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Edit: The 1918 Spanish Flu had a mortality rate of 2.5%.
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Last edited by DanS; March 30, 2003, 15:26.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891 -
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It killed more Americans than all of America's wars put together up to that point. Are you sure you have the percentage right?Originally posted by DanS
Edit: The 1918 Spanish Flu had a mortality rate of 2.5%.
Historical note, my great-great-uncle died of the Spanish Flu.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Google says that 28% of Americans contracted the Spanish Flu. 635,000 died.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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How many of us were there at the time?Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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100 million or so. So that squares.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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You're right.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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So this thing is more deadly than the Spanish flu. loooooovely.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
-Richard DawkinsComment
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Damn, this SUCKS
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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Only you get it.
Or a friend of yours gets it.
Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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I'm pretty sure we've got a handle on it now.Originally posted by GePap
Well, we would have to wait for more cases in places like Canada or Europe to give it "12 monkey" status.
This does make it cloear our battle with illness is far from won, if ever.
Ontario Public Health has gone schizoid and has quarantined a couple of thousand people for 10 days...12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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I get the feeling he was jokingOriginally posted by Azazel
That's the most piss-poor argument I heard for quite some time. so this is better than controlled child-birth, because it's natural? 
Would you prefer the epidemic to work as population control, or the governmental program? Remember, the governmental program is not natural! It doesn't create sickness and suffering!
"Help me, I am dying"
"Don't worry, Honey, It's only natural."
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He is Doctor Evil, after all.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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It's an idiotic comment. Anyone who says this is a fool. What's next? Is he going to claim the Iraq War is a great way to reduce the size of the US military?Originally posted by Caesar the Great
on the "plus" side, natural population control in china.... although i'm sure the families of the deceased would not agree
People are panicking in Hong Kong. All work stopped in my office after a rumour started that someone (or her mother, or her mother-in-law) had got the virus.
I've been telling people not to worry, but no success so far.
Any advice about how to calm people about this virus?Golfing since 67Comment
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