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    Swine Flu Hits Village Voice

    Deadly Mexican Swine Flu Traced to Kids Having Fun

    Five Ways the Swine Flu Story Is Dumb

    Deadly Swine Flu Panic Sweeps TV Journalists!
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    05/08/09

    In reply to Swine Flu Hits Village Voice
    this is funny
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    Image of winniemc winniemc
    05/08/09

    In reply to Swine Flu Hits Village Voice
    Ummm. the poison pot thing is a joke though, right?
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    Image of freedc freedc
    05/08/09

    @winniemc: I know. Fuck pig flu, what's this shit about poisoned pot?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    05/08/09

    In reply to Swine Flu Hits Village Voice
    OK, if I am wrong, someone please correct me. Are people getting "diagnosed" w/the H1N1, then they get tested to confirm the diagnosis? What's the test turn around time?
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    05/08/09

    In reply to Swine Flu Hits Village Voice
    Flu, shmu. Paraquat is back?
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    Image of moneyries moneyries
    05/08/09

    In reply to Swine Flu Hits Village Voice
    IS MUSTO IN THE SWAYDUCK?!
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05/08/09

    @moneyries:


    That sounds like a spy password.

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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    05/08/09

    @moneyries: Real Americans use catsup on their swayducks.
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    Image of TableNine TableNine
    05/08/09

    @SidAndFinancy: ha!
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    04/29/09

    In reply to Deadly Mexican Swine Flu Traced to Kids Having Fun
    Poor little one.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    04/29/09

    In reply to Deadly Mexican Swine Flu Traced to Kids Having Fun
    facebook's take:


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    Image of prestocaro fears the culling prestocaro fears the culling
    04/29/09

    @allyzay: The child-haters united and they didn't invite me?!
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    Image of Werrick Werrick
    04/29/09

    In reply to Deadly Mexican Swine Flu Traced to Kids Having Fun
    I still think people are panicking about this. Just like most flus this one is deadly to the very old, the very young and the already weak. My impression (as a non-medical profession who watches the news and has no special knowledge) is that as long as you don't fall into one of those three groups you might get sick and it might suck, but it won't kill you.


    I think the real worry is if it manages to get together with another strain of the flu, or even worse the avian flu. As of right now the swine flu can go from pig to pig, pig to person and person to person. The interesting thing about flus, though, is that when they meet up with another flu they can switch out their DNA like blocks, which means that if the swine flu and the avian flu meet up it's possible that it might create a strain of avian flu that can pass from person to person... and that would be bad news.

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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    04/29/09

    @Good news everyone! I have terrible news! (Werrick): There's a joke in there about pigs flying, right?
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    Image of La Mareada La Mareada
    04/29/09

    In reply to Deadly Mexican Swine Flu Traced to Kids Having Fun
    NYT: Our lawyers(and new owner Carlos Slim) won't let us tell you the name of the big American company that made Edgar(and everybody else in the world) sick. In the meantime here's 15 paragraphs to reinforce stereotypes about poor, dirty Mexicans.


    Even Reforma, the conservative business newpaper in Mexico City, is reporting about Ithsmayieldfay.

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/29/09

    @La Mareada:


    Grist.org made a start on this angle a couple of days ago, and other US media have been picking it up a little bit since then.


    A good case against concentration in media.

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    Image of Shadowlayer Shadowlayer
    04/28/09

    In reply to Five Ways the Swine Flu Story Is Dumb
    Only 7 million deaths? that the worst-case scenario?


    *Sigh*, wake me up when theres zombies around...

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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    04/28/09

    In reply to Five Ways the Swine Flu Story Is Dumb
    Only five?
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    Image of NewsBunny NewsBunny
    04/28/09

    In reply to Five Ways the Swine Flu Story Is Dumb
    Look here. Us Newsbunnies have to earn living somehow.


    Panics are good for the economy! The more we panic, the more the Newsbunnies spend! And jobs are therefore created!

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    Image of thesciencegirl thesciencegirl
    04/28/09

    In reply to Five Ways the Swine Flu Story Is Dumb
    Shut your mouth! Microbes are excellent villains!
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    04/28/09

    In reply to Five Ways the Swine Flu Story Is Dumb
    What we need now are some of those clothing-made-out-of-bacon photos. Maybe a mask made of bacon?
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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    04/28/09

    In reply to Five Ways the Swine Flu Story Is Dumb
    Folks, this is how IT'S GOING DOWN!:

    _from=PL&index=3

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