Oh, and here's how you know it's really bad:  they cancelled Mass.

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Here's the link I was reading.  It's in Spanish.  I didn't see a link for English.

http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/496/990081/

Try this one, seems to not need a subscription:  http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/593683.html

Edit: the Google translation is okay

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Emmeran wrote:

tojo2000 wrote:

Also interesting that all fatalities have been in people between 20 and 50 years old.  It's like influenza fatality opposite day.

Wasn't that the hallmark of the 1918 Flu, taking down the young and strong, decimating armies etc, yet leaving wards of extremely young or extremely old with only the small sniffles.

Not quite but close enough.

choad wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

tojo2000 wrote:

Also interesting that all fatalities have been in people between 20 and 50 years old.  It's like influenza fatality opposite day.

Wasn't that the hallmark of the 1918 Flu, taking down the young and strong, decimating armies etc, yet leaving wards of extremely young or extremely old with only the small sniffles.

Not quite but close enough.

Scientists have used tissue samples from frozen victims to reproduce the virus for study...Among the conclusions of this research is that the virus kills via a cytokine storm, which explains its unusually severe nature and the unusual age profile of its victims (the virus caused an overreaction of the body's immune system—the strong immune systems of young adults ravaged the body, while the weaker immune systems of children and middle-aged adults caused fewer deaths).

As I said in another thread, this worries me.  And air travel is more efficient than the troop ships of 1918:

In New Zealand, officials said 22 students and three teachers, who returned from a three-week-long language trip to Mexico, may have been infected with the virus.

I did it:



http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html

orangeplus wrote:

I did it:

http://dial-a-nihilist.com/doomsday.png

http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html

How in hell did you get your disease to spread to all the islands before they closed off the ports and airports?

Well, I tried that as well as a few other things, about two dozen times and I never made it to all the islands. 0-24.

See you all real soon!

Speaking of which, I literally just finished reading Alan Weisman's "The World Without Us" which examines what the world might look like if and when humanity disappears all at once, en masse. I found myself going from utter despair (some parts of the book are incredibly depressing - no, really, really depressing) to wonder and hope. And when it's not busy inducing you to slash your wrists - as well as the wrists of everyone you know - it's funny as hell.

Read it. It's definite High Street material.

Taint wrote:

Speaking of which, I literally just finished reading Alan Weisman's "The World Without Us" [...] Read it. It's definite High Street material.

You could say that.

We're Fucked

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Taint wrote:

Speaking of which, I literally just finished reading Alan Weisman's "The World Without Us" which examines what the world might look like if and when humanity disappears all at once, en masse. I found myself going from utter despair (some parts of the book are incredibly depressing - no, really, really depressing) to wonder and hope. And when it's not busy inducing you to slash your wrists - as well as the wrists of everyone you know - it's funny as hell.

Read it. It's definite High Street material.

That is an excellent read....  That book doesn an amazing job of putting humans and their place on this planet into perspective.

choad wrote:

Taint wrote:

Speaking of which, I literally just finished reading Alan Weisman's "The World Without Us" [...] Read it. It's definite High Street material.

You could say that.

We're Fucked

The first entry in the High Street Book Club!

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jesusluvspegging wrote:

The history channel made this documentary last year (upon which the series is being based, I believe), and it's pretty damned good.  I highly recommend it.

I know, and I'd love to see to it but I'll have to wait until it appears on line or shows up on DVD.

ah297900 wrote:

You're joking, right? I've tried upwards of thirty times now, and never killed everybody. I've tried every permutation I can think of, and no matter what it doesn't get to every island. One time it started on Madagascar, infected everyone on the island, and they closed their own port before it could get off.

No I've played exactly once, and that was a screen capture.  I sold off all the symptoms, added to the resistances, and bought all four means of transmission.  I waited until everyone was infected and started buying symptoms, to kill everyone.   Maybe it was beginners luck.  It wasn't that interesting and took long enough that I'm not going to keep doing it to find out.

choad wrote:

Fled wrote:

Taint - You don't dl torrents?  JLP included a link.  There are active seeds, so you can get it if you wish to.

I'm guessing Taint tried a torrent client once but only long enough to infect his windows system with viral vermin.

HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAH is this a serious problem with windows torrent clients?

tojo2000 wrote:

No, not the clients, but if you're going to go download illegal software, one of the hazards is that you might be downloading from some unscrupulous individuals using it to spread malware.

But for the most part you're not downloading software, you're downloading media.  Also, with software, if you stick to popular torrents that people have commented on favorably, you run very little risk.  My pet windows partition is packed with stolen games, and there's not a single virus on there.  I don't leave a virus scanner running, even.  I just scan it every couple months for shits and giggles and I never find anything.

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tojo2000 wrote:

jesusluvspegging wrote:

tojo2000 wrote:

No, not the clients, but if you're going to go download illegal software, one of the hazards is that you might be downloading from some unscrupulous individuals using it to spread malware.

But for the most part you're not downloading software, you're downloading media.  Also, with software, if you stick to popular torrents that people have commented on favorably, you run very little risk.  My pet windows partition is packed with stolen games, and there's not a single virus on there.  I don't leave a virus scanner running, even.  I just scan it every couple months for shits and giggles and I never find anything.

Yes, you're very smart.

No, I'm just not stupid about what I download on a vulnerable OS.

Back on topic:


(from the wonderful xkcd)

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar … sVRy5GLu9A

tojo2000 wrote:

orangeplus wrote:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j-GfE-Gd8nNLh2psz2sVRy5GLu9A

Oh, Jesus.

Not exactly

Strictly as a token of my respect, Sofie, you suck.

I am the canary in this coal mine-I have downs preschoolers sneeze and cough on me-they're cute little buggers but their respiratory systems suck- every single day M-F and they're all either from Mexico, recently went to Mexico, going back to Mexico, or have a relative staying with them from Mexico. 

I was holding a little friend of mine in my arms yesterday when he sneezed. The janitor-this guy who is a dead ringer for Scatman Crothers-happened to be walking by at the time and looked at me, shaking his head and said, "Swine flu, man. You're all gonna die. You're all gonna die."

Freaked me out. I do have Tamiflu, however-thank you, Mom-and I carry it in my car in case I start feeling like shit..

icangetyouatoe wrote:

Freaked me out. I do have Tamiflu, however-thank you, Mom-and I carry it in my car in case I start feeling like shit..

Toe, God love ya, kid, but I gotta put ya wise cause I like you... Tamiflu is not bad, but please get your doc to prescribe you some Relenza instead.  There's a whole lot more resistant organisms to Tamiflu than there are to Relenza.  Trust me - it happens to be my business to know. 

On edit, confirmation:
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/04 … e/sci-flu4

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= … 0&refer=uk

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