Well, it's true that certain races have a certain predisposition to catch certain diseases...

Yeah but do you think, for example, American Indians having up to a 30% rate of diabetes vs. 10% non-Hispanic whites is because INJIN BLOOD or maybe idk..... bad diet, horrible access to healthcare, being shunned onto reservations away from the rest of society, lack of preventative education???

heh blacks get AIDS more cuz it came from monkeys......

yeah we don't have to go purely sociological here but its like saying HMM A LOT OF SOUTHS IN THE BLACK ARE FAT MAYBE THEY ARE GENETICALLY FAT instead of looking at the historical context of SOUL FOOD and how bad it is.

it's dumb to totally deny genetic factors in regards to anything I think but if you didn't read SWINE FLU-MEXICANS MORE SUSCEPTIBLE? and your jaw didn't drop open, the state of science education must be dire. viruses do not work this way christ.

there was actually a drug developed called Bidil that spurred a LOT of controversy over this but that's all beside the point. look it up tho ase you'd probably find it interesting.

dude

i'm writing an essay about bidil right now. no fucking way

(actually this is probably why i am getting so fired up about this atm)

time for jack bauer to kick that virus ass

that's not even a funny post, people stop doing bauer/norris jokes

genetic predisposition towards usually genetic disease trends among a real group of people that have some small biological differences (ie a predisposition to sickle cell anemia, or how whites tend to get testicular cancer more than other races) vs saying MEXICANS MAYBE GOT THE VIRUS ON ACCOUNT OF BEING MEXICAN no, one of these is definitely stupid as hell.

as shep said: the things i have to read...

i'm also not sure i understand what climbtree is trying to prove by saying the flu kills people. this HOPEFULLY will die out before it becomes an issue. this also is clearly media exaggeration going to town. but you are just straight up being stupid when you are like HEH ITS JUST THE FLU. do you realize there are flu pandemics? and they are big deals? the swine flu is one of these and ase said we're substantially less prepared to deal with this strain! whoops.

the WHO does not increase their warnings like the US government throws around terror alerts. this is probably going to be an issue. i dont know about widespread vaccination or panics or anything but this sucks and being like HEH STUPID TOPIC NOT NEWS is probably a worse attitude than panic.

catching this flu is no more dangerous than catching the other varients of the flu but as of yet it's a lot less likely you'll come in contact with it. the chances of you catching this flu from someone who has it is... the same as catching a common strain unless you've been vaccinated or had it already

dude

i'm writing an essay about bidil right now. no fucking way

(actually this is probably why i am getting so fired up about this atm)

hahah man this is one of the weirdest things about cancer. why do i know about bidil? who knows. peo just sits around reading all day and now no one says anything that surprises me. my friend and i had a conversation about nutria the other day and the entire time he was clearly like WHY DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS.

but yeah the Bidil controversy reignited this a bit as I recall; those of you too lazy too google it was a heart drug that seemed to work BEST FOR BLACKS which led to being marketed as FIRST RACE DRUG? which obviously made everyone go a little nuts.

catching this flu is no more dangerous than catching the other varients of the flu but as of yet it's a lot less likely you'll come in contact with it. the chances of you catching this flu from someone who has it is... the same as catching a common strain unless you've been vaccinated or had it already

as of YET? dude we're one step below a pandemic according to pretty much the world's authorities. stop saying ITS THE FLU. at least say ITS A FLU PANDEMIC which is fyi what you are sort of trying to argue except you are playing down the negatives of a flu pandemic that if it actually gets BAD could be one of the worst and acting like it's summer colds instead.

it's not the Stand we don't have to quarantine ourselves (well maybe Mexico since 10% mortality holy shit and I should wash my hands of course but I have a compromised immune system anyways) but you're ignoring the fact you've been constantly saying YAAAWN not news when hey this is like a definition case of what a news topic is.

I wonder what sort of effects this could have on the economy.

FUCK SMITHFIELD

seriously i hope this shit gets them permanently closed.

i mean fuck smithfield yes but wait where are you getting this man?

They ran a CAFO in the town where the swine flu started and they had one of their notorious pig shit lagoons in the area, which was causing all kinds of horribly rare diseases to pop up in the townsfolk (some of them had FLESH EATING BACTERIA in their LUNGS , etc.). so i don't believe their official line that smithfield pork had.. had nothing to do with the swine flu at all!! one bit.

I don't know I just have an irrational hatred of Smithfield Foods dating well back before this swine flu thing

seriously they are one of the few things i get genuinely angry about when i hear about basically anything they do because it's like uggghh i can't believe anyone with a modicum of a soul could work for this fucking company.

as of yet more people are infected with the other strains than swine flu. i didn't say BORING i said DUMB AS HELL, DUMBER THAN SARS, ABOUT AS DUMB AS THE Y2k BUG. SARS wasn't as dumb because it was going to be really lethal. this is a strain of the flu with... flu like symptoms, which is why they don't know why it's killed so many in mexico. if you catch this flu you will get the flu, the WHOA THIS COULD BE DANGEROUS is a lot of people catching the flu at the same time.
if you haven't had the main varients of the flu or been vaccinated against them you should be more worried about them because the chances of you comming into contact with it are a lot higher

//gorges himself on a large pig; its shrill crying as he consumes it for sustenance

yep all flu strains are exactly the same and have the exact same lethality.

despite the fact i'm pretty sure they don't vary all that much with regards to lethality (strains of influenza A), that's not what i said at all. symptoms of this new killer strain are mild flu like symptoms, with most recovering within a few days. symptoms of the most common strain ("the flu") are mild flu like symptoms, with most recovering within a few days

Thanks,
Climbtree.

In regards the differences between races, to be fair, there do exist certain pathophysiological differences between certain ethnic groups. For instance, the Renin-Angiotensin System (RAS) in blacks has less activity, making treatment with ACE Inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers less effect for blood pressure control. In the case of Bidil I find that pretty stupid since it's just a long acting vasodilator in combination with an alpha blocker, and from studying those drug classes there's no differences between how certain races respond to these medications... I can't believe that this controversy occurred in 2005.. because this isn't exactly new knowledge.

hahaha joe biden.

if you dont know what juris is talking about look it up or something because he's said some pretty stupid things lately.

i was at the hospital today for a seizure related matter and they not only had little pieces of paper saying IF YOU HAVE FLU SYMPTOMS ASK FOR A MASK but kind of were putting the emergency patients in one area and people waiting in the other, which was new.

i mean i've called out climbtree for saying ITS JUST THE FLU but man some people are being dumbasses about this. not the hospital, that was just an example that's actually prudent and good but my aunt in India is finding it very difficult to come over here because the government is thinking of shutting down the airports. also egypt killed a bunch of pigs.

Oh yeah, you're right bro. Just because you have a predisposition it doesn't means in any way you're going to catch a certain disease.

Anyways, this is driving me nuts. Since last Tuesday everything is closed: cinemas, theaters, museums, bars, gyms, restaurants, etc. There's nothing to do... I think I may return to booze just because of this.