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Can't decide if I should worry about this or not. It may or may not happen. The World may spend billions of dollars on a fire drill - or it could be a catastrphe of biblical proportions. Sounds a lot like the Global Warming argument.

i think we should have mild concern. Not lose sleep over it. But money should be spent here as a preventative. If it never happens then we can be thankful. It's a small world today and every threat in the smallest corner of the world can quickly become global.

this so reminds me of the swine flu scare

One need only take a look at the flu pandemic that occurred in 1918, hough know one knows for sure where orwhen it actually started. Estimates are that it killed between 25 Million and 50 Million people, before it ran it's course. The flu knew no killing barriers as most glus today seem to adhere to. It killed people of all ages, young, and normally healthy and the weak and the old, All totalm somewhere between 500,000 and 675,000 Americans ALONE were killed in the pandemic of 1918.

Should we be take preventive mesures now? Yes. It is hard to play catch up once the bug is out there and active. Especially in the modern day and age of air travel when a person can be anywhere in the world in a matter of hours.

Which is worse: A. The possible waste of money.
or
B. The loss of potentially millions of lives and millions more sickened and weakened and the hospitals and healthcare being so overwhelmed to become potentially useless?

I am thinking of buying a surgical mask (one particular one that is the only one recommended) before I go to Vietnam in Feb

i'd be concerned about vietnam and would actually consider something like that.

OceanCityGirl wrote:i'd be concerned about vietnam and would actually consider something like that.

I am not overly concerned. The Aust Govt already has a deal struck with Qantas to fly for free all Australian's out of Asia if it does mutate.
And I figure, word would spread quickly and we would just stay in our hotel till we can get out - I think it will be the poorer, rural population that will suffer unfortunately.

creeky wrote:I am thinking of buying a surgical mask (one particular one that is the only one recommended) before I go to Vietnam in Feb

Forget the mask...

land_shark3 wrote:

creeky wrote:I am thinking of buying a surgical mask (one particular one that is the only one recommended) before I go to Vietnam in Feb

Forget the mask...

Nah .. those things are too uncomfortable ... already been there, done that in the Army with chemical warfare training ....

But they are so formfitting. They look damn sexy.

OceanCityGirl wrote:But they are so formfitting. They look damn sexy.

I'd get one if it came in pink.

OceanCityGirl wrote:But they are so formfitting. They look damn sexy.

I can tell ya, when I had one of those on and was the only female in a troop of around 50 men ... I didnt feel sexy

How about some popcorn

I can tell ya, when I had one of those on and was the only female in a troop of around 50 men ... I didnt feel sexy

ya just didn't know how to work it

OceanCityGirl wrote:

I can tell ya, when I had one of those on and was the only female in a troop of around 50 men ... I didnt feel sexy

ya just didn't know how to work it

I think the fact were in the outback ... it was over 115F in heat, there was a bushfire raging towards us, and we had to go in to a tent filled with chemicals, in our suits, take the helmet off just before we left the tent, to breathe a little of the chemical in ....... might have "killed" the moment

My bil did alot of time in desert storm. He described some simlar scary drills.

Sometimes things happen. If this thing comes over here, I'll be smart and try to avoid it, but I'm not going crazy for it.

mings wrote:Sometimes things happen. If this thing comes over here, I'll be smart and try to avoid it, but I'm not going crazy for it.

I dunno how avoiding it would work. Most everyone would try to avoid and run like hell to get away from it. The symptoms do not show up immediately so you could easily come into contact with an infected person who does not know they are infected and the bug is on the loose.
IT can be spread over the globe in a matter of hours... where do you run to?

One thing for sure, as nasty and deadly as the biologicals are.... they do not kill 100%. There is always a percentage that are naturally immune to them. The most virulent virii usually burn out in a short amount of time.

Currently,the world most deadliest virus, ebola in it's most deadliest human form, kills roughly 9 out of 10 people....

Sam wrote:

mings wrote:Sometimes things happen. If this thing comes over here, I'll be smart and try to avoid it, but I'm not going crazy for it.

I dunno how avoiding it would work. Most everyone would try to avoid and run like hell to get away from it. The symptoms do not show up immediately so you could easily come into contact with an infected person who does not know they are infected and the bug is on the loose.
IT can be spread over the globe in a matter of hours... where do you run to?

One thing for sure, as nasty and deadly as the biologicals are.... they do not kill 100%. There is always a percentage that are naturally immune to them. The most virulent virii usually burn out in a short amount of time.

Currently,the world most deadliest virus, ebola in it's most deadliest human form, kills roughly 9 out of 10 people....

I'd avoid it by going to a nice little island and never looking back. Hmmm. What island?

mings wrote:

Sam wrote:

mings wrote:Sometimes things happen. If this thing comes over here, I'll be smart and try to avoid it, but I'm not going crazy for it.

I dunno how avoiding it would work. Most everyone would try to avoid and run like hell to get away from it. The symptoms do not show up immediately so you could easily come into contact with an infected person who does not know they are infected and the bug is on the loose.
IT can be spread over the globe in a matter of hours... where do you run to?

One thing for sure, as nasty and deadly as the biologicals are.... they do not kill 100%. There is always a percentage that are naturally immune to them. The most virulent virii usually burn out in a short amount of time.

Currently,the world most deadliest virus, ebola in it's most deadliest human form, kills roughly 9 out of 10 people....

I'd avoid it by going to a nice little island and never looking back. Hmmm. What island?

An island where no one can rain on your happy parades!!!!