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07-29-2014 , 03:33 PM

#51

WateryBoil

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Originally Posted by HIV

Was a mistake to read this thread while eating. TMI. Far, far TMI.

HIV reading an Ebola thread while eating? I don't know why this is funny.

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07-29-2014 , 04:08 PM

#52

lonely_but_rich

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Speaking of appropriate screen names.

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07-29-2014 , 06:08 PM

#53

TBadr

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Originally Posted by Mr.mmmKay

Where were you when this happened?

He was on his way to the store to return those same pants he was wearing.

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07-29-2014 , 07:02 PM

#54

etothemc2

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Originally Posted by El_Timon

Already the most severe ebola outbreak in history according to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_We...Ebola_outbreak

Could you clarify? Is ebola not suited to spread through people traveling?

Edit: I guess you mean this:

Yeah basically. One article I read stated that the infections are from blood, vomit, and handling decomposing infected bodies, and that sweat and saliva are pretty much only theoretical modes of transmission. Another poster had it right, to developed countries, a mutating flu is a much scarier and more likely possibility than a severe Ebola outbreak.

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07-29-2014 , 07:06 PM

#55

NhlNut

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Youtube has some wonderful cyst videos if one is so inclined.

Anti-biotic resistant TB or similar is where the danger is at.

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07-29-2014 , 07:38 PM

#56

zikzak

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Sierra Leone’s top Ebola doctor is dead from Ebola

I know I'm going to hell for it, but that headline made me laugh.

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07-29-2014 , 09:02 PM

#57

BigPoppa

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The perfect vector would be something:

1) Easily spread (LDO), airborne obviously being the worst.
2) Host is infectious long before symptoms show (so quarantines won't be effective)
3) Not immediately deadly, so the sick have longer to infect others
4) Symptoms easily mistaken for something more innocuous
5) Very deadly long/medium term

Ebola seems to be none of these. AIDS is all but #1. If something that is all 5 hits, we're ****ed.

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07-29-2014 , 09:04 PM

#58

KPowers

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Originally Posted by jmakinmecrzy

The woman who ran from the hospital is beyond irresponsible though. That ****'s mind boggling.

seriously wtf.

now Randall Flagg is gonna fist us all in our b-hole

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07-29-2014 , 09:14 PM

#59

jmakin

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Pretty sure airborne aids is already a thing. They called it dubstep.

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07-29-2014 , 11:57 PM

#60

wombat4hire

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Is Outbreak a better movie than Contagion? I enjoyed Contagion fwiw. It's been over a decade since I've watched Outbreak.

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07-30-2014 , 12:35 AM

#61

Brock Landers

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Originally Posted by KPowers

seriously wtf.

now Randall Flagg is gonna fist us all in our b-hole

Yep, it's only a matter of time before 99% of us are left in the Superflu's wake!

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07-30-2014 , 01:37 AM

#62

Howard Beale

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Originally Posted by jmakinmecrzy

Catastrophic solar flare or asteroid far more likely imo

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07-30-2014 , 02:16 AM

#63

BigPoppa

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Apparently, we almost had a catastrophic solar flare end our way of life 2 years ago.

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07-30-2014 , 02:37 AM

#64

jmakin

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it's no joke, a solar event large enough could knock out most of the transformers on the planet, and we only have the technology to make like 4 of those a year or something ridiculous.

while not planet ending, it could put our planet into enough chaos that it would take 100+ years to rebuild society to what it once was.

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07-30-2014 , 02:39 AM

#65

kioshk

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If we're going, might as well go with a certain flare.

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07-30-2014 , 03:38 AM

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BigPoppa

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2012 Solar Flare Near Miss

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07-30-2014 , 04:05 AM

#67

ntanygd760

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Pretty sure one hit in the late 1800's as well that knocked out all 6 telegraph lines. Would have ****ed us up 70 years later

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07-30-2014 , 04:16 AM

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wet work

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Originally Posted by jmakinmecrzy

Pretty sure airborne aids is already a thing. They called it dubstep.

lol'd

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07-30-2014 , 04:48 AM

#69

O.A.F.K.1.1

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Originally Posted by BigPoppa

2012 Solar Flare Near Miss

lol Mayans.

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07-30-2014 , 09:40 AM

#70

abnormal

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Originally Posted by jmakinmecrzy

You say that like it would be a bad thing.

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07-30-2014 , 10:48 AM

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KansasCT

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Originally Posted by BigPoppa

That's basically what I do to eliminate the entire world population in Pandemic/Plague Inc. When ****ing Madagascar doesn't stop me that is.

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07-30-2014 , 12:38 PM

#72

jmakin

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Or greenland. **** greenland.

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07-30-2014 , 09:58 PM

#73

Themaestrony

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According to Fox News, they wanna bring the 2 Americans that are infected back to the states. That's like pushing all in utg with the chip lead holding 7 2 off

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07-30-2014 , 10:04 PM

#74

Brock Landers

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That's true, that's exactly what it's like

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07-30-2014 , 10:05 PM

#75

Banned4lyfe

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What if it's a satellite and everyone is short? Everyone just keeps folding so instead of sitting around you say "**** it" and open shove every hand to speed up the process.

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