf and our rights post-9/11. Not even the huge waste of taxpayer money on the bad idea bail-out comes close to the mess Bush made of Iraq.

/rant (and yet another thread falls into the mire of politics... go me!)

I started bashing Bush right after the Supreme Court appointed him pResident. He lost the popular vote if you recall, and if the Florida ballets had been properly counted he prolly would have lost the election, but Catherine Harris and the Court made sure that didn't happen and Gore caved. Not a Gore fan at all, but still...

Oh, and just for the record, I didn't vote for Obama or Bush.
:)

Back the topic at hand, I hope they are blowing this swine flu out of proportion, just like they did the bird flu. I have such wonderful luck, I would get it right after they run out of the vaccine.
However, I do find it amusing that mexico is getting extremely offended by the whole ordeal. I can't imagine how many thousands of $$ they've lost because it seems to have originated there. A friend of mine had a cruise booked in advance to go down the coast into mexico and stop in various ports, once this hit the news they routed the cruise up north to the Seattle area instead.

Three on-air GOP mouthpieces even attacked him for wanting "spicy" or "Dijon" mustard on his cheesburger. What pathetic douchebags.

Back to the topic at hand..... . . . .
I tried :(

Am I the only one that thinks Obama is getting trashed because he is black?
"Is it hot in here or is it just me? Is it black in here... or is it just the few of us?" dwayne kennedy


Back OT.

I would be terrified of swine flu if I was Jewish.

... or Muslim.

Looks like the flu is winding down, huh? Hopefully it just disappears. But it has spread all over the world and can mutate from anywhere and respread. There were 3 waves of flu in 1918 and the first one in the spring was mild.

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I always put dijon on my burgers when it's available. OMG. :lol:

Anyone else notice how cheap pork is getting? I bought 3 pork chops for $2.50 at Smith's this week. Yum!

Probably because half of the world stopped buying pork!! Hahaha! Don't be surprised if it gets cheaper yet, you'll start to see it on special at all of the stores.

That is f'ing ridiculous. Take advantage of people's ignorance and buy it up cheap and help out the hog farmers who are unjustly getting screwed right now. Pork chops, pork loin, carnitas FTW.

I do love a good pork loin :P

Pork chops taste good. Bacon tastes good.

Bacon is meat candy.

QFMFT

mmmm....bacon
Damn you are making me hungry. I don't think I could ever quit eating bacon. I don't know how vegetarians do it.

My neighbor just shot a 200 pound boar down in Santa Cruz, I'll be feasting on loin soon!

New England Journal of Medicine:

" Although it has been just over a month since the first cases were identified, it seems unlikely that this outbreak will lead to widespread, severe illness and deaths. However, this may be just the first wave, and we will carefully monitor this outbreak. "

swine flu=big stink over not a freakin thing.....big hoopla just like bird flu then POOF gone! blah blah blah

Billinghurst Middle School sent notes home to us parents today stating that there has been a confirmed case of H1N1 "swine flu" at the school.

http://www.ktvn.com/global/story.asp?s=10406400

Matt, you're like the CDC newsletter.