DOOM - Britain faces 100,000 swine flu cases a day

[Menelaus]

Ha, ha! All the working contractors will get resistant 'flu and die, and us benched ones will get their gigs!




Did I say that out loud?

You're a sick individual.

It's one of the things I like about you

[sunnysan]

Swines

Now at present it is pretty mild, but if it mutates and the mortality rate goes up, we're looking at a lot of dead bodies.

IANAD but as far as I can tell, the risk of mutation into a lethal strain exists with any flu virus. At present it is pretty mild. A completely different strain of flu could mutate into something deadly.

We dont know and from where I am stting its really does not seem more of a risk than usual. I havent really found any explanation which justifies any massive panic on my part, owing to the fact that nobody seems to have explained why it is so much more lethal than other strains of flu

[PM-Junkie]

Ha, ha! All the working contractors will get resistant 'flu and die, and us benched ones will get their gigs!




Did I say that out loud?

...or all of those on the bench will catch it and die, leaving those in work to raise their rates because they have suddenly become indispensable

[RichardCranium]

...or all of those on the bench will catch it and die, leaving those in work to raise their rates because they have suddenly become indispensable

One of the perks of being on the bench is not getting sniffles off the permies.

It causes shedloads of mental health issues, but physically us benchees are generally germ-free.

[Zippy]

One of the perks of being on the bench is not getting sniffles off the permies.

It causes shedloads of mental health issues, but physically us benchees are generally germ-free.

Or smugness poisoning off the working contractors.

Pass the Special Brew would you?

[MrMark]

...or all of those on the bench will catch it and die, leaving those in work to raise their rates because they have suddenly become indispensable

Either way, we'll be able to demand reasonable "market rates" again. I doubt any of us will forget the companies who imposed "from this week your contract is being re-written - take a 20% cut or walk" . These things can work both ways

[MrMark]

It's a good thing. The more people that get this early version, then the more that will have immunity if the deadly variant arrives at winter-time. A few dead now is a risk worth taking to ensure fewer dead in the future, unless we do really want that cure for unemployment.

I have to say I agree with Cyberman. Yikes! Does that mean I've already caught the flu???

[Lambros]

So why are GP's going to diagnose swine flu over the phone??

Is testing so woefully inaccurate and is the spread of an epidemic better monitored by clinical diagnosis.

[scotspine]

ah, good ol' lambo. welcome back. you've been away some time. if anyone ever feels the lack of a conspiracy...

[ThomasSoerensen]

Evolution - H1N1 will eventually adapt to become tamiflu-resistant.

That has already happened in at least 1 case in Denmark.