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03-02-2007, 1:06 AM
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03-02-2007, 1:41 AM
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A certain inevitability about it and yeah it looks bad.
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03-02-2007, 2:14 AM
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Culture of Fear in full flow.
What about:
'Millions of turkeys killed by Christmas'.
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03-02-2007, 8:18 AM
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Oh God, does this mean the BBC and other news crews will be camping out there bringing live broadcasts from the fields for the next month  They're bound to go over the top about it as usual.
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03-02-2007, 9:31 AM
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Originally Posted by JohnG  Oh God, does this mean the BBC and other news crews will be camping out there bringing live broadcasts from the fields for the next month. |  Yep, Already caught one of those reports on BBC1 this morning....
You could actually see the Turkey sheds behind her, over the field 
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03-02-2007, 9:49 AM
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That's it, the telly is going in the bin
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03-02-2007, 11:52 AM
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it is h5n1
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03-02-2007, 5:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Jammyb it is h5n1 | Then why am I still not afraid?
Is it because I have spent years hearing horror stories about how nearly everything is bad for me or is gonna kill me.
Do you honestly see tens of thousands ever dying from this flu like they are continually telling us? Cos I don't ever see it happening.
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Originally Posted by RMCF Then why am I still not afraid?
Is it because I have spent years hearing horror stories about how nearly everything is bad for me or is gonna kill me.
Do you honestly see tens of thousands ever dying from this flu like they are continually telling us? Cos I don't ever see it happening. | it's happened a few times through out history already , the Spanish flu (1918) killed between 20 -50 million people
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03-02-2007, 7:23 PM
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Yeah, but medical advances since 1918 have been enormous.
We aren't going to have hundreds of thousands or millions dying from bird flu.
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03-02-2007, 7:28 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnG Oh God, does this mean the BBC and other news crews will be camping out there bringing live broadcasts from the fields for the next month They're bound to go over the top about it as usual. | Its not going 'over the top'...... This could be disastrous. At higher levels in key critical industries a hell of a lot of contingency has been discussed and formed ready to put into place if god forbid the disease crosses the species barrier.
This could potentially be catastrophic and as others have said, replicate some of the major events in world history.
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Originally Posted by RMCF Yeah, but medical advances since 1918 have been enormous.
We aren't going to have hundreds of thousands or millions dying from bird flu. | There is no vaccine for this 'flu' as we yet don't know what it looks like in a mutated human form. The drugs that would be available will be the ones for current strains and no one knows if this will have any effect. These stocks are also in limited supply and I guess will be distributed accordingly... gov officials, police, army, doctors etc.
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03-02-2007, 7:57 PM
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Originally Posted by sharger Its not going 'over the top'...... This could be disastrous. At higher levels in key critical industries a hell of a lot of contingency has been discussed and formed ready to put into place if god forbid the disease crosses the species barrier.
This could potentially be catastrophic and as others have said, replicate some of the major events in world history. | True, but if the disease hasn't become an epidemic an a densely populated place like China, where many people quite literally live with their chickens, the chances of it becoming widespread in this country are next to zero.
Still, it won't stop the press having a field day, some very nasty people cashing in on the fear, and some very vulnerable people getting even more scared to step out of their front doors than they are already.
I don't know about you, but I don't spend 13 hours a day inhaling bird poop like the people in Asia who caught the disease did.
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Originally Posted by RMCF Yeah, but medical advances since 1918 have been enormous.
We aren't going to have hundreds of thousands or millions dying from bird flu. | are you asking me , or telling me ? Quote:
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I don't know about you, but I don't spend 13 hours a day inhaling bird poop like the people in Asia who caught the disease did.
| when did you last eat turkey or a chicken ?
i had some KFC tonight .........hey ho
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What bird flu.....i just made a nest and laid an egg...i'm ok.........  | |
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