Swine Flu: Bacon’s Revenge

I wonder if the swine flu is kosher?

So whats bird flu fried chicken’s revenge?

The pig-pen is mightier than the sword:

Ham-handed vengeance that will leave you bacon for mercy.

this is stupid.

Gauldar – pffft! that’s fantastic, thanks for the link!

um, Kalel…I do believe you just got slammed by Nymori.

No, it was Cameron who slammed me.

@kalel
You got served! Now is it on?

I love Neatorama, but do you just make ugly shirts for every little thing that happens? The clip art and bad fonts don’t need to happen. The current event ones look rushed and aren’t worth the money. And while I love being funny and offensive, the swine flu is spreading every day. I really hope it doesn’t come to it but if a pandemic were to occur, this would really be in bad taste.

who cares, its such a sissy disease anyway, just like bird flu.

Meg, perhaps you didn’t read the post.

“Moral outrage is welcome (as long as it’s funny).”

Traffic kills more people than you mention in hours yet you have no problem with it. Be funnier. use the fact that all the dead are Mexicans. Can’t go wrong with dead Mexican jokes.

“Traffic kills more people than you mention in hours yet you have no problem with it. ”

Car crashes aren’t a communicable virus.

Also, no one’s made a “Hah hah car crash victims are TEH SUXXOR!” t-shirt.

No offense, but some people here are really ignorant or more so being stupid about contagious diseases that have the potential of becoming pandemics. So far, the official statistics say that MORE THAN HALF of the people infected with the Swine flu died! And that is not just the old and the weak. Healthy people. Have you been sick with the flu recently? Then you do you know how fast flu spreads. During the Spanish flu more 1 billion people were infected and 30 million died! The Black Death pandemic wiped out MORE THAN HALF the population of Europe at the time! If those things are not contained they can spread extremely quickly among populations. A pandemic at our time would be a global disaster of unprecedented scale!

Anyone got a trough drop?

I am glad to see some commenters here are actively and correctly analyzing the threat of swine flu. I am currently obtaining a masters degree in global public health with a focus on emerging infectious diseases. Let’s note a few things of important:

1. The Spanish flu originally circulated as a moderately infectious and virulent strain before mutating and killing 30 million people. The ability for the strain to attenuate is largely due to the lack of containment and surveillance of the disease.

2. I assume most of you are healthy adults. This strain of flu is more deadly to healthy adults. The over-response of the immune system in healthy adults is usually the cause of death, rather than the actual virus itself.

3. Why have prior pandemics been able to spread so quickly? Well, lets simply apply some common-knowledge to that one. No internet. A lack of global surveillance. When the media can disseminate information to a large number of people quickly and those people can take precautions, the ability for the flu to spread is reduced. Obviously this is not the sole or main reason the flu isn’t a pandemic yet, but it’s certain a factor.

4. Comparing car crash mortality rates and influenza mortality rates is simply ridiculous. Yes, car crashes are a major problem. Go ahead and list off every god damn probably cause of death you want and talk about how “more people die every day of disease/accident/x.” The truth of this matter is, if you all found out in a few months, when this disease subsides, that a highly infectious and potentially deadly strain of flu was infecting hundred of persons in the U.S, Mexico, Europe and a host of other nations, YOU WOULD BE LIGHTING UP MESSAGE BOARDS bitching about the lack of transparency in government and media. This point is the one that irks me that post as a person working in public health. If we do EVERYTHING we can to keep you safe from disease, people act bratty and laugh at the “overreaction” to the threat. If we do nothing and a disease emerges, everyone gets angry and tells acts why we did not do our job.

The truth of the matter is, diseases are highly unpredictable. At this moment, there are thousands of epidemiologists and public health workers flying into the center of the epidemic in Mexico to track this disease and determine the best ways to contain it. I’d like to see how many of you would be willing to go with them right now. Please don’t mock the efforts of the people educated to deal with these problems.

@CQ-
The Central Buro of Statistiscs in the Netherlands where I come from, states that yearly about 80.000 people get sick and about 1.000 to 2.000 persons die. Most of these people are above 65 years old.
The first month of 2009 saw on average an extra thousand deaths caused by the normal flu.

In the Netherlands, in 2008 we had 750 deaths in traffic. And we have very good trasckrecord compared to other countries in Europe where we has about 43 deaths per 1 million inhabitants. Compared: A country like the United Kingdom has about 50 and Belgium has about 101 deaths per million.

The Netherlands is a well developed country with an excellent healthcare system and a population of a little over 16 million people.
It is my estimate that there will be comparable numbers in the US if you even out the numbers. And in that case how will the numbers for that ordinary flu stack up worldwide?

At the same time, worldwide yearly there are about 12.00.000 deaths in traffic.

So again I ask- Only 152 worldwide for this new kind of flu and then all the panic…? I still don’t understand.

um, i have really just skimmed through the comments on this one but honestly you’re all a bunch of silly people. this is a serious issue, but at the same time lets not get crazy. sick people died because they don’t have healthcare. there’s one reported case of this swine flu in my hometown in central california, but no one is make a big deal of it are they? everyone thinks it’s just in mexico but it’s already crossed the border. it’s not a big deal. antibiotics and oj and rest. that’s what they prescribed him. and you guys are spazzing out. this thing affects the old and young the worst. so chillllll. stop arguing…and get back to making jokes. and if you don’t like the jokes then go read something else.

Just an update, the WHO says there have only been 7 (yes, just SEVEN) confirmed swine flu deaths. Everybody just take a biig step back and chill out.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/only-7-swine-flu-deaths-not-152-says-who-2 0090429-aml1.html

People have died, we all have the potential to die if this becomes a pandemic and huffs and puffs and blows our … oh never mind. I’m bad at this sort of thing.

Look, folks, the potential for pandemic is serious, and no one is making light of the confirmed dead or the sick. If you can’t laugh at something like this and feel the need to be overly sensitive and dour, then being on the internet is probably a bad idea. Making jokes is often the best way for people to deal with frightening things, and we are all being bombarded with reports on swine flu twenty four hours a day. It’s nice to have a laugh.

I just can’t figure out why so many people on this thread are acting so sow-r.

It doesn’t matter if it was 7 or 152. (it was 152) and it doesn’t matter if it isn’t the biggest killer there is in the world. Anybody dying for any reason is sad, and not something to be joked about. It may not affect you yet, but that doesn’t mean that other people aren’t suffering because of it. By all means, make attempts at moral outrage in the hopes of being funny. But I think it’s ignorant and distasteful to make jokes at the expense of those who are suffering. If you sent this shirt to a family who lost their baby or their grandmother to swine flu, or any other flu variant for that matter, I highly doubt they’d find the same misguided comedic value in it that you seem to. Everyone deserves to have a laugh and do something to negate all the scary media coverage, but really. There are so many other things you could joke about.

Days of swine & roseola.

Yes, the swine flu can be treated and does not have to be fatal. However, the reality is that a lot of people do not have healthcare, or just wouldn’t believe that they had the swine flu before they had spread it. In fact, it is reported to be contagious at least two days before symptoms arise. So, I applaud the effort to err on the side of caution and make people aware. I live in Fort Worth, TX, where all schools are closed. If just one poor, or uninsured person was spared catching this and possibly dying because their child missed a few days of school, then it is worth it!

I think I have swine flu.

Every time I cough it smells like bacon…..

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=2517604

More than 110000 now, about 1% mortality I think!

Interesting stuff. Did you hear that there’s a new strain which is resistant to the anti-flu drugs? Tamiflu etc? Found a really good website for tracking it’s progress, seems to be updated every hour or so… http://www.swinefludeaths.co.uk.