NationStates Jolt Archive

Because there's nothing better than causing mass panic. Obviously the area most affected is Mexico followed by the US. 7 cases have been reported in Canada, 1 in Spain and now 2 more have been confirmed in Scotland according to the BBC website.

Other nations that are screening include Australia, Israel, France and New Zealand.

Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8020208.stm)

So, what does this mean? Pandemic coming or will it be contained quickly?

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=591369

also I'm not all that worried to be honest I mean we got through SARS with no problems at all

Not worried. Media hype.

Here's hoping for a pandemic that kills about four billion people.

I'll tell y'all when it's time to panic.

That time hasn't come. Yet.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=591369

It's my first day...

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also I'm not all that worried to be honest I mean we got through SARS with no problems at all

Crazy old SARS.

I'm more concerned about exams than I am about pig flu, on the other hand it might be time to reread The Stand

Here's hoping for a pandemic that kills about four billion people.

I am hoping on 6 billion people. That's the entire world.

Oink oink oink!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh! It's got me!

I am hoping on 6 billion people. That's the entire world.

20 billion! If we're going down, might as well take some alien civilisations with us. Teach them for visiting our planet without an invite.

Here's hoping for a pandemic that kills about four billion people.

How sick minded people are these days. Wishing for the death of 4 billion people? Each person having their own life, feelings, thoughts, hopes, etc, and you want to kill them?

But we all know that Madagascar will close its ports and they will survive.

REVELATIONS!!! ITS THE END TIMES! THE PLAGUE PEOPLE! THE PLAAAAAAAAAAAAAGUUUEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


No, seriously, more hype.

How sick minded people are these days. Wishing for the death of 4 billion people? Each person having their own life, feelings, thoughts, hopes, etc, and you want to kill them?

But..but...he's only pointing at 4. I am more sick!

I am hoping on 6 billion people. That's the entire world.

20 billion! If we're going down, might as well take some alien civilisations with us. Teach them for visiting our planet without an invite.

But..but...he's only pointing at 4. I am more sick!

I rest my case.

But..but...he's only pointing at 4. I am more sick!

And you probably touch yourself at nights too, eh? :tongue:

20 billion! If we're going down, might as well take some alien civilisations with us. Teach them for visiting our planet without an invite.

Have you noticed how the cattle-mutilating aliens never go after pigs? Never heard of cow flu, have you? :eek2:

But we all know that Madagascar will close its ports and they will survive.

Pah, all it would take is a determined group to take over a cargo vessel and deliberately beach it. I saw a documentary about it featuring some penguins, and a zebra...

And you probably touch yourself at nights too, eh? :tongue:

Sometimes, yes. It's NOT a sin, whatever your parents told you.

We have 2 threads on this. What's interesting is that ever since watching Survivors, I've made 3 contingency plans for a viral apocalypse. 1 with friends, one with my family and one that assumes I'm the only person who I know that survives.

But we all know that Madagascar will close its ports and they will survive.

There's a game called Pandemic 2, and Madagascar always closes its ports and survives the apocalypse.

I am hoping on 6 billion people. That's the entire world.

I think we're at about 6.5 billion now. So that'd work even better.

How sick minded people are these days. Wishing for the death of 4 billion people? Each person having their own life, feelings, thoughts, hopes, etc, and you want to kill them?

No, I want them to die. I have no desire to kill them.

There's a game called Pandemic 2, and Madagascar always closes its ports and survives the apocalypse.

Those bastards. Closing down completely for a disease with no symptoms and zero fatalities.

Here's hoping for a pandemic that kills about four billion people.

sounds like fun especially as its centered on your side of the pond :p

I'll tell y'all when it's time to panic.

oh fuck GM said panic! *cracks open skulls and feasts on the delicious goo inside*

Crazy old SARS.

you notice how that stopped after we invaded Iraq :confused:

20 billion! If we're going down, might as well take some alien civilisations with us. Teach them for visiting our planet without an invite.

this is beginning to sound more and more like the plot to the thing

sounds like fun especially as its centered on your side of the pond :p Just remember, we produce vast amounts of food for the world.

On the other hand it only takes about 3% of us to do so. Still the loss of infrastructure would make it difficult.

We have 2 threads on this. What's interesting is that ever since watching Survivors, I've made 3 contingency plans for a viral apocalypse. 1 with friends, one with my family and one that assumes I'm the only person who I know that survives.

I have access to weapons, ammunition, explosives, NBC kit (and spare for a whore), military vehicles and a castle with a built in pub

yeah I'm pretty cushty atm

Just remember, we produce vast amounts of food for the world.

the hole in your plan though is that I live in the EU (so I'll just die of mad cow instead :/)

On the other hand it only takes about 3% of us to do so. Still the loss of infrastructure would make it difficult.

so in a way you guys could win a nuclear holocaust *points at Russia being a nuisance*

Sometimes, yes. It's NOT a sin, whatever your parents told you.

I knew a guy that knew a guy that knew a guy that masturbated day and night. Not only did he go blind, but he also got hairy palms. Poor guy, he couldn't see, nor could read braille. :(

I have access to weapons, ammunition, explosives, NBC kit (and spare for a whore), military vehicles and a castle with a built in pub

Yeah, there's a TA base about 2 miles down the road from me. What me and a couple of mates were thinking, in case of 99% of the country dying or whatever, just ramming a bus or a truck through the gates, stocking up on guns, tents, survival rations etc, then off to the Forest of Dean.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021301.stm


Israel renames unkosher swine flu
Yakov Litzman
Litzman is one of eight ultra-Orthodox members of the government team

Israeli Health Minister Yakov Litzman has been updating a nervous public on the swine flu epidemic - and he started by renaming it for religious reasons.

"We will call it Mexican flu. We won't call it swine flu," said Mr Litzman, who belongs to the ultra-religious United Torah Judaism party.

Pigs are considered unclean under Jewish dietary laws and pork is also banned for Israel's Muslim minority.

Israel has yet to confirm a case of the flu which has claimed 100 lives.

Mr Litzman said there was no indication the virus had reached Israel, but precautionary measures and monitoring wwer required because of the heavy air traffic between Israel and the US, which has a number of confirmed cases.

Religiously sensitive

Yakov Litzman serves as deputy health minister in the recently-formed government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who took the position of health minister himself.

Mr Litzman is one of eight ultra-Orthodox Jewish ministers and deputy ministers in Mr Netanyahu's administration.

Correspondents in Israel say scientists are concerned the new religiously sensitive name could could be seen as stigmatising Mexico.

The North American country has had the most cases of swine flu, but it is not necessarily where the disease first emerged.

Swine flu is a respiratory disease caused by a type of influenza which usually infects pigs.

Until now it has not normally infected humans, but the latest form clearly does, and can be spread from person to person - probably through coughing and sneezing.

There is no evidence that it can be transmitted through eating meat from infected pigs.

lol joos

now would be a really funny time to pretend you have a cold on an airplane

Yeah, there's a TA base about 2 miles down the road from me. What me and a couple of mates were thinking, in case of 99% of the country dying or whatever, just ramming a bus or a truck through the gates, stocking up on guns, tents, survival rations etc, then off to the Forest of Dean.

good luck opening the door to the armoury...or finding any tents :p

good luck opening the door to the armoury...or finding any tents :p

You lot don't even have tents? Bastards. I think the armoury'd open easy enough with a bus rammed through it.

You lot don't even have tents? Bastards. I think the armoury'd open easy enough with a bus rammed through it.

1) troops are not put in the field for more than 14 days anyway due to the fact that you start to decompose so your best off just taking over a farmhouse and trying to grow something

2) nah 3 doors that you need some pretty heavy kit to break through so maybe you should ram that bus into an air rifle shop instead :p

Stop flights coming in from the Americans until this is over pls -_-

1) troops are not put in the field for more than 14 days anyway due to the fact that you start to decompose so your best off just taking over a farmhouse and trying to grow something

We've already got all this sorted, don't worry.

2) nah 3 doors that you need some pretty heavy kit to break through so maybe you should ram that bus into an air rifle shop instead :p

I think a lorry could do it.

Stop flights coming in from the Americans until this is over pls -_-

why not wait until all the rich people move over here?

I think a lorry could do it.

by heavy kit I mean maybe a tank round (course a kinetic round would obliterate whats inside but thats not the point)

the MOD has invested vast man hours in making sure that in the event of a disaster you can all be rounded up into collective farms and put to work

why not wait until all the rich people move over here?
Because they might still be carriers.

Because they might still be carriers.

step 1) upper class Americans mix with British upper class
step 2) flu kills off the high class
step 3) end of history

or rather we just kill the flu with Tamiflu

All this talk of flu, I am beginning to feel a bit peeky.

Pah, all it would take is a determined group to take over a cargo vessel and deliberately beach it. I saw a documentary about it featuring some penguins, and a zebra...

It should work.

There's a game called Pandemic 2, and Madagascar always closes its ports and survives the apocalypse.

Bastards.

Those bastards. Closing down completely for a disease with no symptoms and zero fatalities.
I know someone in China sneezes and Madagascar closes their ports.

It should work.



Bastards.


I know someone in China sneezes and Madagascar closes their ports.

Am I the only one who managed to kill off Madagascar?

For those of you who don't habitually read xkcd:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/swine_flu.png
http://xkcd.com/574/

Am I the only one who managed to kill off Madagascar?

Probably, unless you start out there. Seriously, no symptoms, bastards sealed up.