gurglesletch said:
highwaystar101 said:
gurglesletch said:
Cough H1N1 Cough.
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You should check into that cough to make sure you don't have swine flu.
I know this is off topic, but H1N1 was a serious issue. I'm usually the first person to spot out when the media is overblowing something, and I'm certainly not as influenced by the media as most. But I also like to think I can judge when something is overblown in the media, and swine flu was a serious case which warranted the media attention.
It wasn't a standard strain of flu, humans had no natural immunity to it, and so it could have spread like wildfire. A person with regular flu will infect one, maybe two, people. But when humans don't have a natural immunity it infects many of the people the infected person comes into contact with. That's why such a big deal was made about prevention. That's why schools closed down and businesses were strict on not letting flu ridden employees come to work, to limit the spread of infection.
In a way, the media hype itself was one of the things that limited its spreading potential, because it made people aware of its existence and that it was dangerous.
I would have been sceptical myself, but I lived with three nurses at the time and they urged me to read up on it when we were talking about it one night, and what I found was that it really wasn't just regular flu, we had to act on it.
Here's thunderf00t explaining more, you really should watch this.
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H1N1 wasn't very serious. It killed less people then the regular flu.
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It only killed less people because we took such great precautions to prevent the spread. If we had sat around and done nothing it would have gone on to infect millions, if not billions. That's how a pandemic works when humans have no natural immunity. Do you understand what pandemic flu is and why it differs from seasonal flu?
The last large scale H1N1 flu pandemic was the 1918 flu pandemic where 500 million people got infected and 40 million died, which it potentially could have been if we didn't take action. It was very serious.
