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Post by shagadellic on May 1, 2009 10:53:20 GMT -5
You know i don't think we have to worry about the festie getting cancelled. We still have the NBA playoffs going on and those arena's can hold around 15 to 20k right.....MLB games are still going on( not that anyone is there anyway) and large numbers of people congregate there too right? Should I stop going to Mass because 500 people show up on Sunday?
this is just an elaborate ploy by Grand Moff Tarken to distract us while the empire searches for the hidden rebel base
It's already lost it's hold as the top story since Justice Souter decided to retire. Now we can get back to hating each other for our differing political views instead of hating Mexicans. Thank god
I was at a friend's house, yesterday, listening to some vinyls and watching the news on mute...
So they're ranting an raving about the swine flu, on Headline News, and, without any semblance of a segue, start talking about Bonnaroo... I get scared shitless. They were just talking about festivals and how you should go to them... immediately after trying to get people to be cautious of this swine flue BS by not going to concerts or being in tight quarters with people.
I f'n hate the news.
edit: by nature, my dumb ass is calling the swine flu "bird flu".
Post by viciouscircle on May 1, 2009 11:05:39 GMT -5
Now we can watch the Senate holding up a Supreme Court nominee over abortion istead of watching them hold up a Health and Human Services Sec nominee over abortion. Cripes.
My local news ran an interview with a guy in Denver who "survived!" the Miss Piggy Flu (they actually called him that - a Miss Piggy flu survivor.) He had aches! And chills! It was very dramatic, I'm sure I would have been on the edge of my seat had I not been almost asleep. Then they ran a poll about what people were worried about. The economy was in first place, followed by nothing, then Miss Piggy Flu. So more people aren't worried about anything at all than are worried about the flu.
riburroo - have you ever posted in any other thread??
or is irritating infooroo all you care about??
Inforoo has an author search, I've contributed to other threads. I visit mushroom and psychedelic newsgroups on Usenet. Sorry if you're irritated. There are other threads. Hear anything about Glastonbury?
My bad. You're one skip north. Never mind about Glasto.
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Now we can watch the Senate holding up a Supreme Court nominee over abortion istead of watching them hold up a Health and Human Services Sec nominee over abortion. Cripes.
My local news ran an interview with a guy in Denver who "survived!" the Miss Piggy Flu (they actually called him that - a Miss Piggy flu survivor.) He had aches! And chills! It was very dramatic, I'm sure I would have been on the edge of my seat had I not been almost asleep. Then they ran a poll about what people were worried about. The economy was in first place, followed by nothing, then Miss Piggy Flu. So more people aren't worried about anything at all than are worried about the flu.
Our new ran that story - I thought I was going to pee in my pants watching the news this morning - it was pretty funny how dramatic they were about it.
It's a job. More drudge work than romance; like any other job. No one watching over my shoulder, just demands by the owner to get stuff bottled. Manage the vineyard too. Which gets demanding. Virginia is not the place to grow grapes. Bugs and fungi everywhere.
I forage for wild mushrooms whenever I get the chance, which is not as often as I like. Ever hear of Gymnopilus junonius (=G. spectabilus)? Though, I like the gourmet edibles better than the magic variety. Find bagloads of Meadow Mushrooms, Agaricus campestris, in the vineyards over the summer.
Forgot to mention, I live in the National Forest; very nice place for mushroom foraging. The mountain I live on has rivers on either side; Very nice for paddling, kayaking and canoeing. It's sweet, yes.
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Then they ran a poll about what people were worried about. The economy was in first place, followed by nothing, then Miss Piggy Flu.
Oh crap, I didn't even know I should be worried about nothing. How do I know if I've been affected by nothing? What can I do to make sure nothing doesn't happen to me? How can I keep my family safe from nothing?
There will be about 1,700 U.S. cases of the new H1N1 flu, aka "swine flu," in the next four weeks under a worst-case scenario, according to a research team's new simulations.
And a second team working independently, about 200 miles away, on exactly the same question came up with a similar forecast.
As of Thursday, there were 109 lab-confirmed U.S. cases of the new influenza, according to the World Health Organization, which earlier this week raised the risk level of the influenza to one stage below pandemic because the virus is being transmitted within at least two countries in one region of the world. A full pandemic - the virus is also being transmitted within a third country in a different region - is considered imminent.
It is not clear, however, how virulent or deadly this flu strain will become. Flu viruses are unpredictable, and while some in history have proven incredibly deadly, many would-be-pandemics turned out to be quite mild. Also, medicine and public health are more sophisticated today, in terms of treatments and educational campaigns, than they were during the nation's last pandemic flu in 1968, let alone during the Spanish flu of 1918.
Then they ran a poll about what people were worried about. The economy was in first place, followed by nothing, then Miss Piggy Flu.
Oh crap, I didn't even know I should be worried about nothing. How do I know if I've been affected by nothing? What can I do to make sure nothing doesn't happen to me? How can I keep my family safe from nothing?
why do people keep coming on here and saying to let it go or drop it already? if you dont care or think its stupid then dont click on this board, but why do you have to take the extra step to try and convince other people to stop talking about it just because you don't want to. if you don't care to have a conversation, then don't have it, but why bother to tell other people its stupid and they shouldn't talk about it amongst themselves? mean.
i dont mean anyone specific by saying 'you' i have just seen it over and over for pages and pages by a bunch of different people and i dont get it.
Besides - we have been having fun doing it - trust me - this thread has not gotten as nasty as it could have - this has all been good clean fun for the most part
I visit mushroom and psychedelic newsgroups on Usenet.
i knew you were okay
Thanks for the vote of confidence. Truthfully, I don't think Bonnaroo will be canceled or negatively affected in any way. Constructive discussion is always preferable, but contentious bickering can be instructive, too.
Thanks for the vote of confidence. Truthfully, I don't think Bonnaroo will be canceled or negatively affected in any way. Constructive discussion is always preferable, but contentious bickering can be instructive, too.
For once, I can agree with you. This bickering has been fun.
Yea. And the entire city of Memphis also shuts down when we get half an inch of snow. Schools close, grocery store shelves go bare, and the news interrupts regular programming for unnecessary updates for what they tap as "Winter Death 2009".
Trust me, we're retarded.
you know - I really hate that word - but with all the panic about this flu - it is really appropriate here!
You know I actually hesitated saying that when I was typing because it does sound insensitive - my sincerest apologies!
ATLANTA – The swine flu virus that has frightened the world is beginning to look a little less ominous. New York City officials reported Friday that the swine flu still has not spread beyond a few schools. In Mexico, very few relatives of flu victims seem to have caught the virus.
One flu expert says there's no reason to believe the new virus is a more serious strain than seasonal flu. And a federal health official said the new flu virus doesn't appear to have genes that made the 1918 pandemic flu strain so deadly.
It's too soon to draw any definitive conclusions about what this variation of the H1N1 virus will do. Experts say the only wise course is to prepare for the worst. But in a world that's been rattled by the specter of a global pandemic, glimmers of hope are welcome.
President Obama noted Friday that it's not clear that the swine flu outbreak will turn out to be any worse than ordinary flu.
"It may turn out that H1N1 runs its course like ordinary flus, in which case we will have prepared and we won't need all these preparations," Obama said.
But "we're taking it seriously," he said. Even if the flu turns out mild now, it could come back in a deadlier form during the normal flu season, he said.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the illness so far had proven to be "a relatively minor annoyance."
City health officials say they have found few signs that the local outbreak of swine flu is spreading beyond a few pockets or getting more dangerous. The city has 50 cases, the most of any city in the United States.
Dr. Peter Palese, a leading flu researcher at New York's Mount Sinai Medical School, said the new virus appeared to be similar enough to other common flu strains that "we probably all have some type of immunity."
"There is no real reason to believe this is a more serious strain," he said.
Also Friday, an official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the new swine flu virus lacks the genetic traits that made the 1918 pandemic strain so deadly.
CDC flu chief Nancy Cox said the good news is "we do not see the markers for virulence that were seen in the 1918 virus." Nor does swine flu virus have the virulence traits found in the H5N1 strain of bird flu seen in recent years in Asia and other parts of the world, she said.
"However, we know that there is a great deal that we do not understand" about the strength of the 1918 virus and others that caused serious illnesses, she said. "So we are continuing to learn."
Another CDC official, Dr. Anne Schuchat, said preliminary studies suggest that in U.S. households with an infected person, about a quarter of other family members are getting sick as well.
In some pandemics, the overall infection rate has been as high as 35 percent, Cox said.
She noted the CDC has entered the gene information for the new virus into databases that are publicly available.
"A lot of researchers around the world can begin to look at those gene sequences as well, in case they see something we haven't already seen," she added.
The global flu epidemic early last century was possibly the deadliest outbreak of all time. That virus also was an H1N1 strain — different from the H1N1 strain involved in the current outbreak — and struck mostly healthy young adults. Experts estimate it killed about 40 to 50 million people worldwide.
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Associated Press Writer David Caruso in New York contributed to this report.
Miss Piggy flu virus starting to look less threatening
ATLANTA – The Miss Piggy flu virus that has frightened the world is beginning to look a little less ominous. New York City officials reported Friday that the Miss Piggy flu still has not spread beyond a few schools. In Mexico, very few relatives of flu victims seem to have caught the virus...
Cool. Less than a week of media supersaturation and researchers are beginning to get a handle on the characteristics of this virus. I'm still a little surprised about how widespread confirmed cases are being found. 19 states and 12 other countries (including Mexico), so far, in the 1st week of testing, and all these cases are associated with travel to Mexico? I wasn't aware Mexico was such a popular tourist destination.
Post by nitetimeritetime on May 1, 2009 18:31:37 GMT -5
It's pretty doubtful that every person with this flu actually went to Mexico. It's like the annual seasonal flu in that you don't have to go to ground zero to catch it. But...
With 22 million people, Greater Mexico City is the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere, and the second largest in the world. In terms of GDP, its international peers are cities like Tokyo, New York, LA, Chicago, Paris, and London. So a lot goes on there besides tourism. But still tourism is pretty big in Mexico. It is one of the ten most popular countries in terms of international tourism.
It's pretty doubtful that every person with this flu actually went to Mexico. It's like the annual seasonal flu in that you don't have to go to ground zero to catch it. But...
With 22 million people, Greater Mexico City is the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere, and the second largest in the world. In terms of GDP, its international peers are cities like Tokyo, New York, LA, Chicago, Paris, and London. So a lot goes on there besides tourism. But still tourism is pretty big in Mexico. It is one of the ten most popular countries in terms of international tourism.
No doubt, but most of it's neighbors just to the north wouldn't have guessed it.
I haven't been able to login allllll day long, I just recently managed too but I have NOOOO idea how I did it, it's inconsistent at best. I know its not the computre because I've tried on both the work computer and my home computer. I know this isn't the thread to ask for help, but it certainly does get alot of attention and I don't know where else to go. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong?
My problem: I click on the login link, I type in my username and password (and yes it was the corect one) then when I click login it takes me to the main inforoo home page like it would if I'm logged in, however, I'm not I can't reply on any threads or anything the board acts as if I'm not even logged in at all. Please help I need to maintain my inforoo fix!!!
It's a proboards issue. They updated some shiz yesterday and now a bunch of people are having the same problems. Some things they suggest trying........
Try a diff browser....use Firefox instead of Explorer and vice versa.
Try googling Inforoo and going through their link instead of using a bookmark.
I dunno what else to say other than that. They're working on it(shrugs)