Next disaster - your prediction

[underworld]

a lot of dead

[TREETOAD]

Lock the door, switch the light

You'll be so afraid tonight

Hide away from the bad

Count the nine lives that you had

 

Start to scream, shout for help

There is no one by your side

To forget what is done

Seems so hard to carry on

 

Death walks behind you

Death walks behind you

Death walks behind you

Death walks behind you

 

drink up

[Stonehead]

My vote would be for the cc.com server to crash.

 

BTW, FEMA has nothing to do with the Bird Flu. Homeland Security, CDC, USDA, WHO and others are all falling all over themselves. Keep in mind that it hasn't been found in North America yet and it still requires a mutation to become a human threat. You may now return to your Krispy Kremes and Starbucks.

 

I thought that it was a human threat, but that it required further mutation to become communicable among humans (not just from bird to human) and thus become a pandemic-sized threat. Is that a gross oversimplification?

 

Viruses can act as agents in transpecific gene transfer.

[foraker]

BTW, FEMA has nothing to do with the Bird Flu.

 

Gee, really? Man, you can't even take a swipe at a bungling agency anymore without Penny Pantybuncher stepping in to correct you.

[Stonehead]

Do ya remember the brouhaha surrounding the swine flu, I think, during the late '70s? Seems the swine flu epidemic didn't materialize and that the vaccinations actually caused more deaths.

 

The Bush administration has already indicated its willingness to dispatch troops to enforce a quarantine in the event of an outbreak of bird flu. At face value, seems a sensible thing to do, to plan ahead in the contingency of an outbreak. But, man, things keep getting weirder and weirder...

[Ducknut]

BTW, FEMA has nothing to do with the Bird Flu.

 

Gee, really? Man, you can't even take a swipe at a bungling agency anymore without Penny Pantybuncher stepping in to correct you.

 

Sorry Foraker for raining on your parade.

 

Should I make this my new avatar?

 

BTW Homeland Security will upstage FEMA in ineptitude.

[TREETOAD]

Is it raining frogs yet?

[EWolfe]

Seriously. The best way to protect yourself during this is:

 

1. carry an alcohol hand-cleaner with you and wash your hands like a fanatic.

2. Never use your hands on a public handle (use clothing instead)

3. Remember, everyone may be a carrier. Due diligence.

4. Be aware of your hands touching your face between washings. This is a major transmission point.

[TREETOAD]

 

There are some really good hand cleaners out now that we use in the hospital, on is called monorapid which has lanolin in it. you don't use water just squirt it on and rub until it evaporates, I must use it twenty times a day.

[JoshK]

The next disaster will be man-made. Either a terrorist attack or a big oil spill.

 

 

No way. With the frequency of natural disasters compared to man-made ones the chances are the next will also be natural.

[sk]

Seriously. The best way to protect yourself during this is:

 

1. carry an alcohol hand-cleaner with you and wash your hands like a fanatic.

2. Never use your hands on a public handle (use clothing instead)

3. Remember, everyone may be a carrier. Due diligence.

4. Be aware of your hands touching your face between washings. This is a major transmission point.

 

 

are you guys ready for the full on body condom??? seriously. If we could invent a sealant for our bodies that allowed for some ammount of breathability but that would not pass germs our allow us to touch our own skin we would be totaly rich. it could be like a spray on thing that you spray on as you walk threw the door in the morning.

 

[Dru]

If you are never exposed to germs you get an autoimmune disease cause the immune system doesn't have enough to do so it starts attacking you instead. I'd rather have the flu one week a year than permanent asthma or Crohn's or something.

[catbirdseat]

If you are never exposed to germs you get an autoimmune disease cause the immune system doesn't have enough to do so it starts attacking you instead. I'd rather have the flu one week a year than permanent asthma or Crohn's or something.

That is one theory among many. It remains to be seen exactly how that works.

[Dru]

You're right. It is "only a theory". The flu is intelligently designed. Only prayer will help.

[JoshK]

You're right. It is "only a theory". The flu is intelligently designed. Only prayer will help.

 

 

Clearly the flu is god's way of dealing with homosexuals and those who kiss on first dates.

[EWolfe]

You're right. It is "only a theory". The flu is intelligently designed. Only prayer will help.

 

 

Clearly the flu is god's way of dealing with homosexuals and those who kiss on first dates.

 

Don't forget about those blasphemers and paegans on the Gulf Coast. Oh, yes. They got their just desserts...

[Dechristo]

Seriously. The best way to protect yourself during this is:

 

1. carry an alcohol hand-cleaner with you and wash your hands like a fanatic.

2. Never use your hands on a public handle (use clothing instead)

3. Remember, everyone may be a carrier. Due diligence.

4. Be aware of your hands touching your face between washings. This is a major transmission point.

 

...and stop kissing ass.

[TREETOAD]

I don't think you can contract a virus from someone kissing your ass.

[Dechristo]

The warning is for Kissers, not Kissees.

 

Of course, the Kissee is in jeopardy if he/she has an open wound or fissure.

[TREETOAD]

What is the difference between an ass kisser and a brown noser?

[TREETOAD]

Depth perception

[Dechristo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4714574.stm