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Against swine flu. I've just recently seen I am Legend, and I think there's a significant chance that this could turn into some kind of zombie apocolypse.
If you want my advice, you'll get practicing with a slingshot.
CaptainCortez
21-10-09, 11:56
Are Umbrella involved?
Gotta take out those evil flesh eating dead heads!
Swine flu vaccinations.....I've been ill for two and a half weeks, and my throat is as wide as a pencil, and gets slightly smaller it seems every day. Wonderful.
What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. ;)
I say 2012 isn't the end of the world.....it's the year when the Zombies attack.
My work offered free vacinations, so I'm taking it mid-november.
Better safe then sorry right?
I'll promise to chew all of your brains thoroughly. <3
CaptainCortez
21-10-09, 12:33
I'd rather wait to be honest. If the vaccine works, then in my eyes, it's better to take it when you know you actually have swine flu. Otherwise, you could become immune to the vaccination, then have no hope at all, unless your body is immune to swine flu.
Not everyone would get swine flu, and I'm not that worried about it.
I might be a bit concerned if I got it, but there's no point taking vaccinations out of sheer fear. It's a waste, and if you haven't had swine flu ever, your body will wonder why it's just had a vaccine put into it, for an illness that you haven't even had.....therefore nothing will happen most likely.
I'll just leave all of the illnesses to come to be fended off by my bodies own defenses, unless I actually need medication due to my body not being able to handle it or something.
I'd rather wait to be honest. If the vaccine works, then in my eyes, it's better to take it when you know you actually have swine flu. Otherwise, you could become immune to the vaccination, then have no hope at all, unless your body is immune to swine flu.
That's not how vaccines work dude; They work by introducing a small amount of the virus to your body, so that your immune system works out how to kill it. Then when you get it for real your body knows what to do.
If you took a vaccine while you had swine flu, all you'd do is put more virus in!
CaptainCortez
21-10-09, 15:04
Fair enough, I could have sworn that some vaccines just gave you extra antibodies though. :/
Like medication for example you use when you actually are ill...........I'm guessing they're not doing it like this then, and instead are doing what they do with a lot of injections........infecting you with something so that your body can learn to fight against it, improving your immune system.
Hmm, well tamiflu isn't really a cure for it anyway, from what I heard. It just helps, so I guess if they can't cure it, they have to give you a similar illness, so you've got more hope of fighting off the real main one.
Strangeness.
I never heard of a vaccin that just gives you extra antibodies :O I just thought they all work like Soop said?
Either way, I'm only taking it when my mom or my (future?) work wants me to. The Swine Flu is only really dangerous to really young people, and a few older people (not all, because the Swine Flu is very similair to the Asian Flu that went around a couple of decades ago. A lot of older people apparently got vaccinated for the Asian Flu back then), so I'm not worried~
It usually doesn't work for things like flu because the virus adapts itself and changes too much. Don't know how they've figured it out this time.
But it worked on smallpox, we actually erradicated the virus - apart from some test tubes somewhere.
CaptainCortez
21-10-09, 15:32
Hmm, and didn't the black 'plague' death wipe itself out years back?
I heard that some places around london still have places that are bordered off or something, and haven't been disturbed since the plague was around....and if disturbed then it could come back.
To me that seems like rubbish, as it would have completely died off by now, surely.
Anyway, fair enough. Nanites are the way forward. :p
thezombiemessia
21-10-09, 17:59
All viruses exist forever. It's impossible to wipe them out completely.
If you start vaccinating, then it evolves and will come back next year. The Human body has thousands of types of bacteria living within it, and Viruses are one of the most common life-forms on the planet.
Black Death, Bubonic Plague and various other strains have passed around this earth several times, in a slightly modified form. A few outbreaks were recently recorded in Africa I believe.
Vaccinations are a very good thing, but it can lead to the problem where people think it has been completely iradicated.
All somebody has to do at the moment is drop a vial of Small Pox in a subway/underground station, and it'd be a mass infection within days, almost entirely because we haven't been vaccinated against it in years.
CaptainCortez
21-10-09, 23:16
Scientist's versus nature then, basically.
The scientists try to erradicate the virus, where as the surviving virus evolves and comes back stronger, keeping the scientists employed, so they can take care of the next strain I guess.
That's pretty interesting, and yea, if the tubes got infected, that's a crazy amount of infectee's who'll be roaming around london.
For comical value, maybe that's where the Zombies will start their rampage of feasting on flesh! :)
chaosriotzero
22-10-09, 08:29
ill wait til it's properly tested. Swine flu is like any other kind of flu, if you have it once you don't get it again and it does kill that many people so why all this media fueled panic?
did anyone see Zombieland yet? their zombie theory came from mad cow disease transfering to humans
ill wait til it's properly tested. Swine flu is like any other kind of flu, if you have it once you don't get it again and it does kill that many people so why all this media fueled panic?
You can get flu more than once
chaosriotzero
22-10-09, 13:53
You can get flu more than once
yeah but it's a different strain of flu, it's never the same type twice. thats how vaccines work, you get a bit of the flu/cold/whatever and then your imune system beats it then it knows how to beat it next time hence never catching the disease
the marvels of science!