Reply to: Whatever happened to Bird Flu...?

[Bagpuss]

The Black Death, that's the answer... killed about a third of the population off.

Ended serfdom in this country.

For the plebs that survived...

Yes, that was a time of great upward mobility in this country, from baldrick to squire in two generations. Maybe that will happen again, with the chavs this time, wot wot

[Bear]

But then - if we had a population crash - the demand for houses would drop and there would be a crash. Doomed etc

... but the supply of contractors would also drop - and rates would increase.

This economics is tricky stuff!!

[PerlOfWisdom]

Forget what it is called, there will be another flu epidemic that wipes out swathes of the population.

The signs are there for all to see.

Maybe we could do with it, we're not exactly short of population.

[freakydancer]

Forget what it is called, there will be another flu epidemic that wipes out swathes of the population.

The signs are there for all to see.

The major population centres (especially London) are more crowded than they have ever been, unsustainably so. Diseases we thought we had wiped out are remerging in more virulent form, more and more resistant to treatment.

Communication, susceptibility, lack of treatment.

Look at modern history and you can see what will happen

Doomed I tell ye!

Won't get me though.

Hard as nails me.

[Bagpuss]

Forget what it is called, there will be another flu epidemic that wipes out swathes of the population.

The signs are there for all to see.

The major population centres (especially London) are more crowded than they have ever been, unsustainably so. Diseases we thought we had wiped out are remerging in more virulent form, more and more resistant to treatment.

Communication, susceptibility, lack of treatment.

Look at modern history and you can see what will happen

Doomed I tell ye!

[TheOmegaMan]

Look, all you have to do is turn up at the polling station and tick the box on the ballot paper. Your leaders are your betters - they are better educated, better paid, and better looking. They are born to lead, you are born to shovel sh*t.

In times past, you would all be beheaded for this talk and your heads stuffed on poles outside the city gates. With the anti-terror legislation this dream will soon be a reality.

[Bear]

LOL

[PerlOfWisdom]

Haven't had that yet, but will bare it in mind should the situation arise.

Red Bull sorted out TB though.

Does exactly what it says on the tin - "Lucozade aids recovery"

[freakydancer]

Wasn't at Porton Down by any chance?

Alas no.

I've always had to pay for my acid.

[freakydancer]

Did you also use the Lucozade cure for your Aids?

Haven't had that yet, but will bare it in mind should the situation arise.

Red Bull sorted out TB though.

[Troll]

I have worked for the government, but always put the illnesses down to coincidence.

Hmmmm.

Wasn't at Porton Down by any chance?

[PerlOfWisdom]

Yep, that too.

Chicken soup for a few days and I was fine.

Did you also use the Lucozade cure for your Aids?

[freakydancer]

Are you a civil servant? They get all sorts of illnesses

I have worked for the government, but always put the illnesses down to coincidence.

Hmmmm.

[freakydancer]

Ebola?

Yep, that too.

Chicken soup for a few days and I was fine.

[SallyAnne]

I had that aswell.

Sweated it out.

Are you a civil servant? They get all sorts of illnesses