<p>If it becomes a pandemic, presumably they'll shut down the university?
Anyone know the contingency plans?</p>
<p>that’s why i stopped going to class.</p>
<p>88888888… You too? I stopped even before it started. I just instinctively knew that something was brewing… So much less stress now.</p>
<p>Don’t kiss pigs.</p>
<p>That’s something I’m also seriously considering doing.
Health / life > grades / hws in my book.</p>
<p>lol, but im going to ochem tomorrow to hear batman yell.</p>
<p>^^ batman17? details?</p>
<p>LOL dude i woke up at 9. sorry. I just can’t get up at 7 anymore.</p>
<p>how serious is the flu this year? anyone know? are there cases in calif?</p>
<p>Well if swine flu wont kill you then o-chem will ;)</p>
<p>[xkcd</a> - A Webcomic - Swine Flu](<a href=“http://xkcd.com/574/]xkcd”>xkcd: Swine Flu)
That is all.</p>
<p>Oh god, this is getting so exciting.</p>
<p>[Tracking</a> Swine Flu Cases Worldwide - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Tracking Swine Flu Cases Worldwide - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com”>Tracking Swine Flu Cases Worldwide - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com)</p>
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<p>There’s cases everywhere. The moral of the story is: if someone’s coughing, RUN. If someone is coughing in class, stand up and yell “SWINE FLU” and run. If possible, buy a gas mask. The burned charcoal should catch the bacteria. But satisfaction is not guaranteed. The safest plan is to go to Madagascar.</p>
<p>Ah, don’t you love how the mass media can spread terror of fairly trivial things so easily? The swine flu is far, far, far down on the list of things that will kill you, so I suggest saving that worry for more deadly illnesses.</p>
<p>You have a higher chance of dying from tap water than from Swine Flu.</p>
<p>No No No… Swine Flu is just waiting to take us all down… it said so on the TV… It must be true… <em>still hiding out in my apartment… still feeling less stress than attending classes</em> :)</p>
<p>calling swine flu trivial makes me go >.<</p>
<p>So far…the real issue is not the number of deaths so far, but what seems to be like a disturbingly high mortality ratio (granted, however, that there might be many cases that were too mild to get picked up).</p>
<p>The main issue is where this is going to be a minor pandemic that kills a million or so people, mainly in the Third World, like the ones in 1957 or 1968; or whether it will be a replay of the Spanish Flu with significant numbers of deaths in the US.</p>
<p>Yeah, Mexico is dying from it because it didn’t get on the problem early.</p>
<p>And yes, there was a flu pandemic back in 1919 or whatever that killed more people than in WWI, but nowadays, I’ll bet the US is better prepared for this flu.</p>
<p>Don’t use it as an excuse not to go to school either, the rule of excalation is that soon the common cold or sniffles will be a valid excuse for not turning in your term paper.</p>
<p>Perhaps I shouldn’t have said trivial. Anything that causes suffering and death is obviously not trivial. I just meant that in the grand scheme of things this flu is on the low tiers of death’s food-chain.</p>