:yuck: What do you know, I caught Swine Flu. I'm coughin' up gunk, high fever (104 at one point) achy, etc.
Anyone else happen to get this?
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:yuck: What do you know, I caught Swine Flu. I'm coughin' up gunk, high fever (104 at one point) achy, etc.
Anyone else happen to get this?
No thanks god. That sucks. Good luck man. That's scary.Quote:
Originally Posted by NavesRegge
It's very mild. Hopefully it doesn't develop into pneumonia or bronchitis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iron Lizard
The whole 104 part is what got me.
That's when it was at its peak. It only lasted an hour (the 104 fever, that is) and I didn't really feel it. I'd be totally fine if it weren't for the damn cough. For every other breath in through my mouth, I going to into a long cough that lasts 10 seconds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iron Lizard
But, like everything else, video games and Frosties made it better. Fallout 3 does a pretty good job to get my mind off of coughing.
Edit: Honestly, it's really just a normal flu with a cough, it seems. One of the schools in the area around my city apparently had 60 cases of swine flu and they had to shut the school down. It's all mild and no deaths, thankfully.
Well get well soon man.
That reminds me, I gotta stock up on 7up, chicken noodle soup, and VHS copies of Cool Runnings just incase I'm stricken with teh H1N1. I'll be damned if I die before I get to see the 2pacalypse come to fruition in 2012.
Get well soon!
Remember the white man's cure for the flu: DayQuil, chicken soup, and Sprite. :D
Swine Flu is nothing special. It is less dangerous than the Human Flu. You'll live despite what the media would have you think. But if you want to have some fun, alert the media that you have swine flu and that you'll be out in public with a facemask. Gasp! You'd probably make the national news. It doesn't take much to scare sheep, err I mean people!
...which only affects like 10-20% of the world's population each year. I think in Germany alone we have like 10.000 dead each year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
Just because no one makes a big deal out of it doesn't mean it's not dangerous to the old and young, Dr. Redifer. =P
Get well soon. Drink your medicine. Drink lots of fluids and eat well. Stop typing and get some rest.
I hope not, those are way more dangerous statistically. Get well samurai.Quote:
Originally Posted by NavesRegge
I got it, nothing some vodka and ccrackers couldnt fix.
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
I heard that when you get it, you constantly have visions of "Pigs in Space".
Confirm/Deny?
So Bird Flu>Human Flu>Swine Flu?
You ever think you might have hworms?
I remember a few months ago catching a sickness that my mother had, the doctor said that it could have been the swine flu but he didn't know for sure. So there's a chance that I had it, and I have to say it wasn't nearly as fun as playing Sega Genesis, in fact it really sucked.
Get well soon dude!
Who told you that! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rusty Venture
I have no fear of dying. I implanted a Sega Genesis into my heart years ago. I'm immortal now. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
No. The bird flu was less than nothing. Barely any humans died from it anywhere, but they sure killed a lot of poultry over it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Youngie
Blast Processing!Quote:
Originally Posted by NavesRegge
BREAKING NEWS: Now I have diarhea.
Oink Oink
Like I said, Swine Flu is less dangerous than the normal flu. People go apeshit about Swine Flu, but not-so-much about normal flu.Quote:
Originally Posted by Christuserloeser
I wonder, do people really want to save each and every individual life, no matter the affliction? Our population is way out of control as it is now, just imagine how bad it would be if we could save nearly everyone's life! People love to fuck and have lots of kids, that's all they know how to do. Everyone thinks there is room and resources enough for their children, so why not have them? Living to a very old age is not such a good thing, either. You are pretty much useless, just sucking away a lot of other people's time, money and space. More diseases need to kill the elderly. I honestly hope that I die before I get too old.
I dunno, it seems to me that there is plenty of room and resources for quite a while. Of course, you couldn't feed them all with fresh whale meat or provide everyone with a piano with keys made of ivory, but if with the proper precautions you could easily feed twice as many people as we're doing now.
You sound like a supporter for Euthanasia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
Like Bobcat Goldthwait said: Thin the Herd! Natural Selection - it's only natural. :D
Yeah, euthanasia sounds cool. We do it for animals. Humans are animals. Is there any reason humans need to live as long as absolutely possible? No. If they are still able to function decently enough, then sure. If they are willing to be admitted to a nursing home, then sure (I do not recommend this after seeing what has become of my mom during her stay). Everyone makes death out to be this big scary thing that is evil. Not so.
Christ User Loser, please explain on how we could make room and food enough for twice the people we have on the planet now. Explain, don't just say we can do it.
There is so much wrong in those statements that I don't know where to start.
"Christ User Loser" - ...you sound a bit "TheEdge"-y there =P
Well, I hinted at it in my previous post: The basic idea is that you cut back on some of the more limited resources and replace them with something else that we got plenty of. - We don't need to use coal power and instead could use solar power or even atomic energy if necessary.Quote:
Explain
Cars don't need to function exactly like they did 150 years ago for all eternity. Alternatives are being worked on in Israel, China, India.
And instead of flushing your toilet with fresh drinking water, we could use rain water instead.
And without having some fantastillions of cows eating plants and you eating the cows you could just eat some more plants and less cows instead.
#1 - I like easting cows. I am not a plant eater.
#2 - What if there is a drought? Or what if you live in Arizona? No toilet flushing for you.
You never addressed where to put all of these people. There are a lot of deserts where people could live and that'd mean we would need that much more rainwater to flush their poo. Basically to do the things you say, we'd have to spend trillions if not quadrillions of dollars to convert everything. Who's gonna pay? Good luck with that. Come up with realistic ways, not fantasy ways. Asking people to just "eat fewer cows" is not going to happen.
Lol! +1Quote:
Originally Posted by GriskaGyoran
Our very own Twitter!Quote:
Originally Posted by NavesRegge
Well, you do occasionally eat bread and fruits and vegetables, do you ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
- If meat prices would be taxed with some sort of "dead animal tax" that would allow to gain some democratic control on meat consumption (and thus free resources needed to feed more people), you would still be able to eat meat but it probably wouldn't be three times a day anymore.
I am sure it could be connected to some sort of alternative water supply or storage system - kinda like the current system using fresh water but using reclaimed water or desalinated seawater instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
Remember that a few hundred years ago, people couldn't imagine a place where there's a million people, and today we got cities that are home to tens of millions of people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
I assume that progress can be made gradually over time. I am sure it would take a while until things reached a certain level but we'll get there eventually.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
Remember when some fifty years ago there was no TV, no refrigerators, no highways, and no internet ? and a hundred years ago when there barely were any streets or sewers ?
Until population doubled, there should be plenty of time for gradual progress.
Not to nit-pick, but there were TV's, highways/interstates, and refrigerators 50 years ago.
60-70 years ago would have been a better number.
Yup, I probably was a bit too enthusiastic there.
Not eating meat three times a day? Ridiculous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Christuserloeser
the africans should be left alone... when they were allowed to eat each other there were no problems
Well get well soon!Quote:
Originally Posted by NavesRegge
I just got over a really bad cold that lasted about 8 days, and it sounds just like that. (I never bothered to check my temp, but I'm sure I had a high fever, 'cuz I always do anytime I'm sick.) I've been so achy, and so congested, and coughing up so much stuff -- it's been disgusting.
The funny thing is that I got a regular flu shot, four days before I got real sick. My dad is convinced that I caught the flu from the flu shot, lol.
As for some of the other comments in this thread, I'm sure people must be just joking around, but some of the comments make me feel sick... I think that it's true that food resources could be better distributed throughout the world in a variety of ways, including better pricing and more support for developing nations... I also think that somehow, the human population needs to stop growing exponentially, because the world's resources are already so strained as it is...
Wow, so much heavy stuff in a thread about getting sick!