Swine Flue - The Big Pandemic?

[AlfredJPruffock]

A Very Big Pandemic is 5 billion dead.

OK OK - we're talking 5 Billion Dead - tops.

Anyone got some funny Swine Flu jokes ?

[Churchill]

Yup...

It's the Rivers of Snot as foretold in various prophesies...

Not to be confused with the much less virulent Rivers of Blood...

Beware the RoS!

Not to be confused with RBoS or HBoS! Although imo all three are equally damaging!

[Drewster]

Well thanks thats given me a measure of "large" (even though I asked about small)......

However (still with pedantic hat on)........

Where in "your" definition of epidemic... or pandemic... is "death" involved.....
(paraphrasing)
epidemic - widespread (albeit localised) "occurance" of something (often a "catching" something)......
pandemic - widespread (multi-region/country/continent) "occurance" of something.......

You could have an epidemic or pandemic of something trivial (eg athletes foot).......... its to do with the number of people catching "it" not the number of people dying from "it"!!

[Churchill]

Now that's a Proper Pandemic.

With Buboes...

What about "Spanish Flu"?

Only cured by lobbing huge numbers of donkeys and goats from the top of Church spires!

Have we got enough Donkeys stock-piled?

Anyway, I bet this was all started by those bastards in Denmark!

Ahhhhh Chooo! Danish!

[AtW]

Trouble is, property prices will fall through the floor...

Where will Cyberperson live then?

Buck House?

Silicon Heaven...

[ThomasSoerensen]

What about "Spanish Flu"?

Only cured by lobbing huge numbers of donkeys and goats from the top of Church spires!

Have we got enough Donkeys stock-piled?

Anyway, I bet this was all started by those bastards in Denmark!

Ahhhhh Chooo! Danish!

You must be talking about Threaded.

[Drewster]

No one cares about pandemics where no one dies...

Now that is quite possibly true....

[Mich the Tester]

Erm, this morning on Dutch news they said this Pig Flu could be treated very effectively with existing medicines like Tamiflu and the manufacturers are now ramping up production to meet demand. How scary is a treatable disease?

[TimberWolf]

Erm, this morning on Dutch news they said this Pig Flu could be treated very effectively with existing medicines like Tamiflu and the manufacturers are now ramping up production to meet demand. How scary is a treatable disease?

I wouldn't be surprised if most of us have already had it.

[PM-Junkie]

Erm, this morning on Dutch news they said this Pig Flu could be treated very effectively with existing medicines like Tamiflu and the manufacturers are now ramping up production to meet demand. How scary is a treatable disease?

Not scary at all...unless governments et al ramp up the scariness levels as per the terrorism "threat".

Notice how people are not talking about the slump so much now? And only a couple of weeks after the G20 farce?

Coincidence?