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Michael Moore is a big fat slob, and he is right. The World Health Organisation warned on Saturday of a worldwide health threat as a mystery killer pneumonia spread from east Asia to other parts of the globe. Releasing a rare "emergency travel advisory," the United Nations health agency said an ill passenger had been taken to an isolation unit in Frankfurt, Germany, where they dropped the poor bugger of at Martino's house on Saturday after being removed from a plane en route from New York to Singapore. Martino had no beer in the house because he thinks it gives men tits, so they had to drink wine. Afterwards they all went to the cinema where they watched Old school in German and all had a laugh when the obese black guy had a brick tied to a rope tied around his penis and then droped it off the wall and it fell down the sewer hole. I know this all sounds confusing, so go watch Old School in German to understand what I mean. Life is beautiful as long as you are listening to music, drinking with friends in the sunshine, having sex with someone you love (life can be pretty beautiful having sex with someone you don't love as well, as long as they are fine and give good oral, which leads to love anyway) yeah life is the grandest thing we will all live through, just watch out for all the shit that can kill you.
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Great post, McC!
But remember: it's not media terror, it's tedia merror.
But remember: it's not media terror, it's tedia merror.
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My roomate was watching Saturday Night Live last night and I noticed that while they were doing the newscast segment, they got really outspoken and said some of the very same things said here on Paxacidus about the Freedom Fries nonsense. I thought it was amazing that they spoke out to that degree. I started to seem kindof surreal after awhile, that all this insanity with the government going on.
Some guy who flew from New Jersey to Seattle and who took home some "No Iraq War" placards in his luggage had a piece of paper stuck on his luggage from the bureau of govt that searched his luggage and on it was written "Don't appreciate your anti-American attitude!"
Some guy who flew from New Jersey to Seattle and who took home some "No Iraq War" placards in his luggage had a piece of paper stuck on his luggage from the bureau of govt that searched his luggage and on it was written "Don't appreciate your anti-American attitude!"
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I heard about that, dont worry about wasting tax money to get a bill to pass for changing the names of fries, but please feel free to chastize us about our political views. ive had enough.
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we are all gonna party like it's 1984!
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someone's been hitting the sauce in the heat...
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Freedom Pints!
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Okay, call me a pussy but I don't care! I don't want to die!!!!! i have too much to do in this life. This is freaking me out! Below are things like scary words 'pandemic' and '20 million dead in 1917' see when I get sick, and I always get sick, I stay sick for like a month and shit. This shit would kill me!!! AHHHHH!!!! That's me running out the door in a panic and heading for the pub and the comfort of Freedom Pints. I don't care if it's only 9:20am. I'm a patriot!
Health experts searching for the cause of a frightening outbreak of a deadly flu-like illness in Asia say the culprit is probably a virus, and they are encouraged that some victims appear to be getting better.
More than 150 people have fallen ill, mostly in Hong Kong and Vietnam, over the past three weeks. And experts suspect that another 300 people in China's Guangdong province had the same disease beginning in mid-November.
While experts are unsure precisely what is causing the outbreak, several say their biggest fear is that it is a new and lethal form of influenza.
"If it really is the flu, it could be we have a new organism that could cause a pandemic," said Dr. R. Bradley Sack, director of Johns Hopkins' international travel clinic. "People immediately start thinking of 1917," when a worldwide flu epidemic began that killed at least 20 million people.
So far, the disease has killed nine people — seven in Asia and two in North America. Its rapid spread, and the discovery of two clusters in Canada, caused a rare worldwide health alert to be issued on Saturday.
Health officials in China said Monday that the disease that infected about 300 people and killed five in Guangdong province "seems amenable to treatment," although they stressed there is still no link to cases in other countries.
Asian airports were screening passengers for flu-like symptoms, in the hope of stopping the spread of the disease. Some fearful passengers wore surgical masks or covered their faces to ward off infection.
Experts discounted the possibility that terrorism is the source and believe it almost certainly is a contagious infection that spreads most easily from victims to their doctors, nurses and families through coughing, sneezing and other contact with nasal fluids.
"Nothing about that pattern suggests bioterrorism," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites) in Atlanta.
Health officials say it may be several more days before they are able to identify the disease. However, they said several of its features suggest it is caused by a virus, which can often be difficult to pinpoint quickly using standard lab tests.
The illness is being called "severe acute respiratory syndrome," or SARS. The incubation period appears to be three to seven days. It often begins with a high fever and other flu-like symptoms, such as headache and sore throat. Victims typically develop coughs, pneumonia, shortness of breath and other breathing difficulties. Death results from respiratory failure.
The World Health Organization (news - web sites) has been aware of the outbreak for about three weeks but issued its global alert this weekend because of concern that the illness would spread to North America and Europe.
Officials said they are encouraged that some recent victims seem to be recovering, although they are unsure whether that is because of the many antibiotic and antiviral drugs they have been given or simply the natural course of the disease.
Dr. David Heymann, WHO's communicable diseases chief, said three or four patients had stabilized enough to be moved out of intensive care Sunday in Hanoi, Vietnam, although all still had breathing problems.
The World Health Organization estimates that perhaps 500 people in all have been sickened if the earlier outbreak in China turns out to be part of the same disease, as they suspect it is.
Ninety percent of the most recent cases have been in health care workers.
The CDC prepared cards that were being given to travelers arriving from Hanoi, Hong Kong or Guangdong province in China, warning they may have been exposed. It recommended they see a doctor if they get a fever accompanied by a cough or difficulty breathing over the next week.
Investigators suspect a virus is involved, because victims do not seem to respond well to standard antibiotics, which kill only bacteria, and because their white blood counts drop. That typically happens with viral infections but not bacterial ones.
Few drugs exist for treating viral diseases and often they must run their course until brought under control by the body's natural immune defenses.
No cases have been confirmed in the United States, but Gerberding said the CDC is checking out a few calls. The North American fatalities were a woman and her grown son who died in Toronto after visiting Hong Kong.
A 32-year-old physician from Singapore suspected of having the disease was taken off an airliner during a stopover in Frankfurt, Germany, on Saturday after being in New York City for a medical conference. He was held in quarantine, along with his mother, who had a fever, and his wife, who remained healthy.
However, on Sunday, the man's physician, Dr. Hanns-Reinhardt Brodt, said he was uncertain the case was SARS; he was treating him for ordinary pneumonia.
Also on Sunday, WHO released a report from the China Ministry of Health on the Guangdong outbreak, which said "the epidemic situation has been controlled and the patients are being cured one by one."
In that outbreak, the Chinese said, 7 percent of patients required breathing tubes, but most eventually got better, especially if they were not also infected with bacteria. The disease seemed to weaken as it passed from person to person.
Health experts searching for the cause of a frightening outbreak of a deadly flu-like illness in Asia say the culprit is probably a virus, and they are encouraged that some victims appear to be getting better.
More than 150 people have fallen ill, mostly in Hong Kong and Vietnam, over the past three weeks. And experts suspect that another 300 people in China's Guangdong province had the same disease beginning in mid-November.
While experts are unsure precisely what is causing the outbreak, several say their biggest fear is that it is a new and lethal form of influenza.
"If it really is the flu, it could be we have a new organism that could cause a pandemic," said Dr. R. Bradley Sack, director of Johns Hopkins' international travel clinic. "People immediately start thinking of 1917," when a worldwide flu epidemic began that killed at least 20 million people.
So far, the disease has killed nine people — seven in Asia and two in North America. Its rapid spread, and the discovery of two clusters in Canada, caused a rare worldwide health alert to be issued on Saturday.
Health officials in China said Monday that the disease that infected about 300 people and killed five in Guangdong province "seems amenable to treatment," although they stressed there is still no link to cases in other countries.
Asian airports were screening passengers for flu-like symptoms, in the hope of stopping the spread of the disease. Some fearful passengers wore surgical masks or covered their faces to ward off infection.
Experts discounted the possibility that terrorism is the source and believe it almost certainly is a contagious infection that spreads most easily from victims to their doctors, nurses and families through coughing, sneezing and other contact with nasal fluids.
"Nothing about that pattern suggests bioterrorism," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites) in Atlanta.
Health officials say it may be several more days before they are able to identify the disease. However, they said several of its features suggest it is caused by a virus, which can often be difficult to pinpoint quickly using standard lab tests.
The illness is being called "severe acute respiratory syndrome," or SARS. The incubation period appears to be three to seven days. It often begins with a high fever and other flu-like symptoms, such as headache and sore throat. Victims typically develop coughs, pneumonia, shortness of breath and other breathing difficulties. Death results from respiratory failure.
The World Health Organization (news - web sites) has been aware of the outbreak for about three weeks but issued its global alert this weekend because of concern that the illness would spread to North America and Europe.
Officials said they are encouraged that some recent victims seem to be recovering, although they are unsure whether that is because of the many antibiotic and antiviral drugs they have been given or simply the natural course of the disease.
Dr. David Heymann, WHO's communicable diseases chief, said three or four patients had stabilized enough to be moved out of intensive care Sunday in Hanoi, Vietnam, although all still had breathing problems.
The World Health Organization estimates that perhaps 500 people in all have been sickened if the earlier outbreak in China turns out to be part of the same disease, as they suspect it is.
Ninety percent of the most recent cases have been in health care workers.
The CDC prepared cards that were being given to travelers arriving from Hanoi, Hong Kong or Guangdong province in China, warning they may have been exposed. It recommended they see a doctor if they get a fever accompanied by a cough or difficulty breathing over the next week.
Investigators suspect a virus is involved, because victims do not seem to respond well to standard antibiotics, which kill only bacteria, and because their white blood counts drop. That typically happens with viral infections but not bacterial ones.
Few drugs exist for treating viral diseases and often they must run their course until brought under control by the body's natural immune defenses.
No cases have been confirmed in the United States, but Gerberding said the CDC is checking out a few calls. The North American fatalities were a woman and her grown son who died in Toronto after visiting Hong Kong.
A 32-year-old physician from Singapore suspected of having the disease was taken off an airliner during a stopover in Frankfurt, Germany, on Saturday after being in New York City for a medical conference. He was held in quarantine, along with his mother, who had a fever, and his wife, who remained healthy.
However, on Sunday, the man's physician, Dr. Hanns-Reinhardt Brodt, said he was uncertain the case was SARS; he was treating him for ordinary pneumonia.
Also on Sunday, WHO released a report from the China Ministry of Health on the Guangdong outbreak, which said "the epidemic situation has been controlled and the patients are being cured one by one."
In that outbreak, the Chinese said, 7 percent of patients required breathing tubes, but most eventually got better, especially if they were not also infected with bacteria. The disease seemed to weaken as it passed from person to person.
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what is this Bubblegum music? and is it warm enough yet to have lunch on Union Sq? what did you eat?
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If there ever is a mass death on this planet akin to the Black Plague, I'm convinced it will be to some man induced mutated virus accidentally released by some government lab ... probably our own military's. Much more likely to see Armageddon that way rather than by a nuke.
I rarely get sick. Haven't had a cold or flu in like a decade (knock on wood). Am allergic to everything under the sun but that's not near as bad as getting colds real easy.
myke
I rarely get sick. Haven't had a cold or flu in like a decade (knock on wood). Am allergic to everything under the sun but that's not near as bad as getting colds real easy.
myke
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Annan Orders U.N. Staff Out of Iraq
I spent my lunch hour in Union Square park. There were remants of last night's anti-war vigil. "A village in Texas is missing its idiot." "Bush is a servant of Sauron. We hates him."
I'm too depressed to read the newspaper so I'll just stick with Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth. Ahh...mindless entertainment.
I spent my lunch hour in Union Square park. There were remants of last night's anti-war vigil. "A village in Texas is missing its idiot." "Bush is a servant of Sauron. We hates him."
I'm too depressed to read the newspaper so I'll just stick with Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth. Ahh...mindless entertainment.
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Bubblegum is music prepubescent pop music.
I think yesterday's weather was a fluke. It's supposed to rain later this week. Sometimes I feel like I never left Seattle.
I think yesterday's weather was a fluke. It's supposed to rain later this week. Sometimes I feel like I never left Seattle.