[Jotapay]

Bank X is well capitalized. We have hit bottom in the housing market.

[virgincrude]

I see green shoots on the horizon ...

(It's grass, and we're all gonna be eating it.)

[ForlornHope]

This won't hurt a bit, and you don't have to bend over...
F.H.

[Last_Laff]

Obama's peoples man.

[dohboi]

My daughter probably just had this. No big deal. Got a high temp for about 24 hours but bounced back now and is cleaning her room, doing laundry and working in the yard. If that is a common reaction, maybe it should be spread more widely among teens!

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('virgincrude', 'I') see green shoots on the horizon ...

(It's grass, and we're all gonna be eating it.)

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DrBang', 'I') have this uneasy feeling regarding this swine flu pandemic. About 2-3 weeks the media reported all was good , all cases were captured and managed and the flu was quarantined. Then all of a sudden hundreds of cases popped up around the world. Quite a few in Oz too – note that most of the cases in Oz are in Melbourne where it was confirmed that the people diagnosed had no contact with OS travellers and they could not work out how they caught the virus..



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[Colorado 12]

I personally didnt think its a big deal... 3,000 people die a year from the common cold and only two people in the US (infant & elderly) have died from swin flue... Am I missing something here?

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Colorado 12', 'I') personally didnt think its a big deal... 3,000 people die a year from the common cold and only two people in the US (infant & elderly) have died from swin flue... Am I missing something here?

[IMSancho]

A decent summary of the Australian outbreak can be found here:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/sp ... 85,00.html

Currently most people are more concerned about if it'll effect the 'State of Origin' footy games

[Blueberry]

Yep, only 2 deaths, in the last few hours, that is.

[Shar_Lamagne]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he World Health Organization has said that a sharp increase in swine flu cases in Australia may push it to finally announce a flu pandemic. It would be the first such pandemic announced in four decades.
More than 1,200 people have contracted the virus in Australia, a four-fold increase in a week. Less than a month ago Australia had only a handful of cases of the H1N1 virus but it now has the highest number of infections outside North America.

[bluekachina]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')HO's flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the agency wanted to avoid 'adverse effects' if it announces a global outbreak of swine flu. Fukuda said people might panic or that governments might take inappropriate actions if the WHO declares a pandemic.
Some flu experts think the world already is in a pandemic and that WHO has caved in to country requests that a declaration be postponed. 'On the surface of it, I think we are in phase 6,' or a pandemic, said Margaret Chan, WHO's director-general.

[DrBang]

Has anyone in Australia actually died from this flu? I have been trying to determine this. What is the world wide death toll? I got the impression it is a lot worse in Mexico than anywhere else and the real concern is what it may become.

[bluekachina]

None yet reported that I know of. But they seem reluctant to make any of this public.

If the Eskimos have it, it spans the entire length of the planet.

From the arcticle,

"WHO said the virus has infected 26,563 people in 73 countries and caused 140 deaths."

[Shar_Lamagne]

You're right, they are trying to cover it up.

From New Zealand

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')fter today, suspected cases and numbers of people in isolation will no longer be reported. Fewer reporting requirements on public health services helps to relieve administrative pressure and allows them to focus on the increasing number of calls on their services in response to H1N1 cases.

[Micki]

From what I hear there isn't a single death anywhere from just the flu. Only people with underlying problems have died. Neither has the proper genetical structure of the virus been properly mapped, yet Sarkozy, from what I hear, is preparing for mandatory mass vaccinations in France.
A re-run of 1976 when big pharma rubbed their hands whilst people died from vaccinations but not from the virus?

[bluekachina]

You must not live in Victoria.

I've never understood your position on many of your posts.

Most times you seem pro-corporate, but this time you seem to be against big pharma.

You seem to support issues from the right. But I don't understand this one.

Are you saying you are a flu denialist. I guess there always has to be a first.

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Micki', 'F')rom what I hear there isn't a single death anywhere from just the flu. Only people with underlying problems have died. Neither has the proper genetical structure of the virus been properly mapped, yet Sarkozy, from what I hear, is preparing for mandatory mass vaccinations in France.
A re-run of 1976 when big pharma rubbed their hands whilst people died from vaccinations but not from the virus?