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    Scientists Offer Four Scenarios Predicting the Spread of Swine Flu
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    05/05/09

    In reply to Scientists Offer Four Scenarios Predicting the Spread of Swine Flu
    I am generally not a real word-monger, but it really should be called H1N1, especially by a science fiction site. The swine flu name has been absolutely devastating to the hog industry.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/01/09

    In reply to Scientists Offer Four Scenarios Predicting the Spread of Swine Flu
    No, mention of the inevitable zombieism?
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/01/09

    @Garrison Dean: No but I hope you're whipping up some kind of dastardly photoshopperie of these images in your head right now . . .
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    05/01/09

    @Garrison Dean: Yawn. Inevitable zombieism is so 2003. The real threat is reverse mummyism.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/01/09

    @OW-Holmes, the housekeeper.: Why doesn't the CDC talk about the rampant hairless lyncanthropy threat?
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    Image of AlfaCharger AlfaCharger
    05/01/09

    In reply to Scientists Offer Four Scenarios Predicting the Spread of Swine Flu
    What those videos need is the Soundtrack from "The Andromeda Strain".


    Not the bad mini series but the good "Robert Wise" motion picture!

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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    05/01/09

    @AlfaCharger: Im thinking the song "In the House,In A Hearbeat" from 28 Days Later.


    I need to work on my doomsday mix.

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    Image of dstok dstok
    05/01/09

    In reply to Scientists Offer Four Scenarios Predicting the Spread of Swine Flu
    Millions die of a flu each year. The government says swine flu and everyone freaks out. Could this be the beginning of the end of the world like the Aztecs said?
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    05/01/09

    @dstok: We've still got a few years before that calendar runs out don't we?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/01/09

    @bpapa9013 - Is full of ぶっちぎり, probably...: We could just pick up a new calendar at Hallmark's.
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    Image of I_Like_Rabbits I_Like_Rabbits
    05/01/09

    In reply to Scientists Offer Four Scenarios Predicting the Spread of Swine Flu
    I'm kind of confused: Didn't I die from avian flu last year? Or SARS the year before? Or Ebola? Or HIV? Or Anthrax? Or the suitcase nukes? Or....


    What really pisses me off is that even though my fiance and family are all down to Earth, college grads, they let themselves get worked up about shit like this EVERY FUCKING YEAR.


    At least my fiance is now starting to remember SARS and avian flu and is calming.

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    05/01/09

    @I_Like_Rabbits: What do you expect us to do if we didn't have irrational fears every year?
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    Image of mrsultana mrsultana
    05/01/09

    @I_Like_Rabbits:

    Don't forget West Nile, hanta virus, and whatever killed Patrick Dempsey in Outbreak!
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    05/01/09

    @mrsultana: I believe that was called "Cute-Monkey Hemorrhagic Fever".
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    05/01/09

    In reply to Scientists Offer Four Scenarios Predicting the Spread of Swine Flu
    This is all very informative, but I was planning on using the chaos to consolidate my Empire. Speaking of that, I am looking for fedaykin if anyone is interested.
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    Image of Alabaster Skies and Violent Rain Alabaster Skies and Violent Rain
    05/01/09

    @OW-Holmes, the housekeeper.:


    You're going to have stiff competition from me. I'm planning to pick up the shattered pieces of a broken society and install a world hegemony; with me at the head of course. You can join me now...

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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    05/01/09

    @Alabaster Skies and Violent Rain: Pick up the pieces? No, no, my friend. I have been putting allies in places of power and position for years. A loose net of world political, religious, and military leaders all at my beck and call. This is just the perfect opportunity to... spring the trap.


    I would offer you the opportunity to join, but you seem too strong willed for my future "utopia".

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    05/01/09

    @OW-Holmes, the housekeeper.: If you got spice, I'm in.
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    05/01/09

    @shredstar: So it is a battle for Amsterdam then is it?
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    05/01/09

    In reply to Scientists Offer Four Scenarios Predicting the Spread of Swine Flu
    RE: News media Panicking the populace


    YOUR NOT HELPING!!!

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/01/09

    @alphanumeric1971: Look, this is a paper about mathematical models showing how to deal with a flu epidemic. It's interesting new research, that happens to be relevant. I'm not saying we'll die of swine flu anywhere in this article. In fact, I'm saying there is a simple way to prevent its spread.
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    05/01/09

    @Annalee Newitz: You're not saying we'll die of swine flu? Then what are you saying?


    Am I already dead?

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