Remember swine 'flu?

[Waterlow]

Dropped off the radar, or so it seemed to me. And then I read this article.

100,000 cases a day?

Shome mishtake, shurely? Or is this a cunning ploy by the government to introduce illiberal measures... no, I can't bring myself to don the tinfoil hat. Just how serious is this, though?

Mind you, could be useful for wangling time off work...

[Tubbsalot]

A mistake? Surely not. It's the flu, of course it's spreading quickly. It's just that nobody cares because we've finally accepted that it's not actually dangerous.

[Maurepas]

Meh, I hear the regular flu is deadlier...Besides, why do we need to hear of plagues when there are more important things out there, Michael Jackson's will is being sorted out!

[Milks Empire]

And the Aporkalypse has fallen short of its earth-shattering psychic reading...

Meh, I hear the regular flu is deadlier...Besides, why do we need to hear of plagues when there are more important things out there, Michael Jackson's will is being sorted out!

[Waterlow]

It's fairly obvious that it's not that dangerous (not sure the elderly would agree) but 100,000 cases a day? That's bonkers!

[Farnhamia]

And the Aporkalypse has fallen short of its earth-shattering psychic reading...

Meh, I hear the regular flu is deadlier...Besides, why do we need to hear of plagues when there are more important things out there, Michael Jackson's will is being sorted out!

You may laugh, but Diana Ross and Michael's Mum have to wrestle two out of three falls for custody of the kids *nod*

And 100,000 cases a day is what you get for having socialized medecine. *nod*

Ahem ...

I heard this too, on the BBC World Service, and wondered about it. Still, I heard that the Aporkalypse could come oinking back to get us in the autumn when temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere fall. Influenza doesn't do well in summer. So, it could happen, I wouldn't dismiss it.

[Secruss]

I can't wait for a real plague to come along. One where we laugh then start to die.

[Saint Clair Island]

I can't wait for a real plague to come along. One where we laugh then start to die.

Oh yeah, that sounds like lots of fun.

[Farnhamia]

I can't wait for a real plague to come along. One where we laugh then start to die.

Oh yeah, that sounds like lots of fun.

On the positive side, the Bubonic Plague of the 1300s did get us Boccaccio's Decameron. Of course, we wouldn't be around to read the modern equivalent, but it would be there anyway.

[Maurepas]

I can't wait for a real plague to come along. One where we laugh then start to die.

Oh yeah, that sounds like lots of fun.

It was fun last time,

[Waterlow]

We should bear in mind, of course, that Labour don't have the greatest track record of getting their figures right...

[Saint Clair Island]

I can't wait for a real plague to come along. One where we laugh then start to die.

Oh yeah, that sounds like lots of fun.

It was fun last time,

While you're laughing, maybe. While you're dying, I doubt it.

[Farnhamia]

We should bear in mind, of course, that Labour don't have the greatest track record of getting their figures right...

Hmm, you're right, the numbers did come from "Ministers." Still, better safe than ... *couch*cough*ack*thud*

[Greed and Death]

I can't wait for a real plague to come along. One where we laugh then start to die.

Then make up nursery rhymes so those who are not dieing can laugh at those dying.

[Everyone is a Pony]

Hmm, you're right, the numbers did come from "Ministers." Still, better safe than ... *couch*cough*ack*thud*

Oh noes!! ::pumps all of Australia's anti-flu medication into Farnhamia::

Well, I just screwed all of my fellow Aussies over.

Crap. ::hangs head in shame::

Also, I find it funny that your name is Farnhamia. /lame

[JuNii]

here in Hawaii... we haven't forgotten it... not one bit.

[Farnhamia]

Hmm, you're right, the numbers did come from "Ministers." Still, better safe than ... *couch*cough*ack*thud*

Oh noes!! ::pumps all of Australia's anti-flu medication into Farnhamia::

Well, I just screwed all of my fellow Aussies over.

Crap. ::hangs head in shame::

Also, I find it funny that your name is Farnhamia. /lame

Don't worry, just get me to the biggest reservoir in Australia, I'll pee into it and you can recover the vaccine.

[Apertior]

What really worried officials in the first place was how contagious it was, and that it had the potential, however slight, to become deadly.

I still think the whole thing is ridiculous, regardless.

[Everyone is a Pony]

Don't worry, just get me to the biggest reservoir in Australia, I'll pee into it and you can recover the vaccine.

Awesome. Let me call up my people, we'll arrange something.

[Milks Empire]

Don't worry, just get me to the biggest reservoir in Australia, I'll pee into it and you can recover the vaccine.

Awesome. Let me call up my people, we'll arrange something.

I'm not drinking that water.

[Techno-Soviet]

I think it's fairly obvious.

Swine flu is farming evo points to get moar deadly symptoms or trying to get to Madagascar.

[Milks Empire]

I think it's fairly obvious.

Swine flu is farming evo points to get moar deadly symptoms or trying to get to Madagascar.

What happens when it gets to Madagascar?

[Farnhamia]

Don't worry, just get me to the biggest reservoir in Australia, I'll pee into it and you can recover the vaccine.

Awesome. Let me call up my people, we'll arrange something.

Have your people call my people.

[Farnhamia]

Don't worry, just get me to the biggest reservoir in Australia, I'll pee into it and you can recover the vaccine.

Awesome. Let me call up my people, we'll arrange something.

I'm not drinking that water.

It's like homeopathy: there might not actually be any vaccine in the water but the remembers and cures you anyway. Or something.

[Jimanistan]

Dropped off the radar, or so it seemed to me. And then I read this article.

100,000 cases a day?

Shome mishtake, shurely? Or is this a cunning ploy by the government to introduce illiberal measures... no, I can't bring myself to don the tinfoil hat. Just how serious is this, though?

Mind you, could be useful for wangling time off work...

The what-now? Never heard of it... How many pigs died from it so far?