Britain could face up to 65,000 swine flu deaths

**stackpole** · 16 July 2009, 22:15

It will only kill those with other underlying health problems, probably like obesity and bad hearts from eating pies and chips, smoking too much, etc. The lower classes, i.e. Labour voters.

Not so bad now, is it.

**d000hg** · 16 July 2009, 22:51

When was it classified as "mild flu"? I thought the worst we could say was "it's flu". I fail to see why some people are so unable to accept the possibility of a serious epidemic... maybe it's simple complacency due to few of us being alive in anything similar, or confidence that modern medicine has made it impossible in a developed country?

Maybe you personally are speaking specifically about H1N1 after careful consideration of the facts, but regardless I think my point stands... most nay-sayers here seem to be taking a blasé attitude based mainly on the fact the disease has the word "flu" in its name and is therefore 'just flu, stop being silly'.

**PM-Junkie** · 16 July 2009, 23:12

Originally posted by d000hg View Post

When was it classified as "mild flu"? I thought the worst we could say was "it's flu". I fail to see why some people are so unable to accept the possibility of a serious epidemic... maybe it's simple complacency due to few of us being alive in anything similar, or confidence that modern medicine has made it impossible in a developed country?

Maybe you personally are speaking specifically about H1N1 after careful consideration of the facts, but regardless I think my point stands... most nay-sayers here seem to be taking a blasé attitude based mainly on the fact the disease has the word "flu" in its name and is therefore 'just flu, stop being silly'.

...or maybe people are just getting wise to the fact that they are being manipulated. Flu kills people EVERY YEAR. Some strains kill more people than other strains. Some strains are more virulent than others.

Just stop and think for a second. What is being kept off the front pages by all this crap? What are people not talking about and not getting angry about while they are focused on swine flu?

**DimPrawn** · 17 July 2009, 06:37

You seriously telling me this is like normal seasonal flu?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/sw...eaches-29.html

How many healthy young people die of normal flu?

Wake up. This is serious. You'll realise it in a few months, if you are still alive.

**cojak** · 17 July 2009, 06:44

Originally posted by Turion View Post

Killing off some of the weak and aged is not so bad either.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle6716477.ece

Unless it's your baby or mum, obv...

**cojak** · 17 July 2009, 06:45

Originally posted by PM-Junkie View Post

...or maybe people are just getting wise to the fact that they are being manipulated. Flu kills people EVERY YEAR. Some strains kill more people than other strains. Some strains are more virulent than others.

Just stop and think for a second. What is being kept off the front pages by all this crap? What are people not talking about and not getting angry about while they are focused on swine flu?

WHS with knobs on...

**Shimano105** · 17 July 2009, 07:21

Well all this isn't making me sleep well at night I can tell you, especially with having young kids at home.

But I am getting irritated by the doom-mongering, hysteria-generating media at it again. They never stop these days.

I ain't being in anyway complacent about this, but the hysteria approach achieves nothing.

I was a toddler through the last epidemic (1968-70) so let's get thing in perspective (this one may be worse but no one knows yet).

**GreenerGrass** · 17 July 2009, 07:34

What is the impact on loss of earnings? How many days off sick will you have to take?
Not had one day off in the last three years.
You can guarantee some tw@t of a permie will still come in and infect the whole ******* team (trying to preserve their sick leave allowance for hangovers and holidays).
But the train journey is always going to be the most dangerous time, I am already a magnet to coughers and sniffers even in summer.

**snaw** · 17 July 2009, 07:37

Originally posted by Turion View Post

Could be 3000, but could be 750,000.

More meaningless bullshiite from a doctor, but then should we expect anything less. They're talking up a mild flu virus into a plague. Killing off some of the weak and aged is not so bad either.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle6716477.ece

No no no no no.

According to your mate Cyberghoul it's gonna be 2 million.

And he's our resident expert in all things morbidly inclined.

Britain could face up to 65,000 swine flu deaths