If the Avian Bird Flu scares you....

[The Notorious LOL]

please just do the world a favor and shoot yourself now rather than worrying about worst case scenarios that are at this point totally speculative and nothing more.

[HEIRESS]

I, for one, am heading for the hills, oh wait Im already in em skeeskekesheheheheheeh

[The Notorious LOL]

I think any past flu pandemic has pretty much claimed the lives of the elderly or somehow immunocompromised anyway. Urrbody else would just get some real good diarrhea and a T-Shirt that says "I survived the bird flu"

[HEIRESS]

been there done that (http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=1022566&postcount=16)

I like getting the flu, shit makes me feel alive son

[Documad]

No need to panic because there's nothing we can do except stockpile food and water.

I used to work with an entity that plans for mass illness and ensuing panic. I was already uneasy before this latest round of publicity. It's difficult to imagine that you might need doctor but can't see one, people dropping like flies, and bodies piled in mass graves, but it happened all over the world in 1918. I hadn't realized the scope of that one until it was on the American Experience a few years ago and then read John Barry's book.

There have been a lot of plagues in the history of this planet. It's amazing how nature always adapts and finds a new way to kill off loads of people.

[cosmo105]

seriously. that is indeed scary but you're right, Doccy. nothing we can do about it. microbes will get us all in the end. *chomps C, olive leaf extract, oregano extract*

[Documad]

I feel that my post somehow didn't convey the right tone.

[HEIRESS]

This book is getting kinda old now, but its still a good read (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140250913/103-1511645-1101408?v=glance)

viruses are a bitch
even those ever resourceful bacteriums cant get away from them cause bacteriophages fuck em up too
actually there is some renewed interest in the research of utilizing bacteriophages against the ever increasing masses of bacteria resistant to antibiotic treatments, its some cool shit

anyways, someday there is going to be a shot you can get which infects you with a "neutral" virus that can remain dormant within your cells for your entire lifetime without instigating a immune repsonse and said virus will not allow the cell to be infected with any other known virus so the person will become immune to all known virally base infectious agents
well until mutations occur yet again and a new breed emerges.
fucking microbes man you cant win.

its a pipe dream and will not occur in my lifetime but its a nice thought.

[Documad]

I was hoping that you ladies who understand science would be a bit more reassuring. :rolleyes:

[HEIRESS]

:(

[The Notorious LOL]

anyways, someday there is going to be a shot you can get which infects you with a "neutral" virus that can remain dormant within your cells for your entire lifetime without instigating a immune repsonse and said virus will not allow the cell to be infected with any other known virus so the person will become immune to all known virally base infectious agents



along the same note I read about some Berkley student that basically did the same shit with the HIV virus, basically the lipid coating and strands of the virus sans most of the proteins required to reproduce, or rather it did reproduce but it just made other inactive virii but it somehow managed to stop the reproduction of the active strains in the same petri dish. Whether or not the same holds true in a human, who knows. I forget the details.