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    State of Emergency!

    If Swine Flu were really to kick off in a serious way, we're talking hundreds of deaths daily, could the government introduce a state of emergency and avoid an election?
    Originally posted by MaryPoppins
    I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
    Originally posted by vetran
    Urine is quite nourishing

    #2
    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    If Swine Flu were really to kick off in a serious way, we're talking hundreds of deaths daily, could the government introduce a state of emergency and avoid an election?
    Yes. That's why they are playing it up, probably.

    Some dork on R4 Today was saying 2% mortality in GP-reported cases. I couldn't quite believe that, but he said it at least twice. I was half-asleep though so could have got it wrong.
    Last edited by bogeyman; 15 July 2009, 16:43.

    You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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      #3
      Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
      Some dork on R4 Today was saying 2% mortality in GP-reported cases.
      CyberMan was on R4?!
      Originally posted by MaryPoppins
      I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
      Originally posted by vetran
      Urine is quite nourishing

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        #4
        Originally posted by d000hg View Post
        CyberMan was on R4?!
        Yes. He's everywhere.

        You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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          #5
          Originally posted by d000hg View Post
          If Swine Flu were really to kick off in a serious way, we're talking hundreds of deaths daily, could the government introduce a state of emergency and avoid an election?
          I expect they would want to bum middle class computer programmers first. Jebus, what newspapers are you reading?
          The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

          But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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            #6
            Originally posted by d000hg View Post
            If Swine Flu were really to kick off in a serious way, we're talking hundreds of deaths daily, could the government introduce a state of emergency and avoid an election?
            Where are you getting the figure of hundreds of deaths a day? Latest projected figures are for 100,000 infections a day and if fatality rates remain consistent (1 in every 2500) that doesn't quite add up to hundreds.
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              #7
              Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
              Yes. That's why they are playing it up, probably.

              Some dork on R4 Today was saying 2% mortality in GP-reported cases. I couldn't quite believe that, but he said it at least twice. I was half-asleep though so could have got it wrong.
              He did get it wrong.

              Medical researchers are complaining that the crap way announcements are being handled ("Don't go to the GP or A&E, in fact - don't bother us unless you're dying - or maybe not even then, it's contagious you know") and that people aren't being told to log their illness with the NHS, mean that researchers have no reliable data to analyse.

              Muppets...

              'Better data needed' on Swine Flu
              Last edited by cojak; 15 July 2009, 19:59.
              "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
              - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                #8
                Originally posted by d000hg View Post
                If Swine Flu were really to kick off in a serious way, we're talking hundreds of deaths daily, could the government introduce a state of emergency and avoid an election?
                http://www.blisshouse.com/images/Bri..._Your_Dead.jpg
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Incognito View Post
                  Where are you getting the figure of hundreds of deaths a day? Latest projected figures are for 100,000 infections a day and if fatality rates remain consistent (1 in every 2500) that doesn't quite add up to hundreds.

                  As I've said on another thread earlier this week, the death rate in Argentina is almost 2%, so at that rate I would not rule out up to 1 million deaths in the UK. A vaccine will not be ready for months, and with the football season starting next month the spread will surely escalate.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Cyberman View Post
                    As I've said on another thread earlier this week, the death rate in Argentina is almost 2%, so at that rate I would not rule out up to 1 million deaths in the UK. A vaccine will not be ready for months, and with the football season starting next month the spread will surely escalate.
                    2% of what exactly?

                    BTW So all those footy fans fall into the same catagory as the dirty immigrants?
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