Swine Flu.....

[Salvanas]

Originally Posted by tylersangle88

ive been rele sick for about a week now and my mom and bro think i have the swine flu but i think they are being rediculouse, im fine. i mean if i survived double pneumonia and cancer i highly doubt ill die from some stupid swine flu. and its called the swine flu because thats where it started but it has turned into a new strand that is air borne and is traveling from person to person so its not necessarily the pigs that we get it from. i mean i dont eat pork anyways, i never did, but just because of this stupid little epiemic going around it doesnt mean u need to stay away from pork products. you cant get it from food its an air borne disease. and the only ppl that seem to die from it are ppl with low immune systems so stop freaking out about it ppl, geeze. ITS NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL!!!!! its not like its some kind of skin eating virus, its a flu.

Here's a small story for you.

One day, I was sitting outside in the sunny day, with a nice drink and food. I spotted a bird that had a broken wing, and a broken ankle. This bird was perched on the roof of a nearby building and he couldn't take of, or get down to the ground. To make the matter even more difficult, there was a hungry cat advancing on the bird.

Now, this bird, somehow manages to make it to the ground, while dodging the cat, and getting to the lawn. After all this hardship, the bird manages to dodge cars and cross the road, only to get his last foot caught in the grill of a sewer.

The moral of the story my friend is, that however hard you have worked to surpass something, that doesn't mean something small can't take you down.

Don't get too cocky. It's over hyped, yes, but don't throw all caution out of the window.

[larajolyn]

i agree... people have blown this out of whack...
before this it was the bird flu, then the west nile virus, triple E, etc...

[cridgit001]

I'm more concerned of death, by a tea cup.

[Oni]

Originally Posted by cridgit001

I'm more concerned of death, by a tea cup.

Same here. Those things are dangerous... O_o'

[Ronin4hire]

Originally Posted by cridgit001

Also, on the new strain thing. The current strain of swine flu did not evolve from cancer or something. If it did then I would call that evolution, but since it didn't, I'm more inclined to believe it was more adaptation then anything.

You deserve a third facepalm with that statement. Adaption IS evolution dufus. The way swine flu evolved from another strand of flu is the same way we humans evolved from our ancestor.

It's not like anyone is proposing that we evolved from something completely different from us. Because that's what you're implying when you use your cancer analogy.

[cridgit001]

Then based off natural selection, we should be happy that people die from disease because it should "strengthen" the species should we not?

Also, if evolution is true then we did evolve from something completely different from us. After all, if everything had the same origin. But my main problem with evolution is that if we came from monkeys, shouldn't there be much more evidence then what's currently been found. I'm talking like 100,000s of fossils showing monkey/human hybrids, not 1 or 2 that "might" be the missing link but still haven't been found.

Lastly, I just haven't seen enough evidence for myself to believe that changes at the molecular level could alter a monkey into a human by natural selection. But that's me.

[tylersangle88]

Originally Posted by Salvanas

Here's a small story for you.

One day, I was sitting outside in the sunny day, with a nice drink and food. I spotted a bird that had a broken wing, and a broken ankle. This bird was perched on the roof of a nearby building and he couldn't take of, or get down to the ground. To make the matter even more difficult, there was a hungry cat advancing on the bird.

Now, this bird, somehow manages to make it to the ground, while dodging the cat, and getting to the lawn. After all this hardship, the bird manages to dodge cars and cross the road, only to get his last foot caught in the grill of a sewer.

The moral of the story my friend is, that however hard you have worked to surpass something, that doesn't mean something small can't take you down.

Don't get too cocky. It's over hyped, yes, but don't throw all caution out of the window.

im still not all that worried about it, i mean if i die then i die. but im not just gonna let myself die im not gonna go down without a fight so im not rele being cocky so much as im just not gonna let myself die young. I refuse to die till im old, and nomatter what im gonna make sure that happens.

[kyo_9]

oh, I heard today that Mexico denied they were the 'producer' of the swine flu..

[tylersangle88]

of course they denied it, i mean who honestly wants to be the one to blame for a world wide epidemic

[Salvanas]

What I find the most ironic thing, is how at this point in time, Burger King chose t bring out a half mexican burger.