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Is anyone else besides me worried about this? A mysterious disease that is spreading around the world killing people. Well... 'only' 1400 people have been infected so far, and something like 50 have died... so it's not a very fast epidemy. But still, there is no cure and no way of stopping it yet. So i find this scary :-/ It was just on the news this night that someone in belgium has been infected (the neighbouring country from where i live... and we even have belgium members of this board)... it's coming so close now. |
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Belgium? *Run and hide* |
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yeah, this is really serious! i thought it was just in hong kong, and could be dealt with, but its transferred to everywhere now! all the news coverage is about the war too, this epidemic barely gets a look in. |
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we had one infected woman here-but apperantly she's ok now... |
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"but its transferred to everywhere now!" yeah... it's those airplanes. This is the 21st century, and distances don't really exist anymore. I think it needs to become more serious before the media starts paying attention. |
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there is a big epidemic here - i went to toronto today - and everyone was panicking on my school bus - it was a fun trip :D |
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yeah my friend said that canada was in a pretty bad state, in relation to this epidemic |
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In singapore all the schools have been closed because of it. And in... ehr... tokyo? (not sure about that), an entire building (it looked really high... a skyscraper almost) has been sealed off and put under quarantaine. |
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last week i got a really bad fever and i told everyone i had sars some people thought it was funny, and some didnt |
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an epidemologist said a worldwide epidemic is statistically supposed to happen about every 40 years. last one was late 50s, so.. it is pretty scary. 12 monkeys. |
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it worries me a bit. imagin an infected pèrson in a plane, or in a football stadium... this society of us is so vulnerable |
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so who's responsible for all this? bush&co figured that out already? |
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"a worldwide epidemic is statistically supposed to happen about every 40 years" yeah, that makes sense. Like natures way of dealing with overpopulation. Maybe it's very vain of us to think we can do something about it. hehe, yeah 12 monkeys is a good one. I had to think of Outbreak myself when i first heard about it ;-) |
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haha, yes it's obviously a new biological weapon of mass-destruction secretly developped by sadam and osama. |
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perhaps koreans have something to do with this... they better watch out! |
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well the flu virus keeps evolving, trying to outsmart our antibiotics. if SARS is The One Virus, this could get very nasty. |
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and their contacts in asia..... no doubt they'll link it to north korea+china. |
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I'm even considering buying a "doctor's mask", damn I hate those airborne diseases. Yesterday, talking to my neighbour she suddenly said she had pneumonia, so you can imagine how I bolted and tried not to panic {:-( |
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"well the flu virus keeps evolving, trying to outsmart our antibiotics." Yes i knew about that. And medicine-companies don't really invest anymore in developping new types of antibiotics, because there isn't much profit to be made from that. The most frustrating thing about that though, is that the main reason this happens is people don't finnish all the antibiotics they have been prescribed. When they feel better they stop taking it... so the remaining virus in their bodies grows resistent to the antibiotics. People are so stupid... "this could get very nasty." I know :-( This really scares me alot what if...? |
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dont worry, we will be saved...once again... |
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another thing that scares me maybe more is the possibility of mass hysteria this can cause round the world. you already see a very light version of this in X-tomatic's reaction to his neighbour. the paranoia grows. |
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yeah, lets hope the media doesnt create false moral panics, or make any ethnic groups in 'folk devils'... |
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i don't want to be pessimistic but i think we're all gonna die |
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that, my friend, is certain |
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oh welll, today in psychology i watched a programme about narcolepsy. my life needs to go on no longer! |
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"we will be saved...once again..." once again? How's that? When were we saved from a deadly virus for the last time? :-) I do hope you're right though |
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americans are saving us as we speak-as soon as they clear iraq, im sure they'll be on this virus in no time! |
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quite ironic.... our governments have been stocking up on small pox vacinations, and now a another DIFFERENT epidemic breaks out. |
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lol, aha, i see ;-) It's all part of the axis of evil! |
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well it'd be nice if there existed a vaccination for SARS in the first place :-) But i see what you mean. Virusses are so unpredictable. A few years ago i thought this ebola-virus was going to become a worldwide-epidemic for sure... and now it turns out a totally new unknown virus appears and travels all over the world. |
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yes them pesky North-Korean commies are at it again! "Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?" |
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it's so scary how this movie just keeps being up to date |
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*wonders if anyone saw the scare today at the SJC airport* eeeeeeeeeek i dunno, germs can't be contained folks, it's getting here one way or another TAKE YOUR VITAMINS!!! |
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There was a huge story about this on the frontcover of my newspaper tomorrow (and the war only got 2 small collumns on the frontpage). Scary stuff. I didn't realise there have also been 6 cases reported in germany (our other neigbouring country). Dutch hospitals are already preparing quarantaine-rooms for any patients they might get. "germs can't be contained folks" That's what scares me. Maybe they should shut down commercial airlines altogether for a little while. |
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where can I obtain surgical masks and gloves? *feeling like Michael Jackson didn't overreact after all* |
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A couple of hockey players on the Buffalo Sabres went into voluntary quarantine... imagine if a hockey player (or baseball or whatever) passed it onto their whole team, how that would throw off the season/playoffs. I almost want it to happen just for kicks, because I'm a sadist. |
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WHAT ?!?! are you nuts.......shut down air travel?? bad bad idea listen i survived one hellavah deadly outbreak about ummm 2-3 yrs ago. 98% of the people that got it died (it had people running outta the state i live in, like really fast) they finally figured out what it was Hanta Virus - and what caused it, and now it's not a problem. it's not good to let FEAR control your life. if you're gonna get something, doesn't matter if you stay in your house or travel the world.......it's gonna happen. as i said.....germs can get in ANYWHERE......just stay away from infected peepz DOOD! |
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for latest stats: http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/03/23/mystery.virus.breakdow n/index.html as of this message: Total number of reported cases: 2,325 Confirmed death toll: 78 |
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the rolling stones are running scared......cancelled their two? concerts in china =/ |
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my aunt might have this.. she lives in atlanta where there was a major (?) outbreak.. or at least it was one of the notable american cities w/ a sizable amount of infections.. she thinks it's pneumonia.. and she said sh'es never felt this sick.. and SARS has pneumonia-and flu-like symptoms so.. I dont know is anyone else thinking retaliatory bio-terrorism? planes are being downed all over because of this.. an airplane seems to be one sure place of getting this SARS I dont think it's completely airbourne right nwo.. but it can be transmitted via droplets eg vapor from a cough or from a sneeze etc.. |
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airplanes have recycled air (which is not healthy anyway) it's not bio terrorism IMO.....i mean we are breeding horrible diseases by making and TAKING so many damn meds.....people are getting immune to penicillan, it's a wonder any kind of anti biotic works anymore with all the shite people take. i try taking as lil med's as possible so when i need an asprin to WORK, it will.....and i won't have to down 6 like is see some fools doing. think about it.....if it was bio terrorism.....they'd put something in the WATER......kill more peepz |
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"are you nuts.......shut down air travel?? bad bad idea" well i'm not an expert at all :-) Maybe it is a stupid idea, i don't know. But let's say hypothetically, things do get really ugly with this virus, and it ends up killing millions of people all over the world. And when historians look back at it 200 years from now... they will realise the disease could have been contained to just china if all flights to/from china would have been cancelled. But we didn't do that because we thought being able to fly was too important... but because of it the virus gets spread all over world. I don't know... it just seems stupid to me. But i realise i have a very amateuristic viewpoint... shutting down commercial airlines will no doubt have much more consequences than i can possibly imagine :-/ |
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"just stay away from infected peepz DOOD!" I watched a discussion about this last night on the tv. And there was this specialist who said the most dangerous thing about SARS could be that it doesn't seem to kill everyone who gets it. (like dinosaur said: 2,325 reported cases, and only 78 people died). That could mean some people could be a carrier of the disease without knowing it (they would just get a slight cold which would go away without medical help)... but they are infected, so they are spreading the virus around. There'd be no way to possibly contain it in that case... scary stuff :-s But that specialist admitted it was just a worst case scenario at this point, because they just don't understand the virus well enough yet to know how it'll behave. |
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SARS? You mean Hong Kong Fluey -- far nicer name |
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anyone who read the first 400 pages of Stephen King's "The Stand" would be pissing their pants over this virus.... the book was about a virus with symptoms like that of the common cold that kills most of humanity and other freaky far-out stuff... |
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now thats a PUNNY name =0) salma - i've read that, and seen the mini series.......DOES sound oddly famil. however this is not like ebola or even the hanta virus......it's not killing mass amounts of people......YET! lets hope they get a handle on it! surrounded - it will spread w/out air travel, and right now with the industry the way it is, it's just not a good idea to stop/slow down air travel. people just need to be smart and take precautions. and if you don't REALLY need to go to China......don't go right now! |
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